Thanks Grace Just realized I even confirmed participation. Nikupitiliwa but all is well.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Grace Githaiga <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Yes James. This  coming Thursday. See below. Please join the local lists for updates such as this invitation which went out last week and Barrack’s is only a reminder. 

 

 Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 23:04:59 +0300
> Subject: Re: Invitation to a consultative forum for the Kenyan Internet Community on the transition of the IANA functions stewardship role from the US Government.
> From: [log in to unmask]
> To:  Dear Colleagues,

The Kenyan Internet community will hold a consultative forum at the
Nairobi Safari Club (Lillian Towers), University Way, on Thursday
30th April 2015 from 2 PM on the IANA Functions Stewardship
Transition from NTIA to the global multistakeholder community, and
Enhancing ICANN Accountability.

This email is to invite you to the event, and also solicit comments
and feedback from the Kenyan community from those who cannot attend
the face to face meeting on the transition of the IANA functions
stewardship role from the US Government.

Please give feedback using this short survey here, and also share it
with your networks: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NXSQ7FG

Please RSVP for logistics purposes.
NB: Parking can be accessed at the Nairobi Safari club parking
opposite Uchumi Supermarket (former Kengeles Grounds)

BACKGROUND

On 14th March 2014, the U.S. Government announced its intent to
transition its stewardship of the IANA functions to the global
multistakeholder
community:http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions.

Following this announcement, ICANN, was tasked with facilitating the
development of a global, and representative proposal based on the
following principles:

1. Support and enhance the multistakeholder model;

2. Maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet DNS;

3. Meet the needs and expectation of the global customers and
partners of the IANA services;

4. Maintain the openness of the Internet.

5. The proposal must not replace the NTIA role with a
government-led or an inter-governmental organization solution.

The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) was formed in
July 2014 (https://www.icann.org/en/stewardship), and tasked with
assembling and delivering a proposal to NTIA through the ICANN Board.
The ICG constituted three special interest groups representing the
Domain Names community (NRO members), Numbering Resources community
(CWG), and the Protocol Parameters community (IETF),

ICG shall compile the proposals from the three communities into a
single proposal which the ICG shall submit to the board for review,
and the board shall forward the final proposal to NTIA.

The three communities affected by IANA functions, IETF (handling
protocol parameters), Numbering community – CRISP Team (under the
umbrella of NRO), and Domain Names community (Cross Community Working
Group) have released proposals on how the IANA transition should be
handles.

Number resource process and proposal can be found here:
https://www.nro.net/nro-and-internet-governance/iana-oversight/consolidated-rir-iana-stewardship-proposal-team-crisp-team

IETF process and proposal can be found here:
https://www.ietf.org/iana-transition.html

Domain names community process and proposal can be found here:
https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocwgdtstwrdshp/CWG+to+Develop+an+IANA+Stewardship+Transition+Proposal+on+Naming+Related+Functions


Thank you

Best Regards

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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 00:06:18 +0300
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: ICANN AFRICA IANA STEWARDSHIP STAKEHOLDER MEETING IN ACCRA, GHANA
To: [log in to unmask]

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…

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]

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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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