<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#073763">Thanks for the update!</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><i>Awo</i></font></b></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 at 13:30, Oreoluwa Somolu Lesi <<a href="mailto:oreoluwa@wtec.org.ng">oreoluwa@wtec.org.ng</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Hi
everyone,</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Cambria, serif">Yesterday, Caleb Ogundele and I
organised and participated in a session at the
recently-concluded
Digital Rights Inclusion Forum 2019 here in Lagos, Nigeria
called
"<b>I</b><span style="font-style:normal"><b>nternet Governance:
Multi-stakeholderism and Participation in the Assigned Names
and
Numbers Space.</b></span>"</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" align="justify"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">This
session featur</font><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">ed</font><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">:
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><u><span style="font-weight:normal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anriette_Esterhuysen" target="_blank">Anriette
Esterhuysen</a> </span></u></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">(NCUC </span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">and NomCom</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">) </span></font></font></font>
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<font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal"><a href="https://icannwiki.org/Ines_Hfaiedh" target="_blank">Ines
Hfaiedh</a> </span></font></font></font></u></span></font><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">(NCUC
AND AFRALO) </span></font></font></font></u></span></font>
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<font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://icannwiki.org/Caleb_Olumuyiwa_Ogundele" target="_blank"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Caleb Ogundele</font></font></a></u></span></font><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">
(NPOC, NCUC and AFRALO) </font></font> </p>
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<font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://icannwiki.org/Sunday_Folayan" target="_blank"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">Sunday Folayan</span></font></font></font></a></u></span></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal"> (</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">ccNSO</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">)</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">Lawrence </span></font></font></font></u></span></font><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawrenceor/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">Olawale-Robert</span></font></font></font></a></u></span></font><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">s</span></font></font></font></u></span></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal"> (BC </span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">and NomCom</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">)</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://icannwiki.org/Oreoluwa_Somolu_Lesi" target="_blank"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">Oreoluwa
Lesi </span></font></font></a></u></span></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">(NPOC and AFRALO) – </span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">Moderator </span></font></font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" align="justify"><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">(</span></font></font></font></u></span></font><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://icannwiki.org/Seun_Ojedeji" target="_blank"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">Seun
Ojedeji</span></font></font></font></a></u></span></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">of
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">ALAC, AFRALO and ASO
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight:normal">was
meant to have joined us, but was unavoidably absent due to
work
obligations.)</span></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Cambria, serif">Our session <font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">explained
who ICANN is, their role in ensuring the interoperability and
coordinating key technical and policy aspects of the
underlying core
infrastructure and the domain name system. Our discussion
included
explanations of the multistakeholder model, the </font><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">ICANN
structure</font><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">, PDPs,
GDPR
and EPDPs </font><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">and </font><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">ways
to contribute to and join ICANN,.</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Cambria, serif">All in all, </font><font face="Cambria, serif">I
</font><font face="Cambria, serif">hope and </font><font face="Cambria, serif">believe</font><font face="Cambria, serif">
</font><font face="Cambria, serif">we had an engaging and
interesting
discussion, sharing what we do at ICANN. You can watch the </font><font face="Cambria, serif"><b>video
recording </b></font><font face="Cambria, serif">here:
<a href="https://youtu.be/v_Pzfd6v4Sk" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/v_Pzfd6v4Sk</a>
</font>
</p>
<p><font face="Cambria, serif">I will be putting together a short
report about the session over the next week and will be sure to
share
it with you all.</font></p>
<p><font face="Cambria, serif">Best regards,</font></p>
<p><font face="Cambria, serif">Ore</font></p>
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<pre class="gmail-m_-2240531664072437704moz-signature" cols="72"><span class="gmail-m_-2240531664072437704moz-txt-tag">--
</span>Oreoluwa Lesi
NPOC - Secretariat
Executive Director - Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC)
<a class="gmail-m_-2240531664072437704moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.wtec.org.ng" target="_blank">www.wtec.org.ng</a> | @wteconline
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