Re: [npoc-voice] NPOC's Chair report to the GNSO Council today October 17th, 2012

[Cintra Sooknanan <cintra.sooknanan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Alain and Eduardo for this report.

It was great being part of NPOC's activities in Toronto.

Regards

Cintra Sooknanan

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Eduardo Monge <eduardo.monge@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Dear NPOC Colleagues,
>
> Find below Alain Berranger's report as NPOC's Chair to the GNSO Council
> today October 17th, 2012 during the ICANN 45 Public Meeting.
>
> Regards,
>
> Eduardo Monge
> NPOC Communications Committee Chair
>
>
>
> October 17th, 2012
> NPOC Chair Report to GNSO Council
>
> Activities since Prague:
>
> 1. Outreach effort to international not-for-profit organizations  that
> have not engaged in the past with ICANN such as  <http://Telecentre.org/>
> Telecentre.org and World Summit Award
> 2. Creation of a Program committee. Call for nominations and an evaluation
> committee. Appointments of Marie-laure Lemineur from Costa Rica as Chair,
> Programs Committe, of Poncelet Ileleji from The Gambia and of Olivier
> Kouami from Togo as co-chairs
> 3. Lively debate on npoc-voice re protection of INGOs and NGOs in general,
> indicating that special protection for a few does open the floodgate of
> protection requests by many.
> 4. We have designed a 2-year NPOC outreach strategy
> 5. We applied for and were granted a side session slot at the IGF meeting
> in Baku and will deliver the contents in collaboration with NCUC. The side
> session theme is the importance of civil society to Internet governance.
> 6. We are working out the devilish details on the NCSG membership
> application  form, interpretation of admission criteria and resources
> needed to process in a timely manner. We hope to finally hit business as
> usual on that front in a matter of days and suspect that we will need staff
> help if we are to avoid reputational risks and put this issue to final
> rest. We cannot afford any further delays in unfolding our outreach plan,
> so essential to being welcoming and inclusive to civil society at ICANN.
> 7. We have about 50 members, give or take the uncertainties just referred
> to. As serial optimists, we continue to recruit NPOC members on a regular
> steady basis, the bulk of our new members being from developing countries
> and emerging economies. We estimate the latter to represent about 30% of
> our total membership but well over 60% if you consider only the latest
> applications. Given that there are millions of NGOs in the world, these
> numbers remain modest by any measure;
> 8. We are planning a robust involvement in WSIS 2013 in partnership with
> the Global Knowledge Partnership Foundation; I will know more when I report
> to you again in Beijing.
>
> Hihglights from Toronto:
>
> 1.  This morning we held a 90 minutes panel session on the subject
> of "Multi-Stakeholder Models" in collaboration with At Large colleagues. We
> had excellent presentations by Dr Sam Lanfranco, professor emeritus at York
> U. Here in Toronto, by Rinalia Abdul Rahim and Evan Leibovitch from
> At-Large. It was a frank success and we are planning follow up events in
> Geneva and Beijing in 2013;
> 2. I'm sad to report that 3 of our African members could not join us here
> in Toronto for reasons of visa difficulties; I have also accepted the
> resignation of our Vice-chair Lori Shulman for personal reasons. We are
> very sorry to lose her extremely valuable expertise and warmly wish her
> good luck on her future challenges. We will appoint an interim vIce-chair
> until we can effect our NPOC charter provisions to appoint an elected
> replacement.
> 3. We had planned to have a second session in Toronto on the subject of
> "the Impact of new gTLDs on the NFP/NGO communities";  but panelists were
> unable to find a time slot where they could all be present.
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> Alain
>
>
>
>
> --
> Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA
> Member, Board of Directors, CECI, 
> <http://www.ceci.ca/en/about-ceci/team/board-of-directors/>
> http://www.ceci.ca
> Executive-in-residence, Schulich School of Business, 
> <http://www.schulich.yorku.ca/>
> www.schulich.yorku.ca
> Treasurer, Global Knowledge Partnership Foundation, 
> <http://www.gkpfoundation.org/>
> www.gkpfoundation.org
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