EURALO Trip Assessment 2

The purpose of the trip was a visit to IGF2018, representation in the framework of this major event for the community At-Large, specifically - EURALO. First of all, to represent and actively work on the promotion of the community, coverage of activities and involvement in the potential work of people who came to the Forum.

For three days at UNESCO headquarters, I worked with colleagues at the booth at-Large, answering questions from interested guests, provide and support to getting them full information about ways to join to ICANN space, distributing information materials, taking reportage photos of panels and discussions and lobby`s  communications, filling the news feed of the Euralo page on Facebook. Now I am a  co-author of https://www.facebook.com/EURALO/?ref=bookmarks.

I was the speaker of WS #269 Do (not) touch: selfregulatory safe harbor of social platforms”  and represented our community there.
During this event  I had the important opportunity to discuss of the working aspects and prospects of strengthening the activities of the SubCommittee on O&E with Daniel Nanghaka. As a result I have prepared a draft strategy of our possible activities (also with some highlighted suggestions for our future working at the same events): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mHdRgPU-o_V5ie05rol7TZeMPjrXAGBxEEIvguXWFJY/edit?ts=5c3f964e/. Now this document is the active discussion and we are building a plan of the implementation of possible directions and /or changes.

Together with Roberto Gaetano we also outlined the plan of outreach activities of the Individuals` Association.

This was my first Global IGF. Incredibly important not just attend and do O&E work, but to understand the scope and specifics of our work and the place of our community, to understand the huge experience of colleagues, and opportunity to exchange some knowledge there. 

I have been a member of EURALO since 2018, so it was very important for me (as for beginner), to have the opportunity of f2f networking, exchange of experience with at-Large leaders, colleagues from ICANN, ISOC, IGF and regional IGF conferences (SEEDIG, EuroDIG), with whom I have been working in WGs all of 2018 to prepare these events.

For three days I worked with colleagues at the booth (at-Large). In those moments when colleagues replaced me, I could attend WSs and round tables, panels and discussions.

There were some problems with the navigation and organization of the forum, so I (like my colleagues), experienced the difficulties of choice and the opportunity to have time to fully listen to the topics of interest (a lot of a crosses issues in the same time). However, I visited:

• 40 Internet Mega-Trends' Impact on the Internet's Architecture
• 269 Do (not) touch: selfregulatory safe harbor of social platforms
• 275 Before you know it, Internet governance will be irrelevant
• 324 Freedom on the Internet" is for EVERY stakeholder
• 443 The Internet and Jobs: preparing Gen YZ for future of work
• 80 Hack the Hate: Empower society to face hate speech

I attended the open O&E session of SEEDIG (as a member of the community and as fellow of 2018).

I witnessed an important event-the signing of a MOU between the Euralo CENTR https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1905523006209994&type=1&l=a8bd191a5f.

https://www.centr.org/news/news/press-release-euralo-and-centr-sign-mou-at-igf-2018.html

Unfortunately I was not able to hear the speech of the French President, however, I have had the opportunity of the presence in the final part of the forum, where they summarized the results of the forum and announced the venue of the next IGF in 2019 - Berlin.