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 ICANN
 Dakar, Senegal
 Senegal Opening Ceremony
 24 October 2011


 >>MASTER OF CEREMONY:   Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the
Republic.

 >>MASTER OF CEREMONY:   Excellency, Mr. Wade, President of the
Republic of Senegal, thank you President for coming and presiding the
opening ceremony of the 42nd meeting of the international
organization for assigned names and domains, ICANN.

 Mr. Souleymane Ndiaye, first Prime Minister of Senegal, ladies and
gentlemen, Minister of State, ladies and gentlemen, Ministers, Mr.
Moustapha Guirassy, Minister of Telecommunications, speaker of the
government.

 Ladies and gentlemen; representatives of international
organizations; Mr. Rod Beckstrom, director of ICANN; Mr. Crocker,
director of the administration council; Mrs. Dryden, President of the
GAC within ICANN; ladies and gentlemen, representatives,
international organizations, ladies and gentlemen, representatives of
the parliament, technicians and experts from the world, welcome to
the 42nd meeting of ICANN meeting for assigned names and numbers. 
Mr. President of the Republic of Senegal, you have Ms. Heather Dryden
has the floor.

 [ Applause ]

 >>MS. HEATHER DRYDEN:   Thank you.

 Thank you, everyone.

 Prime Minister Guirassy, and Your Excellencies, as well as
distinguished guests.

 It's an honor to be among you today with so many honored guests.

 To such a distinguished audience today.  As chair of the
Governmental Advisory Committee, I was given the pleasure to present
to a group of experts as part of a set of meetings facilitated by the
government of Senegal and by the African Union commission, and I was
very impressed with the interest the region in various Internet
issues, in the work of the committee that I chair and ICANN.

 And this really tells me that there is a great deal of importance
placed on the need for participation from the African region.

 Senegal has been playing a leadership role within the GAC for
years.  Madam Diop Diagne has been a real asset in bringing a voice
for Senegal and for Africans to the committee.

 One of the things that we discussed as part of the experts' meeting
were the various issues in front of the Governmental Advisory
Committee for consideration.  And this is really a critical time for
the committee, for ICANN, and for this multistakeholder model.  And
it takes work to make this model work, and it requires the inputs and
views and advice from all parts of the world.  And Africa is no
exception to that.

 So with that, I look forward to hearing more from the community
this week, and our GAC meetings will continue.  And I hope that one
thing that we can take away from these meetings is the importance of
African contributions to the work of ICANN, and with the Internet as
well.

 The next users for the Internet will come clearly from regions like
Africa, the developing world.  And so we need an Internet that's
responsive to their needs and interests.  And governments as well
have roles and responsibilities.  And this must be understood if such
a model is to work.

 And with that, I again thank you for the opportunity to speak to
you today and look forward to the meetings in the coming week
continuing.

 Thank you.

 [ Applause ]

 >>MASTER OF CEREMONY:   Thank you, Mrs. Dryden.

 Rod Beckstrom has the floor.  He is the CEO of ICANN.

 >>MR. ROD BECKSTROM:   Your Excellency President Wade, he Minister
Guirassy, distinguished guests, it's a pleasure to be with you for
ICANN's 42nd meeting.  We are deeply grateful to Senegal for hosting
this event.

 ICANN's public meetings, like this one, take place throughout the
world on a regional basis.  Of the six meetings ICANN has held in
Africa, this is, by far, the largest with 1,246 registered
participants, reflecting the continent's increasing engagement in the
development of global Internet policy and ICANN's multistakeholder
community.

 Africa has also recently demonstrated leadership in Internet
governance by hosting a very successful Internet Governance Forum in
Kenya just three weeks ago, with some 2,000 attendees.

 Much spirited discussion and high-quality participation.

 Africa's increase being involvement in the Internet is also
reflected in its 25-fold growth in access over the past ten years. 
25-fold.  This is a clear indication that the African population is
embracing new technologies to increase communications among people
and nations and allowing Africans to become more Internet savvy.

 Yet despite this rapid growth, less than 12% of the African
population currently has Internet access.

 The continent has 11.4% of the world's population, but only 5.7% of
Internet users.  So there is much room for growth.  And the wisdom of
Africa's Internet leaders will help to ensure that Africa can build
on this progress.

 The Internet is the greatest collaborative effort in history and
its governance matters to millions of Africans whose economic future
will be significantly improved by the information, commerce, and
innovation that greater Internet access will generate.

 ICANN is an example of the multistakeholder model at its best.  It
is open, inclusive, balanced, effective, and international.  It is
strongly dedicated to the public interest, and this commitment is
echoed in everything that ICANN does.

 Our inclusive international volunteer community develops policies
related to the Internet's Domain Name System.  This multistakeholder
model is organized around a community of specialists who bring their
knowledge and expertise to the development of Internet policy.

 Over 200 countries are involved in ICANN through the Governmental
Advisory Committee, community, board, staff, and operations.  Over
100 of them are represented here in Dakar this week, 35 of them from
Africa.

 Anyone interested in the future of the Internet is welcome to take
part in our meetings, to contribute to their views to the development
of Internet policy.  And in all of our public meetings, we have open
microphones at many of the sessions during the week, and we encourage
you to speak out on the issues that interest you.

 We want to see greater African engagement in this process and in
our community, and this means in all of ICANN stakeholder groups and
constituencies, and in the policy development process.

 This will increase Africa's influence and encourage greater
involvement and constructive interaction.

 There is already a vibrant African At-Large community and structure
within ICANN, giving voice to Africa's Internet users, and
representatives are participating here in our Dakar meeting.

 This initiative will strengthen the voices of African users in
ICANN, and increase their participation in the public-policy process.

 Yesterday, the second and very successful AFRALO showcase was held
here in Dakar with the kind participation of Minister Guirassy.  This
was first held in 2010 in Nairobi, and the showcases are now becoming
a tradition at ICANN meetings.  They offer a chance to hear from
regional leaders and highlight At-Large structures from specific
regions and cultures.

 We welcome the AFRALO At-Large representatives participating in
Dakar meeting.  This AFRALO initiative increases the effectiveness of
African end users in ICANN.

 We want to see more Africans engaged in the multistakeholder model
to bring the richness of African culture and experiences to ICANN and
the Internet and to allow the interconnectivity of communities and
cultures worldwide.

 We were also happy to see such high-level participation in last
week's African Union ministerial meeting here in Dakar, and the
constructive input and expressions of support for ICANN in their
communique.

 The development of the Internet is based on collaborative, trust-
based relationships.  In fact, the system work because of that strong
base of trust, collaboration, and cooperation.

 We believe the multistakeholder model is a technology in itself,
and it reflects the technology of the Internet.  Together, they
produce a communications miracle that offers Africa a wealth of
opportunities.

 Your Excellency, President Wade, Minister Guirassy, thank you for
your participation in ICANN 42.

 [ Applause ]

  >>MASTER OF CEREMONIES:  Thank you.  The floor is to Mr. Stephen
Crocker, President of the Administration Council of ICANN.

 [Applause]

 >>DR. STEPHEN D. CROCKER:  It's great to be here.  Your excellency,
President Wade, Minister Guirassy, distinguished guests, and all of
you, welcome.  It's a pleasure to welcome you and to be here in
Senegal.  

 Rod Beckstrom has shared with you a number of statistics.  I will
focus only on the number three.  Approximately, 1 out of 3 of the
many participants here today are from Senegal and the local region. 
That is a very high level of participation and bodes very well for
the future.

 And we also have three members of a very distinguished board of
directors of ICANN from the African continent -- Katim Touray from
the Gambia, Mike Silber from South Africa, Cherine Chalaby from
Egypt.  We almost have the continent covered.  

 As you've heard, building networks requires work.  I've had the
privilege of being involved from the very beginning.  And it involves
work of several kinds, certainly quite a lot of technical work.

 Also requires organizational work, political work, and business
efforts.  We're fortunate that, over a long period of time, all of
these efforts have come together and have created the magic, the
power, and the success of the Internet.

 There's one other element marbled through all of this, which is, in
addition to all of this hard work, we've been unable to make any
progress unless we also create slogans.  Our current slogan -- "One
World, One Internet" -- very apt, very relevant.  

 Let me tell you the very first slogan we made up in a room very
much smaller than this involving only a handful of people.  "Networks
Bring People Together."  And, in that spirit, I am very, very pleased
to see that, over the more than four decades that we have been
building networks, expanding them, increasing their power, that one
of the most important effects is that networks have brought people
together.  And we are here together in that spirit.  Thank you very
much.

 [Applause]

  >>MASTER OF CEREMONIES:  Thank you very much, Mr. Stephen Crocker.
Now Mr. Moustapha Guirassy, Minister of Telecommunications
Technologies, Information Technologies, who will now read the press
release.  And he will --

 [Applause]

 >>MINISTER GUIRASSY:  Thank you, President of the Republic,
Minister, ladies and gentlemen, ministers of state, president of the
Administration Council of ICANN, welcome to Dakar.

 Mr. President of the Republic, before reading the communique from
the round table of TIC ministers of Africa, I would like to tell you,
Mr.  President, the national council, under the control of the first
Prime Minister, made a lot of efforts and work.  And the president of
this committee and Mrs. Diop Diagne, who was appointed by one of the
members of the council -- I want to say because this is a revolution
for us.  Your vision was always to promote TICs. Another aspect of
our vision was to promote women.  And not so long ago we voted here a
law on equality, gender equality.  I'm happy to see that today the
42nd meeting was possible, thanks to Senegalese women that you
promote constantly.  So I wanted to underline this.

 [Applause]

 Mr. President, the ministers responsible for TIC made certain
promises.  But, to go fast, I would like to just remind that the
ministers in charge of the TIC within the union -- African Union,
what they ask from ICANN.  

 First of all, the ministers of the African Union in charge of TICs
mentioning, again, the declaration on telecommunication in Africa and
on development say that telecommunications are essential for
competition on Africa to -- in order to enable the African Union and
to materialize the millennium objectives and governance of Internet
made by -- this declaration made by September 2011 regarding Internet
governance that will be organized by the union community.  

 We welcome the different programs of ICANN and its organizations to
develop Internet section, especially security, stability, and IDN and
new gTLDs.  

 We understand how many efforts -- the efforts done to -- in order
to develop a good approach and the assistance needed, especially for
developing countries, to present their candidacy and use new gTLDs
regimes, according to resolution number 20 adopted in Nairobi and
mentioning also GAC's recommendations on Internet.  We hereby ask
ICANN's administration to include extensions point Africa, dot
Africa, dot Afrique, dot Afrikea, and also the usage of dot Africa in
any other language in the list of names so that we could take -- use
the protection given by such names, least developed African
countries.  Therefore, if ICANN could help African countries that are
poorer, that would be very helpful.  If we could also support ICANN
offices in Africa so that we could be closer to African stakeholders
and benefit from direct recommendations and raise awareness and
facilitate ICANN's mission on -- in Africa to assist an ethics
charter so we could eliminate and prevent conflict of interest.  And
this would make a more independent organization and assist ICANN so
that all documents and all meetings reports would be accessible in
all U.N. languages, especially in French.  This is the official
language of 50% of countries.  Internationalize ICANN by introducing
geographic rotation, assist Africa to have root servers in countries
in order to reduce connectivity commutators to adopt the final report
of joint applicant support and to establish the implementation plan
for future requests.  And better use resources for awareness and
training for African candidates to new gTLDs by proposing, innovating
programs for all African regions and accelerate the resolution
process and finding solutions on important, significant questions on
the candidate guide to assist new candidacies.  

 And, Mr. President Abdoulaye Wade, and thank you to the Senegalese
people for the perfect organization for the meeting.  This was the
release of the ministers within African Union.  Thank you, Mr.
President.

 [Applause]

  >>MASTER OF CEREMONIES:  Merci.  Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister
Guirassy, thank you for the reading of this communique.  Thank you
for this press release.  

 Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to hear Mr. Abdoulaye Wade, the
President of the Republic of Senegal.

 [Applause]

 >>PRESIDENT WADE:  Mr. Prime Minister; Ladies and Gentlemen,
Ministers, African Ministers in Charge of IT and Communications;
Ladies and Gentlemen, Ambassadors and Representatives of the
Diplomatic Department; Mrs. Heather Dryden, President of the Advisory
Council of ICANN, of the GAC; and Mr. Rod Beckstrom, Director of
ICANN; Mr. Stephen Crocker, President of ICANN's Administration
Council; Ladies and Gentlemen, Ministers of State; Ladies and
Gentlemen, Guests; Ladies and Gentlemen, Students, first of all, I
would like to express how grateful I am and also the Senegalese
people's gratitude to the organizers of this meeting for having
chosen our country to host the second -- 42nd meeting of ICANN, the
International Organization in Charge of Assigned Names and Numbers.  

 I would also like to wish to African ministers in charge of
technologies of communications and IT in Dakar, welcome.  And I hope
you have a nice day in Senegal.  Take this opportunity also to thank
the ministers for the significant work done that will enable the head
of state to have a very significant study analysis that will help us
to make better decisions.  

 This is a great honor for Senegal to welcome such distinguished
hosts on the planet that are in charge of ensuring Internet's
operational stability, promoting competition, and ensure global
representation of communities using the Internet.  

 We -- I think we have here one of the creators, inventors of the
Internet.  I believe he is one of those.  I asked him a question
earlier who have created Internet, who thought before implementing it.

 Ladies and gentlemen, without any doubt, our continent is not at
the heart of strategic operations of the Internet.  In Africa, Africa
-- in the world, Africa is still late in entering the world of the --
the digital work.  Digital networks are the ideal conduit for
democracy and essential for continent.  I often say -- and I want to
go back to what Mr. Crocker said -- Internet is the most perfect
democracy.  Because in front of the computer Senegalese, Japanese,
and American, they go to the same speed as the speed of light.

 So this is a race.  When you have a race car, you need a car.  A
bicycle race, you need a bicycle.  So all the theories that we can
elaborate cannot -- have no product, no result if -- unless Africans
have computers.  I would like to underline this practical aspect of
the Internet question.  We need to go.  We need to take the conduit. 
We need to -- and we need a computer for this.  I will talk about
that later, again, because that will explain my choice from the start
to give all government employees and teachers, students even in
schools so that they have computers.  

 And I argued my case before my American friends and the black
caucus a few years back about the possibility for Africa.  We -- at
the time we had 700 million.  We almost have 1 billion now -- to at
least have 500 million computers.  I'm not exaggerating.  In
countries, certain countries, 80% of the population -- 90% have a
computer.  In Africa computers are still very rare.  

 As you know, I've supported several initiatives in order to reduce
the gap between the north and the south, between the countryside and
cities.  That was part of the conference in Geneva in 2003 where I
proposed the concept of digital solidarity.  And we created it.  But
there were problems -- and all African countries, I mean, all African
countries, even foreign countries such as France, Lyon, because Lyon
are also members.  Paris, Milano, Italy, et cetera, and Caribbean
countries and countries of Latin America.

 We met here in Dakar not very long ago to create the Digital
Solidarity Fund.

 I had requested information that they just brought to me.

 Now, Internet that we talked about earlier created several
problems, but Internet, first of all, enables people to communicate
very quickly.  Internet is also -- I was going to say a registry of
human knowledge.  The most complex knowledge can be accessed through
the Internet.

 Therefore, the question is not the capacity to understand what's
here.  Africans, we have proved when we are studying in universities
or we have proved that we are capable, whether in Europe, in the
United States, or in China.  But the problem is to have access to it.

 It's not all just to have a computer, but you also need to pave the
way to this access independently from the issue of the democratic
management of the Internet.  There also, I will go back to it later. 
The phone, which is a means of communication, the most well-known and
the most common,  and which whose development is very quick.  And
that should interest Africans.

 In June 2005, phones, thanks to the cell phones, reaches 70% of the
population with quarterly growth of 23.8% in Senegal, which means
that the telephone is available to everyone from the most -- the
poorest to the richest.  I saw a publicity, a commercial, a camel
rider in the desert with his computer -- with his cell phone, which
shows that the development of such a tool brings me back to saying
that these incredible development has created an international
environment, and Senegal has become a hub, international hub for
international companies dealing with international communication. 
Google, Nokia, Samsung, IBM, who have offices here.  We also, in
Paris, Paris's Wall Street, we have now a Senegalese company
registered.  The economic environment makes your organization even
more important.  The stability of Internet is really crucial for
growth of our economies that rely on these networks.

 As far as I am concerned, I always thought that the Internet was a
way to favor, to promote the penetration of our countries on the
Internet world.  And, therefore, the fund of international solidarity
is very important.

 So ladies and gentlemen, it's very important for you to manage
fairly these names and numbers in a consensual manner with all the
stakeholders, public and private.

 The international aspect of your administration council of the
board and the cooperation that you have established within ICANN with
governments is crucial.  It enables you to have better legitimacy of
your decisions because countries are more and more sensitive to
questions, issues dealing with digital evolution.

 The GAC enables the countries to participate better in the work
being done through ICANN, and this is a very important model between
the public and private sector that should be encouraged.  You have
adopted the new gTLD program, first level, called gTLD.  This is very
good.  Because this is the beginning, I do not guarantee -- I think
it's English expression but this will definitely have a very big
impact, economic and social and cultural impact.

 Organizations who have requested ownership rights and
administration rights of these new names shows the interest for these
names and numbers, names that include names of cities and brands.  So
we have now a new cycle where African countries could be excluded
from this new market, since, as you have defined in your processes,
that it will be necessary to have millions of dollars to create one
registry for one village, the name of one village or a city.

 The major issue with names of domain names is safety, security. 
Safety for those who have the names.

 Can someone buy a domain name like Abdoulaye Wade or Obama.org? 
Because this will show in all its documents.  So it is necessary to
protect certain names.  It's a recognized right for all, an
individual right.  And names associated with religions, beliefs, like
Mecca, Vatican, Tuba, et cetera, could someone buy such names?

 So you have to go further and protect populations.  And for those
using the system who buy and sell names, you have the task to protect
the system and ensure its stability.

 These are programs that are very complex, we know, and the question
that we have today is when we say that Africa wants to participate in
Internet governance, that's what we mean.  It's to be represented
among those who decide policies pertaining to the Internet.

 I have here in Dakar, very quickly, also, on April 19th, 2004, an
African conference on Internet governance.

 It was just before the Tunis meeting.  I became aware that if they
would go directly to Tunis, it would be a catastrophe because the
prerequisites were not even defined.  I told my colleague and friend,
Ben Ali, and I told him I am calling a meeting before our arrival in
Tunis to talk about issues that will be discussed in your conference.
So the problems that we have today were already questioned and
discussed before, in 2004, in April and in September.  The Tunis
conference happened on November 16th, 2005.

 The conferences that you organized previously in June and also this
one are additional steps to leading to this Internet governance.  In
your approach, you have certainly taken into consideration requests
coming from developing countries, but I also invite you to finalize
processes so that you can enable them to have access to certain
resources for African organizations.  This liberal access, this
opening of access to African organizations, in Singapore in June
2011, is now a revolution for Internet beyond domain names based on
proper identities of private and public organizations.  Africa must
claim its symbols of its identity as a continent.  This is the dot
Africa.  Likewise, dot EU, European community, and dot Asia.

 I know that this debate is not over with regards to this new
extension, dot Africa.  That's why I inviolate the African Union to
ensure the leadership in the process for the attribution of this
resource by participating actively in debates on this issue so that
the final decision can be taken on behalf of the entire continent
that is already so far behind with regards to the access to digital
networks.

 I was informed of Senegal -- that Senegal was chosen to host the --
a copy of the root server.  This is obviously a very great
improvement of Internet network performances for our country and
other countries in the subregion, depending -- that used to depend on
Maghreb and South Africa.

 Thank you very much for this faith that you have for my country
that will now have the responsibility of ensuring of dealing with all
the requests of end users, of Internet users from the subregion. 
This new configuration associated with the new undersea cable, and
the works have just -- was achieved, was just ended, will now give
Senegal the leadership role and now will give it equality with
developed countries as far as connectivity to the international
network.

 The potential for -- You know how important education is for me.  I
will never stop saying that Senegal is the only country in the world
that gives 40% of its budget to education and training.  And the
average for Africa does not go -- does not exceed 14%.

 I would like to inform you that soon I will launch a big program
called Digital Education for All that will enable 8,000 schools in
Senegal to have access to the Internet through numeric solidarity. 
It's not only to give schools this access but also to have education
on these resources, to have our education system must be connected to
the international networks that transmit knowledge and education.  So
we have to make many efforts in order to reduce technological
barriers.  That's why I am inviting you to undertake such efforts
with us in this domain.  In our education model, from preschool, we
teach children from 2 to 6 years old how to operate computers in
order not to be confused with the computers later when they are older.

 Ladies and gentlemen, you are responsible for the stability of
Internet, because you have to ensure end users access to all
addresses that are necessary.  That must require very serious
coordination.  According to the International Telecommunication
Union, the number of Internet users has exceeded 2 billion, and there
is a new generation of equipment, of devices, that use Internet.

 With regards to what I was saying earlier, the increase of the
number of people who have Internet is also an issue of access.  Those
who are cell phones, and it also is an issue that people do not have
access to the Internet.

 Ladies and gentlemen, your concerns regard based on the actual
protocol IPv4, the depletion of that IPv4 protocol, the Senegal has
now gone over to the IPv6 version that will now have more addresses
available.  And experts will make sure that this significant
evolution will happen also in our country.

 This progress for next and technologies should lead us to think
more about users and their protection against abuse.  Since 2008, I
voted a law aiming at installing a protection against abuse against
private information and private life and the storage of information
data that are personal in nature.  And these data have a very
valuable commercially.  And now, we have installed a new program to
find a protection for these data.

 Please allow me to say something.  It's relevant because -- what I
am saying is relevant because the future of Africa, due to economic
growth with regards to cell phones, whether domestically and
internationally, this growth creates a lot of wealth in billions of
dollars.  And African countries, African countries do not have their
fair share.  We do have a share, but it's not the fair share.

 And so during the negotiation of a contract, the market condition
terms change very quickly.  The number of population change and the
growth with creating new wealth.  And the wish to have cell phones
for people who are getting younger and younger, so the market is
developing very rapidly.

 Without canceling the contracts already signed, it's not fair -- it
is fair to negotiate a better distribution in favor of our countries.

 I was saying earlier, I read in a document that European countries
wanted to regroup 160 to 180 billion euros to buy all African cell
phones.  This is how the market works.  It's their right to do so. 
But it would be a catastrophe, that we abandon such wealth in favor
of this oligarchy.  As you know, it's five, six or seven
stakeholders, companies, that are like a monopoly and then they share
amongst themselves the proceeds.  That would be a catastrophe to
abandon all these services to new monopolies, so our states must be
present in all the companies that manage networks, and they have to
give back, and the states have to participate in those companies.

 In Senegal, there was last Thursday a bill forcing the State to
acquire at least 35% of shares in each dealership, and that these 35%
could not be sold in order to ensure that when the State needs it,
will not be able to sell those shares.  Even if he needs money. 
There are countries that require more, but 35% seems to be the
minimum.

 So the dynamics of the telecommunications sector, this should
prevent for these -- for our countries to be under the monopoly of
other countries, which is against the free market.

 When I say this, I sometimes refer to antitrust legislation in the
United States, the country that favors the most the free market. 
Monopolies, like the former Vice President of the United States,
Walter Mondale, monopolies lead to imperialism.

 So let's prevent, avoid a new colonialism where would be the
accidental agent.

 So this is the message I would like my African colleagues to hear
in this world that requires courage, qualification and quickness in
action.

 Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

 [ Applause ]

 Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to talk to all of you.

 I know that each of your meetings gives the opportunity to the
Internet world to progress thanks to your excellent decisions.  I
wish that Africa -- that this meeting in Dakar be finally the
opportunity for Africa to reduce the digital gap with northern
countries, but also for Africa to take its right place in the
Internet society that rose after the Tunis and Geneva meetings.

 And that we be now -- we have the trust you were referring to
before.  Because we trust each other because this is a field where
all interests go to -- are the same.  And the big issue here is to
understand the expectations of each stakeholders and through fair
negotiation to progress for more justice.  Thank you very much for
your patience.

 [Applause]

  >>MASTER OF CEREMONIES: Thank you, Mr. President of the Republic.

 The president of the Republic will now visit different various
stands.  And we thank, ladies and gentlemen; Mrs. Heather Dryden; Mr.
Rod Beckstrom of ICANN; and Dr. Stephen Crocker; Mr. Moustapha
Guirassy, Minister Of Telecommunications; and Mr. Prime Minister
Souleymane Ndiaye; and all the government that came here; and also
all the experts, engineers, and technicians here in this room who
participated in the various works.  Ladies and gentlemen, we'll now
have to visit the different stands with the president of the
republic.  Thank you, and have a nice day.