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[ga] NAIS Workshop Announcement
Members of the General Assembly,
Attached please find a formal announcement of NAIS's Melbourne
workshop. For those who will be in Melbourne, I hope to see you
there! And for all others, there will be a real-time audio stream
and, later, a permanent archive of the goings-on.
Please help distribute this!
r
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(Please distribute widely)
THE FUTURE OF THE AT-LARGE MEMBERSHIP &
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN ICANN
A Workshop Hosted By
THE NGO & ACADEMIC ICANN STUDY (NAIS)
Friday, March 9, 2001, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Bellarine Room 2, Melbourne Exhibition & Convention Center
Additional Information & Webcast at <http://www.naisproject.org/>
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PANEL 1: RE-EXAMINING THE ROLE OF THE "PUBLIC" IN ICANN
MODERATOR: STEFAAN VERHULST, OXFORD UNIVERSITY
INVITED PARTICIPANTS:
- KIMBERLEY HEITMAN, CHAIR, ELECTRONIC FRONTIERS AUSTRALIA
- ANDREW MCLAUGHLIN, CHIEF POLICY OFFICER, ICANN
The U.S. Government statement of policy (the White Paper), which
called for the creation of the private, non-profit corporation that
is now ICANN, said the following:
"The development of sound, fair, and widely accepted policies for the
management of the DNS will depend on input from the broad and growing
community of Internet users. Management structures should reflect
the functional and geographic diversity of the Internet and its
users."
But three years later, with ICANN now making decisions critical to
the future of the Internet, no clear consensus has immerged in the
ICANN community on how to define the "broad and growing community of
Internet users," on the proper balance in ICANN's governance between
the public voice and the voice of more specific stakeholder
communities, or on the potential of the public to contribute to
ICANN's mission.
In this panel, members of the NAIS project will explore these
questions with panelists and with members of the audience.
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PANEL #2: MECHANISMS FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN ICANN
MODERATOR: ALAN DAVIDSON, CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY & TECHNOLOGY
INVITED PARTICIPANTS:
- IVAN MOURA CAMPOS, AT-LARGE DIRECTOR, ICANN
- DAVID STEELE, ATTORNEY WITH CHRISTIE, PARKER & HALE, AND
MEMBER OF THE BOSTON WORKING GROUP
- THERESA SWINEHART, ASSOCIATE COUNSEL, WORLDCOM
The ICANN community is now evaluating its first At-Large election
experience, through which individual Internet users worldwide
selected five At-Large members of the ICANN Board of Directors in
Fall 2000. As a part of this evaluation, the community must ask
itself: Is directly electing members of the ICANN Board the most
appropriate means for the broad community of Internet users to
participate in ICANN's governance, or should alternatives be
considered?
While broader questions regarding the basic purpose, concept and
definition of the At-Large membership will be considered in Panel #1,
this panel will focus on more practical questions of structure and
process - evaluating various institutional forms and mechanisms for
providing the broad community of Internet users with opportunities to
participate in selecting ICANN directors and setting ICANN policy.
In this panel again, NAIS team members will discuss these questions
with invited participants and members of the audience.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION about the workshop or about the NAIS project,
please visit the NAIS Web site at http://www.naisproject.org/ , or
e-mail Rob Courtney at rob@cdt.org.
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Rob Courtney
Policy Analyst
Center for Democracy & Technology
1634 Eye Street NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20006
202 637 9800
fax 202 637 0968
rob@cdt.org
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