[council] FW: [soac-discussion] Public Participation Committee public session, invitation for SO/AC leaders' participation

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please see below a very late request for GNSO participation in a panel
that will be discussing the following in Nairobi:
 
"a) What are the three most important improvements ICANN can make to its
public participation processes to facilitate greater engagement by
developing world stakeholders? 

b) Should ICANN incorporate a greater focus on the developing world in
its work and if so, how?

c) How can the work of ICANN be given greater relevance where there is
low Internet density per capita - and what priority should be given to
reaching stakeholders in countries with the lowest Internet connection
density? (see the World Bank statistical link under "Materials and
References" below to look up statistical information of the kind
referenced)."

Note that this conflicts with the "Registration Abuse Policies Initial
Report Information Session" on Wednesday afternoon in Nairobi.

Because of the late notice on this, it really is not possible to develop
a GNSO position on the issues to be discussed, so I believe the best we
can do is to identify a volunteer who would for the most part
participate in a personal capacity and attempt to represent to the best
of her/his ability what they understand to be views of GNSO community
members.

Is there anyone who would be interested and willing to participate on
this panel in Nairobi?  Please respond as soon as possible if you are
interested. It might be helpful if any volunteers would provide brief
personal answers to the three questions to allow other Councilors to
comment between now and 10 March and thereby obtain a little broader
GNSO input before the session.

Chuck


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From: owner-soac-discussion@xxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-soac-discussion@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nick Ashton-Hart
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 10:32 AM
To: soac-discussion@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [soac-discussion] Public Participation Committee public
session, invitation for SO/AC leaders' participation


Dear SO and AC leaders: 

On Wednesday 10th from 1600-1730 local time in Nairobi, the Board's
Public Participation Committee will hold its public meeting.

The PPC has asked me to ask you if a representative from each of the ACs
and SOs would care to be  a part of the session by participating in a
panel, alongside the members of the PPC, to lead the discussion  of the
various  items on the agenda, and of course to participate in the
discussion directly. If one of you, or someone you wish to nominate from
your community, is unable to attend in-room we can arrange for  you to
be able to participate remotely via audio bridge.

The full agenda may be found at http://nbo.icann.org/node/8950; I have
not  pasted it below since the hyperlinks would not be  usable and as
you will see when you browse the agenda the hyperlinks are quite
integral to the whole. 

Finally, I hope you will accept my apologies in advance for  posting the
agenda assuming that some members of the SOs and ACs would be willing to
participate as described. Given the subject, it seemed that I would be
on safe ground to  make that assumption.

-- 
Regards,


 

Nick Ashton-Hart
Senior Director for Participation and Engagement
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
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