"a) What are the three most important improvements ICANN can make to its public participation processes to facilitate greater engagement by developing world stakeholders?

b) Should ICANN incorporate a greater focus on the developing world in its work and if so, how?

c) How can the work of ICANN be given greater relevance where there is low Internet density per capita - and what priority should be given to reaching stakeholders in countries with the lowest Internet connection density? (see the World Bank statistical link under "Materials and References" below to look up statistical information of the kind referenced)."

Note that this conflicts with the "Registration Abuse Policies Initial Report Information Session" on Wednesday afternoon in Nairobi.

Because of the late notice on this, it really is not possible to develop a GNSO position on the issues to be discussed, so I believe the best we can do is to identify a volunteer who would for the most part participate in a personal capacity and attempt to represent to the best of her/his ability what they understand to be views of GNSO community members.

Is there anyone who would be interested and willing to participate on this panel in Nairobi?  Please respond as soon as possible if you are interested. It might be helpful if any volunteers would provide brief personal answers to the three questions to allow other Councilors to comment between now and 10 March and thereby obtain a little broader GNSO input before the session.

Chuck

On Wednesday 10th from 1600-1730 local time in Nairobi, the Board's Public Participation Committee will hold its public meeting.

The PPC has asked me to ask you if a representative from each of the ACs and SOs would care to be  a part of the session by participating in a panel, alongside the members of the PPC, to lead the discussion  of the various  items on the agenda, and of course to participate in the discussion directly. If one of you, or someone you wish to nominate from your community, is unable to attend in-room we can arrange for  you to be able to participate remotely via audio bridge.

The full agenda may be found at http://nbo.icann.org/node/8950; I have not  pasted it below since the hyperlinks would not be  usable and as you will see when you browse the agenda the hyperlinks are quite integral to the whole. 

Finally, I hope you will accept my apologies in advance for  posting the agenda assuming that some members of the SOs and ACs would be willing to participate as described. Given the subject, it seemed that I would be on safe ground to  make that assumption.