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IGF 2015: Call for Workshop Proposals open as of 9 March
by ICANN At-Large Staff March 3, 2015

March 3, 2015

Dear All, Please see below a message from Fatima Cambronero regarding the timeline for 2015 IGF Workshop proposals. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge Twitter: @ICANN_AtLarge -----Original Message----- From: at-large-bounces(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Fatima Cambronero Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2015 12:05 PM To: At-Large Worldwide Subject: [At-Large] Off-topic: IGF 2015: Call for Workshop Proposals *(Sorry for crossposting)* Dear All, The IGF Secretariat is issuing a call for Workshop proposals for the IGF 2015 to be held in João Pessoa, Brazil, from 10 to 13 November. Both people and organizations interested should submit their proposals through the online form which will be available on the IGF website ( www.intgovforum.org) from March 9. The deadline for workshop proposals submissions is March 30. As every year, there will be no extension of this time, so please save the date. To be informed of the fields that should be completed in the online form and until the form is open to submit your proposal, you can review the data that must be collected and completing here. <http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/workshop-proposals/igf-2015-workshop-proposa…> It is also suggested that you can review the Guidelines for Workshop Proposals <http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/workshop-proposals/igf-guidelines-for-worksh…> and MAG workshop review and evaluation process for IGF 2015 <http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/workshop-proposals/mag-workshop-review-and-e… Remember that the IGF Secretariat does not fund the organizers or the Workshop panelists that could be approved, so each of the respective Workshop organizers should manage their own financing as well as the panelists (or make sure your panelists have already funds to participate in the IGF). Please take into account when submitting your proposals that they are appropriate or relating to the IFG theme and subthemes <http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/> of this year (Theme: "Evolution of Internet Governance: Empowering Sustainable Development" ; Sub-themes: Cybersecurity and Trust; Internet Economy; Inclusiveness and Diversity; Openness; Enhancing Multistakeholder Cooperation; Internet and Human Rights; Critical Internet Resources; Emerging Issues), and they satisfy the different diversities required in your panelists (gender, regional, stakeholder represented, etc.). If you have any questions or comments, I am available to collaborate with you. Best regards, Fatima Cambronero -- *Fatima Cambronero* Abogada-Argentina Phone: +54 9351 5282 668 Twitter: @facambronero Skype: fatima.cambronero _______________________________________________ At-Large mailing list At-Large(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org

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Boston and Snow
by Glenn McKnight Feb. 20, 2015

Feb. 20, 2015

Hi I was thinking of Garth Bruen today while watching PBS and today they said that Boston got 100 feet of snow already this year. Evan and I live on the north shore of Lake Ontario and we got maybe 2 or 3 feet of snow all year. Garth good luck on digging out, perhaps by spring! Glenn Glenn McKnight mcknight.glenn(a)gmail.com skype gmcknight twitter gmcknight .

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NYTimes: Harvard and M.I.T. Are Sued Over Lack of Closed Captions
by Judith Hellerstein Feb. 19, 2015

Feb. 19, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/education/harvard-and-mit-sued-over-faili… Federal lawsuits filed by advocates for the deaf says both schools violate antidiscrimination laws by not providing closed captioning in online lectures and podcasts. Fascinating article in the NY Times about Harvard and MIT being sued for failing to close caption their online classes. The suit charges that both universities violated anti discrimination laws by failing to provide closed captioning in their online lectures, courses, podcasts and other educational materials. As Glenn, Gunela, and I have been both advocating the failure to provide captioning or in using you tube other services to provide captioning that is not correct is also something that we need to work on. As the article says: “Much of Harvard’s online content is either not captioned or is inaccurately or unintelligibly captioned, making it inaccessible for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing,” the complaint said, echoing language used in the M.I.T. complaint. “Just as buildings without ramps bar people who use wheelchairs, online content without captions excludes individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.”online content is either not captioned or is inaccurately or unintelligibly captioned, making it inaccessible for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing,” the complaint said, echoing language used in the M.I.T. complaint. “Just as buildings without ramps bar people who use wheelchairs, online content without captions excludes individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.” Advocates for the deaf on Thursday filed federal lawsuits against Harvard and M.I.T., saying both universities violated anti discrimination laws by failing to provide closed captioning in their online lectures, courses, podcasts and other educational materials. Something we all need to all think about and why i have been pushing the pilot so hard so we can get the metrics to build a case for captioning icann wide. Best, Judith Sent from my iPad Judith(a)jhellerstein.com Skype ID: judithhellerstein

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WEBCAST TODAY: White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection
by Joly MacFie Feb. 13, 2015

Feb. 13, 2015

Being on the left coast this starts at 11:45am NYC time. Tim Cook will be on at 2pm, followed by Obama. Breakout session #3 (6:15pm) looks interesting - Improving Authentication: Moving Beyond the Password - but it's not clear that will be webcast as there's only one YouTube channel. Maybe they'll bring up more. Also mentioned is the fact that simultaneously the Secret Service and the FBI will be co-hosting a regional open house in NYC. Good luck finding that as it doesn't appear to be on Google. joly posted: "Today Friday February 13 2015 the White Houae will hold a Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University in California. President Obama, who will address the Summit in person, said on Jan. 13 "It's going to bring everybody together" [image: White House]Today *Friday February 13 2015* the *White Houae* will hold a *Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection <http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/foreign-policy/cybersecurity/summit>* at *Stanford University <http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/february/cyber-summit-obama-020915.html>* in California. *President Obama*, who will address the Summit in person, said on Jan. 13 "It's going to bring everybody together – industry, tech companies, law enforcement, consumer and privacy advocates, law professors who are specialists in the field, as well as students – to make sure that we work through these issues in a public, transparent fashion." *Tim Cook* of Apple will also deliver remarks. Topics include: Public-Private Collaboration on Cybersecurity; Improving Cybersecurity Practices at Consumer-Oriented Businesses and Organizations; Promoting More Secure Payment Technologies; Cybersecurity Information Sharing;International Law Enforcement Cooperation on Cybersecurity; Improving Authentication: Moving Beyond the Password. The event will be webcast live via *YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlTo9hFAFXs>*. *What: Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection <http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/foreign-policy/cybersecurity/summit> Where: Stanford University When: Friday February 13 2015 8:45am-4pm PST | 16:45-00:00 UTC | 11:45-19:00 EST Agenda: http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/foreign-policy/cybersecurity/summit <http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/foreign-policy/cybersecurity/summit> Webcast: http://www.whitehouse.gov/live <http://www.whitehouse.gov/live> Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23CyberSummi <https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23CyberSummi> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/cybersummit <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/cybersummit>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7488#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7488#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7488 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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NomCom Dec-Jan Report Card
by Louis Houle Feb. 12, 2015

Feb. 12, 2015

Hi everyone, Here is the 2015 NomCom December-January Report Card. Comments and feedback are welcome. -- Louis Houle President ISOC Quebec

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REMINDER/ NARALO Monthly meeting in Singapore
by ICANN At-Large Staff Feb. 11, 2015

Feb. 11, 2015

Dear All, The NARALO face to face meeting in Singapore is scheduled on Thursday 12 February 2015 from 10:00 - 11:00 local time in Indiana Meeting Room (60 minutes). For other times: http://tinyurl.com/ljsxva9 The draft agenda is available at: https://community.icann.org/x/OSjxAg Remote participation details are available at: http://singapore52.icann.org/en/schedule/thu-naralo Adobe Connect: https://icann.adobeconnect.com/sin52-indiana/ Wiki workspace: https://community.icann.org/x/N5Qi If you require a dial-out, please contact At-Large staff at staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org><mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org><mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> with your preferred contact number. Please Thank you. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Facebook: www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge<https://www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge> Twitter: @ICANN_AtLarge<https://twitter.com/ICANN_AtLarge> One World, One Internet

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FOR INFORMATION: “ICANN’s procedures and policies in the light of human rights, fundamental freedoms and democratic values” - Council of Europe Report
by ICANN At-Large Staff Feb. 9, 2015

Feb. 9, 2015

Dear All, On behalf of Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Chair of the ALAC, please find attached a Council of Europe report entitled “ICANN’s procedures and policies in the light of human rights, fundamental freedoms and democratic values” authored by Dr Monika Zalnieriute and Thomas Schneider. This draft report was discussed during the ALAC and Regional Leaders Working Session on Sunday, 12 October. There will also be an open community discussion on A human rights perspective on ICANN’s policies and procedures on Wednesday, 15 October 2014,between 13.15-14.45,in the Encino Room in the ICANN 51 venue. Please find a flyer of this event attached with the details as this session is not on the public schedule. Given the interest in this report, there will be an At-Large Capacity Building Webinar on this topic scheduled for early November. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<applewebdata://68497759-1B04-4F9B-84B7-B9445B8F305F/Regards,%20Heidi%20Ullrich,%20Silvia%20Vivanco,%20Matt%20Ashtiani,%20Ariel%20Liang,%20Gisella%20Gruber,%20Nathalie%20Peregrine%20and%20Julia%20Charvolen%20ICANN%20Policy%20Staff%20in%20support%20of%20ALACmailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Facebook: www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge<https://www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge> Twitter: @ICANN_AtLarge<https://twitter.com/ICANN_AtLarge>

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ARIN and NARALO MOU
by Glenn McKnight Feb. 9, 2015

Feb. 9, 2015

Hi All NARALO took the bold step to sign a MOU with ARIN and joined with APRALO and AFRALO in being the third in the family of five RALO's who made the decisive step to reach out the local RIR in it's area and build stronger relationships together. You may not know that ARIN has routine meetings in North America, Caribbean, and Canada It's geolocations are slightly different than Icann's mapping leaving the US far eastern territories under the the eastern RIR . ARIN also does *ARIN On the Road* events in cities which are smaller scale educational events. These events are ideal to help jointly promote local outreach to universities and local businesses. Attached is some pictures of the ceremony. Pictures of John Curran of ARIN and Acting Chair for NARALO Evan Leibovitch A video of the ceremony can be found here ( video is being processed) http://youtu.be/w6PmbK0G_Jc <http://youtu.be/w6PmbK0G_Jc> Pictures https://www.flickr.com/photos/glennmcknight/sets/72157650292978390/ Glenn McKnight skype gmcknight twitter gmcknight .

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Re: [NA-Discuss] Native participation in ICANN/NARALO conferences and events - and LACRALO?
by Peter Knight Feb. 8, 2015

Feb. 8, 2015

Congrats, Loris, a most welcome development we all should support! I am checking if there is any similar organization here in Brazil, where there are substantial numbers of indigenous peoples. As I recall there were groups in Acre, Amazonas and Bahia active on the Internet, probably more. And the Andean and Central American countries as well as Paraguay, and to a lesser extent I think Argentina, have large indigenous populations. I'm copying this to ISOC-Brasil listserv and a few other possible sources of information. Peter ---- Peter T. Knight, Ph.D. Economista e Estrategista de eTransformação Socio fundador, pesquisador e membro do Conselho Diretor, Instituto Fernand Braudel de Economia Mundial http://braudel.org.br http://br.linkedin.com/in/petertknight Skype: <minhoco2005> Facebook: www.facebook.com/peter.t.knight Twitter: @ptknight_ Author:* A Internet no Brasil* and *The Internet in Brazil* On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Garth Bruen <gbruen(a)knujon.com> wrote: > This is so important, and I am overjoyed with the leadership Loris and her > group provide. > > KT's (Karaitiana Taiuru) Maori group in New Zealand has been a good > example raising the issue. > > -----Original Message----- > From: na-discuss-bounces(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto: > na-discuss-bounces(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Loris Taylor > Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 8:37 PM > To: NA Discuss > Subject: [NA-Discuss] Native participation in ICANN/NARALO conferences and > events > > Dear Colleagues > > The Global Indigenous Persons Mentorship Program was recently established > by ICANN to encourage and improve engagement with existing members > representing indigenous populations. > > Native Public Media has submitted a proposal that will increase our > engagement at ICANN and NARALO meetings and events. Here is a brief > summary of our request: > > To realize an authentic “One Internet, One World” all must be at the > table. Until recently, American Indians and Alaskan Natives were not at > the table, much less, a part of the conversation. Native Public Media, > Inc. (NPM) is the inaugural Native American member on the ICANN At-Large > Committee/NARALO and advocates for the interests of 566 federally > recognized tribes in the United States. As new comers, it is important > that the Native American stakeholders are present not only to educate and > engage others in the decision making process and to create relationships > that ignite unique idea generations that benefit all at ICANN meetings, but > ultimately, to share with those represented across Tribal communities. > > I welcome and appreciate your support of NPM’s request. I will try my > hand at posting on the At-Large Global Indigenous Persons Mentorship > Program Workspace. Thank you so much in advance. > > Best Regards, > > Loris Taylor | President & CEO | Native Public Media | PO Box 3955, > Flagstaff, AZ | 86003 | LorisTaylor1(a)icloud.com > > > > > ------ > NA-Discuss mailing list > NA-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss > > Visit the NARALO online at http://www.naralo.org > ------ > > ------ > NA-Discuss mailing list > NA-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss > > Visit the NARALO online at http://www.naralo.org > ------ >

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Native participation in ICANN/NARALO conferences and events
by Loris Taylor Feb. 8, 2015

Feb. 8, 2015

Dear Colleagues The Global Indigenous Persons Mentorship Program was recently established by ICANN to encourage and improve engagement with existing members representing indigenous populations. Native Public Media has submitted a proposal that will increase our engagement at ICANN and NARALO meetings and events. Here is a brief summary of our request: To realize an authentic “One Internet, One World” all must be at the table. Until recently, American Indians and Alaskan Natives were not at the table, much less, a part of the conversation. Native Public Media, Inc. (NPM) is the inaugural Native American member on the ICANN At-Large Committee/NARALO and advocates for the interests of 566 federally recognized tribes in the United States. As new comers, it is important that the Native American stakeholders are present not only to educate and engage others in the decision making process and to create relationships that ignite unique idea generations that benefit all at ICANN meetings, but ultimately, to share with those represented across Tribal communities. I welcome and appreciate your support of NPM’s request. I will try my hand at posting on the At-Large Global Indigenous Persons Mentorship Program Workspace. Thank you so much in advance. Best Regards, Loris Taylor | President & CEO | Native Public Media | PO Box 3955, Flagstaff, AZ | 86003 | LorisTaylor1(a)icloud.com

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