Dear All, thanks for your support! 

The list has been created, africa@lists.cnsig.info (Thanks Nico).

I am on my way to the Africa Summit on Women and Girls in Technology https://webfoundation.org/africasummit/ where I will be facilitating a two part workshop on CNs, together with TunapandaNet, Mesh Bukavu and APC, so great timing for this approval. 

I will inform the Council on the interest and participation gained through the mailing list. 

If you are interested to be included let me know. 

Best, Sol

On Fri, 28 Sep 2018, 4:56 PM Nicolás Echániz, <nicoechaniz@altermundi.net> wrote:
On 09/27/2018 10:13 PM, bruno vianna wrote:
> It's unanimous! +1

It's only been a couple days, but we have already reached a decision.

So Sol, go ahead with the CNSIG Africa list !


Cheers,
Nico



> Em qui, 27 de set de 2018 2:46 PM, Nicolás Echániz
> <nicoechaniz@altermundi.net <mailto:nicoechaniz@altermundi.net>> escreveu:
>
>     On 09/26/2018 08:42 PM, Jenny Ryan wrote:
>     > an enthusiastic +1!
>     >
>     > what is quorum for CNSIG decisions?
>
>     We are 14 organizations right now, so we need 8 positive (organization)
>     votes to approve a decision.
>
>
>     > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 16:24 Sol Luca de Tena <sol@zenzeleni.net
>     <mailto:sol@zenzeleni.net>
>     > <mailto:sol@zenzeleni.net <mailto:sol@zenzeleni.net>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Hello all, 
>     >
>     >     I am writing to you to revive the issue of including more African
>     >     CNs in the CNSIG, and to get your vote to create an African
>     mailing
>     >     list for the CNSIG.  
>     >
>     >     _A bit of background:_
>     >     - As you may recall John Dada from Fatsuam and I participated in a
>     >     workshop on CNs at the African Union Commission in June, this
>     >     coincided with the African ISOC Chapter meeting where CNs were
>     also
>     >     further explored. 
>     >     - In addition earlier this month Zenzeleni hosted the African
>     Summit
>     >     on CNs
>     >   
>      <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/summit-community-networks-africa/2018/>
>     >     in South Africa (ISOC and APC). 
>     >     - Both events and many other interactions between CNs in the
>     >     continent have led to a growing movement, interested, support and
>     >     the creation of common/shared resources between CNs, support from
>     >     awesome groups such as AfChix <http://www.afchix.org/>and also
>     >     politically. 
>     >     - There is a growing momentum to support current and fledgling CNs
>     >     and I believe that it would be very positive for the CNSIG to have
>     >     input and interactions with African based CNs, and visa versa.  
>     >     - I have previously proposed including another African CN and this
>     >     request got very little feedback. After chatting about it in
>     the SIG
>     >     and individually with members it seems that there are two main
>     >     barriers when it comes to working together cross regionally: 1)
>     >     there are some language/ social barriers, 2) there are certain
>     >     region specific contexts that only interest/ pertain to the region
>     >     at hand. These barriers seem to hinder participation not because
>     >     anyone is against it, but rather through lack of time, focus or
>     >     understanding.   
>     >
>     >     _Proposal_:
>     >     I would like to find a way to align the CN movement in Africa
>     to the
>     >     CNSIG. After chatting to Nico E it seems that a good way to start
>     >     engaging with other interested members is through a mailing list -
>     >     as with LAC.  The mailing list (africa@lists.cnsig.info
>     <mailto:africa@lists.cnsig.info>
>     >     <mailto:africa@lists.cnsig.info
>     <mailto:africa@lists.cnsig.info>>) would be open to all, and focus on
>     >     African CN based themes. What Nico and I agreed is that we
>     must make
>     >     sure that the regional mailing lists somehow feedback to the
>     council
>     >     so we can also gain from the global experience. 
>     >
>     >     _Kindly give your vote regarding the opening of the African
>     mailing
>     >     list for the CNSIG_. 
>     >
>     >     Thanks, Sol
>     >     --
>     >     Sol Luca de Tena
>     >
>     >     e: sol@zenzeleni.net <mailto:sol@zenzeleni.net>
>     <mailto:sol@zenzeleni.net <mailto:sol@zenzeleni.net>>
>     >     c: (+27/0) 839 47 4946
>     >     w: zenzeleni.net <http://zenzeleni.net> <http://zenzeleni.net>
>     >     Skype: sol.lucadetena
>     >
>     >     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxTPSWMX26M
>     >
>     >     *Zenzeleni Networks NPC*
>     >     - Winner of Best Innovation with Social Impact Award, Innovation
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