E-team initiates series of online debates 15.Nov.2017 12:00UTC Rafik Dammak (@rafik), Chair of NCSG PC (@NCSG_ICANN) (Non Commercial Stakeholder Group Policy Committee) will participate in a Twitter interview at @NCUC curated by NCUC E-team member Shahul Hameed (@beingshahul). This is the first of the new NCUC twitter interview series (#AskNCUC) and will help all who […]
A report by Khouloud Dawahi ‘’Comprehensive WHOIS policy reform remains the source of long-running discussion and debate related to issues such as purpose, accuracy, privacy, anonymity, cost, policing, intellectual property protection, security, etc.’’ [1] The WHOIS and conflicts with data protection and privacy laws debate was revived with the introduction of the new European Union […]
A report by Kholoud Dawahi, K. Mehta Ishan Mehta and Jeremy Malcolm NCUC has always been advocating for maintaining the limited mission of ICANN and preventing it from becoming a content regulator on the Internet. Recently ICANN has created a consumer safeguards office. The office’s mandate is undefined and hence they hold meetings with the […]
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 […]
ICANN59 was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26-29th of June 2017 and was my second opportunity of attending an ICANN meeting after ICANN 58. Thanks to the NCUC Fellowship Program I had the chance to attend the meeting and also the NCUC outreach also held in Johannesburg, on the 23rd and 24th of June. […]
“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 […]
NCUC OUTREACH (23 – 24 June), TWO DAYS IN JOHANNESBURG! By Yolanda Mlonzi Like with all events, planning the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) outreachevent, which took place in Johannesburg, consisted of many sleepless nights and long skype calls. The most rewarding part of what we do is that we are all very passionate about the internet […]
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 […]