<p>Ali,</p>
<p>I guess we need to move away from playing at the peripheries to engaging as real stakeholders, involvement is key to Kenya and Africa's destiny, it is through this environment of give and take that we make little advancements, some day we will get to Canaan.</p>
<p>Best Regards</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 15, 2014 2:15 PM, "Ali Hussein" <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="auto"><div>McTim</div><div><br></div><div>I wish that were true..how I wish..then we truly will have an Internet free of borders..that however is wishful thinking in my humble opinion..</div><div><br></div><div>
This is one argument I'm fervently hoping to loose..<br><br><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><a href="tel:%2B254%200770%20906375" value="+254770906375" target="_blank">+254 0770 906375</a> / <a href="tel:0713%20601113" value="+254713601113" target="_blank">0713 601113</a></div>
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<div><br>On Mar 15, 2014, at 1:54 PM, McTim <<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com" target="_blank">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">HI Ali,<div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Ali Hussein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" target="_blank">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Listers</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Apologies for cross-posting. </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">As the US signals its willingness to give up oversight of the Internet to a global multi-stakeholder constituent I can't seem to help but wonder whether I should repeat the old adage:-</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">'Be careful what you wish for'.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">In the aftermath of Snowdenia it is not unreasonable for us to have had the knee jerk reactions of the kind that erupted all over the world. Now the Multi-stakeholder community must have sober discourse, which must involve private sector for profit and do gooders, governments and the citizenry of the world at large. Even when this discourse degenerates into a Tower of Babel we must not loose sight of the ultimate goal:-</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">A Free, Borderless Internet where information and commerce flows without the overpowering big brother oversight that the likes of Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and Iran seem to be advocating and which the US has been stealthily practicing behind everyone's back.</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Can we rise up to the challenge? </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303546204579439653103639452?mobile=y" target="_blank">http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303546204579439653103639452?mobile=y</a></span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Countries like Kenya have the opportunity to take leadership in this new dispensation.</span></div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm not so sure Countries as "nation states" do have that opportunity. This is all about the transition to the Private Sector (now called Multi-Stakeholderism) that was envisioned nearly 20 years ago in the White and Green Papers. In other words ICANN will be "floating free" of these USG ties. We already have several activist Kenyans in ICANN circles, perhaps we could focus on more outreach to bring in more?</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
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