[NCUC-EC] Durban Constituency Day

Sun May 26 10:55:58 CEST 2013

Hi

On May 25, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Edward Morris <edward.morris at ALUMNI.USC.EDU> wrote:

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> Any thoughts?  I don't want to spend the whole time on intraorganizational matters, we laid that foundation last time and some members seemed to find such discussions uninteresting.
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> Agreed. If we do do another session like Beijing some of our members would be looking for impeachment clauses in our bylaws. As there are none, I believe beheading would be the next logical option. 

Gee Ed, what am I supposed to do, hari kari?  We had a meeting and talked about our effort to get people involved in doing stuff to make NCUC better.  Sorry.  We can avoid being so unbearably boring next time by simply leaving everything is.
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> We didn't get time to really discuss the question of rebooting or killing the NCUC PC and the larger questions this raises, so that would seem to be one focus.
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> The role of the NCUC, including the PC issue, is very important. This relates to the Bylaws as well. It would be nice to get this done.

But those are in the category of impeachment and beheading material, no?  
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> I'd like to invite a local, someone not ordinarily involved in ICANN, to speak for about 10 minutes. It could be a politician, head of a CS group, someone who might not ordinarily be at an ICANN meeting, or even a speaker from one of our less active institutional members.
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> I'd prefer politicians, frankly, so we can start developing some ties in that arena but for Durban I was thinking we should invite an officer from the Centre for Civil Society:
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> http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/default.asp?10,5
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> CSS is a NCUC member. I think it would be great to get a local perspective on the various issues we're concerned with. 

Great idea. We definitely should connect with these folks.  I see the membership contact is Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/default.asp?10,24,8,87.  He may be involved in the summer school thing too, would have to check with Anriette.  Maybe the joint thing on Friday prior would be optimal for discussing local takes on our issues and how to be involved, or maybe it'd make sense to do both….

Thanks,

Bill

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>> From: Glen de Saint Géry <Glen at icann.org>
>> Subject: Durban meeting information 
>> Date: May 20, 2013 11:29:53 PM GMT+02:00
>> To: Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org>, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>
>> Cc: "gnso-secs at icann.org" <gnso-secs at icann.org>
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>> Dear Robin and Bill,
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>> Would you please provide the following information for the Stakeholder Day meetings on Tuesday, 16 July 2013,  in Durban and please let me have this no later than MONDAY, 27 May 2013.
>> Session Title, Overview, and Agenda
>> Are you happy with text or do you want to add to it:
>> Non Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) day meeting – this is the scheduled NCUC meeting at the ICANN meeting in Beijing
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>> All publicly posted sessions MUST have a description. What is the session about? Who is the audience? Speakers? 
>> • a breakdown of topics to be discussed
>> • a list of speakers/panellists split up according to relevant subject
>> • an explanation of the session’s goals and expected outcomes
>> • hyperlinks to relevant documentation.
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>> The objective is to ensure that community leaders and participants, especially remote participants, are able to evaluate whether or not this is a session they wish to attend, so the more information you can give about it the better.
>> Preferred  Time – please state
>> Avoid overlapping regularly scheduled breaks (see below). 
>> If you need closed sessions during your meeting, please state the time and please try to make these either at the beginning or the end of meeting, rather than mid-morning or mid-afternoon. We will try and keep to the same time slot as in Beijing for the Stakeholder Group/Constituency consultations with the Board, that is 3:30pm – 4:30pm – Board with NCSG, but this still has to be confirmed.
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>> Estimated Number of Attendees – (very important to optimize the space)
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>> Preferred  set-up – U shape, Theatre, Class room, Board room, rounds
>> please state, but please be aware that this depends on the conference center layout and we will do our best to fulfill your request but cannot guarantee the set-up you request.
>> Remote Participation
>> Will you have remote presenters?
>> Audio Visual Requirements
>>                         Please note any special requests with regard to:
>> Adobe connect, - name of person who could run Adobe Connect
>> audio streaming, 
>> recording,
>>                                 transcription, 
>>                                 teleconferencing.
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>> Fixed Breaks (Note: Requests for in-room coffee during the regularly scheduled coffee breaks will not be considered.)
>> AM Coffee Break: 10:30 – 11:00
>> Lunch Break: 12:30 – 13:30
>> PM Coffee Break: 16:30 – 17:00
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>> IMPORTANT
>> Please provide a full description, the date and time of any other meetings that you anticipate your group will need, especially if you have Audio Visual requirements for such meetings. Please state whether the meetings will be public sessions or closed sessions, that is intended only for a certain group. No requests will be considered after 31 MAY 2013.
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>> Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
>> Thank you so much.
>> Kind regards.
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>> Glen
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>> Glen de Saint Géry
>> GNSO Secretariat
>> gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org
>> http://gnso.icann.org
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  ICANN, www.ncuc.org
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