[NCUC-DISCUSS] Regional Outreach Sessions During ICANN Meetings

[Baudouin SCHOMBE]

Hello William

I strongly support the idea that you issued on regional AWARENESS
session during
international ICANN meetings.

I propose that ICANN attaches some importance for remote participation.

At ICANN 51 in LA, we managed this experience mobilizing more than 30
actors. We publicized the event.

For ICANN 52 in Singapore, we logistically, technically and technologically,
solutions with the participation of local partners: the Documentation Centre of
Higher Education and Scientific Research Kinshasa / UniversiTIC (CEDESURK /
UniversiTIC), the Francophone Digital Campus of Kinshasa, the House of
Knowledge in Kinshasa, Lubumbashi Digital Campus in Katanga and Francophone
Digital Campus of Kisangani in Orientale Province.

Other partners also join as internet service providers, ISOC DRC, some
members of the government.

We expect an average of 60 participants per pole roughly a total of 500 remote
participants at the DRC.

Financially, ICANN may provide an additional $ 1,500 to supplement certain
technical requirements and even technological at the local level as was the
case during the ICANN 51.

It would be desirable to keep this consistency to facilitate the
participation of local actors in the various discussions at international
meetings of ICANN.

I am personally committed myself to serve as a focal point for the DRC while
the technical coordination will be provided by the main technical partner
CEDESURK / UniversiTIC.

*SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN*


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2015-01-16 10:14 GMT+01:00 William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>:

> Hi
>
> On Jan 16, 2015, at 8:38 AM, KASWESHA <kaswesha at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I participated remotely though with problems of connectivity being on and
> off. I suggest that Bill and team try to organize feature meeting in
> African countries like Kenya so most people like myself and other may also
> fully physically participate.
>
>
> It would be good to organize outreach events in every region in
> conjunction with regular ICANN meetings. The problems historically have
> been 1) finding a slot in the packed meeting schedules;  2) getting
> resources and a room for meeting with tech support and reception
> afterwards; and 3) getting help with the organization and mobilization of
> participants.  I organized meetings at the London and LA meetings that for
> varying local reasons were frankly not as good as the DC one, but we’ve
> learned from these on substance. There’s logistical progress as well:  1)
> experience shows that late Saturday afternoons followed by a reception
> seems the best option in terms of availability of schedule slots and
> drawing attendees in advance of Constituency Day, although this may mean
> our Council members miss the first hour; and 2) I can get resources from
> the Global Stakeholder Engagement staff if there’s sufficient advanced
> notice.  Moreover, we have now the new NCUC Travel Policy which can support
> the travel of two active members up to US $2,000, plus there’s the ICANN
> Fellows program (more money and a full immersion program) if people apply
> early.
>
> So the remaining challenge is 3) lining up relevant potential participants
> from the region and managing the invitation and engagement process.  If we
> wanted to make this a regular thing, we would need EC members and regular
> members with regional knowledge to coordinate and lead the way. I pretty
> much knew who to invite in DC, but would need local knowledge elsewhere.
> The rebooted Membership Affairs Team would seem the most appropriate
> vehicle for mobilizing collective efforts in this regard.  While we were
> thinking the MAT would focus more on “in-reach” to existing members than
> outreach to potential new members, there’s no reason it couldn’t try every
> 3-4 months to pull together a list of regional contacts as well, if people
> have the bandwidth…
>
> It’s probably too late to try to do something for Singapore, as rooms have
> been allocated, it’s only three weeks away, and I’ll be traveling in
> between. If there was a upsurge of member commitment to launch and manage
> it I could try to bug the staff for a room and resources, but it’d hard.
> However, the MAT could begin to plan for Buenos Aires in June and beyond.
> The next Africa meeting will be in Marrakech 6-11 March 2016.
> http://meetings.icann.org/calendar  I'll no longer be chair then, but
> I’ll certainly be a member of the MAT.
>
> Stuff to think about…
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
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>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
>   ICANN, www.ncuc.org
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