[NA-Discuss] Events of Interest - Canada & USA

[Robert Guerra]

NTEN and CES are two completely different conferences. NTEN  being far  
more ngo and user centric, while CES is focused on new consumer  
electronics products being launched.

Personally, i'd prefer outreach being done at a more user centric and/ 
or NGO focused event.

Below are events both in the US and Canada, ones that I believe where  
it could be strategic to do some outreach.

regards

Robert
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June 26-28: IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society  
Location:University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
http://www.istas08.ca

ISTAS is the annual symposium of the IEEE Society on Social  
Implications of Technology. The theme this year is Citizens, Groups,  
Communities and Information and Communication Technologies

June 28 : Grassroots use of Technology Conference
Location: Boston Area (Lowell, MA)
http://organizerscollaborative.org/conference

September 26 – 28: The 36th Research Conference on Communication,  
Information, and Internet Policy
Location: Center for Technology and the Law, George Mason University  
Law School, Arlington, Virginia
http://www.tprcweb.com/

October 26 -29 : The Internet: Governance and the Law
Conference on Internet Policy, regulation and governance, McGill  
University , Montreal – Canada


On 30-May-08, at 12:10 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> Robert Guerra wrote:
>> I welcome Frederic's efforts, and will submit comments ASAP. However,
>> timing is not unexpected - as constructive changes @ at-large could
>> have taken place long ago, but seem to take place just when the ALAC
>> review is taking place.
>>
>> I am still concerned with the lack of outreach. If there's one "meta
>> comment" i can make at this moment  - is that if indeed ALAC and at-
>> large is supposed to represent users "everywhere" then we really need
>> to get far more people - to know about ICANN, its complex technical
>> and policy issues and find ways to constructively engage on mission
>> specific items.
>>
>> Over the last year, if i'm not mistaken  we've had  just  - 1 - new
>> group join NARALO. Obviously more would be better. Ideas on how to
>> best grow - would be most welcome.
>>
> Well, we've already asked for -- and I believed Nick has budgeted  
> for --
> each RALO to attend up to three events to do outreach.
>
> So far I've heard that we should be at N-TEN (to reach the NGO
> community) and CES (to reach the general public). Both of these are in
> the US. Is there a suggestion of a Canadian conference at which we
> should be participating?
>
> - Evan