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Report: AFRALO - Monthly Meeting

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• Preparation of  ICANN 82 AFRALO-AFRICANN statement - ICANN82 Registration opened    - (Hervé HOUNZANDJI) 

Herve reminded the usual process to manage to.
He is going to send to the members the mail about the call of topics tomorrow. 

• Global Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) Africa updates  (Yaovi Atohoun) 

First of all, Yaovi wishes Happy new year 2025 on behalf of the GSE Africa team. Then he shared with the community some information :

1. The Africa Regional Plan Working Group had a first meeting on 18 December 2024.  Members are African from SO/AC leadership and representatives from AFTLD, Afregistrars,  AFCHIX and AFREN. We expect to have a draft in March for input from the Global community
2. We are in the last months of the implementation of the Africa Regional Plan FY21-FY25.  We will share an implementation report before the end of Calendar year 2025
3. New gTLD Next Round outreach is a priority in our engagement this year. In addition to focus countries (Senegal, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa) we want to use any key opportunity to spread the message. We invite you to share with us any key international event schedule in your country. We will explore opportunities of outreach even remotely.  

We will continue the implementation of projects under the Coalition for Digital Africa.

Finally we expect to have two key events in 2025:

1. 1. Africa Engagement Forum
   2. Africa DNS Forum in the last quarter of 2025

• Recent and upcoming ALAC activities (aziz.hilali - bukola.fawole)
  • @Bukola Oronti
    • ALAC  request a representative from each of the five regions for the ALAC Subcommittee on Appointment Selection (AASC) for 2025 (1 year term) and the new AFRALO representative is Kiza Patrick.
    • ALAC newly formed WG for Outreach and Engagement purposes known as ALAC Community Engagement Subcommittee (ACES) opened its call for membership and requested for each region to nominate a regional rep. The call was from 16th Dec 2024 to 3rd Jan 2025.
    • AtLarge ICANN82 Planning Committee call in preparation for the next ICANN meeting is still on. The next meeting is Monday at 17:00 UTC.
    • AtLarge is drafting a comment/statement on the CIP framework developed by the CIP-CCG which is already open for comments. We all as AtLarge are encouraged to read through the draft and provide our comments on it before it goes to the ALAC for ratification.
    • Ratified statements by ALAC since the last AFRALO monthly call:
      • Proposed Revisions to Community Anti-Harassment Policy. - 13th Dec 2024
      • Joint ALAC-SSAC Correspondence regarding Automated Delegation Signer (DS) Automation. - 23 Dec 2024.

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• AFRALO Social Media Working Group Update -  (bukola.fawole and Team)

No updates.

• UA Day 2025  2025 -  hadia.elminiawi 

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Following the message Herve sent to the community, Herve thanks those sent to Remmy some articles for the next newsletter. 

6. AFRALO Membership Matters (Hervé HOUNZANDJI)

Herve proposed to the community to create a special edition of our newsletter. This edition will be dedicated exclusively to showcasing information and updates from our ALS representatives.

7. AOB

With no other business being proposed, @Hadia closed the meeting by once again encouraging all members to actively participate in AFRALO activities.

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