So far there have been too people who volunteered to participate on the Public Participation Committee, Olga and Bill. As Kristina pointed out, this does not have to be limited to Councilors so please communicate on this list if there is a non-Councilor who would like to be considered for this. As I asked Olga and Bill, please ask any additional volunteers to respond to the questions to allow Councilors to see their positions and respond.

I would like to inform Nick who the GNSO panel participant is this week, so please identify any additional volunteers today or tomorrow.

Please see below a very late request for GNSO participation in a panel that will be discussing the following in Nairobi:

"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.

Regards,

Nick Ashton-Hart

Senior Director for Participation and Engagement

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

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