<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hi</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">If interested, please see the below. Apologies if you receive this from more than one mail list.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We are looking forward to the conference next Friday in Singapore. I just wanted to pass along a few brief updates:</div><div><br></div><div>*There have been several additions to the panelists since I sent out the notice below two weeks ago, with one more pending and soon to be resolved, <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/singapore2014/programme/">http://www.ncuc.org/singapore2014/programme/</a></div><div><br></div><div>*ICANN will provide live remote participation via Adobe Connect, audio streaming, and telephone dial-in. They also will videotape the conference for subsequent web access. For access please visit <a href="http://singapore49.icann.org/en/schedule/fri-ncuc-ig">http://singapore49.icann.org/en/schedule/fri-ncuc-ig</a></div><div><br></div><div>*The program page above now has a link under each panel to <i>NETmundial and other contribution of relevance. </i>If one follows those links, you go to a page of background materials, some which are particularly relevant for the particular panels and could be drawn on in their respective conversations.</div><div><br></div><div>*There are still some free seats in the large room ICANN reserved, so if you have any colleagues who will be coming early to Singapore and could be interested, please do direct them to the the conference page and registration page.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Feb 26, 2014, at 3:38 AM, William Drake <<a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">wjdrake@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>If interested, please see the below. Apologies if you receive this from more than one mail list.</div><div><br></div><div>------</div><div><br></div><div><b>"ICANN and Global Internet Governance: The Road to São Paulo, and Beyond"</b><br><br>A conference to be held on Friday 21 March 2014 at the ICANN 49 meeting venue, the Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore, in the Olivia Room, from 10:00 to 18:00.<br><br>Organized by the NonCommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, with the generous support of ICANN.</div><div><br></div><div>Logistical information, conference registration (important!) and the program are now online at <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/singapore2014/">http://www.ncuc.org/singapore2014/</a></div><div><br></div><div>We very much want this to be an inclusive cross-community dialogue, so we hope people will consider attending, either in person or remotely, and please do share this with potentially interested colleagues. We are compiling some background materials related to the session topics for addition to the web site, and personal/organizational written inputs would be very much welcome.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><i>Overview of the meeting</i></div><div><br></div><div>10:00-10:15 Welcome and Overview <br>10:15-10:45 Update on the Sao Paulo Meeting<br>10:45-12:00 Panel 1 - Setting the Scene: Overview of Recent Agenda-Setting Initiatives<br>12:00-13:00 Lunch<br>13:00-14:15 Panel 2 - Internet Governance Principles<br>14:15-15:45 Panel 3 - Roadmap for Ecosystem Evolution: Globalization<br>15:45-16:00 Coffee break<br>16:00-17:30 Panel 4 - Roadmap for Ecosystem Evolution: Institutional Innovation<br>17:15-17:45 Keynote Assessment by Larry Strickling,<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Asst. Secretary of Commerce, Government of the United States<br>17:45-18:00 Concluding Observations<br>18:00-19:30 Reception with Fadi Chehadé, CEO of ICANN</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true">***********************************************<br>William J. Drake<br>International Fellow & Lecturer<br> Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ<br> University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, <br> ICANN, <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/">www.ncuc.org</a><br><a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a> (direct), <a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">wjdrake@gmail.com</a> (lists),<br> <a href="http://www.williamdrake.org/">www.williamdrake.org</a><br>***********************************************</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br></body></html>