#ICANN71 Prep Week Newsletter
27 May 2021
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Get Ready for ICANN71 Prep Week, 1-3 June |
ICANN71 Prep Week begins next week to help you get ready for the Virtual Policy Forum.
Prep Week takes place from 1-3 June, and consolidates all of the pre-ICANN71 webinars. These sessions increase community preparation and awareness of plenary topics. ICANN71 is set for 14-17 June.
Sessions will be conducted in English and may feature remote simultaneous interpretation in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish. To attend any of the sessions, please register for ICANN71 here. After registering, you will receive two emails:
- Registration confirmation
- Login information to view the ICANN71 website
Once you log into the ICANN71 website, you will be able to view the Prep Week schedule.
Find more details on Prep Week here.
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ICANN71 PREP WEEK RESOURCES |
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Explore the ICANN71 Participation Guide |
Download the Participation Guide.
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The ICANN71 Participation Guide has all the information you need to use our remote and language support tools.
The guide is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
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Join Us for a Preview of the Changes Coming to Public Comment |
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ICANN org's Information Transparency Initiative (ITI) team will provide a demonstration of the new features planned for Public Comment.
The ITI team has worked closely with ICANN community focus groups to develop the new Public Comment feature, incorporating valuable feedback and implementing requested functionality.
This session takes place on Thursday 3 June 2021 at 19:00 UTC. Sign in to access details about this session.
Read more about the changes coming to Public Comment in ICANN org SVPs David Olive's and Sally Newell Cohen's latest blog.
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Achieving Universal Acceptance through the Multistakeholder Model |
The Universal Acceptance (UA) of domain names and email addresses has a significant impact on supporting choice, competition, and access in the global domain name ecosystem. But achieving UA requires the ICANN community to work together to help promote and adopt UA in practice.
During ICANN71 Prep Week, the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) will host a panel session that will bring together relevant stakeholders from the ICANN community and Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees (SO/ACs) to discuss their UA-related work and jumpstart a dialogue on how to enhance community collaboration to make UA a reality.
Participants include representatives from the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO), Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), and Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC). More information on the session can be found here.
ICANN71 Prep Week Session
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ICANN71 KICKS OFF MONDAY, 14 JUNE |
ICANN's fifth virtual Public Meeting, the ICANN71 Virtual Policy Forum, runs from 14-17 June. There's still time to register, so please join us and the ICANN community for your selected sessions of interest.
In the schedule, you'll find topics ranging from security workshops to plenary sessions exploring the impact of regulatory developments on ICANN policy, presentations from ICANN's NextGen program, and a cross-community meeting about the post-pandemic future of ICANN Public Meetings.
In between sessions, join us for a daily Virtual Coffee Break or Fika. The first event in Room 1 will feature opportunities to learn about participation features for ICANN71. We'll show you how to set up 1:1+ meetings, start an online discussion, and use our in-session language service tools. Or, take a look at Room 2 and learn how to make an origami Dutch tulip.
Sessions will be held in The Hague, Netherlands timezone, Central European Summer Time (CEST), UTC +2. Plenary sessions will be broadcast live from our YouTube channel.
Be sure to take a look at the Participation Guide for information on how to access virtual resources and language support. |
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ICANN President & CEO Göran Marby recently announced the extension of the current ban on travel and face-to-face meetings from 30 June 2021 to at least 31 July 2021.
The travel ban is being extended to provide ICANN org adequate time to conduct a thorough risk assessment and develop the travel processes and procedures necessary to ensure the health and safety of the community and staff. Read the full blog here.
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TAKE THE ICANN PUBLIC MEETING SURVEY |
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We want to hear what you think about the future of ICANN Public Meetings.
Over the past year, ICANN org has focused on innovating virtual events to facilitate continued participation and engagement from around the world. Now, we need to consider what meetings will look like in the future when it is safe to gather in person.
Check your inbox for an invitation to take our short survey, or click here to access it directly.
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#ICANNpets: Show Us Your Pets! |
Do you have a devoted dog, crafty cat, hilarious hedgehog, or another kind of animal companion? Show us what your pets are up to during ICANN71.
Post your pics on Instagram or Twitter using hashtags #ICANNpets and #ICANN71. The best photos will be featured in our ICANN71 Flickr gallery.
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