Hi AlainOn Aug 13, 2012, at 6:14 PM, Alain Berranger wrote:However, many interested people present in Prague - I am one - have been excluded of this early thinking and, as a result their inputs, knowledge and network were also missed.The announcement saidFrom: Glen de Saint Géry <[log in to unmask]>
This initiative is the result of a June meeting involving Steve Crocker, Chairman of ICANN's Board of Directors, ICANN's CEO-Designate Fadi Chehadé and its Interim CEO Akram Atallah with African community members at ICANN's 44th Public Meeting, in Prague, Czech Republic.
This time you are not alone in your victimhood, the entire community didn't participate in the meeting. So perhaps we can put aside that particular leitmotif and focus on how best to engage in and leverage this effort in a positive spirit. Of course, there are a lot of questions here as to how they intend to proceed, whether the prior discussions of targeted work on developing country issues and the current parallel initiative on outreach will tie in and how, etc. It's obviously a rather ad hoc start..We've talked before about the SG having interest groups and there was an initial burble of effort at putting one together on development and capacity building http://ncuc.org/group/interestgroupdevelopment that lost steam amidst other challenges. We still have a core of people who care about such things, which others could sign up too without us having to resolve all possible issues around the formation and conduct of IGs. The idea after wall was to be flexible and pan-SG.My suggestion would then that anyone else who is interested in developing country aspects of ICANN work in general and perhaps African aspects in particular sign up for that group and start communicating, and perhaps if the dialogue starts to happen we could begin work on a letter to Tarek outlining noncommercial (meaning, NONCOMMERCIAL) stakeholders' concerns and possible contributions to this effort.Best,Bill