Greetings everyone, nice to see so many familiar names and faces. Hope you are all staying healthy and safe.

Good afternoon from Accra, Ghana

Nice to join you all from Toronto.

hi everyone Frank Anati from Ghana, https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-anati

That was an old photo of mine! sigh. When I was young…

:)

hahaha...we at ICANN hope to keep you young @Farzaneh :-)

Me too Tomslin! :)))

I like pioneer!

I like that too

me too

Thanks Kathy :)

Milton got a promotion!

Thank you Kathy.

The bottom-up policy approach does not work in most part of Africa as decisions always taken by the ragolators.

Exactly what I am talking about Yusif

Hello to all, Lavish (EGIGFA-ALS, Ghana), great to be here!

Welcome, Lavish.

Welcome Lavish. Good to have you here

Hello Everyone, Emmanuel Dabbie Botchway (EGIGFA - ALS, GHANA 🇬🇭)

Hello Emmanuel! welcome.

Privileged to be part

Awesome Adam

Inspiring short history. Worth the retelling.

Ben, I want 30 secs!

Christopher making a “quick” intervention? ;-)

Thank you, please….

I want to respond, too

To GNSO?

power is bestowed upon governments

How can civil society thwart the push of authoritarian regimes to control the Internet? How slow down democratic countries from over-regulating?

oh no I do need to respond

My slice of exposure can be very short indeed during this session. That's fine. It's important to get answers for these suspicions.

If something needs to be rebalanced, it's our representation at NomCom. That's a really glaring inbalance, which is as clear as it could be.

Agree with Milton on this.

Evidently, I disagree with Milton. CW

agreed Raoul. It’s not a rebalance. It’s only fair!

...and that has been dragging on for like five years now and by the looks of it, is not going to change, despite the stern recommendation from external consultants.

it's just a very minor detail in the big picture but goes to show, how we can't even have what really belongs to us.

AtLarge.news/welcome

I think ICANN has nothing to do with protecting consumers from fake Gucci bags.

Good to jo

Please @ncuc on twitter and let the conversation continue.

@Farzaneh -- I think that is disrespectful to the many volunteers who work on the At Large side of the equation

Please follow @ncuc on twitter and let the conversation continue.

But why Marita? We don’t have a good definition for consumer protection, this is what I am pointing out. Why is it disrespectful?

Let's stay focused on the speakers, if we can.

I want to be your policy chair, Raoul

The webinar series Raoul mentioned, you can find an archive here https://community.icann.org/display/NPOCC/Webinars

Thanks Adam!

Milton, by all means but I'm afraid you're jesting only :P

Milton, you need to become an NPOC member first…

and NCSG also has log standing Individual Members directly such as @Avri and even myself...

Indeed

long not log ;-)

Milton: https://theintercept.com/2021/04/29/covid-vaccine-factory-production-ip/

I must leave for another call. Thank you, Olga, Ben, for organizing this webinar, great to see these activities continue after the additional budget request of a few years ago. Hope to see you, somewhere, sometime this year. Be well, and thanks.

OK. Ignore that message. I’ll stay!

What changed your mind Adam? :)

No need for me to speak.

Q&A, and I expect the other call will be 5 mins of agenda

Indeed @Bruna Communication is key. Thise examples were communications exercises

We share an interest in greater non-commercial participation in ICANN policy development. that core goal unites us and serves as a basis for joint outreach.

I want to encourage new members to ask questions? Please ask questions

questions from others? I just wanted to kick it off :-)

Id be happy to go back to organizing the joint outreaches, tbh.

We all have an interest to make sure ICANN's MSM model works -- we need to work together

Agree, Marita

Now I should leave. Thanks again. Be well

Take our new class!AtLarge.news/welcome

I have a Q, I would be curious. What is the rate of newcomer (new members) applications during the pandemic? How much have the numbers changed compared to before the pandemic?

Indeed SeB much opportunity for mutualism in the Implementation of ATRT3 Recs

At NCSG we don’t have that information but I was wondering the same thing, @Ioana. Will take a look and let you know later.

some of the first joint meetings with NCUC and At large was initiated during my time as the chair of NCUC. Which continued when I was NCSG chair. I couldn’t attend them unfortunately because of the travel ban. Bruna and others are continuing that too

@Ioana, outreach has been challenging. The North American Regional At-Large Organization has been focused on educational efforts, this past year, for example.

It is a good question from Ioana. I think NCSG should have records of who applied for membership during the past year?

We haven’t been able to do much outreach. I am not too optimistic

Most new members come straight from live meetings, I'd guess 80-90% of them.

It's been hard for working parents, among others.

Thanks Zuck for the resource...

There were departures too? That is also interesting, would be interested to see that too (numbers)

Thanks Bruna

I know of at least one departure - that guy was here longer than a decade, I think.. :/

Well said @JZ!

Please keep the questions

Agree fully with Jonathan. My experience since I am active with other organizations.

+1Jonathan

As an inactive NCSG/NCUC member and an inactive AL member, I find listening into the NCSG Policy calls and the AL CPWG among the best ways to keep up with the policy issues from a civil society perspective. I recommend them both.

That’s helpful advice Avri. Very objective as well. I agree.

+1 Milton. you need to find that passion and the spark. :)

Agree Milton. Getting a few, dedicated people, is the key

And ICANN mission is really narrow. So people are rightfully not paying a lot of attention

there are more shiny topics such as social media

I agree with JZ.

Agreed Milton -- it is a complex area and not everyone's cup of tea. But having avenues for people to be reasonably informed without completely immersed will also help as it will be a preview.

I think old people should rule

You would think that.

we should have a seniority system.

just kidding of course

Sure Milton. We give you a tiara. You’ll be the king

but but, i want a tiara too

No Steve Crocker is the oldest, he gets the tiara

Steve had his chance to rule!

OK, Bruna get the tiara and I get a crown

or maybe a football helmet

Excellent session. Thank you all for sharing your knowledge. Be safe and be kind.

kings are supposed to sit back and be royal.

From my perspective, hearing from civil society is critical. Glad to see the various groups discussing together. Thanks for the session.

Tx you Olga and Benjamin!

Thank you so much, Milton. I will happily use my tiara once we can go back to meetings. Didn’t we have a glitter stick once ?

Great webinar. Thanks all!Bye & Stay Well everyone!

Good session. Thanks to the organizers

Look forward to the next interchange

Bye

Bye everyone! Thanks for joining!

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