Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC)
The home of civil society organizations and individuals in ICANN's GNSO
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The NCUC is open to noncommercial organizations and individuals involved in education, community networking, public policy advocacy, development, promotion of the arts, children's welfare, religion, consumer protection, scientific research, human rights and many other areas. See our charter for membership eligibility (including proposed revisions allowing individual members). Please complete an application and join us today, and get involved in protecting the communication and activities we value on the Internet!
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Civil Society Overwhelmingly Voted to Approve the NCSG Charter with 95% of Votes Cast in Favor
The charter can be found on the NCSG-Executive Committee Wiki page. Comment resolution information can also be found.
NCSG Charter Election Results:
95% Yes to Accept Charter
5% No to Charter
NCSG Charter Voter Turn-Out:
73% of NCSG Electorate Cast their Votes, with 60% approval needed to pass the charter.
GNSO Reform: Transition to the Noncommercial Users Stakeholder Group
The NCUC has been heavily involved in the GNSO reform, including transitioning civil society representation within ICANN's GNSO to the Noncommercial Users Stakeholder Group (NCSG). NCSG has developed a proposed NCSG Charter, and approved the charter in an election which took place from 12 May - 12 June 2010 (see results) by the entire NCSG membership. Now the NCSG charter will be submitted to the ICANN Board of Directors for endorsement at the Brussels ICANN meeting in June.
While we are in this "in-between" phase, NCSG approved and working documents and email archives for the NCSG Executive Committee (ncsg-ec) and Policy (ncsg-policy) will be available on the NCSG provisional website. Importantly, it is proposed in the membership criteria that "all current NCUC members as well as any 2009 Board appointed council members who are not currently members of the NCUC are deemed to be NCSG members."
NCUC will post NCSG events and information on this website as well.
Events
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Blog Posts
IP Justice Comments on ICANN Accountability & Transparency: Lack of Accountability to Non-Commercial Users Remains Problematic for ICANN's Promise to Protect the Public Interest
IP Justice appreciates… Continue
Posted by Robin Gross on July 16, 2010 at 5:05am
Statement of the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG) and the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) on Transparency and ICANN Staff Documents
20 May 2010 Transmitted to ICANN Board of Directors
ICANN’s transparency commitment demands the adoption of a principle of default openness for all Board communications except in those specific instances where it is over-ridden, in writing, by the principle of personal privacy or an explicit requirement of confidentiality.
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Posted by Robin Gross on May 21, 2010 at 3:00pm
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