The Middle East Strategy Working Group (MESWG) has been working hard since it presented a draft of the three-year engagement strategy at ICANN Beijing. After finalizing the strategy, the working group with 22 members from 11 countries has developed a one-year implementation plan to be carried out during ICANN’s FY14. Activities include capacity building around IPv6, DNSSEC and DNS operations, supporting the DNS sector, and driving Arabic script IDN related work forward.
Last week at Durban, members of MESWG presented the implementation plan and sought feedback from participants. MESWG also had a face-to-face meeting to discuss next steps. Summary of the meeting discussions along with previous meeting records are available on the ICANN community wiki. MESWG members agreed that they would continue as a group to support and oversee the implementation of the strategy, at least during the first year.
I personally am very pleased with the progress that MESWG has made over the past six months. It has been a wonderful journey and it is not over yet. I would like, on behalf of ICANN, to thank all MESWG members [PDF, 62 KB] for their contribution. I look forward to continuing to work with them on the implementation.
For any comments or feedback, you can write to MESWG at meswg@icann.org.
From left to right:
- Syed Iftikhar Shah, Ministry of Information Technology, Pakistan
- Sofie Maddens, Internet Society
- Baher Esmat, ICANN
- Zahid Jamil, Jamil & Jamil
- Sarmad Hussain, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
