AFRALO DECEMBER 2014  REPORT

In December 2014 AFRALO focused on the following activities:

AFRALO participation on Review of the ICANN African strategy in Mauritius

AFRALO was represented during the review of the ICANN Africa Strategy in Mauritius. Aziz Hilali, Barrack Otieno and Tijani Ben Jamaa were involved.

The objective of the meeting was  to review the current Africa Strategy and realign it to the new ICANN FY16-FY20  Strategic plan. The result is the attached Draft 0 of the Africa Strategic Plan Ver 2.0 (2016 - 2020). This document is also available on the community wiki at https://community.icann.org/display/gseafrcawkspc/Africa+Workspace+Home .

 Report on the Africa Regional At Large Leadership (AFRALO) Training At The Africa Network Information Centre

The AFRALO leadership comprised of Aziz Hilali Chairperson, Barrack Otieno Secretary and Tijani Ben Jamaa, ALAC Vice Chair attended the AFRINIC 21 Meeting  held from 21st November 2014 to 28th November2014.
This training was organized under the framework of cooperation between the Africa Network Information Centre and the Africa Regional At large
Organization.
The AFRALO leaders attended AFRINICs INRM training http://training.afrinic.net/index.php/en/learn-modules-2/for-managers.
The objective of the training was to enable AFRALO's leadership understand and appreciate the role of the regional internet registry.
After the training sessions AFRALO leadership was taken on a tour of AfriNIC offices at Raffles towers after which they had a full session
with the head of membership services Arthur Nguessan. Session With AFRINIC Head of Members Services Arthur Nguessan.
AFRALO leadership led by Chairman Aziz Hilali, ALAC Vice Chair, Tijani Ben Jamaa and Secretary Barrack Otieno had a training session with
AFRINIC's head of member services Arthur Nguessan. During the Session Mr. Nguessan explained to AFRALO's leadership how the Africa Network
Information Centre operates with respect to serving the Internet Community in Africa. Mr. Nguessan outlined the role of the Africa
Regional At Large Organization in educating Internet Users on AfRINICs policy developement process. This is crucial in enabling users who are
an important constituency participate in the Africa Networrk Information Centre Community. Mr Nguessan noted that it had been six
years since Afrinics policy was last updated. He reiterated that there was need for the African community to be actively engaged in the
Regional Internet Registries Policy developement and that AFRALO was a very important vehicle for the African Internet Community as a
representative of Internet Users.

Cross-Community Working Group (CWG)

AFRALO has actively contributed to the work of the Cross Community Working group  through its representatives Seun and Tijani Ben Jamaa. Initial output of the working group is expected on or before the ICANN meeting in Singapore. Accountability has been a major discussion point in the working groups deliberation.

AFRALO Webinar: Transition of US Government Stewardship of the IANA Function

AFRALO successfully held a Webinar on the transition of the US governments oversight on the IANA function. The Webinar brought together representatives of the ICG and ccWG as well as staff and members of AFRALO to update them as well as bring them up to speed on the key issues being discussed in the respective working groups. The Webinar was very productive.

 AFRALO Task force: Outreach for more African representation in ICANN leadership positions

The taskforce has already completed a Strategy document that will guide outreach efforts which will encourage more Africans to apply for leadership  positions within ICANN. The Strategy document has been approved by the AFRALO leadership and posted on a wiki on the AFRALO dashboard. Members of the taskforce have been mandated to implement the Strategy.

Revision of AFRALO Operating Principles

The AFRALO ROP working group has been holding meetings. The team has developed a revised draft rules of Procedure document which is available on the Wiki for review.

Joint Meeting AFRALO / AfrICANN at ICANN 52

AFRALO members formed a working group to deliberate on the joint statement for the AFRALO/AfriCANN meeting in  Singapore. Members unanimously agreed that the statement should focus on Accountability. It was further agreed that members await feedback from ccWG meeting in Frankfurt before drafting the joint statement. A wiki was created for this purpose.

New ALS Applications :

ISOC GAMBIA, Gambia,

Cameroon League for Development

Members agreed to drop the two new ALS applications since they had not been able to fullfill all the required Criteria to be confirmed as At Large Structures.

AFRALO ACTIVITY REPORT (September & October 2014) [English]

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