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• ICANN in Meeting B spirit: mixed reviews from Helsinki

  2016-07-04 News

  CENTR published its ICANN56 Report (Helsinki, 26-30 June 2016), which was the first ICANN meeting held in the new B format, or Policy Forum.

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• CENTR publishes its Guide to ICANN56 Helsinki

  2016-06-22 News

  The meeting in Helsinki will be the first one held within the structure of the new meeting format (B meeting or “Policy Forum”). The goal is to encourage more discussion and collaboration between the different stakeholder groups and break down the walls between the communities. This is supposed to be a “short” meeting with a focus on cross community working groups and policy development.

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• How the story of the hidden dot has improved policy making in Europe

  2016-06-16 Blog

  By Peter Van Roste, CENTR General Manager – The main reason for CENTR’s relocation to Brussels – over a decade ago – was to allow the secretariat to engage more in policy discussions. And we have done so ever since. We’ve presented in the European Parliament, at the Commission and in countless meetings with stakeholders. Often, however, we experienced that an essential requirement for having a proper debate was missing: there was no common level of basic technical knowledge on how the Internet works and the role of the different actors.

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