[Chapter-delegates] ICANN Support for African gTLD applicants

[Joly MacFie]

Hi Olivier,

Supporting the African statement by no means excludes further support
for other areas. It lets ICANN know that this is an issue of wide
concern amongst the Internet community.

Sebastien has reminded me offlist that there is a working group
soac-newgtldapsup-wg, formed subsequent to ICANN37 in Nairobi,
actively formulating a more general statement.

It's archives are available at
http://forum.icann.org/lists/soac-newgtldapsup-wg/

That group itself seems very much appreciative of the African initiative.

Joly

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com> wrote:
> Hello Joly,
> Hello Annalisa,
>
> why restrict it to a specific continent, bearing in mind some African
> countries have a much higher GDP per capita than others?
>
> I would have suggested this to be non-geographic and based on GDP per
> capita or some other metric showing mean individual wealth level. In
> this way, developing countries elsewhere would also qualify.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Olivier
>
> Le 13/07/2010 08:40, Joly MacFie a écrit :
>> At the North American Regional At-Large Organization (NARALO)
>> teleconference yesterday Annalisa Rogers of ISOC-SF raised the topic
>> of the statement of the African ICANN community at ICANN38 in
>> Brussels.  It asks for support of African gTLD applicants, mainly
>> civil society, NGOs and non for profit organizations, but also for
>> entrepreneurs, given the developing state of the continent's digital
>> economy.
>> http://www.atlarge.icann.org/announcements/announcement-24jun10-en.htm
>>
>> Specifically the support to be provided to applicants of new gTLDs in
>> Africa should include, but not be limited to the following:
>>
>> *Financial, by reducing the application and the on-going fees
>> ** Waiving the cost of Program Development ($26k).
>> ** Waiving the Risk/Contingency cost ($60k).
>> ** Lowering the application cost ($100k)    (from $185k)
>> ** Waiving the Registry fixed fees ($25k per calendar year), and
>> charge the Registry-Level Transaction Fee only ($0.25 per domain name
>> registration or renewal).
>> ** The reduced cost to be paid incrementally, which will give the
>> African applicants more time to raise money, and investors will be
>> more encouraged to fund an application that passes the initial
>> evaluation.
>>
>> *Linguistic, by translating all the application documents, especially
>> the Applicant Guidebook, in the six UN languages
>>
>> *Legal, by assisting the applicants in preparing their applications properly.
>>
>> *Technical, by
>> ** helping the applicants to define the infrastructure options,
>> ** addressing the issue of infrastructure problems in some African
>> countries; such as IPV6, internet connectivity etc.
>>
>> Annalisa is drafting a statement of support on behalf of NARALO.
>>
>> I am thinking this is something that many chapters might want to
>> support 1) individually, 2) through their local At-Large
>> Organizations, and 3) by lobbying their local representatives on the
>> ICANN Government Advisory Committee (GAC).
>>
>> Annallisa, please circulate the wording of your support letter here when ready.
>>
>> joly
>>
>>
>
> --
> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
> http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
>
>



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