[governance] Re: ccTLDs and developing countries

[kwasi boakye-akyeampong]

Stephane,
   
  You probably didn't get what I was trying to put across. In Ghana, Accra is the hub of IT. If this small IT community (who tend to know each other) did not know that there was an ICANN meeting going on, then something is fundamentally wrong. US is a very huge country yet most IT community members would be aware of the upcoming ICANN meeting though they may not be necessarily interested. Accra is a very small geographical area. 
   
  I'm not suggesting ICANN meeting holds the answers but where the people are ignorant and oblivious of important happenings around them, it is a potential setback to ICT4D efforts. I may not be as technically savvy as you but when it comes to these things, I know what I'm talking about. Journalists don't even know about IT as result their coverage of IT related issues is scant and when it is covered very superficial.
   
  Well, I'm trying to understand what ccTLD is about and why we should take the management of the local ccTLD more seriously.
   
  Regards,
  Kwasi
   
  

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at internatif.org> wrote:
  On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 02:03:41PM +0100,
kwasi boakye-akyeampong wrote 
a message of 152 lines which said:

> in March 2002, ICANN held a general meeting in Accra but the IT
> community in Ghana was not even aware something that crucial was
> happening in their back yard. 

Come on, ICANN meetings are not "something that crucial". The
management of the local ccTLD is certainly more important.

> The ghnic (www.nic.gh) website has not been updated for
> years. They don't respond to e-mail enquiries. NCS, the company
> who owns ghana.com claims to be managing the .gh but would not
> respond to e-mail enquiries (matter of fact, I don't know the
> difference between ghana.com and ghnic).

Also, the DNS setup of ".gh" is heavily broken (two of the only three
name servers are lame).

This sort of derelection of ccTLD is common in Africa, unfortunately.


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