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Tuesday, 5 February 2008 TO: CLUSIT FROM: ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) SUBJECT: At-Large Structure Certification ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is pleased to inform you on behalf of the At-Large community in ICANN that CLUSIT has been certified as an At-Large Structure (ALS). The ALAC greatly appreciates your groups’ interest in involving individual users in ICANN and looks forward to working with you and your colleagues. The purpose of ALS certification is to recognize that your organization meets the necessary criteria to involve individual Internet users at the local or issue level in ICANN activities, and that your organization will support its individual members' informed participation in ICANN efforts that affect end-users. The ALAC is eager to promote a productive working relationship between your organization, other ALSes, and the ALAC (and ICANN in general), and your input on how we can make this a success would be greatly appreciated. We would like to offer some initial tools to help your organization keep its members informed (about significant news from ICANN and information on ICANN policy-development efforts) and engaged in activities of interest: - Point of Contact for your Organisation: Please send an email to staff@alac.icann.org identifying the names and email addresses of one or two individuals who will be the point of contact for information and correspondence regarding ICANN At-Large. If this changes, please let us know. - At Large Mailing Lists. There are many At Large email lists, for each region; you can signup for them and manage your subscriptions at: http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo The points of contacts you identify will automatically be added to: · Your region’s discussion list; · The worldwide At-Large discussion list. You are of course invited to join others as you wish (excepting those ending –Staff). - ALS information. Information about your organization will be shared with the At-Large community to enable individuals interested in your group's activities to contact you, and to encourage cooperation with other groups interested in ICANN activities in your geographic region. Please complete and email the form at the bottom of this note to staff@alac.icann.org. - At-Large related websites: There are a few websites you should be aware of: · The ‘official’ ICANN website for the At-Large community is at http://www.alac.icann.org . This site will be replaced with a much more up-to-date and modern site but in the meantime it is a good source of information and has links to all the At-Large related URLs and links to other parts of icann.org. · The ALAC Working Wiki: Much of the administrative and policy development coordination work is made available and developed on the community's wikis. Meeting agendas, recordings of meetings, minutes, and all kinds of important documents for the whole community are to be found to help you get 'up to speed' with the state of development of community positions on issues you care about. Feel free to join in; the place to start is at https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?at_large_policy_working_groups . · At-Large Regional Websites. Regional webpages also have been created to distribute information (including in local languages) on activities, events and issues of particular interest to people in each region. They are: African Region: http://www.afralo.org/ Asia/Australia/Pacific Region: http://www.apralo.org/ European Region: http://www.euralo.org/ Latin America/Caribbean Region: http://www.lacralo.org/ North American Region: http://www.naralo.org/ - Regional WiKi: Each At Large Region has a Wiki that allows the region to collaborate and all ALSes are welcome to have edit privileges to help provide information on their activities. These wikis create the regional websites shown above. The staff will create accounts on the EURALO site for your designated contacts once you've sent them that information. We look forward to working with you and your organization's members to advance individual Internet users' interests within ICANN. If you have any questions, or need additional information, please contact us at alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 595 85 44 mobile: +41 (79) 595 54 68 email: nick.ashton-hart@icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart@hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart@mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart
Please distribute it as widely as possible wolfgang Call for Application 2nd Summer School on Internet Governance (SSIG) Meissen, July 25 - August, 31, 2007 <http://www.unesco.org/en> <http://www.norid.no/> <http://www.eurid.eu/> <http://www.dotasia.org/> The Internet, with more than 1.2 billion users worldwide, is the most important infrastructure of the information age. The Internet influences policies, economics and cultures on the global as well as on the local level. Internet related issues like security and stability, freedom of expression, privacy, eCommerce, new market opportunities, protection of intellectual property, fight against cybercrime, development, digital divide and others getting higher and higher priorities on the national and international political agenda. To reach the UN Millenium Development Goals (MDG) until 2015 the Internet is a crucial tool. For some experts Internet Governance will become as important as it is climate change today. Do you want to understand, how and by whom the Internet is governed and what the issues are which have made Internet Governance as one of the new global conflicts of the diplomacy of the 21st century? Do you want to know what the political, economic, social and legal implications of Internet Governance are and what is behind ICANN, RIRs, ccTLDs, gTLDs, iDNs, IPv6, IGF, WGIG and WSIS ? Do want to get more detailed information on how technical Internet Standards, Protocols and Codes, how the Domain Name System and the IP Address Space or the Domain Name market is evolving? Than you should apply for the "2008 Summer School on Internet Governance" (SSIG). The 2008 Summer School offers a unique multidisciplinary high level 50 hours academic programme both for graduate students and young academics as well as for junior professionals from private sector, government and civil society. The programme is a well balanced mixture of theoretical lectures with world leading academics as well as practical presentations from well known experts working directly in the technical community, the market or in policy. It offers also opportunities for interactive communication with faculty members and among the fellows themselves by the daily evening programme of students presentations. Members of the 2008 Faculty include, inter alia Prof. Olga Cavalli, University of Buenos Aires Bertrand de la Chapelle, Envoy of the Information Society, French Foreign Ministry Avria Doria, Lulea Technology University, Chair of ICANNs GNSO Council Dr. William Drake, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva Philipp Grabensee, Chairman of the Board of Afilias Ltd., Dublin Ayesha Hassan, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Paris Markus Kummer, Executive Secretary of the Internet Governance Forum, (TBC) Prof. Milton Mueller, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, N.Y. Michael Niebel, European Commission, Member of ICANNs GAC, Brussels Prof. Jonathan Zittrain, Oxford Internet Institute (TBC) The Faculty is chaired by Prof. Wolfgang Kleinwächter, University of Aarhus The 2008 Summer School on Internet Governance (SSIG) takes place in the St. Afra Monastery of the "Evangelische Akademie Meissen" in Germany, a historic place, where the father of the German enlightenment, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, went to school. Meissen is a 1000 years old small city, famous for its "Meissen China", its very dry white wine and its old fortress, gothic churches and historic wine cellars from July 25 - July 31, 2008. It is a 30 minutes train ride from Dresden Airport, which connected by six daily shuttles to Munich and Frankfurt. The Summer School on Internet Governance (SSIG) is organized by the University of Aarhus and the Medienstadt Leipzig e.V., a recognized "At Large Structure" (ALS) under ICANN Bylaws. It is sponsored by five TLD Registries, among them as Golden Sponsor DENIC (.de), as Silver Sponsor UNINETT (.no) and SIDN (.nl) and as Bronze Sponsor EURID (.eu) and DotAsia (.asia). Additionally UNESCO, Diplo Foundation, GIGANET, ENOM, Afilias, Dotberlin and others have partnered with the Summer School. The fee of 1.000.00 EUR (plus 19% VAT) includes, next to the full lecture programme * six nights accommodation in single guest rooms of the academy, * breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee and snacks & wine at the daily night sessions, * one evening reception in the Meissen Procellanmanufactory, * a gala dinner in the historic wine-restaurant "Vinzenz Richter", * sightseeing events, * free WiFi access and * all teaching material. There is a special fee for students of 500.00 EUR (plus 19% VAT). There is also an opportunity to apply for support from the fellowship programme which is still under development. Students will get a certificate at the end of the Summer School. Detailed information, including the Draft Programme and the electronic "Application Form" as well as comments from 2007 Summer School Fellows can be found under www.euro-ssig.eu <http://www.euro-ssig.eu/> If you are interested in the Summer School on Internet Governance (SSIG), please send Applications until May 31, 2008 by using the electronic form on the website or contacting directly Sandra Hoferichter (info@hoferichter.eu), the Secretary of the Summer School or Prof. Wolfgang Kleinwächter (wolfgang@imv.au.dk), chair of the 2008 Faculty. Members of the 2008 Programme Committee Prof. Wolfgang Kleinwächter, University of Aarhus (Chair); Dr. William J. Drake, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies Geneva; Prof. Milton Mueller, Syracuse University; Avria Doria, Lulea Technology University; Bart Vastenburg, SIDN; Giovanni Seppia, EURID; Sabine Dolderer, DENIC; Philipp Grabensee, Afilias; Axel Plathe, UNESCO
Sorry, the dates for the Summer School are JULY 25 - July 31, 2008
European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG.org) Strasbourg, 20-21 October 2008 Hosted by the Council of Europe Room G03, AGORABuilding, Strasbourg Confirmed Speakers/Participants (inter alia): · Erika Mann, Member of the European Parliament · Maud de Boer Bucquicchio, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe · Richard Sweteham, European Commission DG InfoSoc · Markus Kummer, IGF Executive Secretary, · Bertrand de la Chappelle, Envoy of the Information Society of the French Foreign Ministry · Yrjö Lensipuro, Finish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ICANN GAC · Benoit Mueller, Business Software Alliance · Ilkka Lakaniemi, Nokia Siemens Networks · Ayesha Hassan, International Chamber of Commerce, BASIS · Emilie Taylor, NOMINET · Anette Muehlberg, ver.di, ICANN/ALAC · Avri Doria, Lulea Technology University, ICANN GNSO · Wolfgang Kleinwächter, University of Aarhus · Bill Drake, Graduate Institute for Higher International and Development Studies in Geneva 1. Platform to discuss and shape European multi-stakeholder perspectives on Internet governance (universal access, security, privacy and openness on the Internet, critical Internet resources). 2. Priority given to moderated audience-led discussion (no formal presentations/powerpoints) between all stakeholders (representatives of business, civil society, governments, international organisations, etc.). 3. Visibility to and linking of different European initiatives related to Internet governance, including planned European-led workshops held at the global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2008 in Hyderabad, India. 4. Reach out to/for European actors who will not be able to participate in the 2008 IGF in India. 5. Discuss future plans and initiatives for European dialogue on Internet governance. 6. Report back to the 2008 IGF in India about European perspectives and initiatives There is no Conference fee but participants should register under www.eurodig.org <http://www.eurodig.org/>
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Nick Ashton-Hart