I participated the session "Global Stakeholder Engagement" at 11:00-12:00 on Thursday April 11 in Grand Hall A. ICANN GSE team formed 4 teams on "Collateral", "Conferences, event and speaker panels, workshops", "Digital engagement", and "Populating the ‘Waffle’model (community self-assessment)" respectively. The team outlined the different engagement models, from "Inform, Raise Awareness and Initiate Engagement", "contribution to policy" to "access to public at-large". Each team had its own discussions and then presented its suggestions to the whole group. The suggestions included pursuing outreach beyond 3 ICANN meetings, improving translation/interpretation quality, and developing Waffel mode in which ICANN will developed more programs and tools from region to region and from SG to SG. Generally, it seems ICANN is building a huge GSE program with significant budget and resource impact. On the other hand, ICANN has not been able to effectively link up its various programs and tools in its institutional matrix. There are other councilors present at the session and I'm sure they could have more insightful reports. Best, Hong -- Professor Dr. Hong Xue Director of Institute for the Internet Policy & Law (IIPL) Beijing Normal University http://www.iipl.org.cn/ 19 Xin Jie Kou Wai Street Beijing 100875 China