[NA-Discuss] ICANN Fellowship and US Terrritories
Alan Greenberg
alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca
Fri Mar 20 21:41:44 UTC 2015
Glenn raised an interesting concern, but one that according to Janice
is already solved. These islands ARE eligible for the Fellowship.
Evan pointed out that according to ICANN regions, there are in the
wrong place. The Geographic Regions Review Working Group issued a
report on this in June 2013 and recommended that such territories
could move region if they wished (but subject to objection from the
"mother country"). Report can be found at
http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/geo-regions-final-report-22jun13-en.pdf.
I do not know whether the Board ever acted on it.
The only question is whether Chris chooses to visit these islands
instead of Save. It's a hard job, but someone needs to do it! ;-)
Alan
At 20/03/2015 05:52 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>Hi Janice.
>
>One difficulty of the spreadsheet is that ICANN's geographic slicing and
>dicing of the world is not the same as the UN's. According to ICANN's
>geographical regions, territories are grouped under the region of each
>territory's "mother country". (see http://meetings.icann.org/regions)
>
>So while the Virgin Islands are located in the Caribbean, according to
>ICANN the British Virgin Islands are in the European region and the US
>Virgin Islands are in North America.
>
>What this means is that within ICANN's regional groupings,
>
> American Samoa
> Federated State of Micronesia
> Guam
> Marianas
> Marshall Islands
> Palau
>
>are part of the North American Region and not Oceania or Asia/Pacific. That
>is, At-Large Structures that are located in these locations are, according
>to ICANN, under NARALO. This is a regional allocation which is, I believe,
>unique to ICANN, but needs to be maintained nonetheless.
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>On 19 March 2015 at 23:47, Janice Douma Lange <janice.lange at icann.org>
>wrote:
>
> > With attachment
> >
> > From: Janice Douma Lange <[1]janice.lange at icann.org>
> > Date: Thursday, 19 March 2015 20:27
> > To: Glenn Mcknight <[2]mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>
> > Cc: save vocea <[3]save.vocea at icann.org>, NA Discuss
> > <[4]na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>, Robert Hoggarth
> > <[5]robert.hoggarth at icann.org>
> > Subject: Re: ICANN Fellowship and US Terrritories
> >
> > Hi Glenn and all..
> > Over the past few years it has been my pleasure to work with you and
> > others in At Large on these worthy initiatives towards broader
> > engagement with communities that seem to be not as accessible to ICANN
> > or ICANN accessible to them as other nations.
> > In this particular case, as Save has already pointed out, each of the
> > nations that you have noted are eligible for the Fellowship Program, as
> > we use both the World Economic Bank and the SIDN UN listing and they
> > all fall under that criteria.
> > I have attached the most recent list of eligible countries for the
> > Fellowship program; I check our application list against the World Bank
> > and SIDN list prior to each Fellowship application launch to make sure
> > a country has not been added or taken off the list before the new
> > application goes live.
> > Hope this is what you were looking for, although a trip to any of the
> > islands would be grand :)
> > janice
> > From: Glenn Mcknight <[6]mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>
> > Date: Monday, 16 March 2015 09:51
> > To: NA Discuss <[7]na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>, Janice Douma
> > Lange <[8]janice.lange at icann.org>, Robert Hoggarth
> > <[9]robert.hoggarth at icann.org>
> > Subject: ICANN Fellowship and US Terrritories
> > Hi Janice
> > I hope all is well
> > In the past under Garth's leadership we have tried to reach out to
> > the US territories for their involvement with ICANN. ie. NARALO
> > In research we discovered that these US terrioritories live in a
> > limbo situation with regards to their political status. On one hand
> > they are US territory but the citizens do not have the right to
> > vote. My concern is that they according to the UN research exist in
> > a situation that places them as US property but they have income
> > similar to least developed states
> > [10]https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?menu=1523
> > The list from UN Listing of Small Island Developing Nations
> > American Samoa
> > Federated State of Micronesia
> > Guam
> > Marianas
> > Marshall Islands
> > These five locations have unique Internet access issues. Among of
> > which is some of the most expensive Internet service rates.
> > My understanding is that these locations do not qualify for an
> > application to the ICANN Fellowship program due to their US
> > affiliation despite their low per capita income, Is this correct?
> > Can you please provide us with clarification on this issue. What is
> > the process of rectifying this situation.
> > Happy to chat about this. ( not looking for a trip to the islands
> > [cid:330 at goomoji.gmail] )
> > Thanks
> > Glenn
> > Glenn McKnight
> > [11]mcknight.glenn at gmail.com
> > skype gmcknight
> > twitter gmcknight
> > .
> >
> > References
> >
> > 1. mailto:janice.lange at icann.org
> > 2. mailto:mcknight.glenn at gmail.com
> > 3. mailto:save.vocea at icann.org
> > 4. mailto:na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> > 5. mailto:robert.hoggarth at icann.org
> > 6. mailto:mcknight.glenn at gmail.com
> > 7. mailto:na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> > 8. mailto:janice.lange at icann.org
> > 9. mailto:robert.hoggarth at icann.org
> > 10. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?menu=1523
> > 11. mailto:mcknight.glenn at gmail.com
> >
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