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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Evolution of Trademark on the Internet, Is it Sustainable? by Grace Mutung’u, March 2017 On 10th March2017, as the 58th ICANN meeting in Copenhagen was about to begin, several US trademark practitioners wrote a letter decrying the potential of an ICANN policy on trademark protection to clawback on free speech. To many people around […]
ICANN 58: My journey with NCUC by Sze Ming, April 2017 Fate with NCUC I have been working with Digital Rights and Internet Governance related subjects ever since 2015 when I started my second career with Sinar Project. Throughout the years I had also the chance of meeting different experts and people who working in […]