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Strengthening LAC Community Involvement in ICANN's Policy Development Work

2 March 2018
By
Rodrigo De La Parra

Rodrigo De La Parra

VP, Stakeholder Engagement & Managing Director - Latin America & Caribbean

A leading voice and advocate for the multistakeholder Internet governance model in Latin America and the Caribbean, Rodrigo de la Parra is a Regional Vice President for ICANN. Based in Mexico City but frequently travelling through the region, Rodrigo is responsible for outreach, support and engagement with user groups, governments, private sector and civil society throughout the diverse region. In his role, he works closely with the Latin American technical community to continue to build a robust Internet infrastructure in the region. Under his leadership, ICANN has opened an engagement center in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the House of the Internet.

With more than 20 years experience as a multicultural executive, Rodrigo served as Director General of Prospective Regulation and Director General for International Cooperation of Mexico's Federal Commission of Telecommunications before joining ICANN in 2011. While at Cofetel, he leveraged his diplomacy skills and deep knowledge of Internet governance structures and ICT to develop public policy and regulation recommendations for new technologies. He was involved with various ICT groups of international organizations such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Organization of American States, and the World Trade Organization, among others.

He also represented Mexico on ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee which gives governments a voice in the organization's policy formation. He was a member of the Consultative Committee of NIC. MX, the non-profit operator of Mexico's country-code Top-Level Domain and the registry that manages allocation of Internet Protocol address space to Mexican Internet Service Providers.

Rodrigo has a Master's degree in political economy and international relations from the University of Essex in the UK. He has been a lecturer of International Organizations and Economic Negotiations and a consultant to the Latin American Cooperation for Advanced Networks.

He speaks Spanish, English and French fluently.

The ICANN62 Policy Forum meeting in Panama City in June 2018, presents an opportunity to strengthen the involvement of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) community members in ICANN's policy and outreach activities.

We will build on the success of the first Regional Newcomers Fellowship Pilot at ICANN59 in Johannesburg and select 15 individuals from the LAC region to participate at ICANN62 as part of the pilot.

Many of you may be aware that the Fellowship Program is only open to alumni for the Policy Forum; newcomers are not eligible due to the nature and focus of the meeting on policy development.

To complement this, the Regional Newcomers Fellowship Pilot furthers regional engagement by bringing newcomers from the region in which the meeting is taking place.

Those selected to participate will be integrated with the rest of ICANN Fellows for the duration of the meeting and bring a wealth of experience and diversity. The 15 slots will count against the total number of annual ICANN Fellowship Program slots.

Application and selection processes are carried out by ICANN's regional Global Stakeholder Engagement team.

In selecting participants for the Panama meeting, we focused our efforts on maintaining stakeholder group balance. Candidates are from the naming and number communities, contracted parties, private sector and civil society. We worked closely with and sought advice from regional organizations such LACNIC, LACTLD, LACRALO, NPOC and NCUC to achive our objective.

Selection criteria included:

  1. Be a newcomer (never attended an ICANN meeting in the past)
  2. Be a national from a country in the LAC region
  3. Be currently involved or have demonstrated potential to contribute to ICANN´s policy work

Although the names of successful applicants will be published soon, we are happy to share information related to gender and geographic diversity, as follows:

Gender:

  • 8 female
  • 7 male

Countries: 11 total

  • Argentina
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • Jamaica
  • Mexico
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela

We look forward to working closely with the selectees and colleagues from the region to ensure program participants maximize on this opportunity to participate at the Policy Forum in Panama.

Authors

Rodrigo De La Parra

Rodrigo De La Parra

VP, Stakeholder Engagement & Managing Director - Latin America & Caribbean
Rodrigo De La Parra

Rodrigo De La Parra

VP, Stakeholder Engagement & Managing Director - Latin America & Caribbean

A leading voice and advocate for the multistakeholder Internet governance model in Latin America and the Caribbean, Rodrigo de la Parra is a Regional Vice President for ICANN. Based in Mexico City but frequently travelling through the region, Rodrigo is responsible for outreach, support and engagement with user groups, governments, private sector and civil society throughout the diverse region. In his role, he works closely with the Latin American technical community to continue to build a robust Internet infrastructure in the region. Under his leadership, ICANN has opened an engagement center in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the House of the Internet.

With more than 20 years experience as a multicultural executive, Rodrigo served as Director General of Prospective Regulation and Director General for International Cooperation of Mexico's Federal Commission of Telecommunications before joining ICANN in 2011. While at Cofetel, he leveraged his diplomacy skills and deep knowledge of Internet governance structures and ICT to develop public policy and regulation recommendations for new technologies. He was involved with various ICT groups of international organizations such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Organization of American States, and the World Trade Organization, among others.

He also represented Mexico on ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee which gives governments a voice in the organization's policy formation. He was a member of the Consultative Committee of NIC. MX, the non-profit operator of Mexico's country-code Top-Level Domain and the registry that manages allocation of Internet Protocol address space to Mexican Internet Service Providers.

Rodrigo has a Master's degree in political economy and international relations from the University of Essex in the UK. He has been a lecturer of International Organizations and Economic Negotiations and a consultant to the Latin American Cooperation for Advanced Networks.

He speaks Spanish, English and French fluently.

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