Civil Society Home

Civil society in ICANN includes not-for-profit and non-governmental organisations, non-commercial individual Internet end-users and academia. 

ICANN civil society stakeholders:

• Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG) http://gnso.icann.org/en/about/stakeholders-constituencies/ncsg
  • Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) http://www.ncuc.org/
  • Not-for-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency (NPOC) http://npoc.org/
• At-Large (Individual users) http://atlarge.icann.org
  
  

The At-Large community is structured into five Regional At-Large Organizations (RALO) each composed of a number of regional At-Large Structures (ALS), that consist of Internet user organizations and unaffiliated users. The RALO each appoint two members of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), which acts as the representative body of the At-Large community in ICANN. At-Large Structures may self-identify as civil society organizations.

Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) is a home for civil society organizations and individuals within ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), where policy for generic Top-level Domains (gTLDs) is developed. NCSG's primary role is to represent, through its two constituencies, the interests and concerns of noncommercial registrants and non-commercial Internet users of gTLDs. It provides a voice and representation in the GNSO and other ICANN policy processes to non-profit organizations and individuals who are primarily concerned with the noncommercial, public interest aspects of domain name policy. The NCSG has two differently focused constituencies, the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) and the Not-for-profit Operational Concerns Constituency (NPOC)