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

[Sonigitu Ekpe]

Thank you Bill.
I shall participate remotely.

Best.

Sonigitu Ekpe Aji :-@ SEA

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On Jan 9, 2014 4:07 AM, "Satish Babu" <director at icfoss.in> wrote:

> Hi Bill
> I will be available at Singapore, and would be happy to support the NCUC
> Policy Conference (and any other event) in any way possible.
>
>
> satish
> On Jan 8, 2014 1:39 AM, "William Drake" <wjdrake at gmail.com> 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
>> william.drake at uzh.ch (direct), wjdrake at gmail.com (lists),
>>   www.williamdrake.org
>> ***********************************************
>>
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