[governance] the public interest in ICANN

Milton L Mueller mueller at syr.edu
Fri Jun 13 15:41:13 EDT 2008


At the Paris meeting of ICANN June 23 - 28 some reforms may be made
which could greatly improve ICANN's representative structure. In a
nutshell, representation of noncommercial users (public interest groups,
NGOs, and individuals of a public interest bent) will be increased from
its current 14%, possibly to 25% or one-third. This will also involve a
change in the nature of noncommercial interest representation in ICANN. 

We'd like to invite all civil society organizations with an interest in
the Internet and its global governance to be aware of this and take
advantage of it. So we are using online collaboration tools to extend
the meeting between the ICANN Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC)
and the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) globally. You do not have to
go to Paris to participate. NCUC will be using the Elluminate platform
to permit remote participation in the meeting. Attendees will be able to
pose questions or participate in the discussion. They will be able to
hear discussions going on in the meeting.

The civil society meeting will be held Tuesday June 24, from 14:00 -
18:00 Paris time. The first two hours will be a general policy issue
discussion for noncommercial organizations, the second half (from 14:00
- 18:00) will coincide with the joint meeting between the Noncommercial
Users Constituency (NCUC) and the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC). 

Here are some sample world times:

UTC/Paris 14:00-18:00
Delhi 19:30-23:30
Moscow 18:00-22:00
Sao Paulo 11:00-15:00
New York 10:00-14:00
Los Angeles 07:00-11:00
Hong Kong 22:00-02:00

To enable your participation, first install the Elluminate java-based
Client. You can do this at any time, the sooner the better. To setup a
client, use this link
<http://internetgovernance.org/usingelluminate.html>

Once that is complete, on the date and time of the meeting go to the
event listing on the IGP website
<http://internetgovernance.org/events.html#NCUC_062408> and click "Join
Meeting Online" 

An alternative link to join the meeting can be found here:
<http://cotelcocave.syr.edu/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1213081884178>


Please relay this information to appropriate parties.

Milton Mueller
Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
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Internet Governance Project:
http://internetgovernance.org
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