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

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

So far there have been too people who volunteered to participate on the
Public Participation Committee, Olga and Bill.  As Kristina pointed out,
this does not have to be limited to Councilors so please communicate on
this list if there is a non-Councilor who would like to be considered
for this.  As I asked Olga and Bill, please ask any additional
volunteers to respond to the questions to allow Councilors to see their
positions and respond.
 
I would like to inform Nick who the GNSO panel participant is this week,
so please identify any additional volunteers today or tomorrow.
 
Chuck


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        From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gomes, Chuck
        Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 11:00 AM
        To: GNSO Council List
        Subject: [council] FW: [soac-discussion] Public Participation
Committee public session, invitation for SO/AC leaders' participation
        
        
        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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