Background & History of SIDS @ ICANN

Former Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

President and CEO Goran Marby requested that Sally Costerton (Interim CEO),

Head of ICANN Global Stakeholder Engagement, work with the Caribbean

Telecommunications Union (CTU) and Caribbean stakeholders to chart a way

forward. The goal was to the increase substantive participation of not only

Caribbean countries and territories but also from small island developing states

(SIDS) around the world in the policy development work taking place at ICANN.

The objective of the survey was to collect data from stakeholders which clearly

establishes the challenges and barriers to SIDS participation in ICANN. This

would provide an empirical foundation for planning future actions aimed at

increasing consistent and substantive participation of SIDS at ICANN.