[Npoc-discuss] NPOC events at ICANN 53 Buenos Aires

[Klaus Stoll]

Dear Friends

I am pleased to be able to announce three NPOC events that has been 
organized during the upcoming ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires Argentina. 
You will find the details on the events listed below. You can find 
detailed ICANN 53 Conference Information at:

Spanish: http://buenosaires53.icann.org/es

English: http://buenosaires53.icann.org/en/

Portuguese: http://buenosaires53.icann.org/pt

The events have been organized as a partnership between NPOC, the 
Pathfinder Initiative(for further information see the attached 
Pathfinder brochure), and ICANN. Please join us if you can in Buenos 
Aires or online or by following the web casts

Yours

Klaus Stoll

Chair NPOC Program Committee


*Event1: LAC NGO Assembly on Internet Governance*


*Date:* Saturday 20th June, 10.30 am -13.10 pm

*Place:* Sheraton Buenos Aires Hotel & Convention Center, San Martin 
1225, Buenos Aires 1104 Argentina.

*Language of event: *Spanish with English and Portuguese translation

*RSVP:*To register for this event please send an email to: rsvp at gkpf.org

Please also RSVP if you want to follow the event via a web cast. We will 
send you the information how to connect as soon as they become available.

The LAC NGO Assembly on Internet Governance brings together NGOs, Civil 
Society and other Internet governance stakeholder groups in order to 
raise awareness and organizational capacity on the Internet related 
issues they face. The goal of the meeting is to engage in strategic 
Internet planning and to promote organizational voices in areas of 
Internet policy formation and implementation relevant to their work and 
their mission. The NGO Assembly engages with all sectors and does not 
limit itself to Civil Society as today’s Internet stakeholders have to 
rely for their growth and development on the co-operation and 
partnership with a multitude of other highly diverse organizations and 
sectors. The NGO Assembly is designed to produce win-win policies and 
practice outcomes.

*Event 2: "Meet ICANN" **Your Chance to meet the ICANN stakeholders, see 
the ICANN community at work and participate in a ICANN meeting.*

*Date:* Monday, 22nd of June, 13,00

*Place: *Sheraton Buenos Aires Hotel & Convention Center, San Martin 
1225, Buenos Aires 1104 Argentina. Please meet at the Conference 
Registration desk 15 minutes before the event.

To register for this event please send an email to: rsvp at gkpf.org

ICANN as an organization, its role, function and work is a mystery to 
the waste majority of Internet users. Sometimes, one has the feeling 
that as more ICANN becomes important to our every day lives, the less 
people seem to know about it. This is a great opportunity for everybody 
who wants to know more about ICANN in particular and Internet Governance 
in general, to meet with a number of ICANN representatives and 
stakeholders and to experience a ICANN meeting.

*Language of event: *Spanish, English and Portuguese. Introduction in 
Spanish with English translation. Different hosts will use their native 
language during the walkabout and groups can also be formed according to 
language preferences of visitors.

*Event 3: NPOC Constituency day encounter with NGOs*

*Date:* Tuesday, 23rd of June, 12.00pm-13.00pm

*Place:* Sheraton Buenos Aires Hotel & Convention Center, San Martin 
1225, Buenos Aires 1104 Argentina

*Language of event: *Spanish with English and Portuguese translation

*RSVP:*To register for this event please send an email to: rsvp at gkpf.org

Please also RSVP if you want to follow the event via a web cast. We will 
send you the information how to connect as soon as they become available.

Engage with, participate in and contribute to the IG multi stakeholder 
decision making process. The NGO Caucus held some days before was 
designed to produce win-win policies and practice outcomes. This follow 
up meeting is designed to develop and implement strategies how to 
contribute the NGO caucus outcomes to the wider ICANN policy and 
decision making process. A further aim is also to engage participants 
with their respective constituencies and stakeholder groups.

*For your information:*

NPOC, as the Not for Profit Users Concerns Constituency within ICANN’s 
Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG), is a body that represents Not 
For Profit Users operational concerns within the ICANN Internet 
Governance ecosystem. Its dual roles involve (a) contributing and 
participating in policy making, and (b) raising awareness and engagement 
on the part of its stakeholder constituency. The Global Knowledge 
Partnership Foundation’s (GKPF) Pathfinder initiative is focused on 
awareness and capacity building with civil society organizations and 
other stakeholders beyond not-for-profits and civil society. The 
Pathfinder initiative deals with all sources of Internet policy and 
practices that impact directly on the mission, vision and work agendas 
of various stakeholder constituencies. Collaboration between NPOC and 
the Pathfinder initiative has taken place, and will occur on occasion 
when Pathfinder’s role is useful to assist NPOC in constituency 
awareness and engagement in Internet policy. The GKPF and its Pathfinder 
initiative pursue their own agenda of events around awareness and 
capacity building beyond and quite independent of any collaboration with 
NPOC.

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