By Bruna Santos, Benjamin Akinmoyeje and Michael Karanicolas ICANN’s processes and procedures can be a tricky thing to engage with. As motivated and committed as folks are, there will always be technical, administrative, and logistical challenges to meaningful engagement. This is particularly true for the NCUC. Our status as volunteers sets us apart from constituencies […]
ICANN66 is starting in just a few days – and this time the meeting will be in Montreal, Canada! The agenda will be packed as usual and we would to bring some attention to NCUC’s agenda during the next week! So here it goes: Kicking off the meeting, on Saturday, November 2nd, there will be […]
In this report, you will find a brief account of the third edition of #AskNCUC Twitter Interview we had in June. For the special Asia Pacific Edition, we had Farzaneh Badii (Chair, NCSG) joining us and the theme was surrounding the values of Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group of ICANN and Domain Name Policy in ICANN. The […]
ICANN62 was announced as a meeting focused on WHOIS compliance to GDPR. Policies were to be discussed and what was until months ago a pending (or well procrastinated) issue is now a high-interest topic. It represents a test to ICANN’s efficacy and efficiency, which can only be achieved if cross-wise by multistakeholderism. The sessions at […]
Work Track 5 and the Non-capital City Names By Bruna Santos ICANN 62 was the latest Policy Forum, which took place in Panamá City, Panamá, from June 24-27. The meeting program included sessions regarding the impact from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on WHOIS, the conclusion of the CCWG-Accountability, and also discussions around the […]
I had the pleasure to be selected to the ICANN CROP Program (Community Regional Outreach Program) to represent the Non Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) at the Africa Internet Summit(AIS) 2018, in Dakar, Senegal. The AIS is an annual, regional, multi-stakeholder ICT conference, hosted by Africa’s Regional Internet Registry (Afrinic). The event takes 3 weeks with […]
Multistakeholderism, GDPR, and NCUC in Toronto RightsCon is among the world’s largest digital rights events, with over 2500 participants and 450 sessions across a range of thematic tracks. This year, I represented the NCUC at the event through the allocation of travel funds from the Community Regional Outreach Program (CROP). The main impetus for the […]
Blogpost International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications Continues to Follow ICANN On April 8-10, I had the pleasure of attending the meeting of the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications (IWGDPT) in Budapest, Hungary. The group had put on the agenda the proposal to develop international standards for the accreditation of […]
13 May 2018 by Ayden Férdeline In March I had the privilege of representing the NCUC at the Internet Freedom Festival (IFF) in Valencia, Spain. The IFF is an annual conference that explores the threats to human rights enabled by the Internet, and the typical participants are persons who are using policy or technology to […]
By Joanna Kulesza This year I had the opportunity to support the NCUC at the annual WSIS Forum held in Geneva on 19-23 March 2018. During this important internet governance event ICANN and NCUC were well represented through broad community presence, a dedicated information booth and, last but not least, three ICANN-organized panels with strong […]