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<div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks Ayden for taking the initiative here. Since proposals are due today (and this was an extension of the original deadline) I would suggest a path of least resistance approach, i.e. a topic for which a) we already have a perfectly fine text, b) that is interesting enough to pull a crowd (and in the ITU context mildly subversive), and c) can quickly be populated with the names of members likely to be there. At the 2016 IGF NCUC did a workshop on "The power of the noncommercial users on the Internet" <a href="https://igf2016.intgovforum.org" class="">https://igf2016.intgovforum.org</a>, which in some ways echoed the one we did at the 2013 IGF on "Civil Society in ICANN’s Multistakeholderism: The GNSO Case" <a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2013/workshop_2013_status_list_view.php?xpsltipq_je=249" class="">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2013/workshop_2013_status_list_view.php?xpsltipq_je=249</a>. You could re-use either of these descriptions whole cloth or combine them or tweak one, whatever, doesn’t matter— the ITU staff that do the program will not know or care that we did them elsewhere. And I think they would welcome something that is focused on the role of CS per se in governance processes, as the secretariat would like to be more open to CS than some of the louder members are, at least optically.</div><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">With a topic like this, you don’t have to worry about getting the precisely right blend of expertise, as per Farzi’s comment on your first proposal below. All of us can talk about the role and contributions of CS in ICANN or IG generally. You could just toss in names of people who’ll be there, and if you decide later you want a different mix tweak if after it’s accepted. I assume you and Renata plan to attend, and I expect to be doing another WS and could speak to this if you like. Not sure who else is coming but you could poll quickly and send such a thing by COB.</div><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Anyway, just as a suggestion. If you prefer to go another way fine but this approach would be easy to do in the next ten hours.</div><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">BTW speaking of ICANN @ IGF, the Nominating Committee is hosting a reception tonight at 18:30 after the Open Consultation. If anyone will be in attendance come drink some Genevois white wine (skip the red) and say hello.</div><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Best</div><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Bill</div><br class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div>
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 28, 2017, at 23:09, farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" class="">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Ayden, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">thanks for this. As to proposal 1: At RightsCon NCUC is going to hold a workshop that is more or less similar. Proposal one in this document is highly sensitive and you need to have the experts in the field present during the session to be able to advance the discussion.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Proposal 2 seems to be about privacy and WHOIS. Highlight that more and highlight its relevance to the work of ICANN in the beginning. I think this proposal has the most potential and you know a lot about it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I have added more comments in the document about the other proposals. If we want to talk about underserved regions, we have to at least make the connection between ICANN/NCUC work and this topic. (GAC will have a session about underserved regions at ICANN 58)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div>
<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Ayden Férdeline <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:icann@ferdeline.com" target="_blank" class="">icann@ferdeline.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">Thanks, Remmy. I think even if were wildly optimistic, we would only get one or two thematic workshop ideas accepted. But the UN works in mysterious ways... ;-)</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="m_-1517152195806027465protonmail_signature_block"><div class="m_-1517152195806027465protonmail_signature_block-user"><div class="">- Ayden <br class=""></div></div><div class="m_-1517152195806027465protonmail_signature_block-proton m_-1517152195806027465protonmail_signature_block-empty"><br class=""></div></div></font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class="m_-1517152195806027465protonmail_quote"><div class="">-------- Original Message --------<br class=""></div><div class="">Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Deadline for WSIS proposals is tomorrow - here are some ideas for the NCUC to consider proposing<br class=""></div><div class="">Local Time: 28 February 2017 9:53 PM<br class=""></div><div class="">UTC Time: 28 February 2017 21:53<br class=""></div><div class="">From: <a href="mailto:remmyn@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">remmyn@gmail.com</a><br class=""></div><div class="">To: Ayden Férdeline <<a href="mailto:icann@ferdeline.com" target="_blank" class="">icann@ferdeline.com</a>><br class=""></div><div class="">NCUC-discuss <<a href="mailto:ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org" target="_blank" class="">ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org</a>><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Excellent job there @Ayden and @Renata<br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">My only fear is if hosting 5 sessions will not be too much.<br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Good work<br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Remmy<br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Feb 28, 2017 10:35 PM, "Ayden Férdeline" <<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="mailto:icann@ferdeline.com" target="_blank" class="">icann@ferdeline.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="">Greetings,
all-<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The
next World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) will be held in Geneva from
12 to 16 June. <b class="">The deadline for workshop
proposals is tomorrow.</b><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Last
year, the NCUC hosted a highly successful thematic workshop at WSIS on engaging
un-represented and under-represented communities in local, national, regional,
and global Internet governance debates. The session was closely tied with
Sustainable Development Goal 17 of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
I was pleased to coordinate this event in conjunction with Renata Aquino
Ribeiro, and we had a broad range of speakers from our stakeholder group
(including the NCUC’s James Gannon and NPOC’s Klaus Stoll) along with
panellists from the business, end-user, and technical communities. In the
audience at our session was an ICANN board member, Markus Kummer, ICANN staff
and community members, and high-level government officials and civil society
representatives. Our panel had a gender balance, the most remote participants
of any WSIS workshop, and featured in the official outcome document of the
event. Privately it has been communicated to us that the workshop would be welcomed
at WSIS again this year, but more on that in a moment…<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This
was not the extent of the NCUC’s engagement at WSIS last year. Bill Drake
moderated an insightful session on Internet fragmentation, with NCUC members
Anriette Esterhuysen and Wolfgang Kleinwächter among the panellists. Anriette moderated
a session on advancing Internet governance principles and practices, with NCUC
members Avri Doria and Bill Drake among the panellists. The Cross-Community
Working Group on Internet Governance had a session on the IANA transition
moderated by Matthew Shears with speakers including the NCUC’s Tatiana Tropina.
Offsite, Tatiana, Matt, and I spoke at an event organised by the Geneva
Internet Platform on how civil society actors can get involved in policymaking
at ICANN and potentially shape the future of the Domain Name System. And NPOC's Adela Goberna spoke eloquently during the Opening Ceremony's high-level dialogue on the WSIS Action Lines and the SDGs. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">In my opinion, the stage is set for further NCUC
engagement in WSIS. With the benefit of hindsight, it would have been helpful to ‘crowd source’ a theme a few months ago and to catalyse community
involvement sooner so that we could submit a workshop proposal on a topic which
we as the NCUC care deeply about. Alas, with the deadline for workshop
proposals being tomorrow, that isn’t feasible now (the failure was mine
for not suggesting that we do this sooner), so instead <b class="">Renata and I have drafted a few workshop proposals for the NCUC to consider submitting</b>. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d3AyMelaMuQJmI4odYFZK7b-O-fjKEE_UqzQ9NuzGvI/edit?usp=sharing" title="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d3AyMelaMuQJmI4odYFZK7b-O-fjKEE_UqzQ9NuzGvI/edit?usp=sharing" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank" class="">Here’s a link to them on Google Docs.</a> Your comments and
suggestions on how the NCUC can become more involved in creating and exchanging
knowledge that helps realise the WSIS action lines is warmly welcomed, and
please also feel free to suggest an alternative proposal if you do think what Renata
and I have drafted is not suitable. Thanks! <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(Renata and I were planning on submitting all the ideas for workshops that we can think of, and if any are accepted by the International Telecommunications Union, coming back to the EC to ask if it is something the NCUC would like to carry forward and host under its moniker, and if the response is in the affirmative, then coming back to this list to further develop the proposal in a more collaborative manner.)<br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes,<br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ayden Férdeline<br class=""></div><div class="m_-1517152195806027465m_1307131315512179886protonmail_signature_block"><div class="m_-1517152195806027465m_1307131315512179886protonmail_signature_block-user"><div class=""><a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" title="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline" target="_blank" class="">linkedin.com/in/ferdeline</a><br class=""></div></div><div class="m_-1517152195806027465m_1307131315512179886protonmail_signature_block-empty m_-1517152195806027465m_1307131315512179886protonmail_signature_block-proton"><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>