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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">On behalf of Joanna Kulesza and Alfredo Calderon, Co-Chairs of the Capacity Building Working Group, we would like to invite you to join the third webinar of the
 new <b><a href="https://community.icann.org/x/1Ic3Ag" target="_blank">At-Large Capacity Building Program – 2020</a> </b>on the Topic of “<b>Geopolitics and Cybersecurity</b>”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">The webinar is scheduled on
<b>Monday 01 June at 21:00 UTC for 90 minutes.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">For other times:
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">https://tinyurl.com/yb55h47f</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">French and Spanish interpretation will be provided.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Please
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><a href="https://icann.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kBW35SJITY-T8xAXZCv0IQ"><span style="color:red">REGISTER</span></a>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">to receive the webinar details</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://icann.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kBW35SJITY-T8xAXZCv0IQ" target="_blank" title="https://icann.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kBW35SJITY-T8xAXZCv0IQ"><span style="color:#0563C1;background:#F8F8F8">https://icann.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kBW35SJITY-T8xAXZCv0IQ</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Guest Speakers are:
<a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/board-of-directors?user=70">Léon Sánchez</a>, ICANN Board Vice Chair;
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_profiles_265&d=DwMDaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=PqnmlD10aN3cxIHyiUf_hNf25P6Dsv7dJM6flBzRrBs&m=kCfKs0p7lTVIf1Xa0YlbZjVHdgCXl2CJikZhzbr5LNc&s=GrxmkEjzL-6L-0UgJb1f2ub8_y84GT4jSOxxqPJ3Lxc&e=">
Veni Markovski</a>, ICANN Vice President for UN engagement and <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__icannwiki.org_Javier-5FRua-2DJovet&d=DwMDaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=PqnmlD10aN3cxIHyiUf_hNf25P6Dsv7dJM6flBzRrBs&m=kCfKs0p7lTVIf1Xa0YlbZjVHdgCXl2CJikZhzbr5LNc&s=q-m2qs57JYTu7b_xQiRqciPRkcgGtkuXKDsG0oiMYSU&e=">
Javier Rúa-Jovet</a>, ALAC NARALO representative.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Building upon the successful geopolitics and cybersecurity session during ICANN 67 [<a href="https://67.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1152529">One World - One Internet? Cybersecurity and
 Geopolitics in a Multistakeholder Environment</a>], the At-Large Capacity Building Working Group is holding a follow up webinar as a run up to ICANN 68. Its aim is to follow the progress made thus far in enhancing community presence in ongoing cybersecurity
 and Internet governance discussions as well as get a better understating of upcoming issues and challenges.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This interactive webinar will include an update on UN processes potentially impacting ICANN’s mission as well as a review of ICANN Board's progress and further plans in ensuring due
 representation of the ICANN community in these geopolitical trends. We hope for the webinar to be a platform for developing a better understanding of end user interests as represented in ICANN multistakeholder processes and how those fit in with global multilateral
 discussion in UN and beyond. Additionally, we will also try to explore whether the recent pandemic has impacted multistakeholder policy development, with particular emphasis on end user interests.
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">During this webinar we would like to address the following questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What are the recent developments in international relations and policy making which might have a direct impact on ICANN,
 its community and its functions (with emphasis on UN OEWG and UN GGE)? Has the pandemic impacted these ongoing processes? What are the nearest prospected outcomes we should be aware of? Have multilateral and multistakeholder processes proven to be contradictory
 by nature or can they be aligned?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What are the nearest ICANN Board plans to address these developments and interests? How can the ICANN community best support
 the Board in fulfilling these? </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">How do we identify a common end user interest among and between these law making efforts? Are end users more than subjects
 to state jurisdiction - is there a shared common interest to be identified and addressed by the ICANN community? Is the collective interest of end users different from that of state citizens as represented by governments? Does multistakeholderism still offer
 a critical “post Westphalian” innovation allowing and fostering individual end-user’ engagement internationally, helping counterbalance state-actors’ purely geopolitical interests or are we heading back to multilateralism?
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The webinar will be an interactive exercise that welcomes questions and discussion from all community members.
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We will have an interactive quiz during the presentations and an opportunity for Q&A at the end of the presentation. Staff will end the webinar with an Evaluation Survey to allow
 us to continue to improve these webinars.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We hope for this to be a useful point of departure for the upcoming virtual policy forum at ICANN68 (June
 22<sup>nd</sup> - 25<sup>th</sup>). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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