Please see forwarded announcement for a Policy Webinar organized by ICANN staff. According to its description, it is intended to be 'for newcomers'. I hope that some of our members can attend, even though you are not newcomers. It would be helpful for us to be aware of any materials that ICANN develops that can be useful in our own Business outreach activities. I will forward the sign up details when they are available.

Best Regards

Marilyn Cade

BC Chair

Forwarded From: Marika Konings

Please find below a ‘hold the date’ announcement for a webinar that ICANN policy staff will be organizing on policy development with the objective to engage new participants in ICANN, and especially GNSO policy development activities. We hope you will share this announcement with organizations / individuals that you think might or should be interested in getting more involved in ICANN.

WEBINAR: Policy Development at ICANN

How you can help ICANN Shape the Future of the Internet
20 May 2010 at 12.00 UTC and 19.00 UTC

Hold the date! On Thursday 20 May at 12.00 UTC and 19.00 UTC, ICANN Policy Staff will host a webinar that introduces newcomers to the world of ICANN and policy development. The webinar will provide an overview of ICANN as an organization, who develops policy at ICANN (and how), and most importantly, how you can become involved and help ICANN to shape the future of the Internet. Further details on how to sign up will follow shortly, but for now, please hold the date. Please feel free to forward this announcement to individuals and/or organisations you think might be interested.

About ICANN:
To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world, so that there can be one global Internet. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit partnership of people from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers, primarily the domain name system (DNS), IP addresses, and port numbers. For further information, please visit http://www.icann.org.