<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello Raoul and the other NPOC leadership,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">It has become necessary for me to write on behalf of the EGIGFA team about the below email that Wisdom sent, which is currently circulating all over in the ecosystem. EGIGFA is a member of the NPOC. I am sure it would have come to the attention of the NPOC EC by now.  We responded to the allegations made by Wisdom in his email and it will interest you to know that Wisdom has not reacted to our response ever since.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I have copied Wisdom again in this email, and all the people he copied. I have also copied our board members' mailing list. All our board members are very active in the ecosystem (ICANN and IGF).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Please see below the email from Wisdom and our response.  We hope the erroneous impression Wisdom wants to create about me personally, the EGIGFA team and our organisation will be cleared after reading our explanation. We are on standby for your response, if any.  </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:8pt">.......</span><br></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Raymond S. Mamattah</b><br>
<i>Founder and President</i><br>
E-Governance and Internet Governance
Foundation for Africa (EGIGFA) </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| </span><a href="http://www.egigfa.org/" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" target="_blank">www.egigfa.org</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">EGIGFA is the convener of Ghana
School on Internet Governance (GhanaSIG) | <a href="http://www.ghanasig.org" target="_blank">www.ghanasig.org</a> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">
<a href="mailto:rmamattah@egigfa.org" target="_blank">rmamattah@egigfa.org</a>
| (+233)
244124625</font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">P. O. Box AN18189, Accra, Ghana</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><a href="https://twitter.com/egigfa" target="_blank"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1Y0G0r5yp0lBDJ3ncpDzz2bqRefYXMfSi&revid=0Bw3XjkPd2CH0NVFlS0M2ZEJiUFNhdHZqM1kyOE9XYVlvK3MwPQ" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif" alt="twitter"></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/egigfa/" target="_blank"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1eV47Xu91JOrQCOOgGu6wAuZYRjPdGbJi&revid=0Bw3XjkPd2CH0UHkyS2dvNForbG11cGtmNE9ZT2lLcXZSODhrPQ" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif" alt="facebook"></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/e-governance-and-internet-governance-foundation-for-africa?trk=public_post_share-update_actor-text" target="_blank"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1Hj68D-cN1_mDsXgvczoa_qwjmKzzKSnm&revid=0Bw3XjkPd2CH0WmpzMWVBajJGQUxHSk5sdmV6ZFFUaktLdVpZPQ" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif" alt="linkedin"></a><br></p></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Raymond Mamattah</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:mamattah.raymond@gmail.com" target="_blank">mamattah.raymond@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 2:21 PM<br>Subject: Fwd: Ghana School on Internet Governance/EGIGFA<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:Nyamburam@africa-union.org" target="_blank">Nyamburam@africa-union.org</a>>, Wisdom Donkor <<a href="mailto:wisdom.dk@gmail.com" target="_blank">wisdom.dk@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: Kofi A <<a href="mailto:kofiaidoo@gmail.com" target="_blank">kofiaidoo@gmail.com</a>>, Francis Amaning <<a href="mailto:frankwesia@yahoo.com" target="_blank">frankwesia@yahoo.com</a>>, Eric Akumiah <<a href="mailto:eric.akumiah@gmail.com" target="_blank">eric.akumiah@gmail.com</a>>, Kwaku Antwi <<a href="mailto:okantwi@gmail.com" target="_blank">okantwi@gmail.com</a>>, Marcus Adomey <<a href="mailto:marcus.adomey@gmail.com" target="_blank">marcus.adomey@gmail.com</a>>, Ivy Hoetu <<a href="mailto:ivy.hoetu@nca.org.gh" target="_blank">ivy.hoetu@nca.org.gh</a>>, Felicia Anthonio <<a href="mailto:felicia@accessnow.org" target="_blank">felicia@accessnow.org</a>>, Sarata Omane <<a href="mailto:amasarata@gmail.com" target="_blank">amasarata@gmail.com</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:ssedem@gmail.com" target="_blank">ssedem@gmail.com</a>>, Jacob Odame-Baiden <<a href="mailto:odamyte@gmail.com" target="_blank">odamyte@gmail.com</a>>, Bram Fudzulani <<a href="mailto:beatblam@hotmail.com" target="_blank">beatblam@hotmail.com</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:vanda@etges.com.br" target="_blank">vanda@etges.com.br</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:suhaidi.hassan.my@gmail.com" target="_blank">suhaidi.hassan.my@gmail.com</a>>, ABDULKARIM AYOPO OLOYEDE <<a href="mailto:oloyede.aa@unilorin.edu.ng" target="_blank">oloyede.aa@unilorin.edu.ng</a>>, Fatimata Sylla <<a href="mailto:fsylla@gmail.com" target="_blank">fsylla@gmail.com</a>>, Joan katambi <<a href="mailto:joanhopek@gmail.com" target="_blank">joanhopek@gmail.com</a>>, Glenn McKnight <<a href="mailto:mcknight.glenn@gmail.com" target="_blank">mcknight.glenn@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hello madam Margrete, </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">My
attention and that of the EGIGFA management has been drawn to the below email sent by Mr Wisdom Donkor on the subject “Unapproved: EGIGFA/Ghana School
on Internet Governance '' and I would like to give clarity on the issue.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">EGIGFA</span></b><b></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Our organisation is called E-Governance and Internet Governance
Foundation for Africa (EGIGFA) based in Accra, Ghana. EGIGFA is made up of
and managed by a team that have participated and continue to engage in the
internet governance ecosystem. We are active in ICANN and most of us are ICANN Fellows.     </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We are non-profit organisation that among other undertakings have
outreach, research and capacity building in e-governance and Internet Governance
(IG) as part of our objectives to help people participate meaningfully in the IG
discourse. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">EGIGFA has collaborations with some international entities that are
helping us in our activities.  One of these entities is the e-Governance
Academy (eGA) located in Estonia which we will have a webinar with in
August on the topic “What is e-Governance”.  Registration for this
event is presently on-going and can be found in this url: </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-on-understanding-what-e-governance-is-all-about-tickets-113105726272" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-on-understanding-what-e-governance-is-all-about-tickets-113105726272</span></a> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">GhanaSIG </span></b><b></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">EGIGFA has Ghana School on Internet Governance (GhanaSIG) as one of our
initiatives. To achieve our objectives we (EGIGFA) have decided to run this
school annually.  GhanaSIG was started in December 2019.  It must be
noted that we actually initiated the GhanaSIG because we realized Ghana did not
have an Internet Governance School and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">upon further research with other IG schools, we thought it wise to start one, as part of our
contribution to the ecosystem. Our website is <a href="http://www.ghanasig.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.ghanasig.org</span></a>.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">GhanaSIG is a recognized registered member of the Dynamic Coalition on
Internet Governance Schools (DC-SIG). The DC-SIG is a worldwide body of some Internet Governance Schools that have come together to share best practices on
schools on Internet Governance. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We opened the GhanaSIG fellowship application which ended on 30^th
June 2020.  We had quite a good number of applicants and out of this we
have selected 30 Fellows. The list of the pioneer Fellows can be found in this
url: <a href="http://ghanasig.org/sig2020-fellows.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://ghanasig.org/sig2020-fellows.html</span></a>. 
It is heart-warming to see the excitement displayed by our Fellows when they
were notified.   </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This year, the school will be organised as a 3-day event and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">will be preceded with one
month online learning sessions to immerse the selected Fellows into topical
issues on Internet Governance (IG) as well as give
them foundational steps to engage meaningfully in IG discourse at the
community, national, regional and global levels.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The school will bring on board faculty/speakers made up of experts who
will impart knowledge and serve as mentors to the students. This initiative is
our own contribution to deepen IG engagements and get a lot more people
involved in global Internet policy development and engagement. This is
certainly our way of contributing to the multi-stakeholder engagements within
the internet governance ecosystem.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In our little way, we hope to get well equipped Fellows who will make a
lot of impacts and difference after their fellowship programme and make Ghana
and Africa proud.  Obviously, we hope by this initiative we will make more
<i>“Prof. Nii Quaynors”</i> in the future.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conclusion </span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">EGIGFA and its sub-entities including GhanaSIG is managed by
professionals who are gainfully employed. We have made these initiatives out of
our passion to contribute in our small ways to the multi-stakeholder
engagements in the internet governance and e-governance ecosystem.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Contrary to what is being asserted by Wisdom, EGIGFA/GhanaSIG
is not an extension of the national IGF and w</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">e have never under any
condition or platform indicated that GhanaSIG, convened by
EGIGFA is linked to the national IGF.  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">EGIGFA
is a private organization focused on capacity building and research in Internet
Governance. As indicated earlier, GhanaSIG is our initiative hatched to introduce
IG concepts and principles to people with little to no knowledge in Internet
governance to raise the next generation of Internet leaders who can engage
meaningfully in Internet Governance discourse. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If we have the chance to organize
the GhanaSIG in future with Ghana IGF and any other entity we will indicate
so.  We are in to complement what other institutions in the ecosystem
are doing.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It is also right to address the issue raised by Wisdom
which seeks to suggest that we are operating on fraud. How does our intention
to champion an initiative that will help deepen the knowledge in Internet
governance constitute fraud? This is a baseless allegation not backed by any
proof whatsoever. It will interest you to know that we have a huge support base
with eminent advisors on our Board from the Internet Governance community who have availed their
time in helping us shape the curricula and to serve as faculty for the GhanaSIG.
We are not a profit oriented organization and we have partnered with, and open
to partner with any organization that sees the value that our work brings to the
community.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u>I personally engaged Wisdom in a Whatsapp chat and asked him to come on
board so we could organize the GhanaSIG.  However, he informed me that he had
too many things on his hands so he could not come on board.  Later on, he
told me again on Whatsapp that he is against the GhanaSIG initiative.</u>  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Despite his inability to
bring his expertise on board, EGIGFA is going on with our scheduled
plans.  </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">On this note, I would like to advise Wisdom to further desist from
tarnishing my image and that of EGIGFA. Despite the fact that he is not in
support of the GhanaSIG initiative does not make us enemies.  As we all
know, it is “One World and One Internet”.  We are all just trying to play
our various roles in our little ways and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">sharing our knowledge and expertise in the ecosystem.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">On behalf of team EGIGFA I thank you.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Raymond Mamattah</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Founder and President</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">EGIGFA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">



</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><br><br><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">---------- Forwarded message ---------</div><div dir="auto">From: Wisdom Donkor <<a href="mailto:wisdom.dk@gmail.com" target="_blank">wisdom.dk@gmail.com</a>></div><div dir="auto">Date: Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 6:20 PM</div><div dir="auto">Subject: UNAPPROVED: EGIGFA / Ghana School on Internet Governance</div><div dir="auto">To: <<a href="mailto:Nyamburam@africa-union.org" target="_blank">Nyamburam@africa-union.org</a>></div><div dir="auto">Cc: Kofi A <<a href="mailto:kofiaidoo@gmail.com" target="_blank">kofiaidoo@gmail.com</a>>, Francis Amaning <<a href="mailto:frankwesia@yahoo.com" target="_blank">frankwesia@yahoo.com</a>>, Eric Akumiah <<a href="mailto:eric.akumiah@gmail.com" target="_blank">eric.akumiah@gmail.com</a>>, Kwaku Antwi <<a href="mailto:okantwi@gmail.com" target="_blank">okantwi@gmail.com</a>>, Marcus Adomey <<a href="mailto:marcus.adomey@gmail.com" target="_blank">marcus.adomey@gmail.com</a>>, Ivy Hoetu <<a href="mailto:ivy.hoetu@nca.org.gh" target="_blank">ivy.hoetu@nca.org.gh</a>>, Felicia Anthonio <<a href="mailto:felicia@accessnow.org" target="_blank">felicia@accessnow.org</a>></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Dear Margrete Nyamburam,<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I trust you are doing great and keeping safe?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On behalf of the Ghana IGF Steering Committee Chair, copied in this mail together with other National IGF committee members, bring to your attention the formation of an unapproved Ghana School on  Internet Governance by e-Governance and internet-Governance development for All lead by one Raymond Mamattah.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kindly note that, this organisation, is a private individual organisation trying to organise the school. Raymonds organisation EIGFA and school is not a multistakeholder base organisation and as such does not have any linkages with the National IGF (Ghana IGF), Ghana School of IG and Ghana Youth IGF. It must also interest you to also know that the Ministry of Communications through the Ghana Domain Name Registry hosts the Ghana IGF Secretariat and as such the Ghana School of Internet Governance and Ghana Youth IGF.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Raymonds organisation is portraying itself as a national initiative with the intention of raising funds for its private activities and programs. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kindly decline any form of financial request and support that might come from this organisation in the name of Ghana IGF or School of Internet Governance and any form of its activities that might be linked to the Ghana IGF.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have copied in this email the Ghana IGF Advisory Committee Chair and other stakeholders members.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">WISDOM DONKOR</div><div dir="auto">President & CEO<br></div><div dir="auto">Africa Open Data and Internet Research Foundation<br></div><div dir="auto">P.O. Box CT 2439, Cantonments, Accra | <a href="http://www.aodirf.org" target="_blank">www.aodirf.org</a>  / <a href="http://www.afrigeocon.org" target="_blank">www.afrigeocon.org</a> <br></div><div dir="auto">Tel: +233 20 812 8851<br></div><div dir="auto">Skype: wisdom_dk | Facebook: kwasi wisdom |  Twitter: @wisdom_dk <br></div><div dir="auto">________________________________________________________________<br></div><div dir="auto">ICANN GNSO Council Member </div><div dir="auto">_________________________________________________</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Specialization:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">E-government Network Infrastructure and E-application, Internet Governance,  Open Data policies platforms & Community Development, Cyber Security,  Domain Name Systems, Software Engineering, Event Planning & Management, </div></div>
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