NCUC read-out session: updates on post-ICANN 79 activities. Written by: Benjamin Akinmoyeje and Theorose E. Dzineku. Recording The Non-commercial Users Constituency met on Wednesday, March 20th, 2024, to share with its members the activities that happened during ICANN 79, which was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Farzaneh introduced herself as a member of the […]
NCUC 20th Anniversary Issue Forum held at ICANN78 in Hamburg, Germany onWednesday, October 25, 2023ICANN78 Hamburg, a global meeting of internet governance and domain name industrystakeholders, saw fruitful discussions on key topics that are shaping the domain nameindustry and cited as current prime concerns for the civil society. These discussions,convened by the Non-Commercial Users Constituency […]
From 6 to 10 December 2021, the 16th annual IGF meeting was hosted by the Government of Poland in Katowice, under the overarching theme: “Internet United”. The hybrid event including on-site and on-line participation, featured high level sessions and interesting debates for the different Internet Governance interested parties including but not limited to African Stakeholders.The […]
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 […]