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
>
>


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