[NCUC-DISCUSS] 2017 ICANN Meetings

[Renata Aquino Ribeiro]

Hi

James, thanks for the great addition to this debate
Ayden, you also have my support and certainly North/Northeast on this.

I'm always complaining how regional issues and diversity should not be a
topic only for a few groups but for everyone. Today it is the LAC region to
be unseen in ICANN strategies, yesterday there was other and tomorrow it
will be another.

I believe it is clear in the history of ICANN how the multitude of the
Caribbean has been under represented. One can only hope that debating the
strategic role for the Americas can bring engagement in under represented
regions such as North/Northeast of South America and french, dutch and
spanish speaking Americas.

You'll also find great expertise among other ICANN participants in the
Caribbean such as Chistelle Vaval (Haiti), Bionda Fonseca (Curacao), Wanda
Peña (RD) among so many others.

Dream feature request for ICANN Wiki: add yourself to the region you want
or create you own :)

All the best

Renata




On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 5:43 PM, James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net>
wrote:

> I would fully support you taking the lead drafting a response for the
> policy committee to consider!
> If possible try to setup a google doc or other collaborate drafting tool
> to make sure others can assist and give input from across our community.
>
> Fantastic to see you taking something like this up, a shining example of
> “taking the bull by the horns”!
>
> -James
>
> From: Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com>
> Date: Wednesday 16 March 2016 at 8:34 p.m.
> To: James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net>
> Cc: Renata Aquino Ribeiro <raquino at gmail.com>, NCUC-discuss <
> ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org>
> Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] 2017 ICANN Meetings
> Oh, thanks for sharing that, James. How timely!
>
> Has the NCSG or NCUC already drafted a response to the final report
> recommendations of the Geographic Regions Review Working Group? If not, I'm
> happy to take the lead here and to draft something up for others to add to.
>
> I've only skim read a few of the recommendations and some seem slightly
> problematic to me, especially the idea that dependent overseas territories
> belong to the same region as their home country, unless their mother
> country agrees otherwise. I am sure that is something the GAC supports but
> that makes our outreach efforts harder. I already see this being an issue
> in San Juan. Puerto Ricans might be US citizens but their native language
> and culture varies from that of the mainland USA. By ICANN's arbitrary
> definition of North America the region has a very small number of members
> relative to other regions (8, to Asia/Pacific's 73), yet it is still
> guaranteed one director and a disproportionate amount of ALAC resources. If
> Puerto Rico was considered a part of Latin America and the Caribbean, we
> could bring those from the hispanosphere together and have outreach
> activities in a language that most from that region would be comfortable
> communicating in. But we won't be doing that. If the meeting in San Juan
> goes ahead, we'll mainly be bringing those from the US and Canada to Puerto
> Rico. Of course we need to do outreach there, too, but I've heard a few
> people now say this meeting will - by virtue of being in a Spanish-speaking
> territory - be a form of Latin American outreach. I just don't see how that
> is the case. By all means have a meeting in San Juan and if we can get
> additional language support there, great, but I would like it to be
> acknowledged that this is a North American meeting which will mainly be
> bringing together native English speakers, and is not a LatAm surrogate.
>
> I appreciate that this is a sensitive issue for ICANN to deal with — it is
> much easier to defer to a 3rd party's definition of what constitutes a
> geographical region than to get into the tricky business of defining
> sovereignty and state self-determination (though I think ICANN already that
> did in assigning the .cat TLD to Catalonia in 2005) — but given how the
> geographic regions impact all of ICANN's outreach activities I think we
> should make it clear to the Working Group how harmful or limiting these
> arbitrary groupings of countries can be.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Ayden
>
>
>
>
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