[Pt53] Invitation Materials

Thu Jun 4 15:08:18 CEST 2015

Hello from EuroDIG in Sofia

Just a brief suggestion to anyone in region who wants to help, I was skyping with Olga Cavalli and she said she could help identify invitees, she of course has a bit of a data base from years of doing the South School.  If someone has some bandwidth to connect with her that’d be great….

Bill

> On Jun 2, 2015, at 8:12 PM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
> 
> Hi Marilia
> 
>> On Jun 2, 2015, at 4:46 PM, Marília Maciel <mariliafgv at gmail.com <mailto:mariliafgv at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Hi Bill and all,
>> 
>> I agree that we should identify more names and add them to the file. However, some of the people listed are contact hubs in the region and can help us spread the word within networks as well. Another point is that there is a strong CS LAC presence in ALAC. Are we willing to reach out to ALAC members too?
> 
> Of course. Don’t want to look like we’re ‘poaching’ but there’s no reason why At Large people should not be connected, there’s no contradiction between being involved in both spaces.  I myself have been on the Board of Euralo since 2008….just need to be aware of possible perceptions and deal accordingly.
>> 
>> With regards to the content of the invitation, I believe that the first paragraph would be devoted to explaining why the current discussions in ICANN matter from a CS standpoint. (re. ICANN It is not only technical administration of names and numbers, there implications with rights, development, bla, bla).
> 
> I passed along a copy of the invite letter we used in London, which was more form and not content-oriented.  If you think something that with more substance would have resonance and still fit one page, please feel free to draft something for the group’s consideration.  Any and all help is much appreciated!
>> 
>> I offer help with the translation into portuguese when the text is ready. 
> 
> Fabulous
> 
> Best
> 
> Bill
>> 
>> 2015-06-02 4:01 GMT-03:00 William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch <mailto:william.drake at uzh.ch>>:
>> Hello Valeria
>> 
>>> On Jun 1, 2015, at 6:05 PM, Valeria Betancourt <valeriab at apc.org <mailto: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>
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>> • 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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