[npoc] Re: FY14 Special Budget Request

[Alain Berranger <alain.berranger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thks Marie-laure,

Please send my comments below in green

Cheers, Alain

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:17 PM, marie-laure Lemineur
<mllemineur@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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.
>> Yes, I would need to ask ICANN to authorize earlier arrival and/or
>> authorize to cover from sponsor funds.
>>
>

> 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. OK,
>> I will wait for further comments.
>>
>> 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) ? NPOC's mission is not only to increase
>> civil society's voice at ICANN on DNS Policy but it has been extended (not
>> yet in the Charter but there in practice and yes we have to update the
>> Charter) to favor positive impacts of DNS  policies on the communities from
>> the Global South and civil society in particular. In that regard, I like
>> the questions raised by Poncelet in his draft of a session on "*The Role
>> of civil Society in developing the Business model of DNS in Africa – NPOC
>> Proposed Session at ICANN DURBAN Meeting July 2013" under consideration
>> by NPOC's Programs Committee as we write.*
>>
>> 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. Yes, but pls remind me what Olévié's offer is?
>>
>
>
>
>>
>> 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,
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Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA
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Executive-in-residence, Schulich School of Business, www.schulich.yorku.ca
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