REPORT | ICANN 61 A challenging Meeting ! The day of March 9, 2018, was for many, the beginning of ICANN 61 with several events and preparatory meetings. This was the first of the three statutory meetings to be held in 2018 and was de facto the one to further engage the community in ICANN’s […]
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” – Lewis Carroll, “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There” ICANN61 was a busy week for me. In addition […]
In this report you will find a brief account of my participation at the 12th edition of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), it’s intersection with the NCUC and, more generally, the role of NCUC in-between ICANN and the IGF. Hopefully, it will provide you with a snapshot of the great experience it was to be […]
E-team initiates series of online debates 15.Nov.2017 12:00UTC Rafik Dammak (@rafik), Chair of NCSG PC (@NCSG_ICANN) (Non Commercial Stakeholder Group Policy Committee) will participate in a Twitter interview at @NCUC curated by NCUC E-team member Shahul Hameed (@beingshahul). This is the first of the new NCUC twitter interview series (#AskNCUC) and will help all who […]
A report by Khouloud Dawahi ‘’Comprehensive WHOIS policy reform remains the source of long-running discussion and debate related to issues such as purpose, accuracy, privacy, anonymity, cost, policing, intellectual property protection, security, etc.’’ [1] The WHOIS and conflicts with data protection and privacy laws debate was revived with the introduction of the new European Union […]
A report by Kholoud Dawahi, K. Mehta Ishan Mehta and Jeremy Malcolm NCUC has always been advocating for maintaining the limited mission of ICANN and preventing it from becoming a content regulator on the Internet. Recently ICANN has created a consumer safeguards office. The office’s mandate is undefined and hence they hold meetings with the […]
ICANN59 was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26-29th of June 2017 and was my second opportunity of attending an ICANN meeting after ICANN 58. Thanks to the NCUC Fellowship Program I had the chance to attend the meeting and also the NCUC outreach also held in Johannesburg, on the 23rd and 24th of June. […]
NCUC OUTREACH (23 – 24 June), TWO DAYS IN JOHANNESBURG! By Yolanda Mlonzi Like with all events, planning the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) outreachevent, which took place in Johannesburg, consisted of many sleepless nights and long skype calls. The most rewarding part of what we do is that we are all very passionate about the internet […]
The Evolution of Trademark on the Internet, Is it Sustainable? by Grace Mutung’u, March 2017 On 10th March2017, as the 58th ICANN meeting in Copenhagen was about to begin, several US trademark practitioners wrote a letter decrying the potential of an ICANN policy on trademark protection to clawback on free speech. To many people around […]
ICANN 58: My journey with NCUC by Sze Ming, April 2017 Fate with NCUC I have been working with Digital Rights and Internet Governance related subjects ever since 2015 when I started my second career with Sinar Project. Throughout the years I had also the chance of meeting different experts and people who working in […]