Hi Bruna,

I would like to suggest a topic for the CEO meeting. And for other
relevant fora as well. Namely, an old but still very relevant one,
now that meetings have become physical again:

Visa problems with people from certain areas in the world, notably
Africa.

In particular, I would highlight the time limits in Community Travel
Support Guidelines, which say that substitutions must be made at the
latest 45 days before the event.

Given the timeframe traveller decisions are made, visa problems are
often not even known that early.

Arguing that the policy is the same for everyone is disingenious,
as the problem doesn't apply to everyone equally.

When you look at their actual effect, these rules are clearly
discriminatory, if not outright racist, in practice.

As a concrete small step that would help at least a little, those
substitution time limits should be relaxed when the reason for
the substitution is a visa problem.

In addition to the usual things like negotiating about it with
the host country already before selecting the meeting site.

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen

On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 12:10:34PM +0200, Bruna Martins dos Santos ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> It's time again! We are starting the preparations for ICANN 74, thats
> finally going to be a Hybrid meeting in The Hague from rom 13-16 June 2022. In
> light of that, i'd like to bring the following topics/requests to our list:
> 
> *NCSG Membership Meeting agenda*
> I would like to ask you whether you'd like to contribute to the NCSG
> meeting agenda with the suggestions of topics or community/staff members we
> could invite to join.
> 
> *NCSG Leadership Meeting with ICANN CEO*
> On June 1stI will have another 1:1 meeting with Goran Marby and am also
> welcoming suggestions of topics our members would like me to discuss with
> him during this upcoming meeting.
> 
> Feel free to reply to this thread or to me privately with suggestions of
> topics and issues we could bring to the table both at our membership
> meeting but also with Mr. Marby.
> 
> Looking forward to hearing back from you and seeing some in The Hague.
> 
> Best,
> -- 
> 
> *Bruna Martins dos Santos *
> 
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> Humboldt Foundation <https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/>
> 
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> 
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