<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Farzaneh,</div><div><br></div><div>I think that Farell made a good point. I think it will be intersting to have the answer of the board.</div><div><br></div><div>My concern is about new gtld, how the board will encourage, ensure a real development and support of compagnies in developing countries. Accordind to latest stat, Accordind to latest stats, amongst 1930 applicants (911 North America, 675 EU, 303 Asia, 24 LAC, 17 Africa)<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>best,</div><div><br></div><div>~pascal</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-01-10 10:59 GMT+01:00 Arsène Tungali <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arsenebaguma@gmail.com" target="_blank">arsenebaguma@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi Farzaneh,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for this.<br><div><br></div><div>For those who doesn’t know, the Intercessional is an annual planning meeting which will take place this year in Los Angeles from Feb 1-2 and where some of our leaders will be attending. Not sure yet whether remote participation will be available for the entire meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>At the NCSG level, our Councilors and the Chair will be attending as well as representatives from our two constituencies. The list of attendees will be shared on this list soon.</div><div><br></div><div>One of the issue that i would suggest we discuss with both the CEO and the Board is the issue with finances/income. As we have learnt and have mentioned in one of our recent comment, ICANN is not doing well with regards to its income and we suggested them to cut some of their expenses so that the community doesn’t end up paying the extra cost through mechanisms such as increasing fees.</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to know what are their strategies to deal with this issue (especially because their FY18 budget will be out soon) and if they have taken into account our suggestions of some areas where they can cut costs. During this meeting we can make sure we know whether our voice is being heard or not.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Arsene<br><br><div id="gmail-m_-5335727041269875023m_5773075392353111274AppleMailSignature"><div>-----------------</div><div>Arsène Tungali,</div><div><a href="http://about.me/ArseneTungali" target="_blank">about.me/ArseneTungali</a></div><div><a href="tel:+243%20993%20810%20967" value="+243993810967" target="_blank">+243 993810967</a></div><div>GPG: 523644A0</div><div>Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo</div><div><br></div>Sent from my iPhone (excuse typos)</div><div><div class="gmail-m_-5335727041269875023h5"><div><br>On Jan 10, 2018, at 11:36 AM, Farell Folly <<a href="mailto:farellfolly@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank">farellfolly@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Hello Farzaneh,<div><br></div><div>Will the discussions concern a specific topic or we can choose any?</div><div>My concern is the following :</div><div><br></div><div>Even though there is actually a public comment going on the diversity report, I would like to hear the CEO's opinion about ICANN diversity as a whole. Is it diversity a priority for him? What part of his agenda this year will deal with diversity? The WS2 work is still ongoing and may take longer to finish and more to implement. Will ICANN simply wait untill the time comes or the CEO think there can be some exception (temporary solution) to fill the gap : especially where the ICANN diversity data report expressly noted that among the 190 leaders of ICANN only 21 are African ( vs1.1 billion of inhabitants), 28 are from the LAC (650 millions) and Asia is comparatively the most underrepresented continent (taken #active internet users). RSSAC and SSAC have no African representative and RSSAC has no LAC member, 9 out of 12 are from North America.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Le mer. 10 janv. 2018 à 03:14, farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" target="_blank">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dear NCSG members,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As you know, we will have the intersessional meeting at the end of January. This meeting is a meeting of the Non-contracted party house, which simply means a meeting of Non Commercial Stakeholder Group and Commercial Stakeholder Group. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I will share the agenda with you soon but there are two important segment of the meeting that we need your contribution: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">What should we discuss with the CEO?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">What should we discuss with the Board? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Please provide your input by 15 January. </div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Farzaneh<br></div>
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