[Pt53] Invitation Materials

[William Drake]

Hello Valeria

> On Jun 1, 2015, at 6:05 PM, Valeria Betancourt <valeriab at apc.org> wrote:
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> Dear Analía,
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> Thanks for your work.
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> We are happy in the APC to help with contacting people and sending
> invitations out.

That would be excellent, thanks so much.  As I said yesterday, we really need to identify more names with email addresses we can distribute this to, right now we have about the same number as NCUC attendees and it’s a fair bet not all of those will come.  Analía and others have listed a number of organizations with URLs but I wouldn’t know who within them to send something to. So any and all help would be much appreciated!

ICANN has finally posted the conference schedule, which in principle makes it easier to send an invite because we have a URL to point to with confirmed room etc. http://buenosaires53.icann.org/en/schedule/sat-civil-society-ncuc <http://buenosaires53.icann.org/en/schedule/sat-civil-society-ncuc>  In practice though I am still trying to sort out a couple issues with Jean Jacques, i.e. there’s currently no provision for remote participation or translation and the thing is listed as open rather than closed to CS, which proved a problem in London—we had a number of business people show up and intervene a lot in ways that misdirected the conversation and frustrated people.  So hopefully we get these things sorted soon.

I am now bugging NCUC people to confirm what topics they can introduce.  It would be good if we have some LAC members to do this as well as people from the US and Europe.  At present we have https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gRnbG-zlSzke5D2bQO30yXAu2kXxfuLNXIRL1jwj9v0/edit?pli=1 <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gRnbG-zlSzke5D2bQO30yXAu2kXxfuLNXIRL1jwj9v0/edit?pli=1>

• IANA and the transitioning of US control  (Milton Mueller)
• Accountability mechanisms in the context of globalization (Matt Shears)
• Human rights generally (Monika Zalnieriute)
• Privacy, WHOIS and registry services (James Gannon)
• Access to knowledge and intellectual property (Robin Gross)
• Freedom of expression (TBD)
• Development (TBD)
• ICANN in broader Internet governance, e.g. NETmundial Initiative, IGF, WSIS10, etc (Bill Drake)

If for example one of our LAC members would be prepared to say two minutes about our involvement in applicant support/JAS, raising IG4D in the GNSO Council, etc. that’d be great. Rafik normally does the development piece but doesn’t get into BA in time.  Ditto FoE.  Alternatively, if someone wanted to handle the IPR angle (one of the things NCUC has done most for 15 years is fight the intellectual property folks on trademarks etc) we could move Robin to FoE.  

I am will be in Sofia the next few days for the European IGF, doing sessions on NETmundial and IANA, so will be bandwidth challenged.  Hope others can help out in keeping this moving forward….

Thanks

Bill

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