a concern regarding the ncuc event program

[Milton L Mueller]

Why not put Carlos on the panel?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: NCSG-NCUC [mailto:NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of
> William Drake
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:31 PM
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> Subject: Re: [NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS] a concern regarding the ncuc event
> program
> 
> Carlos,
> 
> On Mar 1, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
> 
> > Dear people,
> >
> > I have expressed my concern to the organizers regarding one of the
> 
> Right, and I replied to you privately a couple hours ago.
> 
> > My concern is that it is unbalanced regarding the expressions of the
> > "developing countries".
> 
> Again,
> 
> 1. I invited Olga Cavalli from Argentina but she's recently said her
> flight doesn't get in on time.
> 
> 2. I invited Alice Munyua from the Kenyan government but she needs more
> time to see if she can make it.  I just spoke with her again here in
> Brussels and she can give me an answer on Thursday.
> 
> 3.  If Alice can't do it I said I'll invite someone else.  We need
> people who've been engaged with and can speak to the topics:
> 
> > To what extent has ICANN addressed the unique concerns and promoted
> > the participation of developing country stakeholders?
> 
> For example, we've been raising these questions in the Council and at
> the ICANN meetings, resulting inter alia in the formation of the JAS WG
> that's been working on options to help developing country and other
> resource challenged actors to deal with the high application fees for
> new gTLDs.  Avri and Rafik co-chair the group, so I asked them to speak
> about that and related.  There've also been the parallel discussions
> about promoting developing country participation, such as the Board WG
> meeting in Nairobi I spoke at, and the outreach team Olga's led.  And
> the conversations around this with board members and others at the
> workshop I organized at IGF Vilnius on ICANN and developing countries,
> and all the other continuing discussions with board staff SGs et al
> around these issues.
> 
> > How do developing
> > country governments' experiences with and attitudes toward ICANN
> > affect the larger geopolitics of Internet governance, such as their
> > continuing pressure in the United Nations for a new intergovernmental
> > body that would have "oversight" of ICANN?
> 
> Issues that are being illustrated here in Brussels, as well as last week
> in Geneva, and also have been addressed e.g. in the five IGF events I've
> organized on development agenda issues.  I asked Markus Kummer to join
> for that part of the discussion because he's recently left the hot seat
> at the IGF and can now speak freely to these issues, which all the
> current and hoped for panelists have pretty extensive first hand
> experience with.
> 
> > What do these dynamics mean for the
> > global public interest, and for the priorities of noncommercial users?
> 
> We will have about 50 minutes to cover all this grounds, so like 25
> minutes on internal ICANN and 25 on external geopolitical dimensions.
> So nobody's going to have tons of mic time and we will need to move
> crisply through a structured discussion (not serial talking heads) in
> order to map this terrain and provide the audience with a good framework
> for discussion.
> 
> > If you share this concern, could you help suggesting more names from
> > the South which could be added (if the organizers agree, of course),
> > and who will certainly be in San Fran by March 11th?
> 
> Thanks.  Let me see what happens from Alice and if that doesn't work
> let's look at options.
> >
> > I understand it should be a person who is closely
> > following/participating in the international IG debate from civil
> > society's perspective.
> 
> Yup
> >
> > Just in case, I am out of question as I am not following the
> > issues/events/processes as closely as I should. Some very good people
> > (I can think of Alice from Kenya) will not arrive on time. Not sure
> > about Alex Gakuru's schedule though -- just to give a few examples of
> names.
> >
> > It may help to take a look at the current list of registered
> participants:
> >
> > https://www.registration123.com/reports/saved.cfm?r=%24*%40L%26V0%20%2
> > 0%0A
> >
> > Or maybe I am way out of my "jurisdiction" here... :)
> 
> I told you I was working on it.  But ok, this panel doesn't have to be
> developed in the same way as all the others, suggestions of people
> who've been closely engaged with the topics and will be in attendance
> would of course be welcome.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Bill