ICANN Pre-ICANN69 Policy Outlook Report
A pdf booklet which explains what is happening policy wise for each of the ICANN sections that will be covered during ICANN69
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Seventeen years ago, the Y2K bug was making headlines around the world as programmers worked frantically to update their systems to prevent a potential crash on 1 January 2000. It was during this Y2K rush that Etuate Cocker, a network/systems engineer at Spark New Zealand, who originally hails from the Kingdom of Tonga, remembers becoming interested…
Rinalia Abdul Rahim from Malaysia was recently elected by members of ALAC and Regional Chairs, as the new ALAC member on the ICANN Board (2015-2017). Read about Rinalia’s achievements here Below was a celebratory dinner (left to right): Walid (Yemen), Rinalia (Malaysia), Rafid (Saudi Arabia), Maureen (Cook Islands), Robert (Canada), Holly (Australia) and Satish…
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The mandate of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) calls for strengthening and enhancing of the stakeholder engagement from developing countries. It also calls for the Forum to contribute to building capacity for Internet governance in developing countries, drawing fully on local sources of knowledge and expertise. During the 13th IGF, the United Nations Secretary-General has called for action…
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As originally published on sprep.org 28 October 2019, Apia, Samoa – Building the capacity of Pacific National Meteorological Service staff to effectively use and sustain new Information Technology tools is at the core of a week-long training workshop being held at the newly opened Pacific Climate Change Centre at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment…