[NCUC-EC] NCUC Rightscon session possible merger

[Michael Karanicolas]

Hm - not as odd as you'd think. UNESCO may not be a strong
institutional participant, but they have a publication on the subject
they just released:
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0025/002597/259717e.pdf

It was written by Anri van der Spuy - a former NextGen fellow and
ambassador who's actually an NCUC member, I think.

To me - I think the challenge is in pushing this away from just a
presentation of their research, which is the focus of their original
proposal, and towards a broader conversation, which is what we want.
We want to see more discussion, to bring in more voices (including
NCUC ones - but also from other stakeholder groups), and less
presentations. Hopefully they'll be amenable - and that allows us to
cleave quite closely with the original proposal.

Anyway - I just got an email from the UNESCO rep, so we'll see what
they have to say.

Mike

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 3:11 PM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro
<raquino at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> It's indeed awkward the news that we were asked to merge
>
> UNESCO is not really that present at all in ICANN so seems like and odd
> marriage
>
> My advice is that we try to keep as much from the original proposal as
> possible since it was approved by the membership - and make that clear to
> Rightscon organizers
>
> But I suppose Rightscon organizers deal the table here so at least try to
> secure a speaking engagement on behalf of NCUC.
>
> Thanks
>
> Renata
>