[ALAC-Announce] ICANN Announces Opening of Montevideo Engagement Center

[At-Large Staff]

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> ICANN Announces Opening of Montevideo Engagement Center
> NEWS RELEASE
> 3 May 2013
> For Immediate Release
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> ICANN Engagement Center to Open In Latin America
> Internet leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean Region Develop a
> three-year strategic plan
> Los Angeles, CaliforniaŠ The President and Chief Executive Officer of the
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced
> the opening of an engagement center in Montevideo, Uruguay.
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> ³The opening of this regional engagement center is part or our growing effort
> to establish an ICANN presence in all parts of the globe,² said Fadi Chehadé.
> ³We are not merely saying to people Œcome to us.¹  We are going to them.  We
> are reaching out to the Latin American/Caribbean region with representatives
> who will live and work in the area.²
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> The ICANN engagement center will be based in the House of the Internet, where
> several other Internet organizations are located, including: The Internet
> Society, the Latin American and Caribbean Network Information Centre (LANIC),
> The Latin American and Caribbean TLD Association (LACTLD) and the Latin
> American and Caribbean Internet Exchange Association (LAC-IX).
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> ³ICANN´s decision to establish its Engagement Center for Latin America and the
> Caribbean at the House of the Internet makes us proud and at the same time
> confirms the value of this initiative that recently celebrated its first
> anniversary,² said Raúl Echeberría, CEO of LACNIC. ³All of the organizations
> in the house will benefit and be strengthened in the achievement of their own
> objectives and in the joint work for the sake of the community in Latin
> America and the Caribbean².
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>  ³I recently visited the House of the Internet,² said ICANN Board Chair, Dr.
> Stephen Crocker. ³This is a fantastic model, where a number of different
> Internet organizations can coordinate their efforts and even share resources,
> working together for the benefit of Internet users across the region.²
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> The Latin American/Caribbean engagement center is the second announced in the
> last few weeks. During ICANN¹s recently concluded public meeting in China,
> Fadi Chehadé announced that an engagement center would soon be opened in
> Beijing.
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> It was during the Beijing meeting that a Multi-stakeholder Steering Committee
> for the Latin American and Caribbean region presented a 3-year strategic plan
> aimed at strengthening the Internet critical infrastructure in the region. The
> committee is made up of regional representatives of Internet users groups, the
> technical community, the private sector and governments.
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> To download a high-resolution photo of the House of the Internet, go here:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/icann/8664126018/sizes/l/
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> To see a video discussion of ICANN¹s strategy for Latin American, go here:
> http://dotsub.com/view/8b749345-c118-41c5-8a17-857661957565?utm_source=player&
> utm_medium=embed
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> To review the Multi-Stakeholder Steering Committee¹s strategic plan, go here:
> http://beijing46.icann.org/meetings/beijing2013/presentation-lac-strategy-10ap
> r13-en.pdf
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> To hear an audio recording of the presentation of the strategic plan during
> the ICANN Beijing meeting, go here:
> http://audio.icann.org/meetings/beijing2013/lac-strategic-engagement-10apr13-e
> n.mp3
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> To download high-resolution photos of the Latin American/Caribbean
> Multi-stakeholder Steering Committee¹s presentation of its strategic plan
> during the Beijing meeting, go here:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/icann/sets/72157633220469644/
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