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Claire Craig - Commented that the ALS survey was useful for other regions. Also asked to how many people was the survey sent. 

Action Items 

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Conclusion: (which may be useful to add to the AFRALO-AFRICANN statement) 

No Action Items recorded. 

Recommendations to ICANN org 

•    What can ICANN org and ICANN stakeholders do to improve internet infrastructure?

•    ICANN can help policy makes and legislators by building the capacity of legislators so they themselves can explain and bring what we need to do in Africa. ICANN can assist by highlighting policies to assist the private sector. 

•    Raise awareness, increase root instances and servers, as the next billion users will come from Africa, there will be questions about accessibility and what it means to be connected.

•    DNS infrastructure relies heavily on the underlying Internet infrastructure and anything that we can do to improve implement infrastructure will help the DNS, make more exchange points, putting more links between borders between countries , Increase root servers instances and resolvers.

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AFRALO: Building a Multilingual Internet: Opportunities and Challenges

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•  ICANN org to provide Outreach and Engagement materials to ALAC leadership. Initial set of materials is being finalized and will hopefully be shared by the end of the month. 
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  At-Large/RAOs RALOs should work on:

  • A precise definition of the kind of support the ALSes may provide to the ICANN Com team in their campaign  
  • A clear and precise process for that, and a defined framework for the actions to be undertaken by the ALSes

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The group discussed the statement “Bridging the Digital Divide: Empowering Africa through Multilingual Internet Infrastructure.” The statement recognizes Africa’s diverse linguistic landscape, which includes more than 2,000 spoken languages, and highlighted several recommendations to achieve a multilingual internet in Africa.

Action Items 

•  Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong  and Hadia Elminiawi to edit the statement incorporating suggestions as follows" Second recommendation- include the "number of root services instances". Edit under "Capacity building" instead of "advocate and promote - "building capacity and skills across Africa".  Spell out DNS Industry including Internet service providers and hosting providers.
•  Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong to send the AFRALO-AFRICANN statement (once finalized) to staff to forward to the Board.

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