Dear All, This is to advise that the Pacific Community have converged at American Samoa for the PACINET Conference. ICANN made a Presentation yesterday. There have been some interesting speakers such as Thomas Duffy from the Center of Internet Security, and there are quite a few people who are in various sectors of ICANN who are represented at this meeting. The Head of ICT Sector which the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) that is mandated by governments within the 22 Pacific Countries and territories to provide policy advice to its members which are government. APNIC is also here in full force. Civil Society is also well represented here. We had interesting sessions yesterday by NGOs in Samoa and Tonga who were harnessing the internet for development. Fa'alolo who is visually impaired, has a Masters Degree in Communications gave an awesome presentation and led by Gunela of ISOC Australia, they gave an awesome, inspiring presentation on making the internet a friendly place for persons with disabilities and made references to w3c etc. Today at the PACINET, we have Internet Governance for the whole day. APNIC is hosting trainings at the PACINET on IPv6 and DNSSEC. I am also doing some outreach for APRALO had brought a few brochures with me from Dakar (should have brought more) and will hand it out when I speak. Warm Regards, -- Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro aka Sala Tweeter: @SalanietaT Skype:Salanieta.Tamanikaiwaimaro Cell: +679 998 2851