Reflecting on ICANN 56 by Gangesh Varma The ‘control-of-the-Internet’ rhetoric never lost appeal. The domestic politics in United States particularly from Republican Senators is not a new obstacle to the IANA Transition. The Republican Party Platform for 2016 captures the key policy positions of the Republican Party for the Presidential elections and includes a section […]
The Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) Executive Committee (EC) was gratified to hear that the IANA transition will not be blocked by the U.S. Congress. We congratulate the board and the entire multistakeholder community on this news. Now that the contract with NTIA is sure to expire on September 30, the NCUC EC asks that the […]
Sponsored by ICANN’s Noncommercial Users Constituency Co-moderators: Milton Mueller, Georgia Institute of Technology, Internet Governance Project, and NCUC co-founder Kilnam Chon, Emeritus Professor, KAIST, and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Thursday, November 3, 13:45 – 15:15 Hall 2, HYDERABAD INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION CENTRE (HICC) Novotel & HICC Complex Hyderabad, India https://icann572016.sched.org/event/8ePr/gnso-non-commercial-users-constituency-ncuc-outreach[icann572016.sched.org] Staging ICANN 57 in India […]
NCUC Outreach at Joint Civil Society Day on 4th December at 14.30. where: Holiday Inn Express Guadalajara Autonoma Av. Patria 999 Jardines Universidad, 45110 Zapopan, Jal. Mexico Title: Domain Name Policy Matters: Advancing noncommercial values at ICANN Description: In this session we want to challenge the impression that focusing on domain name policies as a critical Internet-related topic is not exciting or […]
IGF starts next week in Guadalajara and like previous years, NCUC will be present and active there. We are holding 2 workshops: “Reality of the Answerability of multistakeholder model” , itt will be held in Wednesday 7th December 12:00pm local time (18:00UTC) “The power of the noncommercial users on the Internet”, it will be held in Thursday […]
By: Rachel Pollack NCUC at IGF 2016: A Model for the Power of Civil Society With two workshops, a pre-event, a village booth, and the presence of dozens of active members, NCUC figured prominently in the 11th Internet Governance Forum, which took place from 6 to 9 December, 2016 in Guadalajara, Mexico. The event’s overall […]