APRALO Outreach Strategic Plan

FY18 APRALO STRATEGY

Overview of 2016 and 2017-2018 activities

APRALO objectives: To build and enhance capacity among existing ALSes as well as create outreach opportunities to build connections with regional organizations as well as with current and potential ALSes and individuals who could be assisted to contribute to policy processes within ICANN.

Since June 2016, the APRALO Leadership Team (ALT) has gained sponsorship from a variety of sources to carry out its outreach objectives. During this period, APRALO was involved in the following activities:

• New leadership – Satish Babu taking over from Siranush Vardanyan as RALO Chair. Ali AlMeshal remains as Vice Chair. The second VC position is currently vacant, to be filled in before the GA during ICANN60.

• Established a mentorship programme to develop leadership capacity of ALS members who volunteered for the programme.

• Continued our collaboration with the APAC Hub to create capacity building webinars

• Participated in the following events (numbers relate to the attendance of APRALO Leaders)

  • (5) attended ICANN meetings in Helsinki, Hyderabad and Copenhagen

  • (4) attended APRICOT (Ho Chi Minh City) – participated in APTLD and AP* mtgs – 3x CROPP, 1x private sponsor (also 3 sponsorships for fees and 1x self-sponsoring of additional accommodation).

  • (4) participated in the China Internet Forum (Beijing) – 4x private sponsorships

  • (2) and ALS members attended APrIGF (Taipei) - participated in various sessions and the development of the Synthesis Document to present Asia-Pacific IG concerns to the Global IGF – 1x Fellowship and 1x part-private & part-self-sponsored, ALS members were privately sponsored or were Fellows

  • (2) attended APNIC42 (Colombo) and the AP* meeting – 1x Fellowship and 1x private sponsor

  • (2) and ALS members - participated in 2016 Global IGF (Guadalajara) – 2x FY18 budget

  • (2) are members of the Management Steering Groups of the APrIGF and the APSIG

  • (1) participated in the AP Internet Governance Academy (Korea) – APAC Hub sponsored

  • (1) participated in the organization of the first APSIG (Bangkok)

  • (1) coordinated the IndiaSIG prior to the Hyderabad meeting (ICANN funding provided)

• Supported ICANN FY18 budget applications for ALT and ALS outreach events

• Continued to promote ALS events on the APRALO Outreach calendar

• Continued to encourage ALS participation in ALAC policy development

• Maureen Hilyard became a Director of the Public Interest Registry Council for .NGO

Throughout 2017-2018, APRALO will continue its community outreach through regional events that offer the greatest opportunity to make contact with regional organisations, ALS members and potential APRALO members (organizations and individuals). Priority will be given to activities where we have established an identity as a reputable regional internet organisation, and reognised as one of the AP* organisations that regularly participate in and feed back to the members of APRICOT and APNIC meetings. The Leadership team approached the Budget Committee for FY18 funding for at least 3 members of the team to attend the APRICOT meetings which are the gathering of all the regional IT-related organisations. Although the proposal was accepted, it was conditional on using CROP, however as our schedule of events in the region indicates, five CROP slots would not meet the outreach requirements for our region. Satish and Maureen are members of the APrIGF Multistakeholder Steering Group (MSG) and while Maureen has participated as a member of the 2016 Election and the 2017 Fellowship and Programme Committees as well as co-chaired the Synthesis Document Town Hall Sessions, Satish has also contributed to the Synthesis Document and both participate in the APrIGF programme as workshop coordinators. Despite out hands-on role with this activity, it has been a regular for CROP use by two members of the team.

For 2016 two slots remained to be used by the Leadership Team to attend regional events that they had not participated in before. These were to be the Nepal IGF and the Pacific IGF in Vanuatu. Use of the CROP places for both events fell through because the Nepal event was postponed into the FY18 year, and the conflict of getting a visa for Johannesburg meant that there was no one available to attend the Pacific IGF. Because both events were to be held in the month of June, it was impossible for any other opportunity to use them by the end of the financial year.

Our priority for CROP will be 2 x APRIGF, and 3 slots to be used for regional events by the other Leadership Team members. The Leadership Team and ALS members will take advantage of Fellowships and other financial resources in order to reach out to their communities to gain more interest in ICANN

APRALO has access to various funds to assist the Leadership Team and selected active ALS participants, to attend events within the region with the purpose of outreach and engagement. These funding sources proposed for APRALO activities in FY18 include: