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<div>Hi all - after attending this ICANN meetings for some years I can add that those who want to make contributions and influence the decision makers have both the formal sessions and the informal social functions. The social functions are justa as important to get close one-on-one with the decision makers. For example at yesterday's cross-constituency (free) breakfast with the ICANN Board the 5 Kenyans who were present were requested to make addresses and Evelyn Rono, Robert Yawe, Doris Ofisi, Anthony Karanja and Harry Hare made full use of the opportunity to make impressive points directly to the Board members. </div>
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<div>Waudo</div>
<div>Since flew to Mombasa<br>
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<div>On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:29 -0800, "Walubengo J" <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:</div>
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I want to believe you and Tim are both right about Kenyan involvement in the ICANN process. You could be right in that very few KENYAN voices are being heard and this could be because for most Kenyans this is their 1st ICANN Meeting - and one must learn their environment before engaging their mouths.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">That said, it may be good that next time(maybe it was done), the core Kenyan team (KENIC, CCK, Gov?) would elicit Kenyan positions on various issues and strategically plant some Kenyans in the "crowd" to present those views when the ICANN board/councils open the floor for discussions. Methinks that that is what other countries, business communities and other stakeholders do.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Like today I was shocked to hear a verbal submission from the guys who want to run something called the dot.gay domain...Needless to say I couldnt contribute because I was simply undergoing some cultural-shock just by staring at THIS guy and not hearing what he was saying (but that's a story for another day ;-) Yeah, looks like the internet is not just about wires and cables...</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">walu.</p>
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walu.<br>
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From: Wamuyu Gatheru <wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk><br>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Nothing like free dinner<br>
To: jwalu@yahoo.com<br>
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 12:41 PM<br>
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<div>Tim, please substantiate. Yesterday I was at the county code NSO meeting, than later at the commercial actors meeting and finally at the GAC/ICANN board meetings. No Kenyan spoke at the first two meetings (if they were present). Alice and Michael (CCK) made an important intervention on the distraction and unfairness to Kenya of the security hollabalu - but no one else was around to support them in defending Kenya. Note also that this was the meeting where the ICANN board was trying once more to conclude the EOI issue on generic TLDs - businesses from developed countries can barely wait for this decision to be made.</div>
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<div>Actually, I think the weak Kenyan engagement is genuine and not one that we should necessarily be defensive about. Am new to ICANN and if I had not made the decision to attend the meeting a little while ago, I would never have understood its agenda and whats at stake. Those who have been involved in ICANN longer may have points to contribute on increasing Kenya's involvement.</div>
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<div>regards, Wamuyu</div>
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<!--/*SC*/defang_b/*EC*/--><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span><!--/*SC*//defang_b/*EC*/--></span> Re: [kictanet] Nothing like free dinner<br>
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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Wamuyu Gatheru <<a defang_href="/mc/compose?to=wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" defang_ymailto="mailto:wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk" defang_rel="nofollow">wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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> nothing to do with Kenya. There must be good reasons why European, American,<br>
> Asian and Australian businesspeople and their governments have hyper<br>
> involvement while their Kenyan hosts are minding their shugulis...?<br>
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Are we attending different meetings?<br>
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I've been in a dozen meetings, and their have always been Kenyans in<br>
each one, many of them actively participating.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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McTim<br>
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route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel</div>
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