<div dir="ltr"><span id="m_-8715848072666311328m_1382760962184860507m_9003268486095236112m_-219675570918620112gmail-docs-internal-guid-d629e5c0-7fff-cb6d-a6a4-cec1d95faaca"><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Dear NCUC members,</span></font></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Good day and I hope your weekend is going well. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b><br></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>ICANN78 NCUC Outings Updates (Issue Forum & NCUC Anniversary)</b></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">ICANN78 was held successfully in Hamburg between October 20th - 27, 2023. Typical of NCUC we had our membership meeting and the NCUC Policy Issue forum, where we discussed the PICs and RVCs part 2. At our membership meeting, we addressed the concerns about members' capacity building and ways to bridge the gap. We also had a presentation from Oksana Pryhodko about the impact of conflicts on critical internet infrastructure.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The uniqueness of ICANN78 was the fact that it coincided with the 25th anniversary of ICANN. As NCUC we have many reasons to celebrate the fact that our constituency is still vibrant.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">At ICANN78, the NCUC had a celebration and due to logistics reasons, we decided to hold the celebration in the venue, as we did not intend to lose our audience while walking to the restaurant for the food.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">As a plan for logistics, we had to improvise to get snacks into the venue to meet the schedule. Additionally, we recruited a report-writing service to capture the meeting outcome (details of the expenditure would be provided to the finance committee and NCUC treasurer). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px">Many thanks to Kathy Kleiman and Milton Mueller for putting the session together and coordinating reputable panelists to grace the event.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">It is of importance to note that NCUC got financial support from PIR to host this session. Our appreciation goes to the team at PIR for continuously supporting NCUC to advocate for the things we care about in ICANN’s multistakeholder governance structure.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The NCUC Policy issue forum and anniversary celebration had up to 30 participants physically in the room and almost equal number online.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">See below some of the pictures from the session </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/icann/albums/72177720312160656/with/53280871987" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/icann/albums/72177720312160656/with/53280871987</a><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/icann/53285094979/in/album-72177720312192106/" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/icann/53285094979/in/album-72177720312192106/</a><br></span></p></span><br><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Benjamin </div><div><br></div></div>