The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Internet Democracy Project present:
A Day with the ICANN North-American Candidates
October 2, 4:20 - 9:30 PM (8:20PM - 1:30AM UTC)
Ames Courtroom - Harvard Law School - Cambridge, MA
Webcast Archives Now Available
On October 1, 2000 the ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) membership will begin voting in the first online election to select five new At-Large Directors for ICANN. In the North-American region, including the United States and Canada, there are seven candidates running for the single spot designated for a North-American director, and over 15,000 North-American ICANN members are eligible to vote. The elected director will be charged with representing the Internet community at-large in decisions of technical management, coordination, and policy for unique Internet identifiers including domain names and IP addresses.
On October 2, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Internet Democracy Project are hosting the seven North-American candidates for a in-person event, webcast with remote participation, in which the North-American At-Large candidates will engage in an informal dialogue and participate in a formal candidate debate.
Please note that these events are not sponsored by, nor affiliated with, ICANN.
If you plan to attend, in person or via webcast, please register.
4:20 - 6:00 PM
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Dialogue with the Candidates
Moderated by Jonathan
Zittrain, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Professor Jonathan Zittrain's Internet & Society class will host a moderated discussion with the candidates, exploring the role of ICANN as an organization, the role of the ICANN directors, and the scope and meaning of ICANN's At-Large Membership. The discussion will be open to the public and webcast live with remote participation. Both the online and in-person audiences will have the opportunity to pose questions for the candidates.
7:30 - 9:30 PM
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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Internet Democracy Project present: |
The ICANN
North-American Candidate Forum
Moderator: Jon Zittrain, HLS
Distinguished Panel to include
Hiawatha Bray (Boston Globe),
Ted Bunker (Boston Herald),
Jeff Howe (Village Voice),
Declan
McCullagh (Wired News), and
Laura Siegel (Inside.com)
In this question-and-answer session, expanding the format of the Presidential Commission debates, the seven North-American ICANN candidates will discuss the issues facing ICANN and the role of ICANN itself. Candidates will respond to questions posed by the distinguished panel named above. The forum will be open to the public in-person and online via webcast with a real-time discussion forum. After the forum, candidates will have the opportunity to submit brief written follow-up responses to the forum's questions, and these responses will be posted along with video and other archive materials in the archive.