Dear Councillors,
1. This is the outcome
of a process
that began formally on 21 December 2012 and which is now
reaching its final
phases. It is worth noting that the presentation is a draft
document
since the projects and their respective indicators which are
mentioned have not
been assessed formally by the Working Group.
2. This WG is
comprised by the
following:
- Andres Piazza (LACNIC)
- Oscar Robles (LACNIC Chair + nic.mx)
- Hartmut Glaser (cgi.br + LACNIC)
- Vanda Scartazzini (Polo
consultores,
private sector + NOMCOM)
- Alejandro Pisanty (ISOC
Mexico)
- Raimundo Becca (ICANN board)
-
Fatima Cambronero (AGEIA DENSI, LACRALO, civil society)
- Dev Anand Teelucksingh(Civil society, LACRALO, Trinidad Tobago)
- Olga Cavalli (GAC + South School of
Internet Governance)
- Tracy Hackshaw (Trinidad & Tobago
Government - GAC)
- Carolina Aguerre (LACTLD)
- Eduardo Santoyo (LACTLD +
.CO)
- Anthony Harris (CABASE, private sector)
- Celia Lerman (eInstituto, Private sector)
- Victor Martinez (Mexican government, GAC)
3. The session was
moderated by ICANN’s
VP for the region (Rodrigo de la Parra). Board Members (Raimundo
Becca, Gonzalo
Navarro, Erika Mann and Baher Esmat were present), as well as
Fadi Chehadé and
Steve Crocker who were part of the commentators/presenters.
4. The strategy is
comprised by 4 thematic
areas: Political Issues;
Capacity
Building and Outreach; Operations; Economic
Issues. Each of these areas have to comply with at least
one of ICANN’s
strategic areas (i.e. (i)
DNS security and
stability; (ii) Core Operations including IANA; (iii)
Competition, Consumer
Trust and Consumer Choice and (iv) Healthy Internet Ecosystem).
For more
information please refer to the attached power point.
5. The following are
the objectives for
each area:
a.
Political Issues:
Security, Stability and Resiliency of ccTLDs
Engagement with Regional Organizations (NB: not only ccTLD ROs)
Strengthen the Multistakeholder Model
Accountability of organizations with ICANN
funding
b.
Capacity Building
and Outreach:
Regional Capacity Building Programs
Capacity Building for Governments
Capacity Building for Users
Capacity Building in Technical Aspects of
the DNS
Participation Schemes
Strengthen Regional Participation
Participation of Corporations and
Organizations
Participation of Academia
Participation of Other Stakeholders
c.
Operations
Security, Stability and Resiliency of the
DNS
Adequate deployment of IPv6
Operational Capacity of ccTLDs
Implementation of the new gTLD program
d.
Economic Issues
Improve design of ICANN meetings.
Reduce participation barriers.
Promote the accreditation of Registrars and
Back-End Registries in the
region
Promote the emergence of new related
services in the region
Create a UDRP provider based in the region
and responsive to the
region’s needs
Support ccTLDs in the development of
self-sustaining models and in the
sale of domain names
6. The working group
has to refine
objectives, projects and indicators before the next public
presentation of the
document which will take place during the LACNIC - LACTLD Joint
Meeting in
Medellín, Colombia on 6 May.
7. If you would like
to read the full
power point available, please don´t hesitate to contact me (I
have not sent it
since it is 14 MB).