AFRALO Outreach and Engagement Strategy FY 19

Thank you Fatimata for your draft. I made some modifications, and I'm posting the modified draft below

AFRALO Outreach & Engagement Strategy FY 19 - Draft

Aim of the Strategy

The FY19 AFRALO strategy for Outreach and Engagement aims at:

• Reaching out to African end users all over Africa to raise their awareness about the benefit of their involvement in ICANN activities
• Engaging African end users in ICANN Policy Development Processes (PDP)
• Promoting the ICANN multi-stakeholder model and its bottom-up decision-making process
• Explaining how an Internet organization / association may become an AFRALO At-Large Structure (ALS) and how an individual can become an AFRALO member, especially in non-represented African countries

 Strategy plan

To reach the aims of the strategy, AFRALO shall:

• Make sure at least 5 members of AFRALO are deeply engaged in the ICANN PDP
• Participate in events across Africa and especially in countries without ALSes to:
  • Make the adequate outreach to bring into ICANN Arena:
    • African Internet organizations and make them interested to become ALSes
    • Non-affiliated African individuals and make them interested to become AFRALO Individual members
  • Make presentations about topics under discussion in ICANN to show how the African ICANN community participate effectively in the ICANN policy discussion
  • Exhibit ICANN structure, information and activity and detail its working methods
• Organize local events, in partnership with the local ALSes to enhance their engagement and broaden their radiance in their respective countries
• Continue to identify university and academic institutions to organize fruitful discussions with students and teachers about Internet Governance to bring young people into ICANN

 Outreach Events targeted  

The outreach will target forums within the Africa Region to enhance AFRALO participation. The following non-exhaustive list identifies some targeted events:

1. ICANN65 | Policy Meeting - Marrakech, Morocco (June 2019)
2. AFRINIC-29 - Tunisia (November 2018)
3. Africa Internet Summit 2019 – Uganda
4. African regional and sub-regional IGFs