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Re: [alac] Africa Position Marrakech

  • To: "Annette Muehlberg" <annette.muehlberg@xxxxxx>, "Pierre Dandjinou" <dandjinou.pierre@xxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [alac] Africa Position Marrakech
  • From: <alice@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 19:46:11 +0300

Hi Annette and all
Thank you for this thread, however, I would like to consult with the wider African internet user groups Re; issues that they wish ALAC could address at the next ICANN meeting.
Regarding sponsoring ALS's to attend the meeting, does ALAC have a budget line that could support this?
alice



----- Original Message ----- From: "Annette Muehlberg" <annette.muehlberg@xxxxxx>
To: "Pierre Dandjinou" <dandjinou.pierre@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: <alice@xxxxxxx>; "'ALAC'" <alac@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [alac] Africa Position Marrakech



Thank you, Pierre, for this important advice.

All,
up to now, ICANN folks travel around the world from meeting to meeting, but it is not really clear what this hopping from region to region is actually good for.


I would like to make real use of the regional presence by focusing in each meeting on some regional issues - within an ALAC workshop and in the Public Forum.

So, Pierre and others, keeping the list of issues below in mind, could you think of a list of demands we should present to the public and are worth discussing within a workshop (either as one part of a more general workshop or one specific workshop only on africa specific issues)?

How important is the IDN issue in Africa? Examples, studies?

And who is going to take care of the financing of local ALSes to come? Do we get another funding?

Best
Annette



Pierre Dandjinou wrote:

Annette and all,

Some of the issues that are specific to the African community would include
the following :


- The high entry cost for operating registries. (50 k i believe) makes it
difficult for African operators to be fully part of the industry; thus, only
recently did an african operator (from South Africa) managed to obtain an
accreditation from Icann.
- Management of cctlds : most african users do not have the appropriate
informations as to the development of these and most NIC are not
transparently managed.
- Dispute resolution /redelegation as relates to the domain names


Agree with your point on having a few African ALSes in Marraketch. In the
past, we were able to bring a few of them (in tunis I think) thanks to a
funding from Infodev.

Regards to all and congrats for the good job done in Wellington.
Pierre


-----Original Message----- From: owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Annette Muehlberg Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 2:09 PM To: alice@xxxxxxx Cc: ALAC Subject: Re: [alac] Africa Position Marrakech

Would be good to know, if we could address some specific issues and interests by the african community on ICANN issues in Marrakech meeting. Proposals?

Also, it would be nice if at least some member of african ALSes could join us there and give inputs in advance.

Annette

alice@xxxxxxx wrote:


Would be interesting to know what mistakes made in North America in 1960s and how they were addressed. The desire by AfrISPA is not just more bandwidth but use-value for internet, relevant content addresses the use-value of the internet as illustrated in the paper

----- Original Message ----- From: "John L" <johnl@xxxxxxxx>
To: <shahshah@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: <alice@xxxxxxx>; "ALAC" <alac@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [alac] Africa Position Paper on Internet growth through content




Well it isn't so clear that a statistical study was done. This seems to be
a call by African ISPs for what they consider important. They may be
advocating more use of Internet for educating and informing, or a call for
'content' may just mean a desire for more 'bandwidth'. Further, because so
much of email is web-based, it is hard to differentiate.


I can't tell from the report what they consider important either.

I just hope they're not repeating the mistakes we made here in North America in the 1990s.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor
"I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.









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