Hello all! I like the idea and fully support the process I am a Kenyan living in Nairobi and would like to know whether there is a stakeholder F-To-F meeting scheduled for Nairobi City. Regards; James Njoroge Gitau On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Wisdom Donkor <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > > *INVITATION TO JOIN ICANN IANA STEWARDSHIP TRANSITION & ENHANCING ICANN > ACCOUNTABILITY STAKEHOLDER MEETING IN GHANA* > > About a year ago National Telecommunications and Information > Administration (NITA) of the Department of Commerce, USA tasked ICANN to > convene an inclusive and global discussion to determine a process for > transitioning the stewardship of IANA functions which it currently performs > to the global multistakeholder community. Indeed since that announcement, > the global community has worked tirelessly and with great resilience and > determination resulting in two parallel processes in response to the 14 > March announcement. This has seen the multistakeholder community develop > two parallel processes namely: > > > > - *IANA Stewardship Transition:* Focused on delivering a proposal to > transition the stewardship of the IANA functions to the multistakeholder > community. > - *Enhancing ICANN Accountability:* Focused on ensuring that ICANN > remains accountable in the absence of its historical contractual > relationship with the U.S. Government. > > As a neutral convener of the dialogue, ICANN has an important > responsibility of raising awareness about the processes as they evolve and > to support the community's engagement. Of great concern is the low level of > meaningful participation witnessed so far from Africa. In 2014, ICANN > participated in 11 events and 5 webinars / teleconferences to raise > awareness on this issue in Africa. But clearly, from the response so far, a > lot still needs to be done to stimulate the African community to > participate effectively. > > > It is based on this background and analysis that the ICANN Africa team > resolved to launch an* IANA Stewardship Transition & Enhancing ICANN > Accountability *revival month in April 2015. The target is to organize > 1-2 hour sessions / webinars / teleconferences or face-to-face meetings in > various countries' in Africa at different times and dates led by local > community leaders and stakeholders in the internal ecosystem at the > National Level. ICANN staff will be available to support and reinforce the > meetings either by contributing on presentations as well as online meeting > resources as appropriate. The intention is to end up with formal communiqué > from different countries on their perspective on both processes at least > from each country where such meetings will be held. Such communiqué could > be addressed to the ICG as appropriate. > > > By the end of this exercise, we hope to have stirred debate and enhanced > the understanding and interest of the Internet communities in the countries > participating to come up with national positions, Comments or Communiqué to > the ICG. Such communiqués will not be limited to governments but other > stakeholder groups in the various countries (Such as ISOC chapters, > registrar associations etc.) would also be free to express their positions > directly to the ICG. ICANN Africa staff would also summarize the month's > activities in a blog post to be published at the end of April. > > Ghana has been selected as one of the few countries where face-to-face > meeting will be held during the month because of the leadership role Ghana > is taking to build its Internet infrastructure. > > > We will like on behalf of ICANN Africa to invite you to make the Ghana- > Accra stakeholder meeting to be held at KOFI ANNAN CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN > IT (KACE-AITI) Ghana, on Wednesday, 29 April, 2015 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm > UTC a succes. > > *DETAILS FOR ONLINE PARTICIPATION AS FOLLOWS:* > > > *ICANN LINK:* > > URL for online participation adobeconnect is as follows: > https://icann.adobeconnect.com/gse-Afr/ > > OPTION II for audio: call from skype +1-877-860-3058 > > Participant code is 3247098257 > > > *ISOC LINK:* > > Click to Join ISOC WebEx > https://isoc.webex.com/isoc/j.php > <https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fisoc.webex.com%2Fisoc%2Fj.php&h=EAQFO-PUH&enc=AZNZYID_cTK2lanbUIDLUGRE4VyW7MOel7P-_QItzXHTcGp40qwLhHbhrntwlQjr5rekWBRhZnh9n1My0Lx94iv7PaMflDZ5DTVjS60R2lMtTshSRz0qiA0H4tf8bvbhBFwmw2KEuPd_fHpHspNVF5Rvnx21zyyBtGz375snAMkwqA&s=1> > ... > > Meeting number: 920 597 444 > Meeting password: IANA_Ghana > > Join by phone > 1-650-479-3208 Call-in toll number (US/Canada) > Access code: 920 597 444 > > Please do notify me when having difficulty connecting through the > following details: > > Skype: wisdom_dk > Email: [log in to unmask] > Tel: +233 208128851 > > Hope to see you all!! > > > WISDOM DONKOR (S/N Eng.) > ICANN Fellow > Web/Open Government Platforms Specialist > National Information Technology Agency (NITA) > Post Office Box CT. 2439, Cantonments, Accra, Ghana > Tel; +233 20 812881 > Email: [log in to unmask] > [log in to unmask] > [log in to unmask] > Skype: wisdom_dk > facebook: facebook@wisdom_dk > Website: www.nita.gov.gh / www.data.gov.gh > www.isoc.gh / www.itag.org.gh > > -- *Cell-Phone +254 722 212171 or +254 721 274273* Before printing this mail make sure it is completely necessary. 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