Dear Amr

Greetings. All webinars are recorded and available online. The first webinar in DC is available at:

https://icann.adobeconnect.com/p1565uu3ujw/


All webinars will be available online as audio recordings shortly after they took place.

In addition I can only support what Lori has mentioned. From a operational concerns perspective, IP is a highly relevant and important topic. I was myself surprised when some basic research did show how much Civil Society organizations are afflicted in their work through infringements against their domains and IP. (You can find more info on this in my presentation during the first webinar).  It is right that Civil Society is concerned about most important topics like human rights, what the Pathfinder initiative and the webinars are concerned about is that Civil Society can use the DNS fairly and securely without having their rights infringed and their voices stifled. In other words, we try to make sure that the microphone is working so that others can use it to call out the messages. From this point of view I find the mix of civil society online, domain names and brand protection everything else then just a little odd, I find it essential in order to ensure that Civil Society can do its important job in the first place. 

I am also happy to let you know that we are planning for 2015 besides a number of additional regional webinars, capacity and awareness building events, 2 webinars that are specific to Civil Society and IP. We will make details for these events available shortly

Yours

Klaus


On 2/3/2015 1:00 PM, Amr Elsadr wrote:
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Hi,

Thanks for that Lori. However…,

On Feb 3, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Lori Schulman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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The idea is to create the right balance between fostering basic rights such as free speech and privacy while protecting the name, reputation and intellectual output of worthy organisations.

This is precisely why I am interested to hear what this section of the webinar will include. You’ve (as have others before) certainly made a case for why protection of brands is important to the operations of NGOs. The thing is; the balance you refer to would never really be achieved if the arguments made by members of the IPC on Policy Development Process (PDP) working groups were to go unchecked without active pushback from those representing civil society interests in gTLD policy development. That is generally how some semblance of a balance is achieved. More often than not, it does feel like an uphill struggle.

So please do forgive me if I am a bit sceptical on how this webinar will be presenting what the policy issues of importance to civil society are. To get a feel for how what you describe is presented to CS organisations within the context of the whole webinar, it’d be helpful to have a recording of it archived somewhere. So are there plans to have the webinar recorded?

Thanks again.

Amr