<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Seun,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">My point is not about the project itself, but about ICANN jurisdiction and its position of funded projects that doesn't comply with its mission. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">This issue is still under discussion at the ccwg-AP with ICANN legal but until today there is no clear position. Discussing the legal issue of this project might help in the debate to finalizing this critical point. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 9:02 PM, Seun Ojedeji <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hello Nadira,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for sharing this, I think it's a good thing for Internet industry players to occasionally produce papers that serves as advice/indicators to policy makers on how to better improve Internet development; an improved Internet and digital literacy will better "indirectly" support the core mission of ICANN.</div><div dir="auto"> </div><div dir="auto">Should ICANN be contributing to such effort? I believe they should. Perhaps ICANN may want to just keep that at a global level as much as possible.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards<br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Sent from my mobile<br>Kindly excuse brevity and typos</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_3295146388315592777h5">On Oct 13, 2017 4:12 PM, "Nadira Alaraj" <<a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com" target="_blank">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_3295146388315592777h5"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear CCWG-AP members and ICANN staff,</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I thought to share with you below the announced study on the Digital Economy in the Middle East conducted by ICANN Middle East Global Stakeholder Engagement office.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I think this study works as an example on the debated issue of the range of projects that AP fund could support. This study, doesn't support directly ICANN core mission on DNS but it handles the broader digital economy which I believe if is away with some margin from ICANN core mission. </div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">An issue to think about.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Best,</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Nadira</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Fahd Batayneh</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fahd.batayneh@icann.org" target="_blank">fahd.batayneh@icann.org</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 1:14 PM<br>Subject: [MEAC SWG] ICANN Releases a Study on the Digital Economy in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey<br>To: MEAC-SWG <<a href="mailto:icann-meac-swg@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">icann-meac-swg@googlegroups.c<wbr>om</a>><br><br><br><div class="m_3295146388315592777m_4500686317527877662m_-896044425082726841m_2371753283409877561gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="m_3295146388315592777m_4500686317527877662m_-896044425082726841m_2371753283409877561gmail-h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt">ICANN Releases a Study on the Digital Economy in the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey. You can read the PR and find a link to the study report as well as a blog from the author;
Dr. David Dean, at <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/press-material/release-2017-10-09-en" target="_blank">
https://www.icann.org/resource<wbr>s/press-material/release-2017-<wbr>10-09-en</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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