<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear CCWG-AP members and ICANN staff,</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">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 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">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 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">An issue to think about.</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">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Nadira</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"><br></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"><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.<wbr>com</a>><br><br><br><div class="m_2371753283409877561gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="m_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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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt">Thank you,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">Fahd Batayneh<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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