<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">We need to allocate CROPP to an NCUC member very soon, since the event will be held at the end of March and we need to submit the name to our regional engagement contact point at ICANN.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">We can ask the list who would want to attend and participate in NCUC workshop and other activities.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The session that NCUC is planning especially needs an expert who understands ICANN so we need to select a member who is experienced.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Since the event will be held in Brussels, it will be a European CROPP so we have to consider that before allocating. Also I put a tight deadline for deciding since we are behind in terms of timeline and we have to decide quickly. I will send this announcement by tomorrow 12 PM UTC.  I have asked Rob and others whether we have some time until after intersessional to choose a traveller, if not, unfortunately we have to live with a short notice to our members and a short period of time to decide.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Below is the call: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The call for CROPP can be brief:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">NCUC EC has decided to allocate the "CROPP travel" to RightsCON. Rightscon will be held at the end of March. We will have a workshop there, the detail is below. Please apply by the end of the week 9 AM UTC, Friday 10th Feb. Note that since the event will be in Europe, applications from Europe will qualify for this. Please indicate your contribution to the below workshop and a plan for outreach in general at RightsCon (who you will approach, what activities will you initiate etc). The EC will decide by Friday 6 PM UTC.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Title/Position: Member</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br>Have you, or any co-organizers, organized a RightsCon session before?: No<br><br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Session Title: Content regulation and private ordering at Internet</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">governance institutions</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Session Format: Panel</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">What theme does this session fall under?: Freedom of Expression</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Please describe what you want to do in your session: issue relevant to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">the Internet due to the existence of myriad of players deploying,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">running and managing ICT networks and services and inability of the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">governments to control complex decentralised Internet and address all</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">the existing trheats with the traditional top-down approaches. Private</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">ordering is common in the field of ICT, cybersecurity and cybercrime.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">In particular, it is used in Internet governance institutions such as</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">the Internet Corperation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">mainly creates and implements policies through a bottom-up,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">multistakeholder process and via contractual agreements. Due to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">different concerns related to human rights, private enforcement and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">narrow technical remit of ICANN, it is widely agreed among different</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">stakeholders that ICANN's contracts  and policies must not lead ICANN</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">to become a content regulator on the Internet. This session will</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">primarily address the following issues:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">•       What is private ordering and how do we see it manifest on the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Internet as a new vehicle for content regulation?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">•       What are the key trends and risks digital rights protectors must be</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">aware of and defend against</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">•       The example of ICANN - how do ICANN's policies affect the content on</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">the Internet?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">•       What are the dangers for Internet governance institutions, platforms</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">and the broader Internet Governance ecosystem if they step into the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">domain of enforcing / facilitating enforcement of content regulation?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">•       It will also put forward some solutions as to how the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">multistakeholder community can prevent Internet governance</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">organizations from becoming a content regulator.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">These solutions might be even used in other Internet governance</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">institutions that online platforms that are prone to become content</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">regulators or are already regulating or being forced/expected to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">regulate content.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br><br>Who will be joining you in this session? Have you confirmed their<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">participation? Who will be moderating this session?: The list of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">panellists is no finalized yet. In finalizing the list we consider</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">gender, stakeholder groups and regional diversity.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">We  have interested members of Noncommercial Users Constitutency at</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">ICANN who are willing to speak and lead the session. They have a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">strong academic and activism background and have a wide range of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">experience in Internet governance institutions, cybersecurity,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">cybercrime and knowledge of multistakeholder governance, freedom of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">expression and many more. As to inviting other speakers from the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">industry and government, we would be grateful for suggestions but we</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">also have a network of members of the private sector who work with</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">private ordering on their day to day job and government representative</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">who are against private ordering.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br><br>What outcomes would you like to achieve with your session, and how<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">will you transition these activities into post-conference action?: Our</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">session will lead to an outcome document on the definition of content</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">regulation, what is ICANN doing with regards to content regulation and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">in which areas it has become a content regulator. It will also make</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">suggestions as to how ICANN could be prevented from regulating content</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">by policymaking and multistakeholder participation</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Anything else we should know?: We need RP and would be grateful if we</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">could recruit speakers from the industry and governments.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">How long would you like this session to last?: 75 minutes</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Please list any keywords for your proposed session: Content</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">regulation, ICANN,Censorship, Freedom of Expression</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div>
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