STAT1 <p><ac:macro ac:name="status"><ac:parameter ac:name="colour">Green</ac:parameter><ac:parameter ac:name="title">CONFIRMED</ac:parameter></ac:macro></p> STAT2 <p><ac:macro ac:name="status"><ac:parameter ac:name="colour">Green</ac:parameter><ac:parameter ac:name="title">COMPLETE</ac:parameter></ac:macro></p> TRAVELER <p> </p> T-EMAIL <p> </p> ALTERNATE <p> </p> A-EMAIL <p> </p> FROM1 <p>Kingston</p> FROM2 <p>Jamaica</p> TO1 <p>Paramaribo</p> TO2 <p>Suriname</p> OTHER EVENT <p>ICT Summit Paramaribo 2014</p> LINK <p>http://www.ictsummitparamaribo.sr/</p> LOCATION <p>Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KKF) Hall,<br />Paramaribo, Suriname</p> SPONSORS <p>Listed so far at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ictsummitparamaribo.com/sponsors/">http://www.ictsummitparamaribo.com/sponsors/</a>&nbsp;:</p><ul><li>TeleSUR&nbsp;<a href="https://www.telesur.sr/">https://www.telesur.sr/</a>&nbsp;;&nbsp;Telecommunications Company Suriname</li><li>BNETS &nbsp;; <a href="http://www.bnets.sr/">http://www.bnets.sr/</a>&nbsp;;&nbsp;Banking Network Suriname</li><li>UCC ; <a href="http://www.ucc.sr/UCC/">http://www.ucc.sr/UCC/</a>&nbsp;;&nbsp;United Caribbean Contractors</li></ul><p>Also, <a href="http://ictsummitparamaribo.com/2013/">http://ictsummitparamaribo.com/2013/</a> list the sponsors from the same event in 2013</p> PURPOSE <p>This Summit has the potential of attracting over 500 attendees, compromising of ICT Vendors, Distributors, Entrepreneurs, Professionals, Students, Education Providers, Policy makers, Ministries, NGO&apos;s, Users and Media. <br />Lots of different stakeholders that could become more involved in ICANN policy.</p><p>Goals:</p><ul><li>Outreach with literature about ICANN and LACRALO to raise awareness of ICANN and other stakeholder roles in ICANN.</li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.42857142857143;">Raising awareness about ICANN At-Large and networking with delegates (including following up with delegates after the meeting) to identify possible candidates for ICANN At-Large.</span></li></ul> OUTCOMES <ul><li>Distribute brochures and related material about ICANN ;</li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.42857142857143;">Identify and follow up with possible organisations that can apply to become ALSes</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.42857142857143;">Make new contacts and possible leads for the future.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.42857142857143;"><br /></span></p> INFO-PROPOSAL <p>Albert Daniel, ICANN Stakeholder Engagement from the Caribbean will be attending this event.</p> PURPOSE2 <h2>EVENT</h2><p>ICANN was officially invited to the Suriname ICT Summit and was represented by Albert Daniel, Manager&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">for Stakeholder Relations in the Caribbean. LACRALO devised an engagement framework with the&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">official ICANN representative that covered messaging about ICANN&rsquo;s role in the Internet Governance&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">ecosystem, identify Suriname as a stakeholder, the At-Large&rsquo;s role in ICANN and emphasize reasons&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">for Suriname stakeholders to engage. </span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">Carlton Samuels was drafted as the LACRALO representative to&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">accompany Albert Daniel. Both representatives coordinated and developed an appropriate narrative&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">for meeting the communications objective for the Summit. At-Large specific brochures &ndash; in Spanish and&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">English - were requested from At-Large staff, collected and taken to Paramaribo. The organizers say&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">there were some three hundred (300) attendees for both days.</span></p><h2><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">ENGAGEMENT</span></h2><p>The <a href="http://www.ictsummitparamaribo.com/program/">program</a> was developed with separate <a href="http://www.ictsummitparamaribo.com/the-role-of-icann-in-internet-governance/">presentations</a> for Albert Daniel and Carlton Samuels. Albert&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">Daniel presented the basic information on ICANN and its role on Day 1.&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">Carlton Samuels assisted in&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">the Q&amp;A section of that presentation by working the roving microphone, distributing brochures and&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">answering questions from the floor. Carlton Samuels presented on Day 2. He began the conversation&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">by outlining for the audience the status of Suriname&rsquo;s engagement in ICANN.</span></p><p>He then spoke specifically to ccTLD and end user channels as the best to begin the engagement.&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">He was ably assisted by Shernon Osepa, the Regional ISOC Manager and formerly ICANN staff. The&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">presentations were fairly well attended on both days; approximately 40 attendees. At-Large brochures&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">were distributed. The At-Large orientated presentation is attached.</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;"><ac:link><ri:attachment ri:filename="The-End-User-in-ICANN-At-Large-Policy-Process-CAS.pdf" /></ac:link></span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143; font-size: 20px;">REFLECTIONS</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">&nbsp;</span></p><p>Very few attendees had ever heard of ICANN. And the few who acknowledged had only a notional&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">sense of its role. As a result a very lively discussion came up on both days of presentation. We had&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">a significant number of attendees coming to the presentations on both days so there was some&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">continuity. </span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">The single most persistent query was how to get involved in the domain name market. A&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">lot of time was spent laying out the ICANN/Registry and ICANN/Registry/Registrar relationships. </span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">A&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">few attendees were aware of the last gTLD round, especially the cost for participating. They were not&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">aware of the ICANN-sponsored Applicant Support Initiative. We used that to emphasize the role of&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">the At-Large in ICANN and showed how that initiative developed and its intended beneficiaries. </span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">A few&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">wanted to know how the time spent in policy development would be compensated. We re-emphasized&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">voluntarism as the model for user engagement in ICANN but outlined the several ways ICANN enabled&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">the work of volunteers, including providing collaboration platforms to communicate and participate.</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">We encouraged attendees to apply for fellowships. We fielded a few keen questions about the ALAC&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">and how it interposed itself between them and ICANN. One attendee actually made the connection&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">between Internet end users and their ultimate centrality to ICANN funding but lamented the fact that&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">the ALAC could not compel the Board to act on what it sees as important.</span></p><p>In the end, a few attendees committed to developing a closer association with ICANN. We&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">recommended the communications channels and invited them to survey ALAC and LACRALO&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">teleconferences.</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">See&nbsp;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ictsuriname/with/14767997251/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ictsuriname/with/14767997251/</a>&nbsp;which shows the pictures from Day 1 of the ICT event. T</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.42857142857143;">he sequence with the ICANN related ones for Day 1 begins at 6227 decreasing with Albert.&nbsp;</span></p> OUTCOMES2 <p>See response to Question 1.</p> INFO-EVAL <h1>Background</h1><p>Suriname is a Dutch-speaking member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) located in South&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">America, North-East of Brazil, East of Guyana and West of French Guiana. It has a population of just&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">over one half million (560,000) and is multiethnic. It is the smallest sovereign state in South America&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">and has aligned its foreign and domestic policy with the English-speaking Caribbean.</span></p><p>The ccTLD is .sr.&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">The ccTLD management is not engaged in ICANN.</span></p><p>While overtures have been made before now thru&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">fraternal academic relationships, there are no At-Large Structures (ALS) established in Suriname.&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">The At-Large established policy is for at least one (1) ALS established&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">in each country or territory. LACRALO, specifically the Caribbean subgrouping, is engaged in recruiting&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">new ALS to LACRALO and constantly scan the regional landscape for opportunities to raise awareness&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">of the ICANN enterprise and present the role played in policy development by end user representatives&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">to likely civil society organisations and actors.</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">For&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">the first time, a Surinamese citizen &ndash; representing the government - received a fellowship to attend the&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">Meeting at London. The At-Large established policy is for at least one (1) ALS established.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">The annual <a href="http://www.ictsummitparamaribo.com/">ICT Summit</a> is the largest ICT-related event&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">on the national calendar and attracts a wide cross-section of business, educational, government and&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">civil society connected attendees. It is also an event that attracts international attention, including ICT&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">interests from the wider Caribbean.</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.42857142857143;">&nbsp;</span></p> NOTES1 <p> </p> NOTES2 <p> </p> TRIPS 1.0 TRAVELERS 0 ALTERNATE <p>Jacqueline Morris</p> T-EMAIL <p>carlton.samuels@gmail.com</p> TRAVELER <p>Carlton Samuels</p> A-EMAIL <p>jam@jacquelinemorris.com</p> rowCount 1 APPDATE 2014-05-12 23:38:09.0 UTC DEPART 2014-06-04 00:00:00.0 UTC RETURN 2014-06-07 00:00:00.0 UTC REGION Latin America and Caribbean T&C Yes AUTH Yes RVP Yes REQUIREMENTS 0 INITIALS JDL RQMT Structure Leader Confirmation NOTES1 SATISFIED 2014-05-10 00:00:00.0 UTC 1 INITIALS JDL RQMT Stakeholder Engagement VP Confirmation NOTES1 SATISFIED 2014-05-12 00:00:00.0 UTC 2 INITIALS JDL RQMT Speakers Bureau NOTES1 <p>N/A</p> SATISFIED 2014-05-14 00:00:00.0 UTC 3 INITIALS JDL RQMT Communications Department NOTES1 <p>N/A</p> SATISFIED 2014-05-14 00:00:00.0 UTC 4 INITIALS JDL RQMT Meetings Team NOTES1 <p>N/A</p> SATISFIED 2014-05-14 00:00:00.0 UTC 5 INITIALS JDL RQMT Constituency Travel NOTES1 <p>Advised Constituency Travel today of the approved proposal and traveler; will follow up in one week&apos;s time</p> SATISFIED 2014-05-14 00:00:00.0 UTC rowCount 6 CONFIRMATIONS 0 STAFF Janice Douma Lange NOTES2 CONFIRM Yes CONFIRMDATE 2014-05-14 00:00:00.0 UTC rowCount 1 COMPLETED 2014-08-03 00:00:00.0 UTC