Event Announcement - June 15 - ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee Workshop
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Canadian Participation
Summary:
Hosted by the Internet Corporation for assigned Names and Numbers
At-Large
Advisory Committee, this one day workshop will provide a user friendly
forum
on the what, why and hows of Internet policy making.
DATE
Thursday, June 15, 2006
VENUE
Room 728, Claude T. Bissell Building, University of Toronto Faculty of
Information Sciences, 140 St George St, Toronto, ON, Canada
CONTACT
Jacob Malthouse <jacob.m...@icann.org>
LINKS
http://icannalac.org/
http://www.icann.org/new.html
CONTEXT
The global Internet now has more than one billion users worldwide. More
than 21 million Canadians, 67.9% of the population, regularly connect
to this network of networks.
As the number of users increases, civil society, consumer associations,
businesses, and academics are all becoming more aware of the critical
infrastructure and processes that keep the Internet running smoothly.
The Internet is unique in that the policies that govern its core
structures are still decided in an open fashion, in keeping with the
spirit with which the network was originally built. Groups and
individuals from all walks of life are encouraged to participate in the
construction of global internet policy.
This means that there is an important opportunity for Canadian
participation.
Hosted by the Internet Corporation for assigned Names and Numbers
At-Large Advisory Committee, this one day workshop will provide a user
friendly briefing on the what, why and how of Internet policy making.
AGENDA
0830 : Coffee and Registration
0900: Welcoming Remarks - Andrew Clement, Professor of Information
Studies, University of Toronto
0915: Introduction to Domain Names and Internet Addressing - John
Levine, Author, Internet for Dummies
0945: Introduction to ICANN and Current Issues - Jacob Malthouse,
Liaison, Global Partnerships, ICANN
Question and Answer
1030: Coffee
1100 : The ICANN Experience
Luc Faubert, President, Quebec Internet Society
Robert Guerra, Board Member, Privaterra
John Levine, Author, Internet for Dummies
Neil Schwartzmann, Chair, Board of Directors, CAUCE Canada
Question and Answer
1230 : Lunch
1400 : Open Discussion
1600 : Recapitulation
1615 : End