AFRALO 05 September 2012
Summary Minutes and Action Items
Minutes
Roll Call
Agenda
2. Open Policy issue
We have less policy issues
Fatimata asked if people had comments on Public Comments
3. a) Recent and upcoming activities of ALAC
Yaovi
Congratulate Titi for election
Tijani
Yaovi, will outline ALAC Activities, ALAC met on August 28th, and you can go the website to see conclusions, and the meeting discussed WGs in which we do not have participants from the Region. We should have participation from the region in each WG. We can all visit the site and try to participate. Registrants rights and responsibilities. ALAC discussed many issues among which currently ALAC has voted on a number of subjects, and ALAC members voted on behalf of the RALOs . We had a webinar during which group members presented their work to ALAC and ALAC drafted a statement and members will vote on it later.
Consumer rights; ALAC member discussed the doc.
A number of statements.
ALAC participated in the work on policy.
The WG to review our rules. Yaovi mentioned the WG on ROPs, etc.
Fatimata: Are there any questions for Tijani?
Recent activities of AFRALO Members
1. Victor: Wants to know if he can participate in WG on Rights and responsibilities.
2. Yaovi: We have a volunteer for the WG.
If you are not on AC send an email to staff.
Fatimata:
Activities of ALs
Conference in Tunisia.
Tunisia wants to organize an activity at the national level.
In Senegal Monday 10th of Sept we will have the National Day of Internet .
ISOC Senegal, National.
ISOC Cameroon will be organizing a number of activities for engineers on Sept 14th.
4. Item for Information
We have proposed Mohamed. The rest of the RALOs
Tijani: Results of the ALAC in the NomCom, in regions where there are 2 candidates we will have the results soon.
The name of JJ, AG , etc.
ALAC was not obliged to accept the choice of the RALOs. It is true.
The rep of At Larfge in the NomCom are chosen by ALAC. Each Ralo sends candidates.
Yaovi: Wanted to speak about the subject, there is a review of the ROP of ALAC and its important the work going on in the WG. I would like you to participate more. If the members nominate at the RALO level, ALAC has to know those names.
OCL: As Tijani said, explained the selection, how is the work and recommendations of ALAC, the region can nominate 2 members but its clear that ALAC members can give the point of view of their region and discuss with other ALAC members that we do not want to change the rules.
Each one of us will give his opinion, nothing else to add.
Questions about NOMCOM: Yaovi explained it very well.
IGF Baku Forum, with the participation of everybody. Tijani has the floor.
OCL: AFRALO there are some Workshop proposals, the AFRALO WS was accepted by IGF. There was 90.000 $.
There are other activities organized and this is the budget. We do not have more info. This will be allocated for WS. The person in charge at the At-Large is not here.
Staff: AI: To insist on getting more information on IGF WS in Baku . Particularly how many people can go.
Tijani: OCL explained very well the financing of ICANN and the IGF WS is going to take place during the main session, its very important, we have 6/7 speakers with Fatimata as main speaker.
Yaovi: Will tell briefly the WG on ROP it is a very important WG, and they complement the internal rules of ICANN and its very important and the ROP are completely the rules of the internal rules of ICANN.
Definitions: We need to clarify definitions. Participation is open. There is a group of duties and criteria., this group is working on this, third on meeting and administration, and the last election, selection and nominations.
AFRICAN STRATEGY
Tijani: We elaborated the Strategic Objective of the group for Africa and we will have the Panel for the community and we will need to present this report in Toronto.
Tijani: We wanted to have some ideas about orientation and work of the WG and participation in ICANN, Africa is far from Domain names and we are trying to understand why there were so few African requests and to improve participation of the public sector in this area. If we want Africa to participate in the ICANN process then we need to have a more important role in the Domain name.
Aziz: Activities of At Large.
New gTLD Review Group
Dev coordinated the work, we need to say that the group receives the comment of Internet and AFRALO.
Amazon .book.
This presented an objection that said that its against the idea of opening the Internet to competition.
Fatimata: Would like to add something from Nigeria. No one from Nigeria.
It should be good that the ALS can answer this comment.
Next item : Ad - Hoc WG for improvement of budget preparation process.
Tijani :
This group on Budget preparation process of ICANN wanted to improve the budget preparation process.
We have only 2 persons in that group. We are waiting for the next meeting of this group and we are getting ready for the next meeting of the Ad-hoc WG. As you know as ALAC and At-Large we need your comments about budget and wanted to have some interaction about additional funds because there was a problem, because this period was too short.
We nee to see possibilities to have more time for the planning. (group on planning)
Priorities: Planning and Budget.
Fatimata: Question on ALS. Request for additional clarification.
Matt informed that we are gathering the information.
AFRICAN IGF
As AFRALO we have not discussed our participation but as individual members we have discussed some aspects of it.
AFRALO-AFRICANN
Tijani
We cannot create a drafting team without defining the subject of the statement
We asked all ALS to think of a theme to discuss in Toronto.
Leader of the drafting team
AI: Asked people to talk about the subject.
Different subject.
One ICANN held meeting with African community in Prague and draft strategic objectives for Africa, and now is more important.
Subject chosen for AFRALO meeting in Toronto should present a strategy for SA.
Ask a question: How many ALS or people have received the letter for WG on strategy and subject proposed by Tijani.
Victor: I cannot see how we can do to have a strategic proposal for a WG that we will support that something else will be added to this strategy.
Fatimata: Asked Tijani to answer. I can see any redundancy because our meeting is no working in parallel with IGF but its a meeting to tell ICANN that we have other activities, to see AFRICA more involved in the policy development process.
Can we have a deadline? Whatever the subject is, can you Aziz participate in the drafting group?
Tijani: Tomorrow an email will be sent to the lists to propose a subject and asking of they have other subjects. Last week.
For the African Group we have 3 volunteers and the WG will work on team and subjects and drafting team will begin to work.
Volunteers for WG.: We have Victor, Tijani , Hadja and Aziz and will ask and give 1 week deadline and we are going to work on that subject after a week and if no other proposal we will prepare a statement which will be read and debated in the Toronto meeting.
AOB: None
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