Discussion within ICANN tends to focus on wealthy countries,
demonstrating a gap between developed and emerging nations, according
to participants at this week's ICANN public meeting in Cairo claims IDG.
But Paul Levins says ICANN will continue to reach out to Africa through
its fellowship programme and encourage African participation, however
Africans within ICANN have a responsibility to raise issues of concern
to them.
Noting the gap is obvious, Michuki Mwangi of the Internet Society in
Africa said "Africa is more concerned with issues of setting up the
top-level domains, Internet exchange points and root servers. The
developed countries dealt with those issues long ago."
To read this IDG article in full, see www.networkworld.com/news/2008/110708-meeting-exposes-gap-in-icann.html or www.pcworld.com/article/153555/icann_meeting.html.
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