Background:

Due to the limitations in our face to face meetings imposed by the current health crisis, the AFRALO leadership team has discussed the best ways to keep this great community engaged, making this “online only” time more beneficial and productive for all.

Goal:

To provide the AFRALO community with webinars as an online tool to undertake AFRALO activities.  The objectives are to carry out any activity we need to do and strengthen capacities of our members, advancing the knowledge of participants toward an agreed learning objective which will contribute to enhance AFRALO’s members participation in At-Large’s Policy Advice development.

Webinar Coordinators:

The Leadership appointed Tijani Ben Jemaa and Bram Fudzulani (our regional O/E Co-Chair) to coordinate this effort.

Topics:

For the capacity building, the topics to be addressed would be identified by the community itself. This is why this survey is initiated.

Survey Link: https://forms.gle/wg7LcDjT9aW1eQ5i

As per the survey result, 5 topics for capacity building prior to statement drafting were selected :

1. Universal Acceptance,
2. Registrants data Protection,
3. Geographic Names for new gTLD subsequent rounds,
4. Multi-stakeholderism,
5. DNS Abuse

Other topics as per the Survey results:

1. Outlook of the Internet ecosystem in Africa in time of emerging dispensation
2. Online games & Child safety & Privacy
3. How to do a good presentation of his work or his research at a conference or a Summit
4. Promoting DNSSEC implementation in Africa's TLD registries
5. Update on ICANN Internet Governance activities and issues
6. Internet of things
7. Project management
8. Data Science 
9. Managing poor access in post COVID 19
10. MANRS
11. What is DNS and how it works
12. Policy Development process 
13. The Election process and understanding the structure of ICANN
14. Strategies for increasing uptake of domain names in African ccTLDs
15. Role of At-Large structures in local Communities
16. Understanding AFRALO. How to engage effectively.
17. Blockchain backed DNSSEC
18. Digital currency
19. Security
20. cloud computing
21. Virtualization
22. 5G Technology

Schedule:

The CB webinars will be held during February, April and December. Other  virtual activities will take place on May, September and November.
The webinars will be organized on the 4th Tuesday (or Thursday) of the month at 18:00 UTC. 

Webinars: