I agree with Katitza, that we should be watching the development of the proposed At Large summit at the upcoming ICANN meeting in Mexico. The Summit objectives are:<br><br>4. Objectives<br>4.1. An informed At-Large community that is better able to interact with other ICANN constituencies,<br>
supporting organisations and advisory committees.<br>4.2. An informed At-Large community that clearly understands the issues confronting ICANN and ICANN's<br>roles and responsibilities therein.<br>4.3. Increased involvement by At-Large in ICANN policy debate.<br>
4.4. An At-Large community that more clearly understands the global, rather than merely regional, point of<br>view on ICANN-related issues.<br>4.5. A more engaged At-Large community that clearly understands the timing and framework of various<br>
issues currently confronting ICANN<br><br>Although I find one of the "Deliverables" to be even more interesting:<br><br>5.5. Work on a "Individual Internet Users" declaration.<br><br>(Both of the above citations are from <a href="https://st.icann.org/data/workspaces/summit-wg/attachments/documents:20080214104609-1-21013/original/14%2002%202008%20Summit%20proposal%20and%20budget.pdf">https://st.icann.org/data/workspaces/summit-wg/attachments/documents:20080214104609-1-21013/original/14%2002%202008%20Summit%20proposal%20and%20budget.pdf</a>)<br>
<br>Does anyone have more information on the "Individual Internet Users" declaration? Any thoughts or opinions?<br><br>Best,<br>Ginger<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:05 PM, William Drake <span dir="ltr"><william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Katitza,<br>
<br>
The summit info is at<br>
<br>
<a href="https://st.icann.org/summit-wg/index.cgi?documents" target="_blank">https://st.icann.org/summit-wg/index.cgi?documents</a><br>
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Best<br>
<br>
Bill<br>
<br>
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Katitza Rodriguez Pereda <<br>
<a href="mailto:katitza@datos-personales.org">katitza@datos-personales.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Dear all:<br>
><br>
> The upcoming ICANN meeting will be held in Mexico City on 1-6 March. On<br>
> February 28, 2009,<br>
> there will be an  At Large (Internet Users) Summit.<br>
> <a href="http://mex.icann.org/" target="_blank">http://mex.icann.org/</a><br>
><br>
> It would be nice that those involved in the Internet users summit could<br>
> share with us its purpose,<br>
> the agenda if there anything public, or any other information that might be<br>
> useful for the community to learn<br>
> what is going on there. There are little information about the summit on<br>
> the webpage.<br>
><br>
> Best Regards,<br>
><br>
> Katitza Rodriguez<br>
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