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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Listers</span></span></p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
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For those who followed the goings on at ICANN 46 in Beijing there seems to be a
concerted effort from Governments worldwide to endanger the freedoms we have
enjoyed on the internet. </span></span></p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">See GAC communique attached. <br>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">While I applaud the GAC for
having reached consensus to object to two applications, one of them dot Connect
Africa, my personal opinion is that the same (in my opinion) retrogressive
elements who derailed WCIT12 are at play again with some GAC members trying to
introduce/recommend to ICANN a complete redesign of the underlying
policies for approving new top level domains. <br>
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To quote from the article below (see link) <br>
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<b>'The GAC has interpreted the task of providing advice on public policy as a
mandate to start from scratch and revisit every policy issue related to the use
of domain names that has been debated since 1999. Six years of work by the
Generic Names Supporting Organization, which is supposed to develop policy, has
been ignored.'<br>
</b><br>
<a href="http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/04/11/who-needs-the-itu-when-you-have-a-gac/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/04/11/who-needs-the-itu-when-you-have-a-gac/</span></a></span></span></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">I understand though that various
ICANN constituents requested that the GAC advice on safeguards be put under
public comment and I think this will be a good thing in protecting the
multistakeholder model of policy making at ICANN.<br>
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But all the same, what should we make of this? Is the Multi-Stakeholder model
under attack? As it was in Kenya during deliberations towards WCIT12 in Dubai?<br>
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And what is Kenya's position on the safeguards? <br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></span></p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Can the new Kenya GAC Rep please
enlighten us?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></span></p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Talking of the Kenya GAC Rep, we
understand there have been some very embarrassing situations where he
contradicted the Kenya Government Stand on the African Union Commission (AUC)
.Africa gTLD application. He is purported to have supported a competing
application from DotConnectAfrica (DCA) against the AUC application which is
supported by African countries including Kenya. See attached letter from our
former Minister of Information, Mr. S. Poghisio. <br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></span></p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">By the way, how is the Kenya
GAC Rep appointed? We had Alice Munyua and Michael Katundu and then
now it seems there is Sammy Buruchara who was recently appointed to apparently
replace Alice Munyua, whose term was ending after the Beijing meeting having
been the vice chair of the GAC. This is a terrible mess that points us as
amateurs without an inkling of where our heads are at..</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></span></p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">The link below paints a sorry
picture of a country at odds with itself. The gist of the matter is this:-</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="http://tandaabiashara.com/icann-gac-ignores-kenya-advice-on-dotconnectafrica-dotafrica-application/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://tandaabiashara.com/icann-gac-ignores-kenya-advice-on-dotconnectafrica-dotafrica-application/</span></a></span></span></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Who should we believe? Michael
Katundu and Sammy Buruchara or the former minister of information who attended
the African Union Ministerial summit in Abuja and other summits which clearly
mandated AUC to initiate the process to acquire the dot AFrica TLD. The
Minister had following these summits sent a clear message to ICANN regarding
Kenya's support for the AUC application for .Africa (see letter attached) and
there is also our former President who attended the African Union Heads of State
summit that yet again mandated the African Union Commission to pursue and
implement an Africa TLD.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></span></p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Listers, I invite you to make your
own conclusions based on the evidence and documentation attached and linked to
this posting. The link below is telling:-</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></span></p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="http://tandaabiashara.com/icann-gac-ignores-kenya-advice-on-dotconnectafrica-dotafrica-application/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://tandaabiashara.com/icann-gac-ignores-kenya-advice-on-dotconnectafrica-dotafrica-application/</span></a></span></span></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Note that on this link DCA
also claims to have an endorsement letter from the same minister. What a mess!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></span></p>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><img src="" alt="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1"></span><span style="font-size:12pt">I make a personal appeal to Dr. Ndemo to right this
situation quickly as we risk the good name of our country.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><br><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">This is serious as it paints the country in very bad light in the international community and needs to be put to a stop. Should Kenya's Representative be going against government positions? Were they briefed regarding the government position on the AUC dot Africa application?</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Lastly listers this also begs a
question that has been burning me for a while:-</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></span></p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Who is responsible for Policy
Formulation in the ICT Space? Is the CCK or the Wider Government through
the Ministry of Infocom? It is important that we interrogate this issue
since we are seeing a slow creep of CCK Apparatchik in policy processes and
engagement as opposed to regulation, enforcement and enablement. If this is the
case then it needs to be very clearly mandated through new law. Or am I missing
something? I stand corrected though if I am wrong in my assumptions.</span></span></p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">We are leader in Africa in this space and we must act the
part. We shouldn't be seen to stumble and look like fumbling teenagers when it
comes to our engagement in international fora. The Kenyan Private Sector,
Non-Profits and Government must be seen to move in tandem like a well-oiled
machine. We should strive to avoid another disaster like WCIT12 and now our GAC
involvement in ICANN 46, Beijing.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><br><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></span></p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span><p class="MsoNormal">
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