[NCUC-DISCUSS] Fellows Announced for the BA Meeting

[William Drake]

Hi

Thanks for the input.  As you may recall, I had proposed to the NonContracted Parties House that we organize a conference in BA on the Friday prior, making use of the funds the staff set aside for all parts of the community based on the three successful NCUC conferences http://www.ncuc.org/events/conferences-and-workshops/ <http://www.ncuc.org/events/conferences-and-workshops/>.  Staff very much welcomed the idea, as the money is in the FY 15 budget expiring end June.  The CSG constituencies expressed support as well, and did so again at our meeting in DC.  But since then I’ve heard nothing from them, and don’t know whether they’re serious about doing the work and getting people in town early for that.  Were it to happen, NCUC would do one of the five sessions (the easiest way to do such an event would be for each of the five constituencies to organize their own, rather than try to agree comprehensively on the full program).  

If it does not happen, then we could go back to staff and say ok the others are not focused on this but we can do something and see if they’ll fund us on a stand alone basis to organize a few hours worth of activity.  Of course, any such meeting presumes that people would be willing to fly in early to BA, probably at their own cost, to attend.  That worked very well for the Singapore 2014 conference, we had @ 130-150 people stay for the entire day discussion of NETmundial, but that was in part because we made it a really cross-community event and loaded the panels with people form all the other silos.  Unless we followed the same model we might not get the turn-out.  This was part of the thinking in proposing a NCPH event….

I guess I will ping the others and try to determine if there’s still interest, and we can go from there.

Best

Bill


> On Mar 8, 2015, at 11:21 AM, Walid ALSAQAF <walid.al-saqaf at oru.se> wrote:
> 
> +1 from me.
> 
> I totally support Wolfgang's idea to have an academic event on those broader IG issues especially that we have a significant number of academics in NCUC. Let's study the possibility of leveraging their participation in ICANN meetings.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Walid Al-Saqaf
> 
> On Mar 8, 2015 11:01 AM, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de <mailto:wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de>> wrote:
> Shouldn´t we start to prepare a one/half day (academic/NCUC) meeting on broader IG issues, including IANA Transition,NMI and WSIS 10+?
> 
> Wolfgang
> 
> 
> 
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> Von: ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org <mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org> im Auftrag von William Drake
> Gesendet: So 08.03.2015 10:40
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> Betreff: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Fellows Announced for the BA Meeting
> 
> Hi
> 
> I see a few current NCUC members on the list of people who will be covered to attend the ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires in June, although per usual they're not always listed as such, a continuing puzzle:
> 
>         . Arsene Tungali Baguma - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Civil Society / At Large
>         . Farzaneh Badiei - Islamic Republic of Iran - Academic
>         . Jia He - China - Academic
>         . Joao Carlos Rebello Caribe - Brazil - Civil Society / GNSO
>         . Rao Naveed Bin Rais - Pakistan - Academic / GNSO
>         . Walid Al-Saqaf - Yemen - Academic / GNSO
> 
> 
> Full list is at  https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-03-06-en <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-03-06-en> <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-03-06-en <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-03-06-en>>
> 
> Congratulations to our Fellows, it will be great to have you with us in BA.
> 
> For other qualifying members, the application round for the Dublin meeting in October will be 3 April to 15 May.  I heartily encourage people to apply for this or future rounds.  https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/fellowships-2012-02-25-en?routing_type=path <https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/fellowships-2012-02-25-en?routing_type=path> <https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/fellowships-2012-02-25-en?routing_type=path <https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/fellowships-2012-02-25-en?routing_type=path>>
> 
> Best
> 
> Bill
> 



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  Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
  University of Zurich, Switzerland
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