[Pt53] Invitation Materials

Thu Jun 4 15:47:43 CEST 2015

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Hi Bill,

I am happy to liaise with Olga on this.

Valeria

On 04/06/15 8:08, William Drake wrote:
> 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:
>>> 
>>> 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,
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for your work.
>>>> 
>>>> 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-zlSzke5D2bQO30yXAu2kXxfuLN
XIRL1jwj9v0/edit?pli=1
>>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gRnbG-zlSzke5D2bQO30yXAu2kXxfuL
NXIRL1jwj9v0/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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>>> 
>> 
>> ********************************************************* William
>> J. Drake International Fellow & Lecturer Media Change &
>> Innovation Division, IPMZ University of Zurich, Switzerland 
>> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, ICANN, www.ncuc.org
>> <http://www.ncuc.org/> william.drake at uzh.ch
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>> <http://www.williamdrake.org/> Internet Governance: The
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>> *********************************************************
>> 
> 
> 

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Valeria Betancourt
Directora / Manager
Programa de Políticas de Information y Comunicación / Communication
and Information Policy Programme
Asociación para el Progreso de las Comunicaciones / Association for
Progressive Communications, APC
http://www.apc.org
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