Good observation Becky, Am glad similar concerns were raised by the CEO KIXP at a forum with the President Rod Beckstrom, she articulately raised the fact that the constituencies need to be demystified and the president alluded to this fact, i noted that there are "ICANN VETERANS" and they are quick to notify you on this which literally freezes a fast timer, however the fact that we are thinking this way shows that we are moving in the right direction, Dr. Siganga has for a number of times urged the local community on this forum to join those constituencies the dilemma is which one to join, we need forums at country level to look at how we can contribute significantly to the ICANN process, the constituencies are many and it is easy to get lost in the cloud. Probably it can be a structured discussion on KICTANET, what do you say Walu? Regards On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Wamuyu Gatheru <wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
The notion of the USA contributing 90% to ICANN ,because most registrars, are based there was challenged at the ccNSO meeting yesterday. The registrars obtain their revenues from internet users across the world - and Africa's share is growing especially with broadband. Europeans and others who spoke thereafter in the ccNSO meeting all began their statements by saying that they make payments to ICANN.
regards, Wamuyu ________________________________ From: "alice@apc.org" <alice@apc.org> To: wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Tue, 9 March, 2010 17:52:40 Subject: [kictanet] ICANN: Africa must work hard too...
ICANN: Africa must work hard too... 08 03 2010 Comments: 3 Available in: English
There are many African governments and citizens who do not understand the role of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
For some, ICANN should operate in the bottom later ensuring that we have internet access and that the pipes are faster. Others think that ICANN should be involved in the running of domain registries, which are in shambles and in some cases fighting over petty issues. Others think that ICANN is there to fund them; talk of reliance on aid.
Of course ICANN has no role in all these things and what it points is that more outreach is needed and maybe ICANN should have an office in Africa.
But how? According to Rod Beckstrom, 90 percent of ICANN contributions come from North America, so that may be the reason why we have 3 offices in the US and none in Africa.
That makes sense; if Africa does not contribute anything, how will the office be supported? So, for Africa to be on level terms, then we must also be willing to contribute, but am not sure how when our registry operations are still manual.
I was chatting with Rafik Dammak, who accuses me of complaining or whining too much but then, what do I do?
Rafik told me of how the various constituencies within ICANN are always looking for participants but what do you do when they dont contribute to those meetings and in some cases stay outside within the coffee houses instead of meeting rooms?
Yes, its good to have geographical representations but we also need to start bringing something on the table and contributing to the debate more than we do currently.
Regarding the financial contributions, I have no words; will leave it for the others.
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