ICANN Moving Puerto Rico Meeting to Hyderabad, India, Over Zika Outbreak
The ICANN board voted to move its ICANN 57 meeting to Hyderabad, India, and reschedule it for Nov. 3-9, it said Tuesday in a blog post. ICANN said the board chose to move the meeting to Hyderabad from San Juan,…
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Puerto Rico, in response to concerns about the Zika virus outbreak. ICANN rescheduled from the original meeting dates, Oct. 29-Nov. 4, because of limited space availability in Hyderabad on those dates. ICANN previously decided to move its June 27-30 policy forum from Panama City to Helsinki in response to the Zika outbreak (see 1602080015). The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported 669 cases of Zika in Puerto Rico as of May 11 that the agency believes were caught within the U.S. territory. “This decision was based on available research and information and the fact that Puerto Rico has declared a state of emergency” related to the Zika outbreak, ICANN said. “We believe that the Zika virus poses a significant enough threat that we need to postpone going to Puerto Rico for the health and safety of our community and our ICANN team,” just as ICANN did when it relocated its ICANN 52 meeting in 2014 from Marrakech, Morocco, to Singapore due to concerns about that year's Ebola outbreak. ICANN 57 will be at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, ICANN said.