[Advisors] Jan. zoom call

[Marita Moll]

Hello advisors. Hope you have all weathered this somewhat bleak 
Christmas season without co-vid in your households or those of your 
family and friends. Navigating this second wave seems more challenging 
than the first -- feels like the 3/4 mark in a marathon you weren't 
planning to run.  We all look forward to better times in 2021 as we 
await rescue via vaccine.

On our previous zoom call, there appeared to be support for doing it 
more often. I am proposing to set up a call in January. The agenda would 
consist of a 1/2 hour presentation by my friend and ICANN colleague 
Glenn McKnight who has spent the past year setting up a virtual school 
of internet governance. See brief blurb below. I have attended two such 
f2f schools and was an invited speaker in this virtual version. The 
world we live in is so dominated by the internet, it is worthwhile 
knowing a bit more about where it came from, governance models, current 
practices and challenges and where it might be heading.

After that I would propose we have a brief go around the table to share 
any new developments. I will be sending out a doodle poll with some 
choices of dates

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VSIG

The  Virtual School on Internet Governance was born out of the necessity 
due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and the harsh market realities of 
conducting Internet Governance training cost-effectively and to a wider 
international audience. The joint efforts of Alfredo Calderon and Glenn 
McKnight (co-founders) came together in May 2020 and envisioned an 
online learning platform that encompasses the core learnings for 
students on Internet Governance but also a course that remains free to 
the learners and a long term vision of a multilingual platform that 
serves as a foundation for any face to face school on Internet Governance.


As a novel and efficient approach, the VSIG team follows a ten-eleven 
week delivery format. Thus, during the first year, four groups of 
approximately one-hundred students each and plans are in place to launch 
in September 2021 for a French and Spanish version of the course 
followed by Portuguese, Arabic and Hindi versions of the course.

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Marita

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