[governance] IGF review

[McTim]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:23 PM, BAUDOUIN SCHOMBE <b.schombe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Ginger and Ian,
> Subsequently abouT IGf review, I beleive that IGF process is till necessary
> for a most of developping countries specially in africa.

This attitude breaks my heart, and I'll tell you why.

There ARE existing African IG institutions that need support.

When Africans (especially African CS groups) focus on the IGF instead
of the Af*'s (AfNOG, AfTLD, AfriNIC, AfrISPA, et. al), there is less
time, money and energy available for the home grown decade long (+)
African IG experience.   That to me is a real pity.

Why on earth one would choose to just talk about making policy (IGF)
instead of actually making policy (as we did at AfriNIC 10 recently)
is beyond me.

I appeal to African CS orgs reading this list to become more involved
in the Af*s mailing lists and meetings.  We need all the support we
can get.
There seems to be a smaller resource base here in Africa than in some
other regions, I don't understand why we don't support our own
initiatives when we easily can!


I am agree Ginger
> position in following sentences :"The process of consultations should
> especially keep in mind constituencies that have lesser participation in IG
> issues at present, such as constituencies in developing countries including
> those of civil society. Other interested groups with lower participation in
> IG issues like women, ethnic minorities and disability groups should also be
> specifically approached."

NB: there were more women than ever at INETAfrica/AfNOG10/Afrinic10
this week. Several disabled folk as well.

> Indeed on this level, it would be desirable to reinvolve actors who were and
> remain active in the process of  IG in developing countries, more
> particularly in Africa. It will have to be recognized that many efforts is
> done in ICT applications  but about 70% of the marginalized or disadvantaged
> population still do not have access to digital technology

and the IGF is going to fix this how?

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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