[NCUC-DISCUSS] Regional Outreach Sessions During ICANN Meetings

[Marilia Maciel]

Completely agree and happy to help organising this with full force for
Buenos Aires/Latin America. It is an excellent opportunity to work on some
needed outreach in the region.
Marília

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:09 AM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <
wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> this old idea is worth to recycle again and again. It SHOULD become a
> regular event (and would give NCUC the needed profile and reputation within
> the broader ICANN community as a constructive partner). I propose to do it
> always (if possible) in close cooperation with the local university or
> other academic institutions. Other partners could be the ccTLD in the
> country and the relevant ISOC chapter. This would be also a good step to
> promote the launch of national Multistakeholder Platforms, as recommended
> by NetMundial and supported by ICANN.
>
> BA is a good point to start. Dublin (Trinity College?) is another
> opportunity.
>
> wolfgang
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org im Auftrag von William Drake
> Gesendet: Fr 16.01.2015 10:14
> An: KASWESHA
> Cc: NCUC-discuss
> Betreff: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Regional Outreach Sessions During ICANN Meetings
>
> 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 <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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