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  TURNING COMMUNITY CONCERNS INTO CITIZEN ACTION - Posteado por: Akeju Olukemi
TUCAN project 2008 is aim at making positive and visible impact in the life’s of 100,000 hostile youths from different communities in Nigeria, the TUCAN project is targeting only HOSTILE communities across Nigeria. This project will involve communities’ rallies, road shows, community dialogue, capacity building, and trainings which will be done in rural communities only. No single modern hall will be use for these trainings and of course there wont be high table presentations but a round table dialogue. We want to change the negative values of these young people especially in the rural areas; we are creating a new environment where the hope of a better tomorrow is in every neighbourhood not by violence but through active participation of these young people who are referred to as COMMUNITY CONCERNS.
Someone said "The most difficult phase of Life is not when no one understand you; but It is when you don’t understand yourself"
Are you a young Nigerian who believes that VISION 2020 might be impossible without active participation of these COMMUNITY CONCERNS; and who is ready to volunteer for TUCAN project from NOW to DEC 2008 in a community near you. Then the time to share all your experiences, knowledge, voice on local and national issues with these young people who due to one reason or the other hide under the violence umbrella is NOW.
Join the MOVEMENT OF POSITIVE CHANGE;
Remember Martin Luther King Junior: The man who stirred the conscience of a Nation. A nation where the dignity of every person is respected, where people are judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Make a connection with Community Concern (YOUTH) today. For more information on how to be part of this: Contact the below with the SUBJECT: TUCAN 2008
Akeju Olukemi
Tel: 07035243360, 07028041241
Email: cimalpfuture@yahoo.com
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Speak Out through Positive Nigerians Yahoo Groups - Posteado por: Akeju Olukemi
Those who can bring about freedom where it is absent and justice where it is denied are chiefly young people. . Often times the youth force retreat to dormancy and apathy for lack of perspective and coordination. In this frustration the youth force is hijacked and brought into conflict by belligerent, insurgent and other terrorist war lords either to resist possible democratic transition or to meet their deadly goals. Youth plays central roles, as fighters or victims. Civil conflicts could be reduced in many places if sufficient attention and resources are deployed to provide coordination, leadership and perspective to youths. Youths are valuable tools to safeguard against violation of basic human rights and government excesses if youths could take up their responsibilities and play their role as political actors during and after the transition process of their infant democracies.
Positive Nigerians Yahoo Group is open to all young Nigerians home and abroad who believe in the success of our infant democracy. Young Nigerians who sees Leadership as an opportunity to serve and not to be served; who believe in the success of the Nigeria Project. All group members around the world are expected to organize a monthly Leadership development Programme under the tag" Leadership Values for Positive Citizens" targeting the new cadre of Nigerian Leaders who are catalysts for positive Change.
Objectives
„Ï To build the capacity of youths for active and meaningful participation in national development
„Ï To help youths develop plans for action in their local communities
„Ï To develop in the youth the core values needed for good leadership
„Ï To promote gender equity, youths-youths and youths-adults partnership for national development
„Ï To inculcate in the youths the virtue of patriotism, good governance and democracy
„Ï To identify motivational tools for an effective leadership delivery
To be part of the chain: subscribe to - positivenigerians@yahoogroups.com
| Octubre 18, 2007 | 09:35:16 |
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 The story of NiRA ! - Posteado por: Aare Kornar !
AFTER nearly 10 years of bickerings, back
stabbings and controversial
pronouncements on who should manage and
host Nigeria's country code Top Level
Domain (ccTLD), stakeholders have
endorsed the Nigerian Internet
Registration Association (NIRA), to do
the job.
Although, the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had
ceded the right to a properly organised
stakeholders group in 2004, none had been
put in place so in place of that proposed
organisation, National Information
Technology Development Agency (NITDA) had
stood in.
The ccTLD had been managed since
inception by an American, Mr. Randy Bush,
resident in the United States from 1992
till date. While the administrative
contact person was Mrs. Ibukun Odusote.
The controversy trailing the hosting
right made President Olusegun Obasanjo to
step in on January 16, 2004 and directed
that the management of the ccTLD.ng
should be transferred from Mrs. Odusote
to NITDA.
NITDA, Obasanjo insisted, should set up a
transparent mechanism that will enable
the Internet community in Nigeria and
stakeholders to participate in the
formation of a new body to manage and
administer the ccTLD as a national
resource.
This position was communicated to ICAAN,
which responded on June 9, 2004 and
endorsed the administrative change as a
pre-requisite for NITDA to formally
proceed with the implementation of
President Obasanjo's directive.
And while the battle between Nigeria
Internet Group (NIG), Nigeria Computer
Society (NCS) among other stakeholders
raged, Nigeria's scarce resource with the
suffix.ng remained under the watchful
eyes of Randy Bush.
None was willing to shift grounds.
Indeed the history of Nigeria's Internet
is checkered. It has been fraught with
controversies, bickering and internecine
battles among interest groups. The effect
has been the slow pace in the development
of that national resource. Successive
efforts to resolve the conflicts were
unsuccessful until the intervention of
the Presidency.
Last week, the man, who managed the cctld
in the United States was in Nigeria and
was a guest of NITDA as part of his
itinerary. For the first time, he spoke
about how he came to host Nigeria's top
level domain. What he 'earns' for his
efforts and his wishes for Nigeria, and
other issues. That story is exclusively
available to The Guardian. In this
report, however, we bring you details of
the effort of stakeholders to take over
the management of Nigeria's Internet from
the American.
Several individuals, corporate,
educational, government and professional
groups responded to NITDA's invitation to
submit position papers on the way
forward.
NITDA constituted a small team that
evaluated the submissions from which an
agenda for a National Stakeholder Forum
was drafted. This forum was scheduled and
series of national advertisements
preceded the event.
First National Stakeholders' Conference -
August 9, 2004
On August 9, 2004, the first National
Stakeholders' Conference was held in
Lagos. The conference, which was very
well attended, attracted all segments of
the Internet Community in Nigeria.
To ensure that actual experiences from
other countries were shared amongst
Nigerian stakeholders, two international
resource persons from Kenya and South
Africa; Michuki Mwangi and Mike Lawrie,
were invited, they shared their
experience on the domain name management
of their respective countries. This was
followed by an interactive session
involving the participants present.
Stakeholders, who had sent position
papers to NITDA on the ccTLD management
were also given the opportunity to make
presentations at the forum on their
proposals.
At the end of the forum, a communique,
which was endorsed by the principal
stakeholders including the incumbent
Administrative Contact of the ccTLD.ng
was issued. The key recommendation of the
Forum was the creation of a Working Group
by the stakeholders, whose responsibility
was to establish the modalities for
setting up the non-governmental,
not-for-profit organisation to mange the
ccTLD.ng.
The numbers of the Working Group were as
follows:
* National Information Technology
Development Agency (NITDA);
* Nigerian Communications Commission
(NCC)
* Nigeria Computer Society (NCS)
* Internet Services Providers'
Association of Nigeria (ISPAN)
* Nigeria Internet Group (NIG)
* Computer Professionals Registration
Council of Nigeria (CPN)
* Nigerian University Commission (NUC)
* Nigerian Society of Engineering (NSE)
* National Broadcasting Commission (NBC)
* Association of Telecommunications
Companies (ATCON)
* Federal Ministry of Science and
Technology
* Federal Ministry of Communications
* Federal Ministry of Education
* Federal Ministry of Information and
National Orientation
* The Presidency
* Bankers Committee of Nigeria
* Youth Groups
* The Media
* Nigerian Information Technology
Professionals Association (NITPA)
* Two Representatives of State
Governments.
Post Forum Consultations
Following the decisions reached at the
Stakeholders' Froum, NITDA organised a
meeting of a smaller subgroup of 8
members on October 26, 2004 to fine tune
the modalities for the establishment of
the non-government not-for-profit
organisation scheduled to take-over the
management of the ccTLD.nig.
On November 4, 2004, the larger
Stakeholders' Working Group convened a
meeting to deliberate on the modalities
drawn up by the Group of 8 mentioned
above. The meeting was held at the
conference room of the National
Information Technology Development Agency
(NITDA). The meeting reviewed all the
position papers submitted to NITDA and
emerged with resolutions on the take off
of the anticipated organisation.
The members of the .ng Working Group
agreed that the nature of the institution
would be non-governmental, not for
profit, private sector driven and
inclusive of and accountable to all
members of the internet community in the
country.
It was resolved that the name of the
organisation would be Nigerian Internet
Registration Authority (NiRA) and that it
would be registered as an Incorporated
Trustee.
It was agreed that the Government's role
should be supervisory at best and that
policy and practice on the ccTLD
management should be determined by the
emerging entity, pursuant to the
prevailing market forces. In addition to
these resolutions it was generally
acceptable and that the Government's role
would include intervention during
conflicts.
The structure of the institution was
broken into four major departments namely
Administrative, Technical, Registration
Services and Dispute Resolution
departments. It was agreed that the
Dispute Resolution Department should be
in line with ICANN's established policies
on the subject matter and while a
department should be created in NiRA to
handle publication of rules and related
matters in this regard, actual dispute
resolution Service Providers shall be
appointed by the TLD manager under
conditions approved by the Board of
Trustees of the institution. It was
stressed that it was very important for
such a department to be staffed by
competent professionals with an in depth
understanding of the workings of the
Internet, intellectual property law and
other international accepted laws.
The Working Group concluded that general
details relating to technical operations
and s well as institutional and
individual competence should be left for
the emerging institution to decide in
order to ensure that the designated
manager is given sufficient room to
develop satisfactory and sound technical
plans for the registry, essential for the
stability and integrity of the registry.
The Second Stakeholders Forum - March 23,
2005
In continuing the efforts to establish
the.ng ccTID Manager, NITDA organised a
Stakeholders' Forum on the management of
Nigeria's country code top level domain
(ccTLD.ng), which was held on March 23,
2005 at the Muson Centre, Lagos. The
Forum was attended by a number of
individuals, who were present in their
personal capacity and others, who
represented organisations.
The proposal for the management of the
.ngccTLD developed by the Group of 22
Stakeholders Representatives was
presented by the secretariat of the G22
ccTLD Working Group in NITDA.
The presentation by the G22 ccTLD Working
Group highlighted the issues that were
considered before living at the position
contained in the proposal. Some of these
were:
* The proposed name and structure for the
anticipated organisation that would mange
the .ngcc TLD;
* The role of government
* The organs and departments for the
anticipated organisation;
* Technical and administrative functions
* Broad guidelines for the appointment of
Domain Name Registrars and Second Level
Domain Name Hosts;
* Free services to certain
non-governmental organisations
* A structure for domain name dispute
resolution.
Name of the Organisation
The G22 proposed that the organisation be
named the Nigeria Internet Registration
Authority (NiRA) out of a list of 2 names
which included the following:
* Nigeria Information Center (ng NIC)
* Nigeria Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (NiCAANN)
NiRA was adopted by a majority vote; but
was modified to read, Nigeria Internet
Registration Association instead of
Nigeria Internet Registration Authority.
The votes cast were 53 for NiRA, 9 for
ngNIC and 1 for NiCANN.
Organs of the Organisation
The G22 proposed the following organs for
the NIRA:
* General Assembly to serve as the policy
and power base of organisation;
* The Board of Trustees to serve as an
advisory body shaping policies, practice
and programmes;
* The Executive Board consisting of
elected termed positions and;
* The Management Committee to handle the
day-to-day operations of the ccTLD
manager.
After deliberations, the Forum agreed
that the proposed organs were too many
and would lead to unnecessary duplication
of efforts. The importance of a
streamlined and effective organisation
was emphasised. It was resolved that the
fundamental structure of the organs would
be addressed after a constitution had
been draw up in order to get a clearer
picture of the roles which the various
organs would play in the organisation.
Departments of the Organisation
The G22 proposed 4 departments for NIRA
namely:
* TLD Administrative Department;
* TLD Technical Department;
* Registration Services Department; and
* Domain Name Dispute Resolution
Department
The Forum resolved that the Domain Name
Dispute Resolution Department should be
merged with the Administrative Department
and the Registration Service Department
should be merged with the Technical
Department. NIRA should have 2 working
Department namely the Administrative
Department and the Technical Department.
Appointment of domain name registrars
The G22 proposed that domain name
registrars should be appointed based on
"conditions applicable to Internet
Service Providers." The Forum adopted
this proposal with an alteration. The
word "standards" was adopted instead of
"conditions."
Second level domain name hosting
The G22 proposal on the second level
domain name hosting was adopted by the
Forum with modifications. The Forum
resolved that the cadre of
non-governmental organizations which
would be eligible for free domain name
hosting should not be mentioned in the
guidelines.
Domain name Dispute Resolution
The Forum resolved that the bulk of the
functions of dispute resolution would be
outsourced to competent arbitrators.
Would have to possess requisite legal
background.
Board of Trust for NIRA: The Forum
deliberated on the constitution of a
Board of Trustees for NIRA. While most
members favoured a small Board comprising
of 5 or 7 members, others recommended
that the representative G22 ccTLD Working
Group should constitute the Board of
Trustees. A compromise was reached and
the following persons were nominated as
the members of the Board of Trustees for
the purpose of registration with the
Corporate Affairs Commission.
Dr. Moses Ubaru National Information
Technology Development Agency
Dr. Chris Nwannenna Nigeria Computer
Society
Engr. Akinsola Cole Nigeria Society of
Engineers
Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem Nigerian Internet
Group
Mrs. Ibukun Odusote Federal Ministry of
Information
Mr. Emmanuel Arinze Presidency
Mrs. Mary Uduma Nigerian Communication
Commission
Dr. G. M. M. Obi Computer Professionals
Registration Council of Nigeria
Prof. I. S. Diso Kano State University of
Technology
Proclamation and establishment of the .ng
ccTLD manager:
At the conclusion of the deliberations
the following proclamation establishing
the .ngccTLD manage was made;
"All ICT stakeholders and the internet
community in Nigeria hereby establish for
Nigeria, a non-governmental
not-for-profit private sector led
organisation to be known as the Nigeria
Internet Registration Association (NIRA)
to manage the Nigeria country code top
level domain ( ccTLD.ng) in good faith
and in the interest of the internet
community in Nigeria."
Post forum activities
The inaugural meeting of the board of
trustees was held on April 6, 2006 in
Lagos and two subsequent meetings have
been held in Abuja on the April 15, 2005
and May 12, 2005 respectively.
The board of trustees in accordance with
its mandate has concentrated its energy
on the formulation and adoption of a
transparent and comprehensive
constitution for NIRA. The first and
second drafts of the constitution of NIRA
were read and reviewed by the members of
the board of trustees and circulated
widely for comments and contributions
from members of the public. A website was
also developed for the entity.
Since then, considerable progress in the
domesticating the management of the ccTLD
has been made. While the process of
incorporating NIRA was on, NITDA acquired
the servers needed to host the .ng ccTLD
and trained six domain name
administrators under the auspices of the
agency and with the collaboration of Mr.
Sunday Folayan (the CEO of Skannet) and
Mrs. Ibukun Odusote (the erstwhile POC of
the ccTLD).
The purpose of the action taken by NITDA
was to develop an effective strategy to
take over the management of Nigeria's
ccTLD from the U.S-based technical
administrator, Mr. Randy Bush, pending
the time NIRA would be fully born and
ready to assume complete control.
Today, that strategy has paid off.
Although NIRA has been incorporated, it
has not yet assumed control of the
management of the ccTLD. But NITDA is
hosting and facilitating the registration
of domain names until such a time NIRA
would be ready to take full control.
Through the active support and efforts of
Sunday Folayan, the registration of
domain names and management of the ccTLD
by NITDA is now automated. It is
therefore expected that when NIRA assumes
control. It will inherit a robust and
fully automated process.
At its first yearly general meeting,
hosted by the new NIRA board of trustees
on May 1, 2007, the association elected
an executive management board headed by
Mr. Ndukwe Kalu as the president.
The NIRA AGM coincided with this year's
AFNOG workshop hosted for the first time
in Nigeria and sponsored by NITDA.
NITDA's sponsorship of the African
Network Operators Group workshop enabled
the training of over 30 Nigerians in
building scalable web systems and similar
networking courses. Among the key
instructors were Mr. Randy Bush and his
wife, Zita Wenzel, who manages the United
States ccTLD.
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All Co-Directors..... - Posteado por: Aare Kornar !
....sorry we have not been able to meet or start the eClass. It is due to the ICT framework we had planned to make use of as a backbone for training. We look forward to a favourable outcome soon.
| Noviembre 7, 2006 | 16:45:28 |
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