<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>If interested, please see the below. Apologies if you receive this from more than one mail list.</div><div><br></div><div>------</div><div><br></div><div><b>"ICANN and Global Internet Governance: The Road to São Paulo, and Beyond"</b><br><br>A conference to be held on Friday 21 March 2014 at the ICANN 49 meeting venue, the Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore, in the Olivia Room, from 10:00 to 18:00.<br><br>Organized by the NonCommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, with the generous support of ICANN.</div><div><br></div><div>Logistical information, conference registration (important!) and the program are now online at <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/singapore2014/">http://www.ncuc.org/singapore2014/</a></div><div><br></div><div>We very much want this to be an inclusive cross-community dialogue, so we hope people will consider attending, either in person or remotely, and please do share this with potentially interested colleagues. We are compiling some background materials related to the session topics for addition to the web site, and personal/organizational written inputs would be very much welcome.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><i>Overview of the meeting</i></div><div><br></div><div>10:00-10:15 Welcome and Overview <br>10:15-10:45 Update on the Sao Paulo Meeting<br>10:45-12:00 Panel 1 - Setting the Scene: Overview of Recent Agenda-Setting Initiatives<br>12:00-13:00 Lunch<br>13:00-14:15 Panel 2 - Internet Governance Principles<br>14:15-15:45 Panel 3 - Roadmap for Ecosystem Evolution: Globalization<br>15:45-16:00 Coffee break<br>16:00-17:30 Panel 4 - Roadmap for Ecosystem Evolution: Institutional Innovation<br>17:15-17:45 Keynote Assessment by Larry Strickling,<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Asst. Secretary of Commerce, Government of the United States<br>17:45-18:00 Concluding Observations<br>18:00-19:30 Reception with Fadi Chehadé, CEO of ICANN</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true">***********************************************<br>William J. Drake<br>International Fellow & Lecturer<br> Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ<br> University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, <br> ICANN, <a href="http://www.ncuc.org">www.ncuc.org</a><br><a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a> (direct), <a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">wjdrake@gmail.com</a> (lists),<br> <a href="http://www.williamdrake.org">www.williamdrake.org</a><br>***********************************************</div></div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
***********************************************<br>William J. Drake<br>International Fellow & Lecturer<br> Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ<br> University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, <br> ICANN, <a href="http://www.ncuc.org">www.ncuc.org</a><br><a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a> (direct), <a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">wjdrake@gmail.com</a> (lists),<br> <a href="http://www.williamdrake.org">www.williamdrake.org</a><br>***********************************************
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