Group mentality and ICANN GAC Advice: Another case of African misdirected and treacherous destiny

. Is Africa falling to another trap of group mentality and uninformed choices? Traditionally nations and especially when taken as continents have been known to take collective decisions. Just recently in the WCIT Dubai, there was mass failure of the delegates to agree on a treaty that had been crafted to replace the existing International …

ICANN ASWG Sponsors an Exclusive African-IGF Agenda with “AUC-DotAfrica Initiative” in Baku – Excludes DotConnectAfrica

DotConnectAfrica participated in the just concluded Annual IGF meeting but it reports a new development that curiously threatens its bid since a meeting that was exclusively convened and attended by its competitor announced moves to curtail its application. The IGF which is supposed to be a multi-stakeholder platform where discussions from all quarters are accommodated …

Speech by ITU Secretary-General, Dr Hamadoun I. Touré

Your Excellency, President Aliyev, Your Excellency, Mr Wu Hongbo, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Your Excellency, Minister Abbasov, Distinguished colleagues, Ladies and gentlemen, It is a great pleasure to be here with you today for the opening of the seventh annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, which is taking place here in …