[Pt53] Welcome to the Planning List for NCUC's Regional Outreach Session at ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires

[Analia Aspis]

Dear Bill,

Thank you very much for your mail. Happy to contribute to the BA meeting.
Since the main meeting will take part just a couple of days after the
NCUC's event, I will contact as well some LAC organisations that may be in
BA for that date, in order to open the table to a regional perspective.

Best,
Analía

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:27 AM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:

> Hello everyone
>
> To facilitate our work, we have set up this mail list and taken the
> liberty of subscribing everyone who was on the initial Cc thread, i.e.
> Analia Aspis, Carlos Afonso, Cristiana Gonzalez, Eduardo Bertoni, Enrique
> Chaparro, João Carlos Rebello Caribé, Marília Maciel, Stefania Milan,
> Valeria Betancourt, William Drake, Wolfgang Kleinwächter, and Verónica
> Ferrari.  I hope this is ok with you all, I recognize not everyone
> mentioned is currently a NCUC member and some might not be sure yet how
> deeply they want to get engaged here.  Of course, anyone who wants to can
> simply unsubscribe at any time, no worries.  In any event, I would not
> think that pulling this together will not require a large amount of
> traffic.
>
> Herewith a little boot-up information:
>
> *Background*
>
> NCUC works to advance civil society objectives in ICANN, especially with
> respect to gTLD policies in the GNSO.  As per
> http://www.ncuc.org/about/members/ we currently have 417 members from 96
> countries, a substantial share of which are from the global South.
> However, aside from a fairly active Brazilian contingent, we arguably don’t
> have enough engagement from the LAC region.  So what we wanted to do here
> is some outreach and dialogue with progressive civil society folks who are
> interested in Internet governance. The simple objectives are to share info
> about what we’re into, and hear about their views and any
> interests/activities on ICANN-relevant issues (including if these are
> critical with respect to ICANN).  If we just come away from this with
> greater mutual awareness that’s fine, if someone decides they might like to
> get involved at some level, even better; either way, there’ll be no hard
> sell or dispensing of kool aid.
>
> *Planning Team*
>
> One of the things we’ve done since I was first elected chair in 2013 is
> establish ‘working teams' to manage different bits of the constituency’s
> operations.  These can be standing teams or temporary, depending on the
> need.  This group will be a temporary Program Team for ICANN 53; the mail
> list will be taken down after the event.  As soon as we’re able we’ll get
> it listed at http://www.ncuc.org/participate/working-teams/ with an
> invitation to other members to click and join the list.  If anyone prefers
> not to be listed on website for a couple months just send me a note.
>
> Stefi and Analía have both offered to play lead roles in coordinating our
> efforts and keeping us on track, which is much appreciated.
>
> *Meeting Logistics*
>
> As I said previously on the Cc,
>
> On Apr 24, 2015, at 10:18 AM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
>
> I just spoke with JJ Sahel, the staffer who is supporting this effort. We
> definitely have a room 16:00-18:00 Saturday June 20 with technical support
> (computer/screen/remote participation).  The room will be suitable for like
> 50-60 people.  Do those of you who are locally connected think we need to
> ask for translation facilities?  That’s an expensive ‘ask’ and I don’t know
> if his budget could accommodate it, but if we anticipate people showing up
> whose English isn’t sufficient to be comfortable I can try.
>
> In addition, there will be a reception 18-19:30 for all CS @ ICANN, which
> one assumes will get swamped with other people in search of booze as well.
> Afterwards people can charge off into the BA night for dinner.
>
>
> So that’s it, two hour dialogue and then drinks and nibbles to start our
> Saturday night.  Perhaps we can return to the translation issue when we
> have a better sense of who might attend and what the needs may be.
>
> *Agenda*
>
> We’ve done regional outreach sessions at some previous ICANN events, e.g.
> last summer in London
> https://london50.icann.org/en/schedule/fri-civil-society-ig and in
> January in Washington DC
> http://www.ncuc.org/washington-dc-ncuc-meets-civil-society-to-discuss-current-issues-in-internet-governance/.
>   The model we followed rather successfully in DC was to have 6-8 NCUC
> members each offer 3 minute summaries of what we’re currently working on in
> different issue areas---e.g. the IANA transition, accountability mechanisms
> in the context of globalization, human rights, privacy and WHOIS, access to
> knowledge and intellectual property, freedom of expression, development,
> ICANN in the broader Internet governance environment—and then ask the local
> folks to share their interests/views/reactions, followed by open dialogue.
> In effect, a Roundtable type thing. If we were to decide to do that again,
> then the substantive agenda would be easy to assemble and we could
> concentrate more on identifying and inviting potential participants.
> Alternatively, if people feel a different sort of agenda would be better,
> whether a Panel or just a free flowing discussion with no opening comments
> or whatever, we can talk that through.
>
> *Outreach to Potential Participants*
>
> As mentioned when the Cc started, we need help on this from folks with
> local contacts and knowledge of the LAC civil society landscape.  Stefi put
> up a Google doc to get us started and others have added names, at
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gRnbG-zlSzke5D2bQO30yXAu2kXxfuLNXIRL1jwj9v0/edit?pli=1.
> It’d be great if people could add suggestions there (sorry if you don’t
> like G-docs…we could shift to some other platform if someone likes).  We
> can also reach out to Rodrigo de la Parra, the ICANN VP for stakeholder
> engagement in LAC, for help with names, as he has a data base of contacts.
> He historically has only worked with other groupings within ICANN, but
> there’s no reason for him to not help us as well.
>
> Ok, that’s more than enough for one message!
>
> Thanks again for helping out,
>
> Bill
>
>
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