<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font>Dear Ms.Alice Munyua,</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font>I am asked by our
organization to post this clarification below to the statements you posted last
week <u><b>Re:</b></u></font><u><b>Facts Regarding the African Union Commission (.Africa) application</b></u><font> in the interest of the public.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font><b> </b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font><b>That you ahead for
your cooperation.</b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font><b> </b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font><b><u>First,</u></b> the deliberate <b><u>distortion that
AUC/UniForum has submitted an application for .AFRICA is unwarranted
and quite misleading,</u></b> and this should not be <b>treated as 'fact'</b>.
The true fact is that the AUC is not an applicant. Only UniForum is the
applicant acknowledged by ICANN. Therefore, it is <b>untruthful and rather
disingenuous on your part to present the AUC as an applicant - either as a co-
or joint applicant to UniForum</b>. Everyone should know that the AU has not
applied to ICANN for anything, so there is no AUC application the way that you
have been distorting 'facts' to suit your purpose.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font><b><u>Second,</u></b> though you have listed many things, the
most important thing that you have left out is that the <b><i>UniForum
application was not submitted on behalf of either the African Union
Commission, African governments, the African Community or African
Internet Community</i></b>. You should have listed this as '<b>fact'</b>, but
you have not. Therefore<b>, <u>there is actually no community ownership of the
Applied-for string </u></b>so your use of the term <b><i>'official AUC endorsed
application for the dotAfrica (.Africa) Top Level Domain</i></b>' is rather <b>specious
and a misnomer</b>. Against this background, how is the
UniForum application, in your estimation, <b><i>"a collaborative
African initiative"?</i></b> One would expect at least that if it is
a collaborative African initiative, <b><i>then the ownership of the TLD by the
community should have been properly demonstrated by a community application
conveyed as an application on behalf of the African Community for a .AFRICA
Community TLD</i></b>. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font>In the absence of
this, we still see the UniForum application as a <b><u>deceptive ploy</u></b>
that used the purported support of the AU Commission to garner
support from African governments to enable them provide support for an
application that <b>will benefit a special interest group</b>. <b><i><u>The
way we see it is quite simple: DCA Trust will continue to expose this fraud for
what it truly is</u></i></b>. If the AUC provided support to UniForum to
apply on behalf of the African Community, then we believe that “<b><i><u>a
Community TLD application</u></i></b> “for .AFRICA should have been submitted
by UniForum to ICAN<span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">N.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font><b><u><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">Third,</span></u></b><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"> you seem to make much of a process that
was "<b><u>mandated by African Heads of State (OR Tambo Declaration) and
African Minister’s in charge of ICT (Abuja Declaration)" to justify your
'facts'</u></b>. Would these African Heads of States and Ministers <b><i>not
demand some form of accountability regarding why a community TLD application
for .Africa was not submitted by Uniforum?</i></b> Since you seem
to know many facts regarding the so-called 'African Union Commission (.Africa)
application, perhaps you should help clarify for everyone's benefit why a
Community TLD application for .Africa was not submitted by Uniforum</span><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font><b><u><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">Fourth,</span></u></b><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"> you have tried to make much over the
fact that the <b>UniForum application is AU-supported</b>, and that <b>the
"application meets and exceeds, the minimum evaluation criteria set by
ICANN for application of Geographic strings." Alas, the evaluation is not
only on the basis of the evaluation criteria for 'geographic strings'</b>.
The evaluation criteria is actually more comprehensive, and covers a wide range
of issues such as <b><i><u>technical, operational, financial criteria; coupled
with terms & conditions, legal issues, etc.</u></i></b> We remain
confident that the Uniforum application will fail based on
the scope of its separate agreement with the African Union
Commission. We prefer to leave such issues to the Evaluation and the
outcome of any Dispute Resolution.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font><b><u><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">Fifth,</span></u></b><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"> the application submitted by
DCA Trust is for the geographic name 'AFRICA', pronounced as 'DotAfrica'. <b><u>This
is for a 6-character ASCII string</u></b>. The application submitted by DCA
Trust was correctly designated by ICANN as referring to a geographic name. Your
understanding that it is for 'dotdotAfrica' is incorrect. Our published
part of application is posted and available here…………………<br>
</span><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow"><br>
</span><b><u><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">Finally</span></u></b><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">, it is important for us to
note that you have become <b>openly supportive of the UniForum application</b>,
and we therefore hope that you will not <b><u>use any of your official
affiliations either within the Kenyan government or the ICANN GAC</u></b> to
influence things in their favour. We caution you not to be official or unofficial
spokesperson of UniForum, and allow the applications that have been submitted
to ICANN to be evaluated fairly without any undue interference on your part or
on the part of the group that you now seem to represent in the most unabashed
manner .</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font><span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">DotConnectAfrica.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font> </font></p>
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3. PesaPal Developer Community (Agosta Liko)<br>
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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:59:02 +0300<br>
From: Victor Kapiyo <<a href="mailto:vkapiyo@gmail.com">vkapiyo@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] Freedom of Information Bill and Open Standards<br>
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Interesting observations Evans.<br>
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I would be interested to know what the Directorate of E-government has done<br>
especially with regard to facilitating digitisation of processes,<br>
collection and release of data by government, such that they would be able<br>
to tell us the kind of formats that are being used and whether these<br>
standards are indeed open, and if not why. Btw, is there a govt position on<br>
the use open standards?<br>
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Likewise, and with regard to IEBC process, we would need to be informed<br>
whether the software in use is open source. I am not sure about the release<br>
of code to the general masses - but probably it would be useful to IT<br>
security experts for audit. Nevertheless, it would be important to release<br>
information on how the software & the process works as part of their<br>
responsibility in being transparent & accountable - i just saw them launch<br>
sth on telly today.<br>
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Lastly, on FOI, for me its not so much what the bill should or shouldn't<br>
say, but its more our interpretation of Art. 35 of the Constitution. Such<br>
that any technology (e.g. icts, open standards, open data, open govt,<br>
digitisation etc) that would facilitate the right are adopted and promoted<br>
and technologies or practices e.g. not keeping data in electronic format -<br>
as mentioned by Rad! above, would be abolished as they inhibit and<br>
frustrate the enjoyment of the right.<br>
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My two cents.<br>
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Victor<br>
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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 05:28:26 -0700 (PDT)<br>
From: Walubengo J <<a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>><br>
To: Odhiambo Washington <<a href="mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com">odhiambo@gmail.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:buruchara@me.com">buruchara@me.com</a><br>
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Thnx Sammy B. for the rejoinder....<br>
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At least we do have the two sides of the story.? And now, it is up to the Listers to show up in numbers at the AGM and get the detailed aspects of both stories and hopefully come out with KENIC as the winner. In particular, I believe the Bylaws/Constitution for KENIC is up for review. Maybe Sammy could share a copy/url?<br>
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Biggest problem with most Listers is that they are active online - but never get time to attend physical meetings to make the difference they yearn for.<br>
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Typical, Kenyan middle-class syndrome :-)<br>
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walu.<br>
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From: Odhiambo Washington <<a href="mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com">odhiambo@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: [kictanet] Fwd: FW: KENIC - on behalf of Sammy Buruchara<br>
To: <a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com">jwalu@yahoo.com</a><br>
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Date: Thursday, July 26, 2012, 2:24 PM<br>
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From: Sammy Buruchara [mailto:<a href="mailto:sammy@nbnet.co.ke">sammy@nbnet.co.ke</a>]<br>
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Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:40 AM<br>
To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions (<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>)<br>
Subject: KENIC<br>
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?RE: Online discussions on Resignations of Board at the Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC)<br>
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Reference is made to the various online discussions regarding resignations of Board members of at the Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC).The KeNIC board and management? would like? to take this early opportunity to refute these claims as having no basis and without factual information.<br>
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Early this year, the KeNIC Board, while carrying out a mid-term review of the implementation of its Strategic plan, agreed on the? need for KeNIC to carry out an Institutional Assessment to ensure that it operates? in line with the international best practices and that its operations are aligned to its Strategic plan.<br>
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A Consultant was tasked by KeNIC to carry out the Institutional Assessment and in their report, which was adopted by the KeNIC board, established a number of areas that KeNIC needed to address, to remain in business as well as to improve in its core mandate of registering dot KE domain names. The following is an highlight of the areas needing action:<br>
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1.????? The alignment of the Board membership to the KeNIC?s Memorandum and Articles of Association. 2.????? A review of the current Strategic Plan to align it to realistic Goals and Targets in the light of changing market conditions.<br>
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3.????? A review of the KeNIC Stakeholders to reflect its core business.4.????? Development and strengthening of KeNIC?s Financial and Procurement policies, among other policies.<br>
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5.????? Review of the management structure to reflect the revised Strategic Plan.KeNIC Board has diligently followed through the Consultant?s Institutional Assessment report by implementing the recommendations contained in the report with the aim of strengthening KeNIC?s? operations. Inevitably, the implementation of the report is going to affect the constitution of the KeNIC board. However, the board wishes to remain intact until the AGM, after which its board membership will change, after the adoption by the AGM. In view of this, it?s important to note that those board members who have since resigned, they have done so voluntarily, and most of them have been replaced by their appointing member organizations.<br>
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KeNIC is due to hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in August 2012 (next month) to update its stakeholders on the progress of this process, among other reports scheduled for presentation and discussion during the AGM.<br>
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The KeNIC board and management would therefore wish to dispel any rumors of an alleged crisis in KeNIC, and to state categorically that there is no crisis at in KeNIC and that the Board and management are fully discharging their duties of ensuring KeNIC is run professionally and in line with? the international best practices.<br>
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?Sammy BurucharaChange Manager<br>
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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:25:16 +0300<br>
From: Agosta Liko <<a href="mailto:agostal@gmail.com">agostal@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Subject: [kictanet] PesaPal Developer Community<br>
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Hi<br>
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We have launched our developer community at <a href="http://developer.pesapal.com/" target="_blank">http://developer.pesapal.com/</a><br>
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We will monitor and answer questions raised in our forums and we intend to<br>
use them as a developer exchange/resource<br>
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Here we share how to documents, showcase sample sites, have a list of<br>
proven PesaPal integrators<br>
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We will add more PesaPal Integrator shortly ... we will also add ready to<br>
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Thanks<br>
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Agosta Liko<br>
PesaPal.COM<br>
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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:10:19 +0300<br>
From: Alice Munyua <<a href="mailto:alice@apc.org">alice@apc.org</a>><br>
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Subject: [kictanet] Facts Regarding the African Union Commission<br>
(.Africa) application<br>
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*Facts Regarding the African Union Commission (.Africa) application *<br>
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1.The African Union Commission's (AUC) involvement in the dotAfrica<br>
(.Africa) Top Level Domain (TLD) process has been mandated by African<br>
Heads of State (OR Tambo Declaration) and African Minister's in charge<br>
of ICT (Abuja Declaration).<br>
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2.In fulfilling its mandate the AUC has, in accordance with an open and<br>
transparent Request for Proposal (RFP) process, officially endorsed<br>
UniForum SA t/a the ZA Central Registry (ZACR) to apply for and launch<br>
the dotAfrica (.Africa) TLD.<br>
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3.The AUC/ZACR, in accordance with the procedures and standards<br>
prescribed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers<br>
(ICANN), has officially lodged an application with ICANN for the<br>
delegation of the (.Africa), under reference number: 1-1243-89583. This<br>
application constitutes the official AUC endorsed application for the<br>
dotAfrica (.Africa) Top Level Domain. Further details of this official<br>
application is available<br>
at:<a href="http://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/applicationdetails/1184" target="_blank">http://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/applicationdetails/1184</a><br>
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4.There is a competing private application, for a confusingly similar<br>
string, lodged by DotConnectAfrica Trust. The application for the<br>
dotdotAfrica (.dotAfrica) TLD string, under reference number 1-1165-42560.<br>
<br>
5.The AUC/ZACR's application meets and exceeds, the minimum evaluation<br>
criteria set by ICANN for application of Geographic strings.<br>
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6.The AUC/ZACR's application, is correctly designated as a geographic<br>
application in accordance with the criteria and processes outlined in<br>
ICANN's Applicant Guidebook.<br>
<br>
In particular:/Africa (and therefore .Africa) is a clearly designated<br>
geographic area as defined in the UNESCO "Composition of macro<br>
geographical (continental) regions, geographical sub-regions, and<br>
selected economic and other groupings" list<br>
(<a href="http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm%29./Therefore" target="_blank">http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm)./Therefore</a> the<br>
designation of the official dotAfrica (.Africa) TLD string application,<br>
as a geographic name, is technically and procedurally correct. The<br>
"geographic evaluation process" that this application is subject to<br>
provides sufficient checks and balances for the protection of interests<br>
and rights of African governments and the pan-African community.//<br>
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7.The AUC endorsed dotAfrica (.Africa) application has been, and<br>
continues to be, a collaborative African initiative involving African<br>
governments, ICT stakeholders and the broader African community.<br>
<br>
In this regard the stated mission and objective of the AUC's officially<br>
endorsed application is enshrined in its answers to question 18 of the<br>
Application, which is publicly available on the ICANN New gTLD website<br>
<a href="http://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/applicationdetails/1184" target="_blank">http://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/applicationdetails/1184</a><br>
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