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by Guy Gagnon 21 May '06

21 May '06

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ICANN Meetings in Marrakech, Morocco: Important Information
by alice＠apc.org 19 May '06

19 May '06

(Apologies for cross posting) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICANN Meetings in Marrakech, Morocco 24 - 30 June 2006 IMPORTANT INFORMATION: The next ICANN meeting will be held June 24 - 30 in Marrakech, Morocco. The meetings are free to attend, and open to any interested person. ICANN encourages broad participation in its bottom-up consensus-development process. You can take part in these meetings by attending in person, by taking part in the webcast and remote participation opportunities, and/or by joining one of the various ICANN-related mailing lists. The local host's website contains more information about the venue, transportation and hotels. a.. Travel Visa Information b.. Schedule and Agenda c.. Pre-Registration d.. Registration e.. Internet Access f.. Webcast & Remote Participation g.. Press & Media h.. Sponsorship Opportunities TRAVEL AND VISA INFORMATION Information relating to Visa's can be obtained from the local host's website . If you require a letter of invitation to obtain a visa, please write to meeting(a)icann.org . SCHEDULE AND AGENDA - Preliminary Friday, 23 June 2006 Registration Saturday, 24 June 2006 Registration a.. Government Advisory Committee Working Groups (closed) (Time TBD)(Salle Royale) b.. Regional TLD (TBD) Sunday, 25 June 2006 a.. Government Advisory Committee Working Groups (closed) (Time TBD) (Salle Royale) b.. Public Roundtable - Welcome to ICANN, Here's What it Means to You (TBD) (TBD) a.. Open to all ICANN meeting participants, especially those attending their first ICANN meeting; roundtable discussion of what ICANN does, why ICANN is important to various stakeholder communities, and what the ICANN community will be doing in Marrakech c.. Workshop on IDN Monday, 26 June 2006 a.. Welcome Ceremony * (Time TBD) (Salle des Ministres) b.. ccNSO Members Meeting * (TBD) c.. Government Advisory Committee Plenary (closed) (Time TBD) (Salle Royale) d.. GNSO Constituency Day a.. Cross Constituency Meeting - Commercial and Business Users, ISP, IP Interests (TBD) b.. gTLD Registries Constituency Meeting (TBD) (For more information on the Constituency, visit http://gtldregistries.org/) c.. Registrars Constituency (TBD) d.. Commercial and Business Users Constituency Meeting (TBD) e.. Intellectual Property Interests Constituency Meeting (TBD) f.. Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers Constituency Meeting (TBD) g.. Noncommercial Users Constituency Meeting (TBD) Tuesday, 27 June 2006 a.. ccNSO Members Meeting * (TBD) b.. Government Advisory Committee Plenary (Time TBD) (closed) (Salle des Ministres) c.. Workshops: (Salle des Ministres) a.. DNSSEC b.. Workshop on Internet Governance d.. GNSO Public Forum * (Time TBD) (Salle des Ministres) e.. ccNSO Council Meeting * (TBD) Wednesday, 28 June 2006 a.. Public Meeting of the Security & Stability Advisory Committee * b.. GNSO Council Meeting * (Time TBD) (Salle des Ministres) c.. Public Forum, Part I * (Time TBD) (Salle des Ministres) Thursday, 29 June 2006 a.. Public Forum, Part II * (Time TBD) (Salle des Ministres) Friday, 30 June 2006 a.. Board Meeting * (Time TBD) (Salle de Ministres) The items with "*" are being webcast. Please see "WEBCAST AND REMOTE PARTICIPATION INFORMATION" below for links. PRE-REGISTRATION Pre-registration for this meeting is now open. Click here to pre-register. Pre-registration is not required to attend the meeting. REGISTRATION Upon arrival, participants should pick up their badges and meeting materials at the registration desk. SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES More information about sponsorship opportunities can be found on the local host's website . ICANN appreciates the support of the community in providing financial sponsorship for ICANN meetings. This sponsorship is a vital part of enabling ICANN to provide quality programs for meeting attendees. In particular, such generous sponsorship allows ICANN to hold its meetings in geographically diverse locations that allows broader participation across the world's Internet community. Details will be posted as they become available. ICANN reserves the right not to accept sponsorships from organizations whose missions and activities conflict with ICANN policies. WEBCAST AND REMOTE PARTICIPATION INFORMATION PLEASE NOTE: Webcasts will begin approxmitely 15 minutes before the scheduled event. Please refer to the above schedule for event time. INTERNET ACCESS There will be an Internet Lounge. Wireless Internet connectivity (802.11b) will also be available in the main meeting and public areas. PRESS AND MEDIA INFORMATION Members of the press should contact press(a)icann.org.

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SECRETARY-GENERAL ESTABLISHES INTERNET GOVERNANCE ADVISORY GROUP TO ASSIST HIM
by alice＠apc.org 18 May '06

18 May '06

Congratulations Michael Katundu -------------------------------------------------------------------- Secretary-General SG/A/1006 PI/1717 Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York SECRETARY-GENERAL ESTABLISHES ADVISORY GROUP TO ASSIST HIM IN CONVENING INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today established an Advisory Group to assist him in convening the Internet Governance Forum, a new forum for a multi-stakeholder dialogue on Internet governance. The Group includes 46 members from Government, the private sector and civil society, including the academic and technical communities, who represent all regions of the world (see list below). It is chaired by Nitin Desai, the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), who may also select special advisers to assist him. The Advisory Group will meet on 22 and 23 May in Geneva, following an open consultation on 19 May, also in Geneva. Its main task is to prepare the substantive agenda and programme for the first meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, which is to be held in Athens from 30 October to 2 November. Decisions on how to prepare subsequent meetings and on any future structure and working methods of the Forum will be taken in light of the experiences gained during the preparatory process for the Athens meeting. The Internet Governance Forum is an outcome of the Tunis phase of the WSIS, which took place in November 2005. In the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, Governments asked the Secretary-General to convene the Forum, giving it the mandate to discuss the main public policy issues related to Internet governance, in order to foster the Internet’s sustainability, robustness, security, stability and development. Governments called for the Forum to be convened in an “open and inclusive process”. Accordingly, the Advisory Group will carry out its work in an open, inclusive and transparent manner, and will seek to make the best possible use of electronic working methods, including online consultations. List of members Chairman Desai, Nitin Delhi/Mumbai - Special Adviser to the Secretary-General for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Members Agrawala, Pankaj Delhi - Joint Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Akinsanmi, Titilayo Johannesburg - Programme Manager, SchoolNet Africa; Global Facilitator of the WSIS Youth Caucus Akplogan, Adiel Port Louis - Chief Executive Officer, Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa - AfriNIC Al-Shatti, Qusai Kuwait City - Deputy Chairman of Kuwait Information Technology Society (KITS) Bayramov, Ayaz Baku - Head of Department for International Relations and Cooperation with NGOs, Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies Bicalho, José Brasilia - Member of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee; Advisor to the Board of Directors of the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) Clarke, Trevor Geneva - Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations Office at Geneva Daftardar, Abdullah M. Riyadh - Senior Executive, Communications and Information Technology Commission Dardailler, Daniel Nice - Associate Chair for Europe, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C); Member, Board of Directors, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) D’Costa, Valerie Singapore - International Director, Info-Communication Development Authority, Singapore Diop Diagne, Ndeye Maimouna Dakar - Directrice des NTIC, Ministère des Postes, Télécommunications et Nouvelles Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (NTIC) Disspain, Chris Carlton - Victoria, Chair, Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Council; Chief Executive Officer, .au Registry Echeberría, Raúl Montevideo - Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer, Latin America and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC) El-Nawawy, Mohamed Cairo - Chairman and Managing Director, TE Data Fältström, Patrik Stockholm - Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems; Member, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF); Member, Swedish Government Information Technology Policy and Strategy Group Gallagher, Michael D. Washington D.C. - Chairman of the Communications Group, Perkins Coie LLC Graham, Bill Ottawa - Director, International Telecommunication Policy and Coordination, Industry Canada Gross, Robin D. San Francisco, California - Executive Director, IP Justice Hassan, Ayesha Paris - Senior Policy Manager, e-Business, Information Technology, and Telecoms, Executive in charge of Information and Communication Technology Policy, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Hellmonds, Peter Munich - Vice President, Public and International Affairs, Siemens AG Hofmann, Jeanette Berlin - Researcher, Social Science Research Center Iriarte, Erick Lima - Executive Director, Alfa-Redi Kafi, Abdullah Dacca - Managing Director, J A N Associates Limited; former President, Bangladesh Computer Society Karklinš, Janis Geneva - Permanent Representative of Latvia to the United Nations Office at Geneva Katoh, Masanobu Tokyo - Corporate Vice President; President, Law and Intellectual Property Unit and Security Export Control Headquarters, Fujitsu Limited Katundu, Michael Nairobi - Principal Officer, Information Technology Communications Commission Khan, Masood Geneva - Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations Office at Geneva Kovács, Kálmán Budapest - Minister of Informatics and Communications Lohento, Gemma Brice (Ken) Dakar - Panos Institute West Africa, Coordinator, Center for International information and communication technology Policies for Central and West Africa (CIPACO) Markovski, Veni Sofia - Chair of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee; Member, Board of Directors, ICANN Oliver, Colin Canberra - General Manager, International Communications, Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Papadatos, George Athens – Minister Plenipotentiary, Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Peake, Adam Tokyo - Executive Research Fellow/Associate Professor, Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), International University of Japan Pisanty, Alejandro Mexico City - Director of Computing Academic Services, Universidad Autónoma de México; Director ISOC Mexico; Vice Chair, Board of Directors, ICANN Quaynor, Nii Accra - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Network Computer Systems; President, Internet Society of Ghana Sha'ban, Charles Amman - Executive Director, Regional Office, Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) Shears, Matthew Copenhagen - Director of Public Policy, Internet Society (ISOC) Sierra, Colombo Buenos Aires - Chief of Cabinet, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Singer, Christian Vienna - Head of Division, Federal Ministry of Transportation Slizen, Vitaliy Moscow - Head of Department, Information and Communication Ministry Swinehart, Theresa Marina del Rey, California - Vice President, Global and Strategic Partnerships, ICANN Taylor, Emily Oxford - Nominet (.uk), Director of Legal and Policy Wessberg, Arne Helsinki - President, European Broadcasting Union (EBU); President, International Institute of Communication Xiaokun, Yang Geneva - First Secretary, Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva Zangl, Peter Brussels - Deputy Director-General, Directorate General for Information Society and Media, European Commission For further information, please visit www.intgovforum.org or contact Markus Kummer, Executive Coordinator, Secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum, tel.: +41 0 22 917 54 88, e-mail: mkummer(a)unog.ch.

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Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration
by alice＠apc.org 18 May '06

18 May '06

(Apologies for cross posting) Call for Nominations by Keith Kiser — last modified 2006-05-17 10:32 2006 MELLON AWARDS FOR TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATION The Program in Research in Information Technology of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invites nominations for the 2006 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC). In support of the Program’s mission to encourage collaborative, open source software development within traditional Mellon constituencies, these awards—to be given for the first time in 2006—will recognize not-for-profit organizations that are making substantial contributions of their own resources toward the development of open source software and the fostering of collaborative communities to sustain open source development. Full details at http://rit.mellon.org/awards a.t. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ann Tothill Strategic Use and Capacity Building Programme Manager APC - The Association for Progressive Communications La Asociación para el Progreso de las Comunicaciones AATothill(a)apc.org http://www.apc.org/ Tel. +61 2 8920 0274 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ItrainOnline: Sharing Internet Knowledge http://www.itrainonline.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- ============= APC Forum is a meeting place for the APC community - people and institutions who are or have been involved in collaboration with APC, and share the APC vision - a world in which all people have easy, equal and affordable access to the creative potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve their lives and create more democratic and egalitarian societies. _______________________________________________ apc.forum mailing list apc.forum(a)lists.apc.org http://lists.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/apc.forum

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ICANN Marrakech - June 2006
by alice＠apc.org 17 May '06

17 May '06

Dear All, "Apologies for cross posting" http://www.icannmarrakesh.ma/ The next ICANN meetings will be taking place in Marrakech, Morocco June 25-30. As you all know ICANN meetings are open to all who want to participate. You can pre-register on the web site and if you need invitations for Visa purposes you can request them online. Visas can be obtained on arrival at airport under condition that you send 10 DAYS before arrival the following information to the following email addresses: Rachid Sefrioui<sefrioui(a)anrt.net.ma>, Hamida Benlemlih <hamida(a)anrt.net.ma>, * passport number, address, passport expiry/issuance dates of passport, arrival airport in Marocco. We hope to see you all there. Anne-Rachel Inne

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Fw: [COMO Alliance] Call for Papers on national televisoin policies in the age of globalization
by alice＠apc.org 17 May '06

17 May '06

fyi Florence Etta Nairobi, Kenya -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers National television policies in the age of globalization Considerable discussion in the debate on globalisation within media studies has centred on the question over the impact of the forces of globalisation on the nature and dynamics of national policy-making. On one side of the debate are those who argue that technological change in the form of digitalisation, the expanded jurisdiction of supranational organisations, and the increased reach of global capital are challenging the capacity of national governments to assert control over their domestic electronic media industries This is engendering a pattern of convergent trends in broadcasting policy across countries. On the other side of the debate are those who claim that, despite a similar set of external constraints, national governments still retain key policy instruments to direct the evolution of their media industries in accordance with their policy goals, as demonstrated by the variety in national approaches to the various policy issues that are currently at the top of the political agenda. According to this line of argument, in order to account for contemporary dynamics in media policies, it is still essential to consider in the analysis the distinctive features of one country’s political system, its political culture, and the legacy of pre-existing arrangements in the organisation of the domestic media industry. We are looking for original, research-based papers that contribute to this debate by broadening the understanding of the interplay between global forces and the states in the making of contemporary national television policies. We welcome both national studies and comparative research across countries as well as research on policy-making at the supranational level (e.g. the European Union). Particularly welcomed are those contributions that attempt to incorporate into the analysis the theoretical approaches to the explanation of policy change and variation developed within the policy-orientated literature. Possible topics include but are not limited to: Policy approaches to digital cable, satellite, and terrestrial television; Digital switch-over strategies; The regulation of digital pay-TV access (CAS, API, EPGs) and interactive services; Policy approaches to IPTV; Policy approaches to HDTV; Policy approaches to Mobile TV; The reform of public service broadcasters; The reform of media ownership rules; The regulation of programme production and of particular types of television content; The reorganisation of the regulatory regime for the convergent communications sector. Applicants may submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to Alessandro D’Arma at A.DArma01(a)westminster.ac.uk. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday 29th September 2006. For accepted articles the deadline of the submission will be Wednesday 31st January 2007. Details of WPCC are at: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-880

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Kenya ICT Bill
by B Macharia 16 May '06

16 May '06

Greetings, I am a Kenyan ICT professional here in Nairobi. I am currently exploring the BPO side with a view to setting up soon. Kindly include me in your mailing list, and pls send me a soft copy of the ICT draft Bill. Regards, B. Macharia --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

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awful shuttle
by Anna Flowers 15 May '06

15 May '06

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dilemma altar
by Christian Bishop 15 May '06

15 May '06

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AfNOG meetings - Live Stream
by Michuki Mwangi 14 May '06

14 May '06

<apologies for cross posting> Dear All, Kindly be advised that a live stream of the AfNOG meetings will be available on the following URL; http://tinder.uoregon.edu:8000 Kindly feel free to participate for those who could not make it to the meetings here in Nairobi. Our sincere appreciation to the University of Oregon for making this happen. Regards, -- Michuki Mwangi KENIC

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