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08:30 - 12:30, Monday, 27 October 2003
Carthage Palace Hotel
Gammarth Heights, Gammarth, TUNIS
All interested individuals are encouraged to attend
the ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee's workshop
to help individual Internet user community leaders
in Africa inform, organize, and involve their communities
in Internet standards and policy setting activities.
The
workshop will: 1) help advance participants' knowledge
of the design, operation and management
of the Internet, as well as the standards, policy
structures and processes that effect them; and
2) provide participants' with information and
tools with which to form local and regional Internet
groups to advance African users' interests in
ICANN.
Participation in the workshop is supported by
an infoDev iCSF grant.
If you have questions about this event, please contact the At-Large
Advisory Committee (ALAC) at committee@alac.icann.org.
 Agenda :
| 08:30 |
Welcome, Introductions
Clement Dzidonu, ALAC Co-Vice Chair and Professor of Computer Science/Chair
of Computer Science Dept., Valley View University |
| 08:40 |
Building Blocks of an Information-Enabled
Africa
- Design and Operation of the Internet
John Crain, ICANN Technical Operations Manager (invited) – Overview
of, and latest developments involving, domain names, numerical IP addresses,
protocol port and parameter numbers (including VoIP, WiFi, and DNS security)
- Internet Infrastructure in Africa
Sunday Folayan, ALAC Member and CEO, GDES – Overview Africa’s
(pending) Regional Internet Registry, network operators, country codes,
and Internet service providers
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| 9:30 |
Management/Coordination of the Internet
and Africa’s Role
- ICANN, Why and How it Works
Nii Quaynor, former ICANN Board member and Chairman of Network Computer
Systems (invited) – Overview of ICANN and Internet stakeholders
- Pending Issues of Interest to African
Users
Mouhamet Diop, ICANN Board Member and CEO, NEXT SA (invited) – Overview
of pending issues that may affect Africans, and the local/regional stakeholders
involved
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| 10:20 |
Break |
| 10:30 |
Organizing to Advance African Users’ Needs
- Forming a Voice for African Individual
Internet Users
Pierre Dandjinou, ALAC Member and ICT Policy Advisor – Role of
At-Large in ICANN, steps to becoming an At-Large Structure, and the benefits
of At-Large
- Enhancing Africa’s Participation
in Global ICT Policy/Decision-Making
Clement Dzidonu – Opportunities for participation in activities
of ITU, WTO, WSIS, etc.
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| 11:30 |
Open Discussion |
| 12:20 |
Review of ICANN Meeting Events |
| 12:30 |
Close |
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