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Strengthening Consumer Agenda at ICANN

Date: 
Tue 15 Mar 2011 - 08:30 - 12:45
Room: 
Borgia
Remote Participation - Low Bandwidth
Remote Participation - High Bandwidth
Overview

Working Together in Advancing Consumer Interests,
Charters - Anchoring Consumers onto Policy Development Process Structure
Strides in Consumers Interests at ICANN
New gTLD Opportunities for Consumers – Competition, Choice and Safety
Registrants Rights- Consumer protection in light of trademark protectionism - dangers and problems
Policy Development Participation and Prioritisation

Who Should Attend? | Anybody interested in Consumer issues

Agenda Details:

Intro: "Working Together in Advancing Consumer Interests, Robert Hoggarth, ICANN Staff(TBC)

Keynote: "Charters - Anchoring Consumers onto Policy Development Process Structure" Avri Doria, Chair, NCSG. (TBC)

Background: "Strides in Consumers Interests at ICANN" - Rosemary Sinclair, Councilor (Remote participant - TBC)

Panel 1: "New gTLD Opportunities for Consumers – Competition, Choice and Safety" (Panelists TBD)

Plenary Discussions / Q&A

Panel 2: Registrants Rights
'Consumer protection in light of trademark protectionism

  • dangers and problems' Konstantinos Komaitis (confirmed)

Wendy Seltzer (confirmed)

Panel 3: "Policy Development Participation and Prioritisation"

  1. Beau Brendler (confirmed)
  2. Alex Gakuru (confirmed)

Plenary Discussions / Q&A

Board Member, (if one is available )

Wrap-up Session: Rosemary(TBC), Beau (confirmed) and Alex (confirmed)

Hyperlinks to relevant documentation.

  1. Draft CC Charter
  2. Request placeholders for papers/presentations of each speaker (to be uploaded in due course)

Scheduling -- Start Time - End time

8:30 – 8:40 Intro
8:40 – 9:00 Keynote
9:00 – 9:20 Background
9:20 – 10:00 Panel 1 - Competition Choice and Safety
10:00 – 11:10 Plenary Q&A
10:10 - 10:20 Coffee/Tea Break
10:20 - 11:00 Panel 2 - Registrants' Rights
11:00 – 11:20 Panel 3 - Policy Development Participation
11:20 – 11:40 Plenary and Q&A
11:40 – 12:00 Board Member
12:00 – 12:45 Wrap-up