[NCUC-EC] NCUC @ IGF Bali Funding

[Edward Morris]

Hi Bill,


Shame about Kathy. If last years IGF is any indication the odds of remote
anything working properly is..well, remote.



At present I have just four speakers lined up because I wanted to see how
> this issue evolves, so in principle can add up to two more.  This is
> probably advisable with Kathy presenting remotely, you never know if
> there'll be glitches.  The question is who.  I've had expressions of
> interest from Google and Peter Dengate Thrush, which would be good for the
> dialogue but leave us with a unduly skewed (Northern) demographic.  Another
> option might be to use the travel slot to bring someone from a developing
> country who's deep into this issue, although I had trouble identifying
> non-usual suspects for the Durban discussion.  And I don't know if ICANN
> would accept giving the support to a non-NCUC member, in which case the
> panel would then skew too heavily toward NCUC members….ay yi yi.
>


If we were going to fund a non NCUC member it would be nice if it could be
someone with whom we'd have a relationship going forward: someone from a
nonmember CS institution who could be prompted to join us or an individual
in a position to help our policy objectives. A trip to Bali could be used
as leverage to achieving other goals. That said, would using the funding
for a nonmember give ICANN pause before providing funding in future years?

It might be worth giving Pranesh Prakash a shout to see if he can think of
anyone from a developing country with an interest in the issue. Nothing on
the CIS website but...

As for our membership you're aware of the interests and strengths of
everyone far better than I. Joy comes to mind as someone who could argue
either side with equal conviction (!). Given she was in Baku, as were most
of our Counsellors and senior leadership, I'm thinking she may already be
funded. That's something we need to be careful of: we want to use the
ICANNfunding to bring someone in who will contribute yet without
support would
not otherwise be able to attend. Shame we can't split the awards...


> b)  Targeted Non-Speaker Solution: identify someone from the NCUC clan who
> could come and help in other ways, e.g. outreach.  Could be EC, Council, or
> general members.  Self-nominations welcome.
>


I'll self nominate myself but only because I have schedule availability. We
can and should do better than me.

I do have thoughts on what needs to be done, regardless of who is there to
do it. We should take a look at what NPOC did last year and do the
opposite. Nothing against NPOC - kudos they actually had a session - but we
can do better.  I have confidence you'll put together a panel with folks
who know how to speak: after you did your 10 or so minutes (the content of
which which would dovetail well with Milton's History of the NCSG if there
were a video of it out there somewhere we could put on our site) and left
for another engagement the presentations were sleep inducing.

Beyond that, NPOC did no branding of the session. To the extent permitted
by the IGF we should have signage up front identifying who we are,
brochures and paper membership applications and pens quickly placed on
every seat prior to our session and a box to collect the applications at
the exit. Simply giving out our email address won't work. Bertrand and Paul
did a nice job in introducing the IJ project in Baku using many of these
techniques. You left the NPOC session not knowing who put it together. You
left the IJ session feeling part of Bertrand's extended family. We should
aim for the same.

As for publicity sheets...of course, colour paper, printed and distributed
in advance. Will ICANN provide the printing support and, perhaps, give us
the resulting sheet in Bali? As for distribution, remember Beijing and
remember never again.

If we go the non-speaker route, Brenden comes to mind as someone who would
be an excellent choice. Perhaps we could sort out some way to even exhibit
the movie somewhere in the exhibition hall...

On another matter, Megi Margiyono from Indonesian Users Advocacy applied
for institutional membership months ago. I don't see him on our membership
list or on the applicant list. Am I missing something? It might be nice to
have someone local that could help with logistics. Anyone know what
happened to his application in NCSG-land?


Ed
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