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Your Guide to IANA Stewardship/Accountability at ICANN 53

19 June 2015
By
Theresa Swinehart

Theresa Swinehart

SVP, Global Domains & Strategy

Theresa Swinehart is the Senior Vice President of Global Domains and Strategy. In this role, she works with the community, contracted parties, stakeholders, and policymakers to ensure broad and inclusive engagement, consensus-based policymaking through ICANN’s multistakeholder model, and effective, accountable policy implementation. Her responsibilities include policy implementation, review operation, and cross-functional strategic initiatives such as ICANN’s compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. An expert in global Internet governance, Theresa also serves as co-deputy to the President and CEO. Her extensive industry experience, including nearly 20 years as a key contributor to ICANN’s growth and development, gives her a valuable perspective on how ICANN organization can work efficiently and collaboratively to better serve the global Internet community.

Theresa rejoined ICANN after three years as Executive Director of Global Internet Policy at Verizon Communications, where she specialized in emerging issues as well as stakeholder and policy engagement. Prior to this, she served as ICANN’s Vice President of Global and Strategic Partnerships, leading a team responsible for partnership reform, global engagement and outreach, and the participation in international forums. Before ICANN, Theresa was Director of Global E-Commerce at MCI, where she was responsible for such issues as Internet service provider liability, data protection, and participation in Internet-related forums, including the formation of ICANN. 

Theresa has a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of California, Davis, a graduate degree in international studies from the University of Vienna, Austria, and a juris doctorate from American University. She served on the Internet Society’s Board of Trustees and Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Committee. Theresa began her career in international human rights. She is fluent in German and is conversant in French.

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Greetings from ICANN 53! If you're focused on following the IANA Stewardship Transition and Enhancing ICANN Accountability processes here in Buenos Aires or from your computer at home, I've compiled a quick reference guide of the meetings that may be of interest to you. Please don't hesitate to join in the discussions no matter where you are in the world. It's been a gratifying experience over the past year to see the incredible amount of effort, thought and work the ICANN community and staff have put into this process –truly a testament to the strength of the multistakeholder model.

NTIA Administrator, Larry Strickling, will speak at Sunday evening's IANA Stewardship Transition & History of ICANN Accountability session, providing his views on both the IANA Stewardship Transition and Enhancing ICANN Accountability proposals to date. The session will then focus on the evolution of ICANN's accountability through the organizational maturation and expansion over the past 17 years, and include panelists from the current Enhancing ICANN Accountability process and from the 2002 Evolution and Reform Committee.

Following the Opening Ceremony on Monday, the CCWG-Accountability and CWG-Stewardship will come together for a Joint Town Hall Meeting to discuss outcomes from the Enhancing ICANN Accountability Work Stream 1 Draft Recommendations public comment period, and to reinforce the conditionality between the two groups' proposals. For more information, you can read a statement by the co-Chairs of the two groups here: Continuing Alignment: Working Together Towards a New Stewardship and Enhanced Accountability. The CWG-Stewardship will also hold a solo engagement session on Monday to discuss the Domain Names community proposal and gather important community feedback as they inch closer to submission to the ICG.

Additionally, there will be seven working sessions taking place in Buenos Aires. These sessions are where the working groups discuss elements of their proposals, develop language and move towards consensus. Like all sessions, these working sessions can be followed remotely via Adobe Connect rooms. ICG sessions will be live interpreted into five UN languages plus Portuguese. Please view the links below in the agenda for more information.

And please join us!

Date Meeting Name (ICANN 53 Meetings page) BA Local Time (ART) UTC Time
(time converter)
Thursday
18 June		 ICG Working Session 1 09:00 - 17:00 12:00 - 20:00
Friday
19 June		 ICG Working Session 2 09:00 - 17:00 12:00 - 20:00
Friday
19 June		 CCWG-Accountability Working Session 1 08:00 - 18:00 11:00 - 21:00
Sunday
21 June		 CCWG-Accountability Meeting with the Board 15:00 - 16:00 18:00 - 19:00
Sunday
21 June		 IANA Stewardship Transition & History of ICANN Accountability 18:30 - 20:00 21:30 - 23:00
Monday
22 June		 CWG-Stewardship/CCWG-Accountability Joint Town Hall Meeting 10:30 - 13:00 13:30 - 16:00
Monday
22 June		 CWG-Stewardship Engagement Session 16:45 - 18:00 19:45 - 21:00
Wednesday
24 June		 CCWG-Accountability Working Session 2 15:30 - 17:00 18:30 - 20:00
Thursday
25 June		 ICG Working Session 3 09:00 – 13:00 12:00 - 16:00
Thursday
25 June		 CWG-Stewardship Working Session 08:30 - 10:00 11:30 - 13:00
Thursday
25 June		 CCWG-Accountability Working Session 3 10:15 - 11:45 13:15 - 14:45

Please note that this does not reflect the numerous planned SO/AC discussions at ICANN 53. For a more detailed list of those sessions, please visit the recent Volume 6: IANA Stewardship Transition Discussions blog by Samantha Dickinson.

For the full ICANN 53 Meeting guide, please visit here.

Looking forward to seeing many of you in Buenos Aires!

-TS

Authors

Theresa Swinehart

Theresa Swinehart

SVP, Global Domains & Strategy
Theresa Swinehart

Theresa Swinehart

SVP, Global Domains & Strategy

Theresa Swinehart is the Senior Vice President of Global Domains and Strategy. In this role, she works with the community, contracted parties, stakeholders, and policymakers to ensure broad and inclusive engagement, consensus-based policymaking through ICANN’s multistakeholder model, and effective, accountable policy implementation. Her responsibilities include policy implementation, review operation, and cross-functional strategic initiatives such as ICANN’s compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. An expert in global Internet governance, Theresa also serves as co-deputy to the President and CEO. Her extensive industry experience, including nearly 20 years as a key contributor to ICANN’s growth and development, gives her a valuable perspective on how ICANN organization can work efficiently and collaboratively to better serve the global Internet community.

Theresa rejoined ICANN after three years as Executive Director of Global Internet Policy at Verizon Communications, where she specialized in emerging issues as well as stakeholder and policy engagement. Prior to this, she served as ICANN’s Vice President of Global and Strategic Partnerships, leading a team responsible for partnership reform, global engagement and outreach, and the participation in international forums. Before ICANN, Theresa was Director of Global E-Commerce at MCI, where she was responsible for such issues as Internet service provider liability, data protection, and participation in Internet-related forums, including the formation of ICANN. 

Theresa has a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of California, Davis, a graduate degree in international studies from the University of Vienna, Austria, and a juris doctorate from American University. She served on the Internet Society’s Board of Trustees and Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Committee. Theresa began her career in international human rights. She is fluent in German and is conversant in French.

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