By Cláudio Lucena, Paraíba State University, Brazil/FCT, Católica Global, Portugal ICANN60 in Abu Dhabi was my first onsite meeting after having joined the Non Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC). Earlier this year I had been a fellow for ICANN58 Copenhagen, joined NCUC, taken some time to follow and get to know the work of the […]
by Olga Kyryliuk On 2 February 2018, ICANN President and CEO Goran Marby, along with General Counsel and Secretary John Jeffrey held a webinar (announcement, recording and materials) during which they updated the community on recent developments regarding GDPR compliance models, privacy and Whois. Goran Marby mentioned that GDPR will affect us all and […]
by Dawahi Khouloud With a workshop, a pre-event, a village booth, and the presence of dozens of active members, NCUC figured eminently in the 12th Internet Governance Forum, which took place from 18 to 21 December 2017, in Geneva Switzerland. The event’s overall theme was “Shape your digital future”and in terms of numbers, 2019 was […]
by Stephanie Perrin – On November 26-28 2017, I attended the meeting of the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications (IWGDPT or Berlin group) in Paris, France. The group has had data protection issues at ICANN on the agenda for the past three years (see my earlier blogpost on the 2015 Seoul Korea […]
Market research, technology trends, and policy participation are topics for discussion at Rio Info September 25 [Portuguese version below] The Internet, as it has been governed, must be seen as an unprecedented success story. It creates opportunity for economic growth, socio-economic opportunities, intellectual freedoms and much, much more.The global nature of the Internet challenges the […]
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” — Nelson Mandela Attending ICANN 59 in Johannesburg, as part of the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) fellowship program, further convinced me of the validity of this […]
Participation in internet policymaking in Latin America and Caribbean region can be articulated from many different routes and networks. This was the goal of participating in LACNIC27, an event which happened in the triple frontier of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina city of Foz de Iguazu, in the end of may. LACNIC is the Latin American […]