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ICANN67 7 – 12 March 2020
Virtual Community Forum
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#ICANN67 Monday Newsletter |
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Welcome to the ICANN67 Virtual Community Forum |
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The ICANN67 Virtual Community Forum is officially underway. Though the ICANN community is not physically together, our virtual platform allows us to collaborate on our important work. In video welcome messages, ICANN President & CEO Göran Marby and ICANN Board Chair Maarten Botterman express their thanks to the ICANN community for its flexibility in embracing the new format. They also highlight some of the priorities for ICANN67. Watch their messages below. |
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Göran Marby, ICANN President & CEO
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Maarten Botterman, ICANN Board Chair
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Read Our "How to Participate in ICANN67 Virtual Sessions" Guide, Available in Three Languages. Click the Links Below.
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Remote Participation Resources at ICANN67 |
The ICANN org team is working hard to give you the tools to collaborate in our first Virtual Public Meeting.
For more details on what resources are available, please read ICANN org's Senior Vice President Engineering & Chief Information Officer Ashwin Rangan's blog
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Today’s ICANN67 Sessions
All times EST/UTC-5
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Today’s ICANN67 High Interest Sessions |
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Public Forum: Community Discussion about PIR |
Join the first ICANN67 Public Forum for a discussion about ICANN's role in the proposed ownership transfer of Public Interest Registry.
This is an opportunity for the ICANN community to ensure that it understands the scope of ICANN’s role and to provide feedback. Learn more about the process the ICANN Board and organization must follow concerning ICANN’s registry agreements with Public Interest Registry (PIR).
Find links to the background and supporting material for the discussion here.
Please note that the Board and the ICANN org cannot address questions and comments that relate to the ISOC, PIR, Ethos Capital, or other parties involved in the proposed transfer.
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Join GAC Opening Plenary: Today from 13:45–14:30
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Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms in gTLDs Policy Development Process Working Group Meets at ICANN67 |
The Review of All Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) in gTLDs PDP Working Group is holding four days of meetings at ICANN67. Since March 2016, the working group has been focusing on its Phase 1 work, covering the review of RPMs applicable to gTLDs launched under the 2012 New gTLD Program. The working group is expected to complete reviewing its draft Initial Report with the goal of publishing it for Public Comment shortly after ICANN67. |
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Passionate about working towards a truly multilingual Internet and bringing the next billion users online? Join the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) this week as its hosts three virtual sessions at ICANN67. The Universal Acceptance (UA) working groups will discuss priorities for 2020, provide updates on community outreach and events, and advance projects aimed at achieving UA readiness. You can find out more about UA here.
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RECAP: ICANN Org Operating Plan and Budget Session, Sunday 8 March
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Agenda: Following the close of the Public Comment period, this session focused on reviewing the comments received on both the Five Year (2021-2025) Operating & Financial Plan and FY21 Operating Plan & Budget, and engaging with the ICANN community on the goals and content of both plans.
Highlights:
Session started with an explanation of the planning process and timeline, followed by a review of the comments that were received during the Public Comment period, which ended December 2019, for the Five Year Operating & Financial Plan and FY21 Operating Plan & Budget.
ICANN org provided an overview of ICANN’s various funding sources and the org’s approach to projecting its funding and expenses for the Five Year Operating & Financial Plan.
ICANN org solicited feedback, input, and questions on the various Public Comments and the content of the two plans, to allow ICANN org to better understand the community’s views as the staff report on Public Comments is developed.
Next Steps:
ICANN org will consider and incorporate the feedback received during the session as it develops the staff report on the comments received during Public Comment period. This report is scheduled to be posted on 27 March 2020.
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BY THE NUMBERS: REMOTE PARTICIPATION |
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Remote Participation in ICANN67 Sessions
The numbers below do not include Board or org participants, but include community participants who joined for all or some part of the session.
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Saturday
Participants: 132
Sunday
Participants: 193
Participants: 153
Top Five Geolocations for All Sessions
U.S.
Canada
Uganda
Nigeria
Botswana
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#ICANN67: VIRTUALLY SOCIAL |
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#ICANN67: We Want to (Virtually) See You! |
We want to see how you are taking part in this historic virtual meeting. Are you at home or in an Internet cafe?
Post your selfies of you in action at ICANN67 on social media, and don't forget to tag them #ICANN67 and #city you're beaming in from.
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ICANN67: BEHIND THE SCENES |
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Changing to an all-remote meeting requires plenty of setting up and prep work. ICANN’s Meetings Technical Services (MTS) team spent the last week unpacking, servicing, and setting up all of the equipment necessary to run our first entirely virtual ICANN Public Meeting.
All eight conference rooms in our Los Angeles office have been taken over by MTS, in order to simultaneously run eight separate Zoom sessions. In two of them, we’ve setup sound-insulated interpretation booths, so that our interpreters can connect to a Zoom session and interpret in Spanish or French in real-time.
Each virtual room will have two dedicated MTS technicians, who are responsible for ensuring that presenters are able to speak, managing the recordings, and troubleshooting any technical issues that arise. Getting everything ready for our first virtual Public Meeting has been quite the effort, but we’re confident that the prep work we’ve done will allow ICANN67 to run as smoothly and seamlessly as possible.
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NEXTGEN@ICANN AND ICANN FELLOWSHIP |
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NextGen and ICANN Fellows: "See You Soon!" |
The NextGen@ICANN and ICANN Fellowship program is not taking place as scheduled at ICANN67, but the selected participants are still joining the Virtual Community Forum.
All ICANN67 Fellowship slots will be deferred to ICANN69 in Hamburg, Germany and NextGenners will join ICANN70 in Cancún, Mexico, in 2021. The ICANN67 selection and any attendance at the virtual sessions will not count against the program participation limits.
Our selectees are excited to join us in the future:
“I am really happy about the decision to reschedule our participation for ICANN70. I now have the opportunity to work on my presentation and include more results from my research that is still in progress. Hope to see you there.”
Federica Tortorella NextGen@ICANN Program
"This virtual meeting is an excellent chance for the first time Fellows to prepare to the next in-person meeting. The community and the Fellowship program leaders always invest a lot of effort into the onboarding process; nevertheless it is very easy for a Fellow or a NextGenner to get lost in the meeting. Remote participation will help the meeting in Germany go more smoothly."
Artem Gavrichenkov, Fellowship Program
We look forward to seeing the participants soon!
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Celebrating International Women’s Day
By Becky Burr
ICANN Board Member
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On Sunday, 8 March, the world celebrated International Women's Day. This important day honors the achievements of women. As a member of the ICANN Board, I would like to take this opportunity to recognize the many important contributions to the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet that the women in our ICANN community make each and every day.
Women have traditionally been underrepresented not only in the technology industry, but in the decision-making bodies that shape policy. I became involved in Internet governance in 1996 and a member of the ICANN Board in 2016. A recent study from Deloitte consultancy showed that women hold just 16 percent of board seats globally, and it could take more than 30 years to achieve parity. I’m proud to be part of a community that recognizes that equality in representation is important. Our ICANN Board is made up of seven women, each from a diverse set of backgrounds, perspectives, and goals. We recognize the importance that our voices make in helping shape policy at ICANN.
There have been many pioneering women involved in the creation and expansion of the Internet - women like Radia Perlman, Kanchana Kanchanasut, Dorcas Muthoni, Joyce Reynolds, and many others who have broken down barriers and created opportunities for women all over the world. It’s important that we build on their legacies and help mentor girls and young women to participate in ICANN.
The theme of this year's International Women’s Day is "an equal world is an enabled world." ICANN’s multistakeholder model not only invites a diverse set of voices to participate in the decision-making process, it requires it. At ICANN, our global community works every day on the global public interest. We use the phrase “global public interest” because the Internet is a resource available to the entire world. People across the globe have an interest in the technical coordination of the Internet. ICANN helps bring those voices together and equality of representation of those voices is critical.
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