> Forwarded From: Marika Konings > > Dear Constituency / Stakeholder Group Leaders, > > Please find below a ‘hold the date’ announcement for a webinar that > ICANN policy staff will be organizing on policy development with > the objective to engage new participants in ICANN, and especially > GNSO policy development activities. We hope you will share this > announcement with organizations / individuals that you think might > or should be interested in getting more involved in ICANN. > > As a follow up to this webinar, and to take advantage of the next > ICANN meeting taking place in Brussels where many organizations and > companies have representations, we are exploring the concept of a > GNSO Constituency / Stakeholder Group Networking event to take > place on Tuesday afternoon / evening at the end of constituency > day. The idea would be to invite interested parties with your help > to attend this event at which each constituency / stakeholder group > has an opportunity to provide a short presentation about themselves > to the audience. In addition, each constituency / stakeholder group > would be allocated a table / corner in the room, so that > conversations can be continued with interested participants. We > hope such an event might help attract new participants to GNSO > policy development as well as the GNSO Community as a whole. We > would be interested to hear whether your constituency / stakeholder > group would be interested in participating in such an event before > considering any further arrangements. Please share your feedback > with Marika Konings at [log in to unmask] > > Thanks, > > Marika > > > WEBINAR: Policy Development at ICANN > How you can help ICANN Shape the Future of the Internet > 20 May 2010 at 12.00 UTC and 19.00 UTC > > Hold the date! On Thursday 20 May at 12.00 UTC and 19.00 UTC, ICANN > Policy Staff will host a webinar that introduces newcomers to the > world of ICANN and policy development. The webinar will provide an > overview of ICANN as an organization, who develops policy at ICANN > (and how), and most importantly, how you can become involved and > help ICANN to shape the future of the Internet. Further details on > how to sign up will follow shortly, but for now, please hold the > date. Please feel free to forward this announcement to individuals > and/or organisations you think might be interested. > > > About ICANN: > To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an > address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has > to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN > coordinates these unique identifiers across the world, so that > there can be one global Internet. The Internet Corporation for > Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was formed in 1998. It is a not- > for-profit partnership of people from all over the world dedicated > to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It > promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique > identifiers, primarily the domain name system (DNS), IP addresses, > and port numbers. For further information, please visit http:// > www.icann.org. IP JUSTICE Robin Gross, Executive Director 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451 w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: [log in to unmask]