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==Major Events and Topics==
==Major Events and Topics==
===President's Opening Session===
===President's Opening Session===
President [[Fadi Chahadé]] began his speech by discussing ICANN's 15th Anniversary as well as his first full year as President of ICANN. He highlighted the four objectives and the 16 goals that were laid out during [[ICANN Toronto]], and spoke about the success in getting the [[New gTLD Program]] off the ground. He also defended ICANN's [[PDP]] process, saying "It works. It produces results. And the amount of effort that our community puts in making these PDPs produce policy is incredible." <ref>[http://buenosaires48.icann.org/en/schedule/mon-welcome/transcript-president-opening-18nov13-en Presidents Opening Session Transcript, ICANN.org] Retrieved 05 Dec 2013</ref>
President [[Fadi Chahadé]] began his speech by discussing ICANN's 15th Anniversary as well as his first full year as President of ICANN. He highlighted the four objectives and the 16 goals that were laid out during [[ICANN Toronto]], and spoke about the success in getting the [[New gTLD Program]] off the ground. He also defended ICANN's [[PDP]] process, saying "It works. It produces results." <ref>[http://buenosaires48.icann.org/en/schedule/mon-welcome/transcript-president-opening-18nov13-en Presidents Opening Session Transcript, ICANN.org] Retrieved 05 Dec 2013</ref>
Mr. Chahadé continued to highlight many ICANN programs and initiatives. He drew attention to learn.icann.org, an open platofrm for learning about ICANN. He defended ICANN against what some have called a "runaway budget" by highlighting that ICANN has worked to cut the translation costs at ICANN Meetings by hundreds of thousands of dollars. He discussed the new globallization of ICANN, mentioning new staff members in Singapore and across Africa.
He closed by talking about ICANN's multistakeholder model and ICANNLabs, a series of web experiments aimed at broadening participation and communication within the ICANN Community. He also promised that by ICANN 49 in Singapore, the ICANN.org website would have a redesign.
Finally he mentioned the Snowden revelations as to why ICANN was under pressure to increase their involvement over control of the Internet. He announced 1net, a website "blank canvas" dedicated to Internet Governance where anyone can add to the conversation.
===Name Collisions===
===Name Collisions===
===Internet Governance===
===Internet Governance===