The Executive Committee of NCUC will hold its first formal meeting this year on Sunday, 14 July at 15:00-16:00 in Durban. The meeting is open to all NCUC members. Welcome!
The first African Internet Governance School (AfriSIG 2013) was organised by the Association for Progressive Communications http://www.apc.org and the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency–e-Africa Programme. There was an exciting mix of participants Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Botswana, Ghana, and South Africa (among others) and included regulators, civil society, academia, government and technical communities. Bill Drake, Chair of […]
NCUC’s new website has just been launched, just in time for Constituency Day on 16 July 2013 in the 47th ICANN meeting in Durban, South Africa. It is not just a minor upgrade but a complete redesign, residing on NCUC’s own virtual private server running Ubuntu Linux, WordPress and other free / open source software. […]
Over the course of 4 days last week, experienced NCUC Members conducted a series of workshops and lectures on various aspects of Internet Governance to a group of young African scholars, journalists, regulators and digital activists. AfriSIG was organised by APC and NEPAD with additional support by Afilias, Google, ISOC, OSISA, NCUC and AFRINIC. The […]
The members of the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group of the GNSO indicated below have reviewed the findings published by the Study on Whois Privacy & Proxy Service Abuse. We are submitting the feedback below in response to the study and its findings: As per the scope and definition of the study set by ICANN and agreed […]
Please join us for a one-day policy conference, “ICANN and Global Internet Governance: The Road to São Paulo, and Beyond”, to be held on Friday 21 March 2014 just prior to ICANN 49. The conference is organized by the NonCommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, with the generous support of ICANN. Cross-community panels will […]
If you are a supporter of noncommercial activity on the Internet, please join us either in-person or remotely for NCUC Constituency Day at the 49th ICANN meeting in Singapore. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, 25 Mar, from 9:00-12:30 (SGT). Our meetings are free to attend, only requiring you register to attend the ICANN […]
NCUC members Kathy Kleiman and Stephanie Perrin contributed to developing the NCSG’s comment on the Status Update from the Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services. In summary, the NCSG’s main issues concern: Registrant Type – the introduction of a new field without rhyme or reason (mentioned only once in an appendix of the Initial […]
The Noncommercial Users Stakeholder Group (NCSG) has submitted its response to ICANN’s “Draft Proposal, Based on Initial Community Feedback, of the Principles and Mechanisms and the Process to Develop a Proposal to Transition NTIA’s Stewardship of the IANA Functions” and subsequent Scoping Document. The comments, developed initially by NCUC members Internet Governance Project and ARTICLE19, were supported by and […]
The Noncommercial Users Stakeholder Group (NCSG) has submitted its response to ICANN’s request for comment on Enhancing ICANN Accountability. The comments, developed initially by NCUC member ARTICLE19, were supported by and submitted on behalf of the NCSG to ICANN. In its comments, the NCSG noted that the current Affirmation of Commitments (AoC) mechanisms are an […]