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<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><b><i>Response Glenn McKnight</i></b></span></font></div><ol start="3">
<li><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><b>What
specific challenges including, but not restricted to technical and
political challenges, do you expect the Internet to encounter during
your tenure</b></i></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">We
are facing huge challenge due to DNS abuse and the need to incorporate proactive measures</font></font></font></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">5G
hype for IOT and the need for FCC and others to consider network
slicing not just Net Neutrality</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">The
aging population will encounter more digital exclusion facing the
demands by the market and government and the need for age appropriate cyber skills training</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">Small
Island States and emergent economies that are facing IT professional
job loss due to lower costs from large IT giants which undercut the local economy</font></font></font></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">As
mobile phones become the dominant device for Internet access we
need to be proactive to balance the gender divide on Mobile and
access ownership in emergent countries</font></font></font></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="color:rgb(39,39,39);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">The New gTLD new round: is around 1,189 and just one applicant has 240 New gTLD it means 20% of the new program delegation this is a serious issue combined with the absence of applications from developing countries </span></font></font></font></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font style=""><font style=""><font color="#272727" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">The Multistakeholder model is at risk of being dominated by a very small number of vested interest parties which represent big business, government and academia and missing is the voice of the people and their needs and wants </span></font></font></font></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font style=""><font style=""><font color="#272727" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">IDN and UA are important aspects driving the evolution of the Internet’s unique identifier systems as India and China will become more important players in the Internet <br></span></font><br></font></font></p></li></ul><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Glenn McKnight</div><div dir="ltr">ICANN NOMCOM 2019-2021<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><img src="cid:ii_k7e1pbis0" alt="image.png" width="106" height="103" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:mcknight.glenn@gmail.com" target="_blank">mcknight.glenn@gmail.com</a></div><div>Curator for Internet Governance Hub Blog</div><div><a href="http://www.internetgovernancehub.blog" target="_blank">www.internetgovernancehub.blog </a></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://toronto.ieee.ca/" target="_blank">http://toronto.ieee.ca/</a></div><div dir="ltr">IEEE Toronto SIGHT Chair </div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:glenn.mcknight@ieee.org" target="_blank">glenn.mcknight@ieee.org</a><br>skype gmcknight<br>twitter gmcknight</div><div>289-830 6259<br>.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>