Following a very successful experiment at the last meeting in Mexico City with remote participation, we have expanded its use to the main room for the Sydney meeting.
We are using Adobe’s Connect software which will allow people to see everything going on in a particular session in one screen: live video, live audio, a live [...]

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The Public Participation Board Committee (PPC) is holding a public meeting on Wednesday in Sydney at 9am. In order to get the most out of that session, a backgrounder documents covering the topics that the Committee has been working on has been published.
Those topics are:
Status reports

Document deadlines
Language
Calendar of meetings

For discussion

Public comment process
Public Forum
Electronic [...]

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La séance ACSO prévue le lundi 22 juin 2009 à Sydney se concentrera sur le thème suivant :
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Améliorations institutionnelles
Les rôles et les responsabilités des comités consultatifs (AC), des organisations de soutien (SO), du personnel chargé des politiques et du Conseil d’administration dans le cadre des processus de l’ICANN : la situation actuelle et les évolutions [...]

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La sesión de Comités Asesores y Organizaciones Auxiliares (ACSO) que se celebrará el lunes 22 de junio de 2009 en Sídney, se enfocará sobre el siguiente tema:
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Mejoras Institucionales
Los roles y responsabilidades de los Comités Asesores (ACs), Organizaciones Auxiliares (SOs), Personal de Políticas y Junta Directiva, en los procesos de la Corporación para la Asignación de [...]

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In just a few days, hundreds of people from all over the world will reach Sydney to participate in the upcoming 35th ICANN Meeting.
Many interesting discussions and important decisions will involve people with many different backgrounds, areas of expertise, opinions and expectations. Probably one of the few things they will all have in common is [...]

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Starting in Cairo in November 2008, the chairs of the different supporting organizations (SOs) and advisory committees (ACs) have held a joint meeting.

The idea was to find a formula for open communication that was more than a repeat of existing open microphone sessions. The chairs also wanted to create a forum that could break through the silos of discussion and communication in which ACs and SOs often operate. And, lastly, they wanted the opportunity to discuss topics of mutual interest and importance, and to have those topics suggested by ACSO members.

Click here to jump to the meeting agenda

Each time, feedback has been taken from the community and the session adjusted to reflect that. For Sydney, the decision has been taken to reduce the time taken on Monday to just one session of 90 minutes and to concentrate on a single topic (albeit with multiple arms).

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افتتحت اليوم خانة للأسئلة على شبكة الإنترنت حتى يتمكن أعضاء المجتمع من طرح أسئلتهم مباشرة على مجلس إدارة وموظفي ICANN.
تتاح خانة الأسئلة حتى يوم الأربعاء الموافق 17 يونيو في إطار عملية التحضير للمنتدى الدولي باجتماع ICANN العام الدولي بسيدني يوم الخميس الموافق 25 يونيو.
يمكن لأي شخص طرح سؤالين عبارة عن 50 كلمة. ويمكن أن يتصل [...]

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A Congressional Hearing is taking place in Washington this morning concerning ICANN and the conclusion of the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) that ICANN has with the US government.
President and CEO Paul Twomey is representing ICANN on a panel of six, in front of the Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
You can [...]

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一份机构群体成员能直接向 ICANN 理事会和工作人员提问的在线问题表已于今天开放。

该问题表将开放至 6 月 17 日（星期三），以便为 6 月25 日（星期四）在悉尼召开的 ICANN 国际公开会议的公众论坛做准备。

每人最多可提两个问题，长度限制为 50 个单词。提出的问题可涉及 ICANN 及其工作的任何方面。我们将在公众论坛期间回答这些问题，或会议之后几周内将答复以电子邮件的形式发送给您并予以公布。

您可从以下链接找到此表格，也可在悉尼会议的网站、博客和公众参与网站中找到此表格。

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