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ICANN Meeting in New Delhi

The next ICANN meeting will be held in New Delhi, India. APRALO will finally have its inauguration ceremony. 

The details of the ICANN New Delhi meeting is found here.

I hopme many from AP region will attend. See you there!

izumi

How to Join IUN

Here's the membership application form.

Please fill in and send to: <iza [at] anr.org>

 

Welcome to IUN-Global

This is the English web-site of the Internet Users Network (IUN) in Tokyo.

IUN is an Internet user group, as the name indicates, focusing on the end users interest and promote horizontal networking and promote maximum freedom of the use of the Net.

We became the "AtLarge Structure (ALS)" of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the global body who manages the Domain Name, IP address and related Internet resources, and as such we are the member of the AP-RALO (Asia Pacific Regional AtLarge Organizations) of ICANN.

AtLarge has a long history at ICANN, and now using its Working wiki for sharing information and ideas.

Please see The IUN Bylwas

Contact IUN

E-mail: Izumi Aizu, current representative of IUN

Secretariat: C/O Institute for InfoSocionomics, Tama University

4-10-26 Shimo Meguro, Meguro-ku Tokyo 153-0064 Japan

Tel: +81-3-3712-3758  Fax: 81-3-3712-3485

URL: http://www.NI.tama.ac.jp/e

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IUN Bylwas

Internet Users Network

Byelaws translated into English

May 31, 2004

1. Name

The name of this group shall be “Internet Users Network (hereinafter called “IUN”)

2. Objectives

The objective of IUN is as follows:

1) To promote horizontal networking among Internet users and to collaborate for social contributions

2)  To promote maximum freedom of the use of the Net for the users.

 

3.  Basic Principles
IUN’s activities will respect the following principles.

1) To be the group for the end users of the Internet

2) Anyone who agrees with the objective of IUN can become the member and participate openly

3) We shall be autonomous, distributed and collaborative

4) We value voluntarism; anyone can create a basic unit of the activity and these units will form networks

5) We value community of neighborhoods, professions and interests.

6) We will collaborate with technical community, industry and government (local and central) which support the Net.

7) We act globally, transcending the national boundaries

 
4. Activities
IUN shall promote the following activities

1) Social works

A) Communication among users

B) Policy study and recommendations

C) Social contributions

D) Publicity campaigns

2) Global collaboration and networking

A) Participate in global governance of Internet to reflect end users opinions and interests

B) Engage in the cooperation and promotion of the development of the Internet in the developing parts of the world 

5. Membership
Any individual who agrees with the objective of the network can become the members of IUN.

6. Membership fee
The membership fee of IUN is free of charge 

7. Donation
Any individual or organization who supports the objectives of IUN can contribute donations for the operation of IUN.

8. Steering committee

1) IUN shall have Steering committee with up to five members

2) Steering committee members shall be elected from the Members

3) IUN shall have Representative elected among the steering committee members

4) The Representative person will represent IUN in its activities

5) The Steering committee shall determine its action plan and budget and execute them

6) The decision making of IUN shall be done by the Representative and Steering committee members in collaboration. The Steering committee members will carefully listen to the opinions of the members online and offline to reflect in the decisions. The Representative will incorporate the opinions of the members and Steering committee before making the decisions

9. Terms of the Steering committee

1) The terms of the Steering committee and the Representative is one year, maximum of three terms. 

10. Secretariat

1) The Secretariat of IUN is located in the Institute for InfoSocionomics, Kumon Center, Tama University in Tokyo.

2) The Representative can appoint the Secretary General and the staff

3) The Secretary General shall work with the Representative to provide secretarial services

11. Fiscal Year
The fiscal year shall be from April 1 to March 31 with the exception of its first year which will start from June 1.

12.  Amending the Bylaws
These bylaws can be amended by the Steering committee

13. Other matters of business
Any other matters of business not defined in the bylaws shall be determined by the consensus of the Steering committee

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