[alac] Africa At-Large Users Meeting in Cape Town
ICANN's Interim At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) invites all interested individuals to attend the *Africa** At-Large Users meeting on Thursday, 2 December 10:00 am - 12:30*, at the Cape Town Convention Centre to advance the interests of individual Internet user communities (At-Large). The meeting will feature: a discussion of how the ongoing United Nations' Internet governance process could affect Africa Internet users; a briefing on AfriNIC's plans for transitioning management of Internet resources to local control and roll-out of IPV6; a briefing on changes in domain name registration policies and practices that will affect Africa's Internet users; and an update on opportunities for Africa's user community to engage in ICANN and other international fora to advance their interests. A preliminary agenda is included below. Participation is free and all are welcome. Additional events at the ICANN Cape Town meetings that will be of special interest to Internet users include: Workshop on the World Summit Information Society (WSIS), Wednesday, 1 December 2004, 8:30 - 10:30; and Workshop on Internationalized Domain Names, Wednesday, 1 December 2004, 13:00 - 19:30. Additional information on these meetings is available at www.icann.org/meetings/capetown/ <http://www.icann.org/meetings/capetown/>. Please contact committee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:committee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> with questions relating to this announcement. In addition to English, inquiries and input are welcome in the following languages: French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian. *Africa** At-Large Users Meeting* *Thursday, 2 December 2004* *10:00 am - 12:30* *Cape Town International Convention Center, Boardroom* *Cape Town**, South Africa*** · *Welcome; Update on ICANN At-Large Advocacy and Involvement* Speaker:* *Vittorio Bertola, ALAC Chair Comments/Discussion · *Internet governance - Challenges and Opportunities for Africa's Internet Users* Speaker:* *Dr. Olivier Nana Nzepa, Project Coordinator, Africa Civil Society for Information Society Comments/Discussion (invited) · *AfriNIC - Transitioning management of Internet resources to Africa* Speaker:* *Pierre Dandjinou, Chair, AfriNIC Board of Trustees Comments/Discussion · *Roll-out of IPV6 and Set-up of IXPs in Africa* Speaker:* *Sunday Folayan, AfriNIC Board member Comments/Discussion · *Domain name registrations in Africa - Trends and policies that will affect Africa's users* Speaker: Yann Kwok, Administrator, .mu TLD, and AfriNIC observer to ICANN Address Council (invited) · *Opportunities for Africa At-Large Community Involvement * Speaker:* *Clement Dzidonu, ALAC member Comments/Discussion |