[NCUC-EC] Durban Constituency Day

Sun May 26 20:41:18 CEST 2013

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> 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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If you do decide the hari kari route, not advised, please let me know so I
can advise CT to distribute our travel support to others. There is no way
I'm going to Durban without you. If you weren't running the sessions I'm
not sure they would ever start, never mind include something that would
please everyone. We could try distributing pretty red ribbons like some
other groups...most people like pretty things :)

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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.
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> But those are in the category of impeachment and beheading material, no?
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I don't think so. Those are more substantive and less process oriented
issues.

We do have to take some of the blame for some of the dissatisfaction
ourselves. We need to be better prepared / rehearsed and certainly need to
arrive a bit earlier to check and make sure the technology works. Double
that for Durban if we're premiering a new functioning website.

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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.
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> 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….
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> If CSS would be duplicative we can try to dig up someone else. South
Africa is obviously a very interesting country where CS has played an
instrumental role in bringing equality and justice to the people. It's also
a nation that has also produced it's fair share of inspiring speakers.
 Great to tap into that.

Three additional ideas, two mine and the more substantive one a result of a
brief conversation I've had with Wendy:

1. How about the concept of each meeting talking about and agreeing on a
special policy project that would be our proactive focus for the coming few
months. In Prague we did just that and it became the work we did on
privacy. About  two weeks out we could send an email  (I'm happy to take
ownership) asking members what is the most important policy issue we should
be focusing on in the next 4 months and get their views. We'll talk about
things at the meeting, reach consensus and  try to divide tasks whilst
folks are together.

It may work / it may not but I think it's worth a shot. If it seems to work
we can try to generically incorporate it into the new bylaws.

2. I'd like the opportunity to have a short discussion on membership
admission. One NCUC applicant is about to hit the 2.5 month mark waiting
for a response. People lose interest. Let's see if we can develop a
solution with everyone present. It's now our problem. The remaining NPOC
member on the EC has approved all our applicants that have been sent to
her, and she did it some time ago. Let's in a constructive and open way see
what we can do. Do we need to change the system...or, hopefully,will
 something less provide a solution to the problem.

3.  Newcomers. Assuming we have new members approved I'd like to send each
one a brief email inviting them to Durban and, if they aren't able to come,
suggest they join remotely. I'd further like to suggest we tell them if
they are able to attend in some form we'd appreciate it if they would
introduce themselves and tell us a little about themselves and then at the
start of the meeting have a bit of time set aside so we can do just that.

Goals: 1) Show the newbies we do want and care about them, 2) help them
overcome conference call telephone shyness, and 3) demonstrate in a
personal concrete way to the community that we are growing.

Thanks,

Ed

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>> Begin forwarded message:
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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.*
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>>    - *Session Title, Overview, and Agenda*****
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>> *Are you happy with text or do you want to add to it:*
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>> *Non Commercial Users Constituency (*NCUC) day meeting – this is the
>> scheduled NCUC meeting at the ICANN meeting in Beijing****
>> 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.****
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>>    - *Preferred  Time – please state*****
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>> 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.*****
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>>    - *Remote Participation*****
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>> Will you have remote presenters?****
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>>    - *Audio Visual Requirements*****
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>>                         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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>> 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
>> www.williamdrake.org
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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
> www.williamdrake.org
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