NPOC held two events at ICANN 43 in San Jose, Costa Rica. Find below details of both events including a link to the transcription during the morning session on Stakeholder/Constituency Day:

1) Not-for-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency (NPOC). The Newest ICANN Constituency. Vision, Mission and Priorities

Date: Tue, 13 March 2012 - 11:00 - 12:00

Overview: The global NGO community is under-represented at ICANN and wishes to increase its…

Buenas tardes.

Muchas gracias por participar el día de ayer en el “Día de Conexión de las Organizaciones no Gubernamentales 2012”, organizado por la Fundación Omar Dengo y patrocinado por Microsoft. Esperamos que la información suministrada y la interacción durante los dos talleres hayan sido de beneficio para la actividades de su organización.

Las presentaciones y documentos están disponibles en la página web…

The Millennium Project Node, ( http://www.proyectomilenio.org ),  invites you to participate in our Delphi Study on the future of business organizations and cooperatives, in the framework of the 2012 UN International Year of Cooperatives:

www.realtimedelphi.net

Code: orgs

Please participate in this very important study.

Thanks! Your GKPF team

ICT for Development International School

ICT4DEVIS

A bridge between technology and development

2012 Edition

ICT4DEVIS 1^st Edition

Date: September 3^rd to 7^th, 2012

Location: Como, Italy (…

We have just added a new project to our online donation platform: "ICT Capacity Building for HOMENET". A twelve-month project to replicate DWMA ( Distributed Work Management System, cloud based ICT application - internet+ SMS+MMS with sub-users and credit management system) platform specifically for Homenet Philippines (with 15 branches); train the administrators + over 10,000 beneficiary recipients; and form sustainable partnerships with process mechanisms to increase organizational…

The ALAC notes with concern the recent activities of the ICANN Board, its staff, and the GNSO regarding the reservation of domain names related to the Olympic and Red Cross movements. We object to the poor precedents these activities set forward both on substance and on process:

On substance, we see no substantial reason to afford to the Red Cross and the International Olympic Committee protections not available to other rights holders. Substantial objection procedures were put…

Context: Given the tension here on the IOC and Red Cross exemption (some of us call it protection) and the Drafting Committee Chair report to GNSO, NPOC finds it wise, for the benefit of our current and future NPOC members, as well as the ICANN Community at large, that NPOC promotes and supports a broader manner in the generic extension of this protection based on avoiding the setting of a precedent, and based on objective and independently verifiable criteria to define who or…

Please see below the joint statement between NPOC and NCUC that has been sent to the GNSO and the ICANN Board.



Many thanks to NPOC and NCUC for this great and positive step.



"Leadership teams from the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) and the Non Profit Operations Constituency (NPOC) met on Sunday, March 11, 2012. The meeting was extremely fruitful and we discussed our differences and our shared objectives and how to improve working together going forward. The two…

A number of GKPF members, GKPF friends and the GKPF trustees currently gather in San Jose Costa Rica, to participate in the 43rd ICANN meeting, to hold co-operation talks and for a GKPF trustees meeting. Currently a planning session with NPOC is taking place.The aim of this meeting is to find ways to give the global NGO community a greater voice in the Internet Governance. GKPF is…

As you might know, the Global Villages Initiative is one of the exciting initiatives GKPF is supporting. Watch the video by clicking here and meet one of the Villages. If you would like to know more about the global Villages talk, please participate in the ongoing discussion in the GKP Open Forum Discussion group which you can access from the GKPF site main page. If you like to know more about Gertenbach, please contact Ulich Burkhard…

GKPF is happy to announce the launch of its Online donation and resource mobilization tool for members. Above you see the first examples of the tool. This is just the beginning and we will expand this and other services over time. You are able to see them all at gkp.akvoapp.org If you are interested in putting your own project up, there are still some free spaces available) please contact gkp@gkpfoundation.org.

The Public Internet Registry which runs currently the Internets top domain name .ORG has applied for the new top domain name .NGO Learn all about it here: http://www.ngotld.org/

GKPF announces Honorary Trustees: Part 2, Rinalia Abdul Rahim…

The Notforprofit Operational Concerns Constituency (NPOC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and the GKP Foundation are exploring different avenues of collaboration to benefit both network membership…