This is underway. REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3lZDLy2 [image: ISOC LIVE] <https://isoc.live/16346>On *Thursday February 23 2023* at *11:00-12:30 EST* (16:00-17:30 UTC) the *Columbia Institute for Tele-Information <https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/citi/>*, as part of its *Global Digital Governance series <https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/citi/GlobalDigitalGovernance>*, presents a webinar '*ICANN Independence, Seven Years On? <https://bit.ly/3XVcqKo1>*'. 2023 marks 25 years since *ICANN <https://icann.org/>*'s founding in 1998, and 7 years since the *2016 IANA transition <https://www.internetsociety.org/iana-transition/>* made it a free-standing organization that is accountable primarily to its multistakeholder community. The panel will consider such questions as: the transition’s geopolitical, interest group, and institutional consequences; the implementation of ICANN’s accountability framework and of* Public Technical Identifiers <https://pti.icann.org/>* (PTI), the ICANN affiliate created to manage the IANA functions; the challenges ICANN and its community have faced in responding to new pressures from technological change, industry demands, and government policies; ICANN’s role and engagement in the wider global Internet governance ecosystem; and the lessons of its experience for the future of multistakeholder cooperation in global Internet and digital governance. *PANEL* *Olga Cavalli*, National Director of Cybersecurity, Argentina *James Gannon*, Board Chair, PTI/IANA, ICANN / VP Quality, Trust & Safety, PharmaLedger Association (Ireland) *Milton Mueller*, Professor, Internet Governance Project, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) *MODERATOR* *William J. Drake*, Director of International Studies at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/citi-icann <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/citi-icann>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3XVcqKo1 <https://bit.ly/3XVcqKo1>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/16346>) *TWITTER #ICANN @Columbia_Biz <https://bit.ly/3xMfUEs> @cyberinvasion @theiana @ICANN @olgacavalli @miltonmueller @wjdrake @intgovforum #netgov #iana #accountability* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/>* (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/citi-icann <https://archive.org/details/citi-icann>* *Permalink https://isoc.live/16346/ <https://isoc.live/16346/>* - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -