<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Next week the ITU holds its annual WSIS Forum here in Geneva and has just posted the full agenda. Renata applied for a slot for a NCUC workshop but it turned out she can’t come so she asked me to take over and organize something. By the time ITU notified that we had the slot, submission of the workshop information was already past due, so I had one afternoon to pull something together and get it submitted. Given that the slot is only 45 minutes and ICANN org was already doing sessions on the hotter topics, it wasn’t immediately obvious to me what ICANN issue it’d make sense to focus on — it’s not like an ITU audience was going to flock to a quickie on new gTLD subsequent procedures or whatever. So I decided to go in another direction and do something broader on Internet governance that I could populate with people who were quickly able to say yes. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, the session will be 13:15–14:00 CET on Thursday 22 March and is on, "Multistakeholder Decision Making in Global Internet Governance: Quo Vadis?" Participants will be Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Joanna Kulesza, Markus Kummer and Larry Strickling (RP). Yes it’s a bit of a manal which is very unusual for me, but it’s what I could assemble quickly. The description and remote participation info are at <a href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2018/Pages/Agenda/Session/212#intro" class="">https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2018/Pages/Agenda/Session/212#intro</a>. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also of local interest here, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*org has a workshop on "ICANN, Data Protection and the GDPR” at 16:30–18:15 CET on Thursday 22 March. <a href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2018/Pages/Agenda/Session/197#intro" class="">https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2018/Pages/Agenda/Session/197#intro</a> I’m on that one and will reiterate points raised in the NCSG statement etc. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*org has a workshop on "ICANN, the Government Advisory Committee (GAC) and Capacity Building” at 9:00–10:45 CET on Friday, 23 March <a href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2018/Pages/Agenda/Session/138#intro" class="">https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2018/Pages/Agenda/Session/138#intro</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*The Cross Community Working Group on Internet Governance (CCWG IG) has a workshop on "A Dialogue on different cooperation models for approaches to Internet Public Policy development” [sic] at 16:30–18:15 CET on Monday 19 March. Joanna Kulesza and Louise Hurel will represent NCUC and Matt Shears will also be there. <a href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2018/Pages/Agenda/Session/196#intro" class="">https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2018/Pages/Agenda/Session/196#intro</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*APC (NCUC member) has a workshop on "Community networks: How the unconnected connect themselves” at 09:00–10:45 CET on Monday 19 March <a href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2018/Pages/Agenda/Session/143#intro" class="">https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2018/Pages/Agenda/Session/143#intro</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The full schedule is at <a href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2018/Pages/Agenda#intro" class="">https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2018/Pages/Agenda#intro</a>. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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