Hi,

some GAC members from developing regions followed JAS (support applicant
working group) work and GAC itself supported the recommendations,we can
assume that we already started working with them.

 the board was also pushed about the outreach efforts but little was done
regarding that matter and the implementation by ICANN staff missed the
whole thing although many people from the community warned them.

I don't think that we are trying dictate any things to those
countries.capacity and awareness building with sustained outreach is aimed
to let be people informed , it is up to them to take actions or not and
decide what is suitable for their local context.


Rafik Dammak
@rafik
"fight for the users"



2012/7/5 Andrew A. Adams <[log in to unmask]>

>  Adam Peake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > GAC also concerned about lack of diversity with tech providers, lack
> > of accredited registrars from developing countries.
> >
>
>
> Given that our recent efforts at ICAN have been in opposition to GAC
> proposals (demands?) I think that in political terms, having identified
> this
> common ground with them that it would be very useful to make significant
> efforts to work positively with the GAC to press the Board hard to fund
> outreach efforts in this area. In Asia in particular there are some
> countries
> with fast-growing Internet connectivity (Malaysia, Thailand) where
> promoting
> the possibility of local registrars and local TLDs would be worthwhile. We
> must be careful not to try to dictate that these countries MUST want/have
> such things, but working with people in-country to promote the options and
> to
> understand what barriers exist IF there is demand is definitely worthwhile,
> IMHO.
>
>
>
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> Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
> Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
> Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/
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