One thing that is insensitive is the venue of an Amsterdam f2f meeting. There is no indication of diversity and distribution of the 19 members to be allowed. We developing country people cannot just fly into EU countries like our US and EU colleagues. The f2f meetings should have taken place in countries like Dubai, Turkey etc, where visa acquisition is much easier. <span></span><div><br>On Monday, 20 October 2014, Grace Abuhamad <<a href="mailto:grace.abuhamad@icann.org">grace.abuhamad@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Hi all, </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px">A few scheduling updates: </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><u><b>Regular Meetings</b>: </u></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px">We have a very large and geographically diverse CWG. Going forward, we'll have regular weekly 2h calls on Thursdays. To cover all the timezones, I'd like to suggest alternating 10:00 UTC and 13:00 UTC. This is early for our participants in the Americas, but more reasonable for the majority of our group based in Europe, Africa, and Asia. As always, calls will be recorded and transcribed. </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><b><u>Face-to-face Meeting</u></b>: </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">In addition, at the request of the Chairs, ICANN has offered to support a 2-day <b>face-to-face meeting in Amsterdam on 19-20 November 2014</b>. ICANN will offer travel support to the </font><a href="https://community.icann.org/x/1QrxAg" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px" target="_blank">19 CWG members only</a><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">, but the meeting will be open to anyone in the CWG who wishes to attend in person (at their own expense). </font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The meeting will be webcast live through Adobe Connect and include remote participation capabilities consistent with the CWG meetings to date. The meeting will be recorded and transcribed. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div><font color="#0000ff">In order for ICANN to plan for adequate space, please let me know by next Monday (27 October 2014) whether or not you plan to attend the CWG F2F meeting in Amsterdam.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">For members seeking travel support, please note that, the meeting will be c</font>onsistent with ICANN’s Community <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/in-focus/travel-support" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)" target="_blank">Travel Support
Guidelines</a>: travel needs to be arranged by ICANN; ICANN will only book and
pay for a non-refundable, lowest logical price airfare, and economy
airfare; hotel room and tax must be booked directly by ICANN in
accordance with the authorized arrival and departure dates for each supported
traveler. </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please let me know if you have any questions, </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Grace</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><div><b style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12px">Grace Abuhamad</b></div><div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><font color="#000000" style="font-size:10px">Public Policy Manager</font></div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri" style="font-size:8px"><br></font></font></div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><b style="font-size:10px">ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers</b></div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10px">801 17th Street NW, Suite 400 | Washington, DC 20006</span></p></div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:10px">Direct: +1 202 249 7545 | Mobile: +1 310 200 7638</span></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br>-- <br>Regards.<br>--------------------------<br>Fouad Bajwa<br>ICT4D and Internet Governance Advisor<br>My Blog: Internet's Governance: <a href="http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/</a><br>Follow my Tweets: <a href="http://twitter.com/fouadbajwa" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/fouadbajwa</a><br><br>