[lac-discuss-en] Information on upcoming meetings in LACRALO needed

[Dev Anand Teelucksingh]

2nd Latin American and Caribbean Prepatory Meeting for the IGF :
August 11th to 13th, 2009
http://www.nupef.org.br/igf/english/

Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC) are
http://lacnic.net/en/index.html are also doing meetings in the region,
LACNIC CARIBBEAN, JULY 16th-17th, 2009 was just held in Trinidad.
(http://lacnic.net/en/eventos/caribbean2/)

Caribbean Internet Governance Forum held by the Caribbean 
Telecommunications Union (CTU) : http://ctu.int/cigf-2009-overview

The CTU is also doing a Caribbean Roadshow with meetings in several 
Carribbean islands from now to April 2010 :
http://ctu.int/index.php/about-the-ict-road-show
http://ctu.int/download/CTU_Caribbean_ICT_Roadshow_Overview.pdf (8.4 MB 
PDF) and http://ctu.int/attachments/054_CTU%20Caribbean%20Road_Show.pdf
has more details about these meetings. Page 12 of
http://ctu.int/attachments/054_CTU%20Caribbean%20Road_Show.pdf
lists several tentative meeting dates and locations.

Also, persons from The Ministry of Public Administration (MPA ; 
http://fastforward.tt/) from the Government of Trinidad and Tobago have 
attended several ICANN meetings under the Fellowship programme (Puerto 
Rico 2007, Sydney 2009 and will be again at Soeul 2009). The TTCS is in 
contact with them, especially with regards to consultations the MPA are 
having regarding the .tt ccTLD


Dev Anand Teelucksingh
Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (http://ttcsweb.org/)





Carlton Samuels wrote:
> Regional IGF was 2 week ago in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.   I believe
> Jacqueline Morris attended.
> 
> Not sure what you mean by TLD meeting but LACTLD [http://lactld.org]
> is a community of ccTLD operators that you can follow.  Erick Iriarte
> Ahon is the fellow in charge over there and he's made overtures to the
> Caribbean; the CARICOM Secretariat has sought my blessings on that
> contact.   If my memory serves, they are planning a technical meeting
> in Chile later this year.
> 
> The Caribbean Internet Governance Forum (CIFG) under the auspices of
> the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) begins its annual meeting
> today thru Friday, 8/28 in St. Kitts.  I'm en-route as we speak.
> Adam Peake - ALAC NomCom member - is appearing on one of the panels
> and I expect Shernon Osepa, the ICANN Regional Liaison to be in
> attendance as well.
> 
> Courtney Jackson - formerly of the Jamaican Telecommunications
> regulatory agency OUR  and a colleague from our days as staff  Bell
> System Operating companies - and I were foundation conveners of  the
> Caribbean Internet Forum (CIF) and for several years we held joint
> CIF/CIFG conferences.  The CIF has now formed an alliance with the
> Telecommunications Regulatory Policy Unit based in the Mona School of
> Business at The University of the West Indies at Mona and severed its
> collaboration with the CTU. Courtney Jackson remains the primary
> contact.
> 
> The Government of Jamaica thru the Ministry of Energy and
> Telecommunications is fully informed of At-Large activities in Jamaica
> and have collaborated on fact distribution at internal meetings where
> I've presented and so on. In fact, I encouraged a senior Jamaican
> government official to successfully apply for a Fellowship to attend
> the Sydney ICANN meeting.  She has since left the government service
> and now works as Project Manager for a multilateral-supported
> eGovernance project in the Eastern Caribbean.  We have done the same
> for both the .jm and the .gy administrators for ICANN meetings.  One
> attended the Cairo meeting and the other, Mexico City.
> 
> Carlton
> 
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Dev Anand Teelucksingh
> <admin at ttcsweb.org> wrote:
>> Does anyone have information on upcoming meetings in the LACRALO region in the following categories:
>> 1) Regional IGF Preparatory Meetings
>> 2) TLD meetings
>> 3) Other meetings - national Internet related meetings and
>> 4) Other Internet meetings where At-Large members are attending
>>
>> Also, have you as an ALS, ever submitted information to governments with information about ICANN included. If so, can you provide details?
>>
>> This information is needed required for ALAC call with new ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom taking place on 25 August 2009.
>>
>>
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