[npoc-voice] RE: NPOC Meeting in Costa Rica!

[Eduardo Monge <eduardo.monge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

Find below my remarks during this morning´s NPOC Meeting in Costa Rica.   It 
was a pleasure to host the NPOC delegation attending ICANN43.  I look forward 
to continuing working with NPOC to increase the knowledge learning, 
participation and representation of other NFP and NGOs in the ICANN community.


The Omar Dengo Foundation of Costa Rica is a private, not-for profit, 
non-governmental organization that develops and executes national and regional 
projects in the fields of human development, educational innovation, and 
digital technologies.

The Foundations strives to improve the quality and equity of learning 
opportunities for people, in an effort to harness their development through 
innovative education proposals and models focused on people and the use of 
digital technologies.

The Foundation is responsible for the introduction of digital technologies and 
the use of internet for educational purposes in Costa Rican public schools. Its 
National Program of Educational Informatics, jointly executed in partnership 
with Costa Rica's Ministry of Public Education, currently serves 473,647 
elementary and high schools students nationwide in 1,165 public schools in the 
country that represents 63% of country´s student population from Kindergarten 
to grade nine (K-9). This program will increase its coverage this year and in 
the early part of the next year to close to five hundred thirty thousand 
students in more than 1,700 schools through educational programs that use 
portable computers and intensive use of the Internet.

The Omar Dengo Foundation's programs rely on the Internet and Domain Name 
Service (DNS) policies to provide valuable services to their individual 
beneficiaries and users´ communities.

All our beneficiaries, children and youth from Costa Rican public schools and 
their teachers and their families, disable and disadvantage children and youth, 
micro and small entrepreneurs, senior citizens, educators and the public at 
large, expect that the Foundation's educational services using the Internet be 
secure, stable and reliable. Without the work of ICANN and its community, these 
tasks will be difficult to accomplish.


The Foundation is the first member of the Non-for-Profit Operational Concerns 
Constituency (NPOC) in Costa Rica. We expect many more local NGOs to join us.



Speaking on behalf of the Omar Dengo Foundation, I can say that we believe that 
NPOC can represent the operational interests of not-for-profit and 
non-governmental organizations similar to the Omar Dengo Foundation.



We think that NPOC shall be able to channel the real world perspective of how 
DNS policies affect the operational readiness of NGOs and by doing it, this 
growing constituency will bring in new non-commercial voices, and members into 
the Non Commercial Stakeholder's Group (NCSG).



The road to growing participation and representation of not-for-profit and 
non-governmental organizations in ICANN is through NPOC.





Regards,





Eduardo Monge

Project Development and

International Relations Officer

Omar Dengo Foundation

P.O. Box 1032-2050

San Jose, Costa Rica

Tel. 506.2527.6105 / 2527.6103

Fax 506.2527.6112

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