[NCUC-DISCUSS] Welcome new NCUC members

[William Drake]

Hi

Since most everyone subscribed to ncuc-discuss is also subscribed to ncsg-discuss, you probably will have seen Rafik’s message earlier today welcoming new NCSG members.  The following individuals and organizations also elected to join NCUC and have now been added to this list, the membership data base, and the web listing http://www.ncuc.org/about/members/ <http://www.ncuc.org/about/members/>.  So again we are delighted to welcome


INDIVIDUALS

Name	                         Country			Representative

Maria Gabriela Gijon		Argentina
Said Zazai				Afghanistan
Rishabh Dara			India
Elsa Saade			Lebanon
Tatiana Tropina			Germany
Samuel Akinsola		Botswana
Etuate Cocker			New Zealand
Alagie N Ceesay			Gambia


ORGANIZATIONS

Public Knowledge		USA				Melanie Penagos


Greetings to all, great to have you on board.  Please feel free to introduce yourself to colleagues here and share any particular interests and activities related to NCUC, ICANN, etc. 

I especially want to take note of the addition of Public Knowledge, which is a leading and influential voice for digital rights and public interest issues operating within the Washington DC beltway, and globally.  Very happy you’re here.

With these additions, we now have 448 members from 105 countries, including 110 noncommercial organizations and 338 individuals.  NCUC has more than doubled in size over the last three years…


Dublin Meeting

You’re joining at an extremely hectic moment as we ramp up for the Annual Meeting in Dublin in that begins next weekend.  There’s a lot going on at the moment with our involvement in the accountability battle, IANA transition, privacy, human rights, and various other topics.  

New members will not have seen the messages I’ve sent previously about NCUC’s schedule in Dublin, e.g. http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-discuss/2015-October/017612.html <http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-discuss/2015-October/017612.html> so I repeat the highlights here:


Saturday 17 October 14:00-15:00 IST
Brief Public Exec. Committee Meeting followed by Historical Discussion
Room: Liffey BR3 [room change]
Remote participation details forthcoming

Saturday, 17 October - 16:30 to 20:00 IST
NCUC Community Outreach Event, followed by reception
Room: L4 Foyer
https://dublin54.icann.org/en/dublin2015/schedule/sat-ncuc-outreach 

Sunday, 18 October -  19:00 to whenever
NCUC Sixteenth Birthday Party
The Dean Hotel
33 Harcourt St, Dublin 2, Ireland
deanhoteldublin.ie 
Map: http://bit.ly/1WxJhQM 
+353 (01) 607 8110

Tuesday, 20 October - 09:30 to 13:00 IST
NCUC Constituency Day Meeting
Room: Wicklow Hall 2
https://dublin54.icann.org/en/dublin2015/schedule/tue-ncuc 

There will be remote participation information on all but the party posted by ICANN shortly on the overall meeting schedule, https://dublin54.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule-full <https://dublin54.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule-full> 

In addition, NCUC will participate in all the stakeholder group-level  NCSG activities and GNSO activities Rafik has listed on ncsg-discuss, https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1510&L=NCSG-DISCUSS&F=&S=&P=56255 <https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1510&L=NCSG-DISCUSS&F=&S=&P=56255> 


More Generally

The ncsg-discuss list is for stakeholder group-wide discussions, mostly with respect to GNSO issues and processes, while this ncuc-discuss list is for the constituency only and focuses on our internal views and positions on these and other ICANN/Internet governance matters, as well as our intra-organizational development.  

Soon after Dublin, NCUC will begin its annual election cycle for a new chair and Executive Committee.

In addition to the NCSG pointers Rafik provided in his post, if you have the time and interest in getting a bit more background, you might want to poke around in

www.ncuc.org <http://www.ncuc.org/> 

http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo <http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo> (archives of all current constituency mail lists)

Again, many thanks for joining us and welcome aboard.

Best


Bill

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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
Internet Governance: The NETmundial Roadmap http://goo.gl/sRR01q
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