[npoc] Re: FY14 Special Budget Request

[marie-laure Lemineur <mllemineur@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello to all,

Please see my comments in blue below.

best,

Marie-laure

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Alain Berranger
<alain.berranger@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Sam, colleagues:
>
> Sounds like it is worth exploring. Sam, I would say go ahead in exploring
> as time is of the essence - I need to put in the fast track budget request
> before March 22nd. If you can fish out a valuable theme of joint interest,
> we could do an event  (one day, half a day? $5000, 10,000$?) on the Friday
> 15th of November, the day before we at NPOC need to be at GNSO meetings on
> the Saturday and Sunday. This could  bring 2 or 3 more NPOCers to Buenos
> Aires than the current 4 travel slots we have (we will be 5 with Sam paying
> his own way). Looks fine to me but we should remember that for Toronto
> and Beijing meetings, ICANN has approved our arrival on the Friday prior to
> the GNSO council meeting whihc implies that we all arrive on Friday  (for
> example I will land at midnight in Beijing) and that ICANN starts covering
> hotel expenses on Friday night.  If we organize an event on Friday we would
> need to get there Thursday and pay for this extra night. Unless we request
> funding for this extra night.
>
> I also forgot to mention that we should perhaps think of doing an event at
> Bali (October 2013). I am discussing with Bill and Robin a possible
> NCSG/NPOC/NCUC event. Maybe we should also do a replication of the Beijing
> event on "impact of new gTLDs on NGOs" session at Bali? Agree...a
> follow-up session with them would be a wise initiative politically speaking
> and cold be enlightning in the context of an IGF where the kind/profile of
> participants attending are different from the ICANNers. Would be a good
> opportunity to get additional input from non ICANNers on this issue.
>
> Another idea is an event on building registrar capacity in developing
> countries... a kind of follow-up to Addis where Poncelet and Olévié
> represented NPOC. This needs fleshing out! FYI Caroline at IICD is
> interested in implementing such projects in IICD countries of
> concentration. Glad we are following up on the registrars incubator idea
> ! I though it was a brilliant thing to propose when I first heard it in LA.
> Couldn`t it be done  on a regional basis? Why not explore an african
> strategy and a latin american/carribbeans  focus? I have one doubt
> though...how, as NPOC, can we justifiy  this would be linked to promoting
> our mission (civil society) ?
>
> Finally, we could ask for a budget to develop NPOC dissemination material,
> but that can go on the regular track budget request (deadline is April
> 19th). We definitly should. Are we allowed (according to ICANN
> standards") to define "dissemination materials"  in a broad sense ie. can
> it also be background/positions papers and not only pamphflets to announce
> our events?  Olivier has already proposed a subject for a background paper.
> And as a constituency, I strongly feel that we should make an effort to
> gradually and regularly produce more and more background/position papers
> for the community. In addition to Olivier´offer, another one could be on
> "the role of youth in the DNS" to sort of complement the workshop we are
> going to have.
>



>
> Thoughts?
>
> Alain
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Sam Lanfranco <Lanfran@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Alain,
>>
>> Here is an idea to toss into the thought hopper.
>>
>> I am replying to all in case other have a view here. For the Buenos
>> Aires meetings, which I plan to attend, it might be worth giving some
>> thought to seeing if we can do something either before or during ICANN
>> in collaboration with Argentina's Consejo Federal de Inversiones
>> (CFI)[Federal Council for Investment]. CFI is funded by the Argentine
>> provinces and has had a long interest in ICT, social investment, and
>> Argentine development. I have worked with them in the past, and stay
>> in contact with them.
>>
>> Here is their website.  http://www.cfired.org.ar/
>>
>> I have done lecture tours for them (ICT4Dev) and teleconferences,
>> there and from here. They are well organized and well respected. If
>> there is interest I could supply them with a list of topics/areas
>> (governance, youth, women, marginalized, whatever) in which we would
>> like them to consider working with us on something for either the
>> ICANN meeting time, or before or after, and for Argentina or
>> something that could be extended beyond Argentina. We could start
>> there and see if it leads to anything.
>>
>> ?Comments by others?
>>
>>
>>
>> Quoting Alain Berranger <alain.berranger@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> > Dear colleagues,
>> >
>> > Please let me have your 1 para. ideas for financial support to NPOC
>> > by
>> > ICANN for FY14.
>> >
>> > 1) If you have an idea for Buenos Aires ICANN meeting (in Nov 2013)
>> > or any
>> > NPOC event/activity you think desirable before November 2013, I
>> > will submit
>> > a request by March 22;
>> > 2) If you have ideas for implementation of a project between
>> > November 2013
>> > and 31 July 2014, please let me know and I will submit a funding
>> > request
>> > before April 19th.
>> >
>> > Cheers, Alain
>> >
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> Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA
> Member, Board of Directors, CECI, 
> http://www.ceci.ca<http://www.ceci.ca/en/about-ceci/team/board-of-directors/>
> Executive-in-residence, Schulich School of Business, www.schulich.yorku.ca
> Treasurer, Global Knowledge Partnership Foundation, www.gkpfoundation.org
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> Chair, NPOC, NCSG, ICANN, http://npoc.org/
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