NCSG Meeting Agenda and chat with CEO

[Raoul Plommer]

I support Tapani's suggestion - we almost lost half of our four slots
because of visa problems for the Hague meeting. I did manage to fight back
successfully for the other one but the other slot we lost. :(

-Raoul

On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 at 14:06, Tapani Tarvainen <ncsg at tapani.tarvainen.info>
wrote:

> Hi Bruna,
>
> I would like to suggest a topic for the CEO meeting. And for other
> relevant fora as well. Namely, an old but still very relevant one,
> now that meetings have become physical again:
>
> Visa problems with people from certain areas in the world, notably
> Africa.
>
> In particular, I would highlight the time limits in Community Travel
> Support Guidelines, which say that substitutions must be made at the
> latest 45 days before the event.
>
> Given the timeframe traveller decisions are made, visa problems are
> often not even known that early.
>
> Arguing that the policy is the same for everyone is disingenious,
> as the problem doesn't apply to everyone equally.
>
> When you look at their actual effect, these rules are clearly
> discriminatory, if not outright racist, in practice.
>
> As a concrete small step that would help at least a little, those
> substitution time limits should be relaxed when the reason for
> the substitution is a visa problem.
>
> In addition to the usual things like negotiating about it with
> the host country already before selecting the meeting site.
>
> --
> Tapani Tarvainen
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 12:10:34PM +0200, Bruna Martins dos Santos (
> bruna.mrtns at GMAIL.COM) wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > It's time again! We are starting the preparations for ICANN 74, thats
> > finally going to be a Hybrid meeting in The Hague from rom 13-16 June
> 2022. In
> > light of that, i'd like to bring the following topics/requests to our
> list:
> >
> > *NCSG Membership Meeting agenda*
> > I would like to ask you whether you'd like to contribute to the NCSG
> > meeting agenda with the suggestions of topics or community/staff members
> we
> > could invite to join.
> >
> > *NCSG Leadership Meeting with ICANN CEO*
> > On June 1stI will have another 1:1 meeting with Goran Marby and am also
> > welcoming suggestions of topics our members would like me to discuss with
> > him during this upcoming meeting.
> >
> > Feel free to reply to this thread or to me privately with suggestions of
> > topics and issues we could bring to the table both at our membership
> > meeting but also with Mr. Marby.
> >
> > Looking forward to hearing back from you and seeing some in The Hague.
> >
> > Best,
> > --
> >
> > *Bruna Martins dos Santos *
> >
> > German Chancellor Fellow 21' (Bundeskanzler-Stipendiatin) | Alexander von
> > Humboldt Foundation <https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/>
> >
> > Visiting Researcher (Gastwissenschaftlerin) | Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
> > für Sozialforschung (WZB) <https://wzb.eu/en>
> >
> > Member | Coalizão Direitos na Rede <https://direitosnarede.org.br/>
> > Chair | Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group at ICANN
> > <https://gnso.icann.org/en/about/stakeholders-constituencies/ncsg>
> > Co-Coordinator | Internet Governance Caucus  <https://igcaucus.org/>
> >
> > Twitter: @boomartins <https://twitter.com/boomartins> // Skype:
> > bruna.martinsantos
> > *bruna.martinsdossantos at wzb.eu <bruna.martinsdossantos at wzb.eu>* and
> > bruna.mrtns at gmail.com
>
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