[ncc-regional-middle-east] Cooperation Coordination Center [C3] for Middle East Region

Dear All,
As this is my first mail to this respectable list I may have first to
introduce myself. My name is Baher Esmat, I'm the Middle East Liaison of the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - ICANN. I'm based in
Cairo, Egypt and my role with ICANN is to work closely with the Internet
community of the Middle East, respond to their needs in relation to aspects
that concern ICANN and also work on increasing participation of the various
Middle East groups in the ICANN activities together with its supporting
organizations. 

I'm glad to be on this mailing list to share with you information in
relation to the Internet unique identifies and the needs of our region in
this regard. 

I would like to second Moeen and thank Ripe NCC and Alireza for their
initiative and look forward to working with all of you.

Best regards,

Baher Esmat
Middle East Liaison - ICANN
Smart Village, B115, Km 28 Cairo - Alex Road, Egypt
Mobile: +20 12 325 1122
E-mail: baher.esmat at icann.org 

-----Original Message-----
From: ncc-regional-middle-east-admin at ripe.net
[mailto:ncc-regional-middle-east-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of Moeen Aqrabawi
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 5:02 PM
To: 'Alireza Kashian'; 'Saleem Al-Balooshi';
ncc-regional-middle-east at ripe.net
Subject: RE: [ncc-regional-middle-east] Cooperation Coordination Center [C3]
for Middle East Region

Dear All,

I suggest extending the ncc-regional-middle-east group to include North
Africa region due to the fact that most of the Internet regional entities/
groups are dealing with both regions as one entity due to the similarities
in needs and tight inter business and other relations between both regions.

MENA was always there, and Internet subjects like e-business, e-Government,
IPv6, Internet exchanges and relevant issues were used to be discussed
either through different Arab regional summits or MENA bodies.

On the other hand, such involvement would help in tighten and enhance the
Internet business relationships development between these countries and the
Middle East countries; I believe both regions are sharing the same visions
and Internet future needs.

Again, many thanks to RIPE NCC and Alireza for this initiative and the
followed suggestions to build C3ME, but again C3MENA can also be true and
can give more valuable ideas to the same since it would include new subjects
specific to both regions i.e the Arabic domain names, GCC internet
bodies/activities, the Arab ITU Internet related subjects, MENA IPv6 task
force, Arab e-Governments, e-Business and B2B entities.

Thanks to all, and looking forward to hearing from you.

Best Regards

Moeen Aqrabawi
Se/Planning (Internet)
Etisalat
UAE - Dubai
+971 50 4481143

   

 


   

-----Original Message-----
From: ncc-regional-middle-east-admin at ripe.net
[mailto:ncc-regional-middle-east-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of Alireza
Kashian
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:15 AM
To: Saleem Al-Balooshi; ncc-regional-middle-east at ripe.net
Subject: [ncc-regional-middle-east] Cooperation Coordination Center [C3] for
Middle East Region
Importance: High

Dear Saleem Al Balooshi

Thanks for your approach and also all other members to share their contact
info.
For your information, we have nearly 40 replies for sharing contacts and
that made me surprised.
If some of the members wouldn't start sharing their contacts, then we
wouldn't have resonant messages.

I think more or less, all members of middle east region are now aware of
this sharing outreach. Some members may prefer not to share and we respect
their privacy levels.

I have asked my colleague to review all messages and make up contact table
out them.[including Tel,Fax, Email,Address and Title]

In next step, I propose to establish a Cooperation/Coordination Center (C3)
for middle east region. This Center would be established virtually without
any physical office. Later we can assign a few volunteer staff to help us
running this center.

The center activities would be categorized to following tasks:
1- Internet Governance issues in Middle East
2- Developing E-Business in Middle East region (More dialoge - More
benefits)
3- Sharing experices for Networking/IPv6 and Internet Exchange Points
4- Participating in ICANN / Governmental Advisory Committee and At Large
Advisory Committee [ icann.org / gac.icann.org]
5- Participating in Internet Governance Forum of United Nations
[http://www.intgovforum.org/]
6- Running Regional Seminars and Conferences in Middle East countries.


We can add some more tasks to this center and even young people can join
this center for executive purposes.

I wish you all best and waiting for your valuable comments.

PS. I was in ICANN Meeting in Wellington [New Zealand] last week. ICANN is
interested to have more active members from middle east region especially in
Governmental Advisory Committee.

Alireza Kashian
Supreme Council of ICT
PoBox 16315-1639 - Tehran , IRAN
Email: a_kashian at iran.info
Tel: +98 21 8873 3022
Fax: +98 21 8874 2224




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Saleem Al-Balooshi" <saleem at nic.ae>
To: "Alireza Kashian" <a_kashian at hypersys.net>
Cc: <ncc-regional-middle-east at ripe.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [ncc-regional-middle-east] More Contacts, More Synchronization,
More Cooperation


> Dear All,
> First of all I would like to thank Mr. Alireza for this initiative, the
> email was sent on 19/2/2006 till today I have seen more than 30 replay
> to this email " 3/4/2006", representing most of the countries in the
> Middle east region, from the details of the individual we can see that
> the list consists of highly competent members in the Internet
> technologies in general.
>
> Now we need to ask our self what is next, what is the individual
> expectation from this list ?
>
> I would like to here your view of what is next what are your expectation
> for this list?
>
> I hope we will see active participation from the members in answering
> the above question, in the same level and motivation "if not better"  as
> what we have seen in introducing our contacts.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Saleem Al-Balooshi
> UAEnic
>
> Alireza Kashian wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues @ Ripe Ncc
>>
>> First of all I should say thanks to Axel Pawlik and Ripe NCC's staff
>> to help growing up discussion around Middle East IP Networking by
>> making mailing list and arranging regional meetings.
>>
>> During past 2 years, I have been involved in Internet Governance
>> negotiations and I realized that we don't have very strong
>> participation from middle east region in both consultations and
>> publishing.
>>
>> I think Middle East countries need to have more contacts, more
>> synchronization and more cooperation on some of regional tasks like
>> development of Internet Exchange Points.
>>
>> At the begging we would need to know each other much more and even
>> invite our colleagues join the mailing lists.
>>
>> It will be my pleasure to share my contact info here:
>>
>> [I am working with Supreme Council of ICT in Iran as an Advisor.]
>>
>> Alireza Kashian
>> Supreme Council of ICT
>> PoBox 16315-1639 - Tehran , IRAN
>> Email: a_kashian at iran.info <mailto:a_kashian at iran.info>
>> Tel: +98 21 8873 3022
>> Fax: +98 21 8874 2224
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alireza Kashian
>
>
>
>