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Capacity Building, Awareness and Outreach to Africa ( e.g Access of ICANN materials in African/Other languages other than English )

Summary

On 24 May 2016, ICANN celebrated the opening of the first African engagement office in Nairobi, Kenya. Over the past three years, the dedication and goodwill of ICANN community and staff members have been instrumental in implementing the Africa strategy. We hope to continue on this path, increasing our institutional engagement and outreach – key elements of ICANN's Africa strategy. There is need to increase awareness and outreach in Africa region despite the setting up of the Africa Engagement Office.

Why its important to AfRALO and African Internet Users ?

AFRALO and Africa Internet Users need more ICANN Materials to learn and understand the transition of the global domain and numbers industries.

There is also need to increase the awareness and outreach to various community and fora inorder to spread the gospel of the relevance of ICANN in the Internet industry.

Action Items

• Coordinate with AFRALO Staff in Africa have ICANN materials in the region translated to more languages including Portuguese, Swahili etc

• Distribute ICANN materials to ALSes for capacity building

• Set up mechanisms to use local media (community radio, TV, social media on mobile phones) to increase awareness and reachout reach out to communities with very little limited internet access.