Meeting Summary 07 January 2009 en

AFRALO – 7 janvier 2009

Participants : A. Hiladi, A. Mulenda, B. Schombe, D. Kasole, F. Feye sylla, G. Bombambo, H. Diakite, K. Koubaa, M. El Bashir, S. Bachollet
Staff: H. Ullrich, MH Bouchoms, M. Langenagger

1. The meeting was chaired by Didier Kasole

2. The summary minutes of the AFRALO of 10 December were approved

3. The action items of the AFRALO of 10 December were supervised

4. Update on ALSes applications
the Due diligence forms of the three applicants have been sent to AFRALO and will be available for the ALS to place their comments until 22 January 2009. Thereafter, Afralo will take a vote. The three applicants are:

a. Fédération Méditerranéenne des Associations d’Internet (FMAI) :
registre in Tunis.
(Due Diligence sent to AFRALO Secretariat on 18 December 08)

b. Bokk Jang Jeff (Fatimata Sylla is the President)
(Due Diligence sent to AFRALO Secretariat on 18 December 08)

c. Consortium d’Appui aux Actions pour la Promotion et le Développement de l’Afrique (CAPDA).
Association for the integration of Technology and communication techniques in Cameroun and Central Africa

5. Update on the At-Large Summit (Hawa +African ALAC members + Staff)

H Diakite reminded that the summit participants will have to participate in working groups, limited each to 25 people, according to the choices they made in the 2nd summit questionnaire which was sent to the ALSes on 24 December. Each working group will prepare a statement on one of the chosen policy issues and the statement will be ratified by ALAC.

The meeting participants pointed to some technical problems for entering the answers and said that the votes did not get confirmation by the system. As a result, no answers had been received yet.

At-Large staff will look into the technical problem and keep the ALSes posted.

M El Bashir suggested posting an online list with the missing ALSes.

6. Preparation of draft General Assembly agenda – deadline January 30, 2009 (Chair and AFRALO members)

M El Bashir urged the participants to place suggestions on how to improve the participation and requirements on the discussion list. He reminded that the agenda for the General Assembly will be decided end January and that this point of participation improvement should be on it. He said they should think about forming an AFRALO executive committee and adopting guidelines.

At-Large Staff invited the participants to take part into the summit planning teleconference meeting that would take place later in the evening.

Participants asked if the local host could see whether they could obtain their visas once in Mexico as for some, it was a problem getting it from their country.

A reference was made to the ALSes who have duly participated and answered the questionnaires but whose representative is an ALAC member. It did not seem fair that they were not entitled to a financial support when their representative was an ALAC member. It was suggested they should be entitled to send a second member to the summit.

S Bachollet argued that the budget decisions were taken by ICANN

F Seye Sylla commented that it was impossible for some to go to the summit on their own personal financial means.