special thanks to Kathy and Katitza

[William Drake]

Hi,

Happy to hear NCUC was well represented with more and more diverse
voices and that those on the ground deemed the meeting a success.  So
what does the latter mean with respect to the various problematic
issues that were generating gloomy messages a couple days ago?
Bylaws, charter, etc?

Thanks,

Bill




On Jun 26, 2009, at 5:34 AM, Kathy Kleiman wrote:

> Thanks to Robin, and to Rebecca!
> My thought is that this meeting's success was due to Robin's
> leadership and to the participation of every single NCUC person who
> attended.
> I was thrilled that so many joining NCUC for their first meeting
> spoke to the issues at the ICANN microphones.
> We had great floor speeches from Dave, Leslie, Rebecca, Kim and
> others from EFF Australia.'
>
> It was fun to be among friends.
> It was fun to fight for the right among allies.
>
> As Katitza says,
> We are a great team!
>
> Safe travels all,
> Kathy
>> congratulations to Kathy, Katitza and Robin for working so hard!
>> The NCUC has been heard loud and clear on the IRT.
>>
>> Sorry I went AWOL yesterday afternoon but China's censorship
>> situation went into overdrive on Wednesday night with the temporary
>> blocking of Google.com, Gmail and other services and I had to catch
>> up on developments, answer some calls, and plug back into a Global
>> Network Initiative discussion on how companies should respond to
>> the situation going forward... in China and elsewhere.  I know this
>> is beyond ICANN's current scope, as ICANN doesn't get involved with
>> national filtering policies as long as they don't break the global
>> DNS... so it may not be an appropriate subject for this list or for
>> NCUC. But nonetheless I imagine it's of concern to many on this list.
>> An overview of where things stand in China now:
>> http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2009/06/chinas-censorship-blowback.html
>>
>> See in particular the Declaration of Anonymous Netizens addressed
>> to China's censors in English:
>> http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddp7hnsf_3ktp563gh
>> in Chinese:
>> https://docs.google.com/View?id=df563ttp_0c4tt2fdp
>>
>> Best,
>> Rebecca
>>
>> 2009/6/26 Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org>
>> NCUC was very effective this week at the ICANN meeting in getting
>> our message across on various issues at the public forum sessions
>> (like the problems with the IRT report and GNSO restructuring).
>>
>> There is no question that we have Kathy Kleiman and Katitza
>> Rodriguez to thank for much of this.  The energy and experience of
>> Kathy and Katitza has made all the difference in the world for NCUC
>> here this week.  At every opportunity they took the floor and
>> advanced NCUC's position on the issue being discussed.  They were
>> constantly busy talking with others in the community to understand
>> where we are coming from and to clear up much of the
>> misrepresentation of NCUC that we so frequently face at ICANN.
>>
>> Thank you Kathy and Katitza!  We are building a stellar team and
>> I'm so encouraged for our future.  Thank you!!
>>
>> Best,
>> Robin
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Rebecca MacKinnon
>> Open Society Fellow | Co-founder, GlobalVoicesOnline.org
>> Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Centre, University
>> of Hong Kong
>>
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>> Mainland China: +86-13710820364
>>
>> E-mail: rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com
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>

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William J. Drake
Senior Associate
Centre for International Governance
Graduate Institute of International and
   Development Studies
Geneva, Switzerland
william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch
www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html
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