[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC involvement ICANN /Internet Governance Initiatives (5): Our Conference in Singapore

[Jahangir Hossain]

On 2014-01-08 02:09, William Drake wrote:
> Hi
> 
> To finish off this round of information overload: As I’ve mentioned
> on the list and at Constituency Day, we’ve received budget support
> to do two special events in Singapore just prior to the meeting: a new
> NCUC EC ‘retreat’ of sorts on Thursday 20 March to discuss working
> methods, set plans, and get people up to speed a bit on ICANN and
> GNSO; and a policy conference on 21 March. After an extended bit of
> bugging staff I’ve received confirmation that we do have a
> conference space on the 21st for 150 people, so that’s on, and soon
> we’ll get to work on the organization. I’m hoping we can do this
> on a fairly open cross-community basis with a lot of engagement from
> other corners of the ICANNsphere; the precise modalities are TBD.
> 
> The working title of the conference is, "ICANN and Global Internet
> Governance: The Road to Sao Paulo, and Beyond.” In terms of the
> substantive focus, there could be sessions devoted to the major foci
> of the April meeting in Sao Paulo and related, e.g. topics like a
> potential declaration on global IG principles; options for evolving
> the distributed institutional architecture (consistent with the I*
> Montevideo Declaration) with respect to globalization; and the role
> (inter)governmental frameworks and authority. We might also want to
> consider the progress and implications of some of the contextual
> developments, like the 1net initiative, the growing need to support
> and enhance the IGF, etc. All to be worked out.
> 
> The points I wanted to flag here to round out the tour of current IG
> work are:
> 
> 1. Anyone who’s planning on coming to the Singapore ICANN meeting is
> encouraged to come a day early for our conference, which should be a
> notable event.
> 
> 2. Anyone who’s interested but unable to come to Singapore, there
> should be proper remote participation, so do save the date.
> 
> 3. Any WRITTEN MATERIALS NCUC or its members can generate on these
> issues could be posted to the conference website and perhaps printed
> for distribution to serve as background issue framing/conversation
> starters. The same materials could also serve as inputs into the Sao
> Paulo meeting, the CCWG, etc.
> 
> So lots of options, if we have the bandwidth to take advantage of
> them.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Bill
> 
>  ***********************************************
> William J. Drake
> International Fellow & Lecturer
>  Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>  University of Zurich, Switzerland
> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
>  ICANN, www.ncuc.org [1]
> william.drake at uzh.ch (direct), wjdrake at gmail.com (lists),
>  www.williamdrake.org [2]
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Hi Drake,

Thanks for sharing this information .

I will be joining on Singapore ICANN meeting as a fellow and wishes i 
will be participate the early conference .





Regards // Jahangir Hossain
ISOC Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter
http://www.isoc.org.bd