[kictanet] kictanet Digest, Vol 47, Issue 70 - Africa IGF

Thu Apr 21 14:55:36 EAT 2011

Very nice summary, Nnenna, it's really well marked and it helps to
understand and feel the dynamics of IGF in africa at the sub regional and
national levels. We make great efforts in Central Africa but we also need
your experience. We need to Nairobi, the African community is present in a
qualitative way. Senegal, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, Burundi .... to name but a
few, have managed nationally. I think we need to rely on the African s
olidarity that national IGFs become the bedrock of IGF subregional.

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2011/4/21 Nnenna Nwakanma <nnenna at nnenna.org>

> Hi people
>
> I agree that the most important participation needed is at national level.
>  In Côte d'Ivoire where I live, we have a formal and functioning IG
> initiative with even an elected President.  The man had been to Kenya also
> to understudy the Kenya IGF.  The IGICI, the Ivorian one, is entirely
> sponsored by national stakeholders.
>
> In West Africa, OSIWA has given a 1 year support for the WAIGF, which
> hitherto had been supported partly by AfriNic and partners.  The framework
> of WAIGF (which is being managed by FOSSFA) was to have a resource person in
> a country and support that individual to do an initial mobilisation, so that
> once an initial national IGF was organised, national stakeholders will take
> it from there.
>
> Here are the issues:
> 1.  The WAIGF does not cover all the countries.  So 1 year support to 8 out
> of 15 countries is not sustainable. At this time, the countries that may be
> able to carry on without continued support in West Africa may be Senegal,
> Gambia, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
> 2. Central Africa is far more shaky than West Africa.  Schombe Baudoin can
> update on that.
> 3. ECA has been lending support to EAIGF, (according to Makane) but there
> was not any national IG initiative in Ethiopia until last two weeks after we
> finished the Diplo training in Addis and the ET participants agreed to begin
> something.
> 4. The SAIGF idea is only about a few months old. I know Anriette of APC
> has started work on this, but so far, there are not much national IGF in the
> region.
> 5.  North Africa,  I am not aware of (I may be wrong)
>
> On AFIGF, what we have so far is ECA and AU saying "it is a good idea and
> we will go for it".  And NEPAD saying, 'it is a good idea and we will
> support it", and Diplo that is willing to engage.
>
> Nonetheless, there are questions on how best an AFIGF can best serve the
> needs of ongoing and yet-to-start initiatives, outside of a once-a-year
> meeting.  The other important issue also is that there are key stakeholders
> who are not necessarily linked to a sub-region, like ADB, ATU, MTN who need
> to engage.  As well as sub-regional economic commissions.  In west Africa,
> ECOWAS has not been very active, despite a willingness.
>
> When I heard that ECA had accepted to hold the IG workshop, I contacted the
> people involved in the ongoing initiatives and sent a draft for the AFIGF
> that I wanted to go and present at Addis.  So what we have now is a kind of
> evolving document on : What will an African initiative look like and what
> should it accomplish?  Hopefully, an open forum will happen in Nairobi so
> that stakeholder present can evaluate and decide what direction is best.
>
> It is true that for some countries where with an active IGF, it might seem
> like a waste of energy, but for some other countries, they are hoping to
> ride on the back of AFIGF to either begin or strengthen their national IGF.
>
> All the best
>
> Nnenna
>
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