[council] ICANN Wraps Up Prague Meeting on Thursday

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-30apr12-en.htm
ICANN Wraps Up Prague Meeting on Thursday
30 April 2012
On behalf of our Chairman of the Board, Steve Crocker:
"In our ongoing efforts to improve the ICANN Meeting experience for all 
participants, we are implementing some changes for the June meeting in Prague.
The Friday morning program, which in the past has comprised AC/SO committee 
reports, Board committee reports, and the public Board meeting, has been 
removed.
AC/SO committee reports and Board committee reports will now be published for 
review on the ICANN website.
The public Board meeting has been replaced with a one-hour session following 
the Public Forum on Thursday afternoon. In this session the Board will outline 
what they have heard during the week from their meetings with AC/SOs and their 
constituent parts and will identify those matters they expect to be dealing 
with between the Prague and Toronto Meetings.
The close of this session (expected to be around 18:00) will mark the official 
end of the ICANN meeting and will be immediately followed by a two-hour 
farewell reception for all ICANN Meeting participants.
It is intended that at the beginning of the Toronto meeting there will be a 
Board community session where the Board will report to the community on what 
they have dealt with since Prague.
We believe that the removal of the Friday public Board meeting and its 
replacement with two Board community sessions will improve the effectiveness of 
both the Board and the staff and increase the time that the Board has to 
interact with the community.
We hope you find these changes also make more effective use of your time and 
enhance the overall ICANN Meeting experience. The Public Participation 
Committee will hold a public session in Toronto to discuss and review them."
Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
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