In January 12-13, 14 NCUC members will take part in the intersessional meeting of the Non-Contracted Parties House. The Non Contracted Parties House is one of the two groupings (‘houses’) of the Generic Names Supporting Organizations (GNSO). The GNSO is the policymaking body of ICANN, and mainly fashions policies for generic Top-Level Domains (e.g., .com, […]
On Wednesday January 14, 2015, NCUC delegates to the GNSO NCHP Intersessional meeting will meet DC-based civil society representatives, think thanks and academics to discuss Internet governance issues. The meeting will take place from 10am-noon at the premises of the Center for Democracy & Technology on 1634 I Street NW, 11th floor. On the agenda, […]
Minutes Location: Hotel Beacon, Washington, DC Time: Monday, 12th of January, 2015 Participants: Bill Drake (NCUC Chair) Stefania Milan (EC European representative) Peter Green/ Zuan Zhang 张 钻(EC Asian representative) João Carlos Caribé (EC South American representative) Grace Githaiga (EC African representative) Absent/Apologies: Roy Balleste (EC North America representative) Agenda 1. Appointments 2. Budget 3. […]
This blog post, co-authored by Grace Githaiga (EC representative for Africa) and Stefania Milan (EC representative for Europe), summarizes the main points of the January 14, 2015 meeting of NCUC representatives with Washington-based civil society, academics and think tanks concerned with internet governance. On January 14, 2015, members of the Non Commercial Stakeholder Constituency (NCUC) […]
The NCUC Membership Affairs Team (MAT) coordinated by Walid Al-Saqaf has prepared a survey to elicit feedback from NCUC members on ways to improve engagement. The survey can be found here. It will stay open till March the 31st, 2015. The survey’s findings are expected to help formulate policies and steps to improve inreach efforts […]
NCUC awarded its first travel grant to NCUC member Benjamin Akinmoyeje to participate in the ICANN 52 meeting in Singapore, on February 8-12 2015. Ben Akinmoyeje is an ICTD & IT Manager working with Management Sciences for Health in Abuja, Nigeria where he operates the MSH IdeaLab, a platform for Internet Governance for Development. The […]
Freedom of Expression Chilled By ICANN’s Addition of Speech Restrictions in DNS “Public Interest Commitments” Amount to Illegitimate Usurpation of Bottom-Up Policy By Robin Gross, IP Justice Freedom of expression on the Internet is at risk from ICANN’s recent decision to prohibit anyone but one specific type of doctor from using the word within the […]
Minutes Location: Executive Committee Mailing ListTime: 10-17 April 2015Participants:Bill Drake (NCUC Chair)Roy Balleste (North America representative)João Carlos Caribé (Latin America/Caribbean representative) Grace Githaiga (Africa representative)Peter Green/ Zuan Zhang 张 钻(Asia/Australia/Pacific representative)Stefania Milan (Europe representative)Agenda:1. BudgetThe EC noted with great appreciation the Public Interest Registry’s currently in process contribution of $15,000.00, and asked the Treasurer to provide it with an […]
One of the things that has most surprised me since getting involved in the internet governance arena is the importance of face-to-face (F2F) contact and meetings. Certainly the internet should reduce the need to meet in the flesh, yet the longer I am involved in this field the more meetings there appear to be to attend. […]
Sunday the 22nd of March, 2015, 8pm GMT. I notice an email from 2pm that I hadn’t had a chance to look at: Robin Gross, NCUC Member of the Cross-Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability, henceforth also CCWG), is stuck in San Francisco. Do you think you could get on a plane tomorrow […]