[Chapter-delegates] Enhancing Local Engagement in Internet Governance in Africa

[Eduardo Diaz]

Matogoro:

This is a great initiative and I congratulate you all for having done so.

Lets see if we can follow your example and do something similar for ISOC.

Kind regards,

Eduardo Díaz
ISOC Puerto Rico

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:51 AM Matogoro Jabera <jaberamatogoro at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sorry for Cross posting!
>
> I am writing to share our workshop report for an event that was held at
> University of Dodoma, Tanzania, East Africa.
>
> Internet Governance Youth Community (YouthCom) workshop initiative targets
> to introduce the youth from various backgrounds in Tanzania not only to
> ICANN but the wider Internet ecosystem with an aim of ensuring this new
> audience, are prepared early enough to help them participate effectively in
> the internet ecosystem.
>
> The overarching objectives of this workshop is to promote local engagement
> of African communities in Internet Governance, create awareness about ICANN
> and build capacity of African local community towards addressing future
> challenge of the internet in Africa.
>
> Just as a summary on our achievements:
>
>    - 22 users contributed to ICANNWiki Swahili Platform
>
>
>    - 312 edits  were completed
>
>
>    -  145 articles were translated
>
>
>    -  138 newly created articles
>
> We are committed to make Swahili Content on Internet Governance is
> available in the Internet and addressing the local content challenge using
> our own language.
>
> Regards,
> --
> MATOGORO Jabhera
> Assistant Lecturer & Coordinator - Microsoft Innovation Center, Tanzania
> College of Informatics and Virtual Education
> The University of Dodoma (www.udom.ac.tz)
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