[NCUC-DISCUSS] Call for proposals for Travel Support to the Dublin ICANN meeting

[William Drake]

Hi

The EC had awarded NCUC Travel Policy support to Arun Sukumar, who was the only applicant and who’s much involved in the accountability work on our behalf.  But I was just notified this morning that contrary to what I was told a month ago after much back and forth, ICANN will in fact provide an additional travel slot for new GNSO Councilors, which means Stefi Milan can be put on that budget line, freeing up one of the standard 3 slots ICANN provides us with.  So I’ve moved Arun to that, since his costs from India to Dublin will be more than the up to $2,000 NCUC could offer under our travel policy.  This in turn means that we have no takers for the NCUC travel award.

In the hope of helping actively engaged members or really soon to be engaged members to the meeting, let’s do a second, abbreviated call for applications. If anyone wants to be considered, please apply as below by next Thursday 17 September and the EC will consider it.  If we get no applications then we’ll just save our little piggy bank money for other purposes, which would be ok since we anyway hope to do some sort of anniversary gathering in Dublin.

Thanks

Bill

> On Aug 24, 2015, at 8:42 AM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
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> Reminder— applications accepted until Friday 28 August midnight UTC
> 
> Best
> 
> Bill
> 
>> On Aug 14, 2015, at 11:04 AM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch <mailto:william.drake at uzh.ch>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> ICANN 54 will be held in Dublin 18-22 October (GNSO, CCWG, IGC etc. work will be underway Saturday 17th, so travel ideally would be on the 16th). https://meetings.icann.org/en/dublin54 <https://meetings.icann.org/en/dublin54>   As announced last December, drawing on our own small resources raised by successive chairs, the NCUC EC has established a Travel Support Policy to facilitate the participation of actively involved members in ICANN meetings.  The policy is at http://www.ncuc.org/governance/travel-policy/ <http://www.ncuc.org/governance/travel-policy/>.
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>> With this message we invite applications for up to two travel awards for Dublin of up to US $2,000 each.  Applicants must meet the Eligibility Criteria detailed in the policy. Covered travel expenses may include conference-related airfare, visas or related fees, lodging, and airport taxis. If the actual cost of these items is greater than $2,000 the member will be responsible for the difference. NCUC cannot provide a per diem or cover any other expenses.  Selected travelers must make their own travel, accommodation,visa, and related arrangements and be reimbursed after the trip. NCUC cannot provide funds in advance of the meeting, or any administrative support.
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>> Interested members should read carefully the terms and conditions of the policy.  Applications are now open for two weeks, until Friday 28 August midnight UTC.
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>> Dublin will be an important meeting in the history of ICANN with the IANA transition and accountability plans hopefully coming to fruition.  In addition, there will be continuing work on other items we’ve been involved in, e.g. GNSO policy, the human rights initiative, privacy work, Internet governance and more.  In addition, we plan to organize a European region civil society outreach event on Saturday 17th. So there will be much going on, and we hope we will have a good turn out of members who are prepared to really roll up their sleeves and help us with all this work.
>> 
>> 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
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