Meeting with ICANN CEO

[farzaneh badii]

I have been monitoring the process Judith, Bruna has been actively engaged.
We even led an informal group at the GNSO council that did the mapping of
GNSO policies to WSIS Action Lines, we endorsed IGP's WSIS comment. We did
a WSIS+20 session at NCUC, we are going to do another at NCSG in Dublin. We
asked numerous times to be involved as GNSO or as NCSG on ICANN panels at
the IGF and WSIS conference, they said it was not possible. And I don't
think it's ever a justified response that we were not active. we have a
pool of experts monitoring these issues. Even if we don't insist to be
included they should include us. But they don't. And honestly, I have given
up on insisting to be included. These sessions are not very fruitful anyway
and if we focus on writing up feedback and just engage with WSIS+20
directly we are better off.

Farzaneh


On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM Judith Hellerstein <judith at jhellerstein.com>
wrote:

> Hi Poncelet and others,
> The first of icann’s webinar was this morning at 1200 UTC and then next
> one is at1 utc on September 4. So it is too late to ask these questions.
>
> In answer to your question, panelists on these webinars are people who
> have been active in the past wsis process and also very active in the whole
> process going forward. The outreach list has been open for months and
> speakers chosen have been very active on these lists. Questions from the
> audience are also addressed. In today’s webinar they had the cofacilitators
> on as well as Fiona Alexander and Markus Kumar who were active throughout
> the 20 years of the WSIS.
>
> If NCSG wanted to take an active role perhaps they should be active in
> this process, send in comments, speak at the multistakeholder consultation,
> organize groups. Thsi si how engagement occurs from groups who were not
> around 20 years ago and were not extremely active then
>
> Hope this helps explain the process.
>
> Best,
> Judith
> Sent from my iPad
> judith at jhellerstein.com
> Mobile: +1202333517
>
> On Sep 3, 2025, at 10:12 AM, Poncelet Ileleji <pileleji at jokkolabs.co>
> wrote:
>
> 
> Dear Rafik,
>
> Good day, my question for the CEO revolves around the  Zero Draft
> <https://publicadministration.desa.un.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/2025/WSIS%2B20_ZERO_DRAFT.pdf>
> of the WSIS+20 Outcome Document As ICANN is having a webinar on it on the
> 3-4 October 2025.  I will be grateful to know why NCSG members are not
> involved in the webinar as speakers?  b.  I do feel ICANN should get our
> Policy folks from NCSG to be involved in such webinars and outreach on the
> WSIS+20 outcome document based on the unique stakeholder group they
> represent referencing NCSG here.
>
> Thank you
>
> Poncelet
>
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> On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> a reminder if you have any question/topic we should share with ICANN CEO
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Rafik
>>
>> Le jeu. 21 août 2025 à 22:25, Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com> a
>> écrit :
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I will have a call of 30 min in coming days with ICANN CEO. Juan and
>>> Wisdom as chairs of NPOC and NCUC will be there too.
>>>
>>> Please let us know if you have any questions or topic you want us to
>>> raise with the CEO.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Rafik
>>>
>>
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