2024-05-20 AFRALO ICANN80 Planning Committee Call

• bram.fudzulani and bukola.fawole  to prepare flyers for the Social media campaign to promote the Roundtables online 
• Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong to share the AFRALO-AFRICANN google doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AH7N_ZYdPTkvERTO0FYZ6iz6v5E-nkGmTjxomOPbKXY/edit with AFRALO ICANN 80 organizing committee members. The statement will have a section to include the conclusions of both panels.
• Michelle DeSmyter  to send a report with results on the survey by Thursday May 23. Depending on the results, the survey will be closed by Friday May 24.
• All speakers must be invited and confirmed by Friday May 31^st.
• Once all speakers are confirmed Staff to ask panelists to provide a photo and bio for the promotional flyer.
• Michelle DeSmyter will schedule the next call next Tuesday May 28^th, 14 UTC.

2024-05-13 AFRALO ICANN80 Planning Committee Call

• hadia.elminiawi and all to finalize and clean up the Panel's survey and send it to staff by Tuesday May 14.
• Michelle DeSmyter to create the google survey, target date Wednesday 15th
• hadia.elminiawi to confirm speakers for both Panels with the group and staff ASAP.

2024-05-06 AFRALO ICANN 80 Planning committee call 

• Matogoro Jabera and all OC members to prepare 3 questions for Panel 1 on ALS on infrastructure and to send to staff ASAP to prepare a Google survey. Matogoro Jabera will send the survey asking ALS for feedback by Monday 13.
• Panel 2 – Building a Multilingual Internet: Opportunities and Challenges. Matogoro Jaberato draft 2 quantitative questions and send to staff to prepare a google survey. A survey will be prepared by staff with the 3 questions from the google doc “Stakeholders Perspectives”
• AFRALO-AFRICANN Theme Suggestion was decided.   “Bridging the Digital Divide: Empowering Africa through Multilingual Internet Infrastructure. Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong will draft the Agenda by Friday May 10th, so invitations can be sent during the week of May 13th.
• Silvia Vivanco to send a draft invitation for 2 Roundtables to speakers to Hadia for approval. 
• Michelle DeSmyter to set up the next call for Monday 13 May, 15: 00 UTC.

2024-04-29 AFRALO ICANN 80 Planning committee call 

• hadia.elminiawi and all OC members to finalize the panels descriptions and speakers by Wednesday 1 May 23 UTC. 
• Heidi Ullrich to reach out to Government engagement with Panels information.
• Siranush Vardanyan  to ask fellows /Next Gens to prepare two questions for Panel 1 "Enhancing Internet Infrastructure in Africa for  an inclusive Internet"
• Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong to finalize the topic of the AFRALO-AFRICANN session by Friday May 05, 23 UTC.
• Michelle DeSmyter to schedule the next call for Monday May 06.
•  Gisella Gruber to send calendar invites for all ICANN 80 AFRALO sessions to Siranush Vardanyan and Deborah Escalera.

2024-04-22 AFRALO ICANN 80 Planning Committee Call 

• hadia.elminiawi and all OC members to finalize the session objectives of Panel 1 by Wednesday April 24.  Members of the OC to look at the ICANN 76 AFRALO-AFRICANN statement “Best practices for DNS Operations in Africa” which has elements that could be added to the definition of the first panel. Once the names of speakers are finalized, members and staff will contact the Panelists.
• hadia.elminiawi and all OC members to finalize Panel 2 Description by Monday 29 April.
• Heidi Ullrichto contact Govt engagement staff to send invitations to high level speakers to be invited to speak at the AFRALO Roundtables (week of April 29) . 
•  Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong to provide the AFRALO-AFRICANN topic to staff  by Monday April 29. The Agenda with speakers to be sent to staff by Friday May 3.

2024-04-15 AFRALO ICANN80 Planning Committee Call

• hadia.elminiawi and members of the OC will add more details to the Round tables scope and description and  speakers so they can be invited in a timely manner. 
• Heidi Ullrichto reach out to our Govt engagement staff to identify high level speakers to be invited to speak at the AFRALO Roundtables. 
• Michelle DeSmyter to schedule a weekly call every Monday in April and May at 15:00 UTC.

2024-04-08 AFRALO ICANN80 Planning Committee Call

• Silvia Vivanco  to put the document "AFRALO ICANN 80 Proposed Sessions and Activities" into a Google doc . hadia.elminiawi will send the google doc to OC members requesting inputs in "comments" mode. 
• hadia.elminiawi to include the issue of "AFRICAN misrepresentation on the DNS"  (suggested by Muriel ALAPINI based on Mr Tidjani presentation in the google doc.
• hadia.elminiawi asked all  OC members  to contribute with ideas for a theme to encompass all events. The theme "Enhancing African users internet Access” possible theme” was proposed.
• Michelle DeSmyter to subscribe  ICANN 80 AFRALO Organizing committee members to the mailing list.
•  Michelle DeSmyter and Claudia Ruiz to schedule AFRALO ICANN 80 Planning Committee calls every Monday at 15:00 UTC with FR interpretation.