The NCUC will be sending its newly elected Executive Committee officers and chair to the GNSO Non Contracted Parties House Intersessional Meeting, being put on by ICANN and held Jan 29-30 in Los Angeles. While not currently advertised on the ICANN website, the Executive Committee and other NCUC members are committed to keeping its membership […]
The Non-Contracted Parties House (NCPH) will hold an Inter-sessional Meeting at the ICANN Headquarters in Los Angeles on 29-30th January 2013. The full agenda is available here. NCUC’s newly elected Executive Committee and Chair will be attending in person. This meeting that brings together all stakeholders that are not contracted with ICANN such as the […]
NCUC’s Constituency Day meeting will be held from 9:00 − 12:30 Beijing time (UTC/GMT +8 hours) on Tuesday 9 April. A draft agenda is accessible from https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/NCUC+Beijin…. We will be devoting a majority of our time in the NCUC meeting to our new constituency building efforts, e.g. revamping our electronic platforms and bylaws, as well as […]
The Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) has organized and is holding a policy workshop, One World, One Internet? New gTLDs & Competition in a Changing Global Environment, next week in Beijing at ICANN-46. The program, which brings together top Western and Chinese experts, will explore pressures for integration versus fragmentation of the Internet and implications for ICANN, as well as […]
The Executive Committee of NCUC will hold its first formal meeting this year on Sunday, 14 July at 15:00-16:00 in Durban. The meeting is open to all NCUC members. Welcome!
The first African Internet Governance School (AfriSIG 2013) was organised by the Association for Progressive Communications http://www.apc.org and the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency–e-Africa Programme. There was an exciting mix of participants Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Botswana, Ghana, and South Africa (among others) and included regulators, civil society, academia, government and technical communities. Bill Drake, Chair of […]
NCUC’s new website has just been launched, just in time for Constituency Day on 16 July 2013 in the 47th ICANN meeting in Durban, South Africa. It is not just a minor upgrade but a complete redesign, residing on NCUC’s own virtual private server running Ubuntu Linux, WordPress and other free / open source software. […]
Over the course of 4 days last week, experienced NCUC Members conducted a series of workshops and lectures on various aspects of Internet Governance to a group of young African scholars, journalists, regulators and digital activists. AfriSIG was organised by APC and NEPAD with additional support by Afilias, Google, ISOC, OSISA, NCUC and AFRINIC. The […]
The members of the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group of the GNSO indicated below have reviewed the findings published by the Study on Whois Privacy & Proxy Service Abuse. We are submitting the feedback below in response to the study and its findings: As per the scope and definition of the study set by ICANN and agreed […]
Please join us for a one-day policy conference, “ICANN and Global Internet Governance: The Road to São Paulo, and Beyond”, to be held on Friday 21 March 2014 just prior to ICANN 49. The conference is organized by the NonCommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, with the generous support of ICANN. Cross-community panels will […]