Hi Barrack,
At 00:14 01-09-2016, Barrack Otieno wrote:
I have managed to download it on my end and sent it to you. You could
as well check under the resources section.
I found out what I did wrong. The red link did not appear as I
switched to "French" when I first visited the website. The way to
fix that is to click on "English".
Thank you for the feedback. I also appreciate the fact that the
African community is discussing this matter that was raised by Dr.
Nyirenda. It is a common secret that we have experienced some tensions
whenever we have elections for our regional organizations based on
regional or language issues. This issue has been discussed in many
meetings including at the Africa Internet Summit. Going forward we
should continuously be deliberate and intentional in ensuring that
leadership roles are distributed in a way that reflects regional
balance akin to what AFRINIC does. Be that as it may , i am also
cognizant of the fact that it becomes harder to implement this at an
International (ICANN) Level. However, this is something that the
NOMCOM can look into to enhance and encourage participation from
Sub-regions. I think the IETF really needs it as well if we are to
increase participation from the African Region as discussed during the
Africa Internet Summit this year.
There has been controversies prior to the past Afrinic (director)
elections. It is better if people can discuss about their
concerns. One of the issues with regional restrictions is that you
can end up having to choose a person from a region who is not
involved and ignore candidates from another region who is
involved. In theory the issue should not be a problem if the
regional restriction covers a wider area, e.g. a continent.
I cannot speak for the IETF. I don't recall seeing any discussion
about participation from people in Africa. You can verify whether a
person participates by looking at the messages at
https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/maillist.html
From what I heard, participation is encouraged through
fellowships. As Seun mentioned, "While I know some people only
attend conferences for travel experience (which does not only happen
to Africans) ..." (
https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/africann/2014-March/008730.html
). Given the results, it is doubtful that fellowships encourages
participation.
It is not possible to tackle the challenges if everything is
described as a success.
Regards,
-sm
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