Thanks, Susan, for your questions. I note your opposition, and appreciate your responsiveness in conveying your concerns and questions. I will respond just for informational purposes later today, but hopefully before am your time. I am still in Geneva at the UN meeting /negotiations on the role of the UN in governance of the Internet. Things, unfortunately, did not turn out very happily for business [or ICANN] in terms of now continued and heightened efforts at the ITU, and at the UN itself to call for more UN oversight/engagement with a heightened government only engagement in determining Internet related public policy, but Jimson and I did our best, believe me. Just a quick comment: the High Level GAC representatives are usually deputy Ministers, and some ambassador level. For instance, for Poland, the Minister is expected, but not the UK Minister. That determination is up to the GAC/ICANN as they do the inviting. I think that all know that the GAC holds one High Level session per year, and attendance varies, but has at times been up to 20-25 more senior attendees from the governments, than the designated GAC member. Hungary will send probably a deputy... etc. So, again "high level" for the governments is their determination. For some LATAM countries, they already send ambassador levels to the GAC. For Mexico, it is looking like someone from the President's office, but as both Brazil and Mexico [and Colombia ] have elections this year, they are not making a firm commitment at this point on who. I am engaging with all those offices on WSIS and IGF topics, but it is much too premature to predict. Let me see if I can dig out the attendance from the London High Level GAC event as an FYI over the week end. M ________________________________ From: Bc-outreach <bc-outreach-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Susan Kawaguchi <susankpolicy@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 8:57 PM To: Jimson Olufuye Cc: BC Executive Committee; bc-outreach@icann.org Subject: Re: [Bc-outreach] [Bc-excomm] FWD: DRAFT of the Business Summit Hello All, I am objecting to this budget request due to the large impact on the BC budget and lack of time to assess the value of spending the BC funds in this manner. Would it be possible to apply for the ICANN funds and then establish a BC planning team to provide more details on how additional funds would be spent? What is the definition of large businesses and High Level Attendees? What will the $40,000 of BC funding be spent on? I am not convinced that large businesses do not attend ICANN meetings due to a lack of travel funding. What are the chances of being able to get a commitment out of senior ICANN staff, Board members and the CEO to participate? I agree business outreach is important but would like to know more about this before I agree. Susan On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:18 PM, Jimson Olufuye <jolufuye@kontemporary.net<mailto:jolufuye@kontemporary.net>> wrote: Excomm, Marilyn through the Outreach Committee submitted the attached Budget Request for a BC Business Summit during ICANN63. Kindly peruse and note BC funding counterpart commitment below for your no objection. The Request will be submitted before cob today as the deadline for all requests to be submitted is 31/1/2018. Cheers, JO --------- Original Message --------- Subject: DRAFT of the Business Summit From: "Marilyn Cade" <marilynscade@hotmail.com<mailto:marilynscade@hotmail.com>> Date: 1/30/18 2:16 pm To: "Jimson Olufuye" <jolufuye@kontemporary.net<mailto:jolufuye@kontemporary.net>> Cc: "BC Outreach" <bc-outreach@icann.org<mailto:bc-outreach@icann.org>> with apologies for the very short turn around/this is the further elaborated Request for a Business Summit. I have very strong interest from two associations with significant numbers of business members located in Europe. We already have some BC member associations who undoubtedly could contribute to informing their members about ICANN63. The Business Summit is based on a program that will focus on two generally interesting business topics, and at least one panel about ICANN, but it is not intended to be a briefing about ICANN gTLD policy positions of the BC, but more about a higher level event, which can attract more senior business executives, both locally, from Europe/Eastern Europe,and with invited representatives from under represented countries in other regions. It would require some significant funding from the BC’s present resources — estimated at $40,000, with a match from ICANN of $50,000 in cash, and additional in kind support, including possibly the venue/space for the event. We will probably need to also raise some sponsorship for the reception, but I believe that ICANN might also be willing to cost share with us on that, if we focus on the GAC and High level attendees to participate along with the Business summit attendees. It is urgent that you respond today with questions or comments as we have to submit this. We can modify it if needed… M _______________________________________________ Bc-excomm mailing list Bc-excomm@icann.org<mailto:Bc-excomm@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/bc-excomm<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmm.icann.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fbc-excomm&data=02%7C01%7C%7C8a3161094de0489ecda108d568b90947%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636530066280782780&sdata=nf25eaf8eX3JqZ84%2B2TjUP3AcE%2Bwux1ipHodHlpFqJI%3D&reserved=0>