Welcome, everyone!

Thank you for signing up, and thank you for participating in the Geopolitical session yesterday at ICANN79, where we formally announced the creation of this mailing list.

Since this is a list to share information, here are some links that might be useful:

• Government and IGO engagement home page: https://www.icann.org/en/government-engagement

Please, subscribe in order to get automatic updates when a new item is published, and also take a look at what is already on the publication webpage, including the Information Paper about WSIS+20, the UN updates, etc.

• The Global Digital Compact: A Top-Down Attempt to Minimize the Role of the Technical Community (by Sally Costerton, John Curran and Paul Wilson: https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-global-digital-compact-a-top-down-attempt-to-minimize-the-role-of-the-technical-community-21-08-2023-en

• U.N. Secretary General Policy Report: Considerations for the ICANN Community https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/un-secretary-general-policy-report-considerations-for-the-icann-community-13-06-2023-en

• Published today – a contribution by Fiona Alexander to the GDC: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fiona-alexander-6981655_feedback-possible-elements-of-a-global-activity-7171981299291779072-aDAZ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

We got some feedback from both in person and remote participants about the ICANN79 Geopolitical session, and we will take their constructive comments for the next time we get together at an ICANN meeting. Of note is to make sure that we treat equally people present in the room and the remote participants. Next time we’ll aim to do better!

Hope that all people have made it safely home, and let the conversations begin!

Kind regards,

Veni

Head of government and IGO engagement