Dear ME Community Members, This email to inform you that the ME Space session at ICANN 69 is cancelled due to the low responses of feedback on the proposed session. We are hoping by December the community will pick-up energy to hold an assessment session of the ME Space previous activities and explore the way forward for the space. Best wishes, The ME Space Co-Chairs On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 11:23 AM Tijani BEN JEMAA <tijani.benjemaa@topnet.tn> wrote:
Dear members of the ME Space community,
As you know, we planned a ME Space session at ICANN 69 Virtual meeting to discuss one of the hot topics in ICANN. We set a timeline and sent a call for topics to have the most preferred topic to be addressed and we gave 2 themes proposed by the co-chairs. The GSE staff for ME thankfully secured a slot for our planned session on Tuesday *20 October 2020* from *10:30* to *11:45* UTC
At the expiration of the deadline, we didn’t receive any proposal or comment (deep silence). We gave 2 other days for the community to comment on the co-chairs proposals but didn’t receive any response.
We explained that by the community fatigue because we organized ME Space virtual sessions out of the the regular ICANN meetings that might be the source of the fatigue. But we didn’t exclude the eventuality of a lack of interest from the community about the ME Space future activities.
Therefore, we propose to keep the slot booked for our session (Tuesday *20 October 2020* from *10:30* to *11:45* UTC) during which we make an overall assessment of the ME Space activities so far and explore the way forward for the space.
What do you think? We very much wish to read your feedback.
Best regards
The ME Space Co-Chairs
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Tijani BENJEMAA* Executive Director Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (*FMAI*) Telephone: +216 52 385 114
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