[AFRI-Discuss] Fwd: [ALAC] Community Leaders call regarding Cancun meeting

[Joan katambi]

Thanks for the information.

Joan

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 11:08 PM Jules NIZEYIMANA <julesni57 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you very much for the update!
>
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 9:11 PM Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> There was a call with the community leaders today, I missed the call
>> myself but the ALAC Chair has summarised the meeting(do find forwarded).
>> The ICANN Board will be meeting tomorrow to decide about the upcoming ICANN
>> meeting in Cancun
>>
>> This is for your information.
>>
>> Regards
>> Sent from my mobile
>> Kindly excuse brevity and typos
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Maureen Hilyard <maureen.hilyard at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020, 19:12
>> Subject: [ALAC] Community Leaders call regarding Cancun meeting
>> To: ALAC <alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
>>
>>
>> Good morning, afternoon, evening all
>>
>> The ICANN Board and ICANN Org have just concluded a meeting with
>> Community Leaders about whether or not the Cancun meeting will be held or
>> not.  There were 74 participants on the call. This is a brief summary of
>> the call. Recording and transcripts will be made available soon.
>>
>> The meeting included several health experts, who first outlined the
>> global situation and then described the precautions that would be taken at
>> the Cancun. They do not have any concerns about Mexico at the moment and
>> the Mexican govt itself is monitoring the situation.  Many of their
>> previously suspected cases have been cleared as not coronavirus.
>>
>> *Health facilities on site*
>> * The ICANN medical centre will be staffed with additional health
>> personnel (doctors and nurses) to address any concerns on site - for
>> example, anyone identifying themselves with a temperature, etc
>> * hand sanitisers will abound, and masks and gloves will also be available
>> * there is a global shortage of masks so if you can bring your own masks
>> from a local supply please do so (preventative measure)
>> * individual temperatures should be taken each day to monitor any changes
>> * anyone identified as potential patient will be immediately removed to a
>> local hospital. Cancun and Mexican medical facilities were reported as good.
>> During the chat I indicated that the majority of At-Large were in favour
>> of proceeding with the meeting. All the other constituencies also indicated
>> support for the continuation of the Cancun meeting, although monitoring of
>> the KL situation was noted by a couple of leaders.
>>
>> Goran did mention that if staff were uneasy about attending the meeting
>> this would have an impact because there was a minimum requirement of staff
>> to run it effectively.  At the same time he said that the meetings were for
>> the community and it was important t hear from us as well.
>>
>> The Board will make a decision at a meeting to be held tomorrow at
>> 20:00utc.  We will know more then.
>>
>> Maureen
>>
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