Multiple award-winning media group, the DigitalSENSE Africa Media has
been accredited as a member of the At-Large Advisory Committee of the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as an At-Large Structure
(ALS), reports ITRealms.
DigitalSENSE
Africa Media is the organisers of the annual Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum Series
including the Internet Governance Forum for Development (IG4D) and Nigeria
Internet Protocol version Six (IPv6) Roundtable since 2009, as well as the publishers
of DigitalSENSE
Business News, NaijaAgroNet
and ITRealms.
It
could be recalled that in 2011, DigitalSENSE
Africa Media midwifed the first-ever Nigeria hosted West Africa Internet
Governance Forum (WAIGF) in collaboration with the National Information
Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and Free Software and Open Source
Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) even as DigitalSENSE Africa is a corporate
member of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA) and member,
Local Multistakeholder Advisory Group of Nigeria Internet Governance Forum
(LMAG-NIGF).
This is coming as leadership of DigitalSENSE Africa promises
to continue its strides by ensuring all-inclusive enlightenment of Nigerian
internet users.
A letter mail (email) entitled “Welcome to At-Large!”
endorsed on behalf of the At-Large Advisory Committee by ICANN Policy Staff-led by Heidi Ullrich and
including Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and
Terri Agnew, dated Friday, November 14, 2014 conveyed the accreditation to
DigitalSENSE Africa.
According to the letter sighted by
ITRealms, ALAC stated its pleasure to inform that DigitalSENSE Africa with
registration number 211, has been certified as an At-Large Structure (ALS).
ITRealms
gathered that the ALAC greatly appreciates “your group's interest in involving
individual users in ICANN and looks forward to working with you and your
colleagues.”
Also ITRealms gathered that the purpose of
ALS certification is to recognize that DigitalSENSE Africa meets the necessary
criteria to involve individual Internet users at the local or issue level in
ICANN activities, and will support its individual members' informed
participation in ICANN efforts that affect end-users.
Reacting, on behalf of the
management of DigitalSENSE Africa (DSA) Media, the Executive Director,
Operations, Nkemdilim Nweke (Mrs) expressed gratitude for the certification by
members of ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) as an At-Large Structure
(ALS).
“We appreciate the trust repose in DigitalSENSE Africa by ALAC members, especially those who trusted and stood by DigitalSENSE Africa by supporting our application,” she said.
She also promised that DigitalSENSE Africa would continue to do its best in enlightening individual users and actively participate in ICANN-related processes both locally, regionally and internationally.
“We appreciate the trust repose in DigitalSENSE Africa by ALAC members, especially those who trusted and stood by DigitalSENSE Africa by supporting our application,” she said.
She also promised that DigitalSENSE Africa would continue to do its best in enlightening individual users and actively participate in ICANN-related processes both locally, regionally and internationally.
+Remmy Nweke (ITRealms) +ICANN @ICANN-ALAC @DigitalSENSEng @NaijagAgroNet
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