ATLAS II Recommendation 12

 

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Actions: 

• 16 Sep 2015: 
  • During ICANN 54 in Dublin, the ALAC to meet with GSE Staff and Regional VPs and raise their awareness of this recommendation and what they have been doing to address this recommendation. 
• 05 Oct 2015:
  
  • Capacity Building WG to review the ATLAS II recommendations in their upcoming call(s)

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Notes: 

• Capacity Building WG / Outreach SC to develop a proposal in coordination with the GSE staff and then send the proposal for Board review.
• The proposal can be expanded on the relevant items listed in the appendix of the ATLAS II Declaration.
• 18 Oct 2015 (update from the GSE, slides)
  • Yu-Chang Kuek on the GSE engagement efforts in the APAC region: 
    • Institutionalizing the collaboration through a framework under an APRALO and ICANN/APAC hub structure with the guidance from APRALO and Policy team. 
      
    • Under the framework, a regularly timed webinar has been co-organized by APRALO and the ICANN/APAC hub. It’s to make sure that information pertaining to the DNS, and information pertaining to ICANN affairs are shared with a broader, regional community, and that the content being put up for discussion is jointly curated by both APRALO as well as staff, based out in the region. 
    • Another item under the framework is language customization in a very diverse region. ICANN has signed an MOU with Thailand to help them and help us translate materials into Thai. With many partners in APAC region, GSE has taken the outcomes of ICANN Meetings and has read-out sessions in country as well. 
  • Baher Esmat on the GSE engagement efforts in the Middle East: 
    • There are two main programs that GSE embarked upon a year or so ago, one in relation to development of the DNS industry in the region. ICANN had an agreement with the Egyptian Regulatory Authority, NTRA, to establish a DNS entrepreneurship center to serve Africa and the Middle East. The objective is to not only develop capacities but also to further develop the ecosystem across both regions. In the past six months ICANN has run five workshops in four different countries. There was a two-day workshop with registries and registrars in Tunis, focusing particularly on the local market in Tunis – what the strengths are, what the weaknesses are, and so on. 
    • The other program is a School on Internet Governance. This is not an ICANN invention. There have been programs on Internet governance all over the world in the past ten years. GSE partnered with a number of community leaders in this field, and started this program last year in the Middle East. This year, and upon the request from the local community in Pakistan, the ISOC Chapter in Islamabad, which is one of the ALSes, led an effort to have a National School on Internet Governance as well. 
  • Maureen Hilyard:
    • In Oceania, ICANN does not seem to have done enough outreach in the 22 countries and territories other than Australia and New Zealand. There’s a big black hole when it comes to ICANN activities in the Pacific. 
  • Save Vocea:
    • In 2014, ICANN started this stakeholder group bottom-up engagement where we brought participants from Oceania who’ve been involved in ICANN to be part of a Working Group to put together a strategy for the region. One of the things the group did was highlight some of the main activities that could be important for the region. Some of it was on capacity building for the region and how we could also assist in the stability of the DNS for the region. 
    • Never before in the past, you’ve never seen Pacific Islanders being here. In this meeting, we have about nine countries from the Pacific through participating on Fellowships. There has been more coordination with the regional organizations, particularly with PIC ISOC, as they’re the regional body for the ALS. Then there are other bodies outside, like the APNIC in the industry. 
    • One success is that those countries and territories are receptive to ICANN coming in. In the past six months ICANN covered about eight countries, working with the stakeholders within the countries. 
      
    • It's good to work in partnerships, but it’s not concrete in terms of how ICANN could set MOUs with Pacific island countries and territories. 
    • The challenge is still on communications. Even though we provide a webinar for the whole Asia Pacific region, in coordination with APRALO, the challenge is how do Pacific community members get access to online meetings? How do they pay for this access? Who will pay for this access. That’s been one of the major problems, and ICANN should work on that. 
  • Olivier Crepin-Leblond:
    • GSE has provided a good deal of information on that. I think that’s also pretty much complete. 
      

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Input from Outreach & Engagement Sub-committee: 

• Capacity Building WG / Outreach SC to develop a proposal in coordination with the GSE staff and then send the proposal for Board review.
• The proposal can be expanded on the relevant items listed in the appendix of the ATLAS II Declaration.
• Africa Engagement Strategy has been successful
• Not sure whether the engagement strategy in other regions are as good as the Africa engagement strategy
  • Indigenous population
  • Find out what regions don't have any ICANN presence (e.g. Dev's spreadsheet for LAC region)
• Stakeholder map across all the SOs/ACs/SGs is needed (key rec)
• Stakeholder engagement strategy has been successful
• Examples of effective campaigns:
  • LAC Road Show