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

["Tim Ruiz" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Olga. I like what you're suggesting. I would add that *outreach*
is not best accomplished by holding one of three yearly ICANN meetings
in such locations. Such meetings do little to advance connectivity or
solve other roadblocks to participation that may exist. But ICANN could
be involved in assessing the real issues and play a role in resolving
them through facilitation and coordination in an effective manner
depending on needs.

Some of these developing areas need buy off and support from the Public
and Private sectors in order to improve connectivity and encourage
participation (not just for a week of an ICANN meeting). In many
instances there are already activities, movements, efforts underway by
various groups that ICANN could support in various ways. IMHO, that
would be far more productive and would be a better use of funds.


Tim  
 
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [council] FW: [soac-discussion] Public Participation
Committee public session, invitation for SO/AC leaders' participation
From: Olga Cavalli <olgac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, March 02, 2010 10:56 am
To: "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: GNSO Council List <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,
below are my comments, from a personal perspective.
I am willing to add other GNSO views and oppinions if other SG or
constituencies are interested.
Regards
Olga

2010/3/2 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?


1- Lower  language barriers, a lot has been done in this sense but
threre is still information available only in English.

2- Broaden the perspective of ICANN in the developing world, most of the
activities done so far are usually ccTLD related, which is good but it
does not reflect all the rest of ICANN processes and activities. These
are not well know and they should be clearly communicated on a regular
basis.

3- Contact local universities and institutions to explain ICANN mission
and goals, provide them with info and also use those involved in ICANN
process from developing countries to know where to provide this
information.


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



Yes as it is the essence of ICANN becoming an institution with global
representativity, it is also the ground of the Affirmation of
Commitments.

Some ideas on how to move forward are explained in the previous
question. If ICANN gets more involved with the developing world some of
the problems of these regions of the world will start to be part of the
ICANN agenda, this will enhance participation.


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)."



The outreach towards developing countries can start with cities that are
already connected, as a first stage.
Then once this stage is already consolidated, a next step can be taken
towards including those areas with lower connectivity, although there is
a lot to be done in areas with Internet connectivity first.

Once in contact witht the developing countries, all the proyects to
broaden Internet connectiviy can be easliy reveiwed and accessed through
local contacts and then a specific strategy can be developed to addrees
the needs of these areas.

These are only innitial ideas. I would be willing to give many examples
on how to implement this in Latin America, if needed. 





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


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
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