Pre-meeting report: ICANN65

Building on the success of our first pre-meeting report on ITU Council 2019, we’re publishing a second pre-meeting report. This time, on ICANN65, the ICANN policy meeting happening in Marrakech, 24-27 June 2019.

Like the ITU Council 2019 pre-meeting report, this report is aimed at:

  • People who don’t have an in-depth knowledge of the organization
  • Also more experienced participants, who simply want a very quick overview of the main issues to be discussed, with pointers to which sessions are relevant for each issue

Other ICANN65 briefings worth reading are:

Too long; didn’t read: report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation

On 10 June 2019, the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation released its report after nine months of work. It’s a dense 47 pages, and even its executive summary needs to conform to UN standards, so isn’t as easy to read and digest as a non-UN document would be. To help time-poor readers get a high level overview of the key suggestions and recommendations in the report, we’ve created this “Too long; didn’t read” summary: