Dear BC Members, After the Toronto meeting and the presentation of the African Strategy, a working group for the Latin America & the Caribbean Strategy was formed in which the eInstituto is an active member. The group features Latin American and Caribbean participants from every SO/AC. Four key areas of interest were defined for the Strategy: Political Issues, Capacity Building & Outreach, Operations and Economic Issues. The Economic Issues focus on promoting and measuring the development of the broad DNS industry in the region, and eInstituto has been intensely involved in this aspect. We can highlight the following objectives from the 4 key areas that may be of interest to BC members: - To strenghten ICANN's engagement with regional organizations; - To promote security, stability and resiliency of the DNS as well as to facilitate the allocation of resources to guarantee the stability, security and resiliency of ccTLDs; - To achieve recognition in the region of the DNS industry as a separate industry; - To ensure accountability of organizations that receive ICANN funding; - To promote participation of corporations and organizations from the region in ICANN's multistakeholder model; - To join efforts for an adequate employment of IPv6 in the region; - To ensure adequate implementation of the new gTLD program in the region. - To reduce participation barriers for local economic stakeholders, by promoting online participation tools, creating clear and understandable outreach content, and publishing relevant Icann documents timely and adequately; - To create a regional dispute resolution provider, based in the region and responsive to the region's needs; - To support the accreditation of registrars, back-end registries, and DNS-related services in the region; - To support ccTLD business models and training. Special actions and success indicators were provided to implement and measure the execution of the strategy. The draft report of the strategy, which can be found here<https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/40933220/Draft+SP+Eng+1.0.p...>, is currently open for comments until March 31. Please let us know if you have any comments or questions and we'll be glad to help and serve as a liason between the BC and its members, and the strategy WG. With all best regards, Celia & Gabi eInstituto