[NCUC E-team] blog post for NCUC

[William Drake]

Hi

Thanks McTim.  I got tied up yesterday but was going to suggest a small tweak to your draft, as I thought the first sentence could be misconstrued a little as making NCUC more central to APC's event than is merited.  But no biggie.  Thanks for doing it.

Joy also blogged it, and this was picked up by my Google feed (!), http://www.ncuc.org/ncuc-at-the-inaugural-african-internet-governance-school/

Three morning coffee questions:

*I vaguely recall us discussing but not the resolution—we don't want to have Blog in the menu bar?  People should know to just click an item from Latest News and if they want to see previous blogs click through Archives?  Going forward, to the extent that blogs are written by different people and might present views or issues that are not so much "news," I'd think this is sort of mislabeling.  But if our web design gurus think this is sufficient ok, my intuitive expectations may not be in synch with common practice…

*So what's our policy on the blog?  All members will be given login ins (please remind me of) and then…who can blog?  Any approval process?

*99% of our members are not in Durban, and while the prospect of a new website has been mentioned on ncuc-discuss, it's actual arrival hasn't been announced.  Would someone centrally involved in it care to send a couple paragraphs to the list and say something about its features, take a bow, etc?  Then we can follow up with asking people again to dig out old policy statements, work on texts for missing pages like History, etc…

Best,

Bill


On Jul 17, 2013, at 1:32 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> have blogged at:
> http://www.ncuc.org/ncuc-members-conduct-outreach-and-knowledge-sharing-at-1st-annual-african-school-on-internet-governance-afrisig-in-durban/
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> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 11:36 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> NCUC Members conduct Outreach and Knowledge Sharing at 1st Annual African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG) in Durban
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> Over the course of 4 days last week, experienced NCUC Members conducted a series of workshops and lectures on various aspects of Internet Governance to a group of young African scholars, journalists, regulators and digital activists.  
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> AfriSIG was organised by APC and NEPAD with additional support by Afilias, Google, ISOC, OSISA, NCUC and AFRINIC.  The 12 sessions covered Internet Governance in Africa, Mapping of Internet Governance issues, Internet address management, the history of Internet Governance, holistic and multistakeholder approaches to Internet Governance, and the challenges of Civil Society in participating in Internet policy making processes.
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> NCUCers present and involved in the workshop included Carlos Afonso, Dr. William Drake, Avri Doria, Tim McGinnis, Prof. Wolfgang Kleinwachter and Joy Liddicoat.  On the last day, NCUC sponsored an outreach evening at a local restaurant which gave AfriSIG participants an opportunity to mingle with a larger group of NCUC members in an informal setting prior to the beginning of ICANN47 and more fully understand the commitment and benefits of participating in ICANNs NCUC.
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> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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