Historical Resolution Tracking Feature » 2011-06-24 - March 2012 ICANN Meeting in Latin America
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2011-06-24 - March 2012 ICANN Meeting in Latin America
Board approves San Jose, Costa Rica as the ICANN 2012 Latin America Meeting site.
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Whereas, ICANN intends to hold its first Meeting for 2012 in the Latin America region as per its policy.
Whereas, the Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Costa Rica submitted a viable proposal to serve as host for the ICANN 2012 Latin America Meeting.
Whereas, staff has completed a thorough review of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Costa Rica proposal and finds it acceptable.
Whereas, the Board Finance Committee will review and is expected to approve the budget for the ICANN 2012 Latin America Meeting as proposed in this paper on 14 June 2011.
Resolved (2011.06.24.14), the Board accepts the proposal of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Costa Rica and approves that the ICANN 2012 Latin America Meeting shall be held in San Jose, Costa Rica from 11-16 March 2012, with a budget not to exceed US$2.29M.
As part of ICANN's public meeting schedule, three times a year ICANN hosts a meeting in a different geographic region (as defined in the ICANN Bylaws) of the world. Meeting Number 43, scheduled for 11-16 March 2012, is to occur in the Latin America geographic region. A call for recommendations for the location of the meeting in Latin America was posted on 25 April 2011. A number of proposals were received including from Academia Nacional de Ciencias, the .cr TLD administrator, Costa Rica – San Jose.
The Board reviewed Staff's recommendation for hosting the meeting in San Jose, Costa Rica and the determination that the proposal met the significant factors of the Meeting Selection Criteria used to guide site selection work. Outside of the call for recommendations, the process for selection of sites does not call for public consultation, as the staff assessment of the feasibility of any site is the primary consideration.
There will be a financial impact on ICANN in hosting the meeting and providing travel support as necessary, as well as on the community in incurring costs to travel to the meeting. There is no impact on the security or the stability of the DNS due to the hosting of the meeting.
- Information on the San Jose meeting is available at: http://costarica43.icann.org/.
- Calendar of events is available at: http://meetings.icann.org/calendar.
- Funding identified in resolution.