December
- Motion to accept Garth Bruen to have a leave of absence for six months
- Interim Chair is Evan Leibovitch and interim Secretariat/Vice Chair is Judith Hellerstein
- LeMarie and Imran volunteered for the committee for the selection of the IANA transition group
- Vacancy for the Naralo spot FBSC
- Due diligence for Consumer Council of Canada
- Cropp application rejected for CES for Evan, Evan resubmitted for NTEN in March
- ARIN and NARALO MOU agreed upon and signing ceremony arranged for Feb in Singapore-Evan following up
November
Monthly Meeting on November 10, 2014- Evan Leibovitch is now the new Secretariat
MOU with ARIN and NARALO distributed to the NA list and NARALO SKYPE chat, Draft version waiting for NARALO feedback to Susan Hamlin
CROPP Update
- Approval of Glenn McKnight trip to NTEN
Confirmation of two trips out of the five , pending two more leaving one more trip to be approved
October 2014
The main activity in October was the ICANN 51 in Los Angeles, California with nine ALS's in attendance in LA.
Our October monthly meeting was in LA and the meeting was truncated due to room changes so many of the attendees and staff were late.
- A special dedication to Bob Bruen commenced the meeting.
- Tabled the ROP for the adoption of the Vice Chair position
- Discussion of deliverables of CROPP for North American consistent with NA Outreach
ICANN TORONTO Remote Hub
Murray McKercher managed the ICANN Remote Hub in Toronto at the Makeworks sponsored by CIRA and ICANN
-Number of attendees 50
Report pending from Murray
Special Activities include:
NARALO Outreach table at the ICANN village next to the ICANN Fellow booth providing literature and information to attendees during the breaks and lunch Special thanks to Konstantin of ISOC SF Bay Area for helping at the Outreach table
-Number of attendees to booth 30
NARALO SHOWCASE
The NARALO SHOWCASE entitled Our Internet , Our Stories, Our Network, First Nations and the World: NARALO SHOW
Attendance 100
Our major theme focused on the First Nations Internet situation in North and South America together with musical performance by Anthony Niigani and Derek's son. and lastly a stunning performance of Derek
Our was $5,100 and we managed to raise these funds from ICANN, Verisign and Afilias. The limited funds resulted in one drink ticket and a cash bar.
Extra was the pictures taken with the performers in front of the RALO banners
The evening included
-Master of Ceremonies Glenn McKnight
-Olivier Crepin Lebond, Chair Of ALAC
-Steve Crocker, Chair
-Fadi Chehade, President
-Jackie Johnson Pata, Association of American Indians
-Loris Taylor, Native Public Media
-Anthony Niigani, Manitoba E Association
-Alan Greenberg, Sponsorship Recognization Derek and Desiree
-Derek , Hoop Dancer
Sponsorship
- Verisign, Affilias and Native Public Media
Special acknowledgements to the donations from Loris Taylor of Native Public Media sponsoring the performers and Ms. Johnson Pata
DNS and Women Breakfast
ALAC Wrapup
Accessiblity Working Group
ALAC General Pictures
Elections
A runoff election for the IANA CWG resulted in the election of Eduardo Diaz
CROPP Update
-Trip approved for NTEN in March
-Trip submission for SWSE in March
-Pending submission by Evan for CES
-Pending submission by Evan for ARIN
September 2014
Outreach followup with Consumers Council of Canada with the executive of the organization on answering any questions. This application is close to one year in the preparation and submission.
August 2014 Report
- Summary
- Action Items
- Meeting and Action Reports
Planning of NARALO Showcase event in LA meeting - Outreach
Online News Media confirmed as new ALS
July 2014 Report
- Summary
- Action Items
- Meeting and Action Reports
NARALO election results
Glenn McKnight, ALAC Rep
Garth Bruen, Chair, Affirmed
Evan Leibovitch, Secretary, Affirmed
Louis Houle, Nomcom, Affirmed
- Outreach
Online News Media diligence
June 2014 Report
- Summary
- Action Items
- Meeting and Action Reports
ATLAS 2 was on the Saturday and Sunday
Noteworthy was Edwardo Diaz as the Vice Chair for the event
Evan, Judith and Glenn were reporters for the thematic sessions. Evan also was the principle writer of the final document.
Glenn chaired the Fayre of Opportunities - Short VideoPictures of the EventVideo at eventFadiOlivier , Wolfgang, NmemaPart Three
Evan, Glenn and Alan were all Mentors for newcomers at the event
NARALO ALS assembled in London for the ATLAS 2 and the NARALO General Assembly was arranged which was attended by VP Chris Modini - NARALO Election started with nominations on June 12th and to be completed by July 12
May 26 2014
1. Summary
2. Action Items- NARALO Call
- Susie Johnson to gather the latest NARALO brochures 50 EN, 25 FR, 25 ES to be sent to London and to Glenn McKnight for other activities. Glenn will send his mailing address to Susie.
- Heidi Ullrich to check on "transcription" for ICANN sessions.
- Alan Greenberg to confirm the NARALO Election schedule to put on the WIKI.
- Gisella Gruber / Terri Agnew to follow up on the turn around time for transcripts for all meetings. Garth Bruen has a suggestion to post them in one single page with all the media listed.
- Heidi Ullrich to follow up with Janice and Rob on whether a CROPP request can be submitted even before the FY15 Budget has been approved.
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3.0 Meetings and Event Reports
- Lots of pre-ATLAS 2 meetings with various NARALO volunteer to prepare for the Capacity Building Sessions, Fayre of Opportunities and more
4 NARALO Outreach
New ALS's
Native Public Media
Application from E Manitoba Association
May 27 presentation to Oshawa Accessibility Committee
4.4 CROPP Outreach
No CROPP travel in May
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5.0 Community Activities
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6.3. ALAC Report
6.4 NomCom May Report presented by Louis Houle:
6.5 .Mobi Report- Murray
April 2, 2014
1. Summary
2. Action Items- NARALO Call
ADD
3.0 Meetings and Event Reports
4 NARALO Outreach
New ALS's
As of April 23 Visually Impaired and Blind Users (VLUG) and Native Media information posted at
https://community.icann.org/x/kQCq
4.4 CROPP Outreach
. ARIN 33- Chicago
Travellers Glenn McKnight
2) Describe how the original Outcomes were achieved:
# 1 It has been one of the Chair of NARALO's goals to reach out to ARIN and have a NARALO member attend the annual meetings. - Done In fact four ICANN staff attended the event which was the first time ICANN attended ARIN #2 Raising awareness about ICANN At-Large and networking with delegates –Done Sunday night newcomers, Social, conference event etc were all opportunities to discuss ICANN and NARALO This is not quantifiable since people were passing the information onward to appropriate parties # 4 Distribute brochures to every delegate (estimated at 100) Exceeded distribution of brochures over 100 # 5 Engage ARIN membership at social and educational sessions Done Meeting with Sue Hamlin and obtained list of ARIN on the Roadshow schedule Note No video was shot at event: No permission granted by ARIN | |
Flicker Pictures of Event
5.0 Community Activities
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6.3. ALAC Report
6.4 NomCom Feb Report presented by Louis Houle:
6.5 .Mobi Report- Murray
March 2014
1. Summary
2. Action Items: ( Missing from NARALO Call )
ADD
3.0 Meetings and Event Reports
3.1 NARALO call in Singapore @ 7 am
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3.2 ICANN 49 Singapore
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Tea ceremony( Note beginning of video focus is an issue)
4 Outreach
4.1 Murray's Report
4.2 Due Dilgence of new ALS's
- ISOC Disabled and Special Needs Chapter
- VIBUG. Visually Impaired and Blind User Group
- Open Media ( April 4)
4.4 CROPP Outreach
. Washington at the Non Profit Technology Conference NTED,
Face to Face discussions at NTEN - 50 delegates and organizers
Specific potential ALS targeted in states, provinces or territories not represented in the NARALO list - 10
Number of pictures at event - 50
Number of ICANN SKYPE or Blog postings - 10
Distribution of information regarding NomCom
Results
Over 200 brochures distributed
Nomcom Bookmarks 100
Delegate conversation over 300, could not identify locations that are low participates in NARALO
Skype and Blog postings and Twitter 40
Pictures 106
2) Describe how the original Outcomes were achieved:
- Conducted Birds of Feather to 20 delegates
-Faciliator of NTEN session 45
- Radio interview for one hour to 9,000 listeners
-Interview with Chronicle for Philantropy Journal
-Visit to 100 booths at event
4.5 Chair's Outreach
5.0 Community Activities
6.1. Accessibility Working Group met in Singapore. -Garth and Glenn
A summary of the objectives for the group is on video
Amazing speed has been shown by ICANN and thanks to VP Chris Modini and his staff in supporting this initiative. In fact the ecosystem from ISOC, Osbudman, GNSO, ALAC, GAC and the business community has expressed unanimous support for our strategy crafted by Gunela Astbrink( ISOC-AU)
6.2. ATLAS 2 Opportunities Fair: Chair Glenn McKnight
A summary of the event in a slideshow
http://www.slideshare.net/gmcknight/fayre-of-opportunties-pdf-version
6.3 TOR Session
6.3. ALAC Report
6.4 NomCom Feb Report presented by Louis Houle:
http://www.icann.org/en/groups/nomcom/2014/report-cards
6.5 .Mobi Report- Murray
.MOBI Policy Advisory Board Meeting Summary 13 March 2014
February 2014 (Please Note New Format! Send Comments to Chair)
As part of our efforts to streamline internal procedures, information sharing, and make our work metrics-friendly, the structure of our reports will mirror the structure of our Monthly call agenda. This will connect our expressed goals with actual results.
- Summary
- Action Items Completion and Status
2.1. Email address for secratariat@naralo.org and chair@naralo.org-COMPLETED
3. Meetings and Events Reports
3.1. Monthly Naralo call with 18 attendees. A great showing and interest in NARALO activities
4. Outreach
4.1. Murray's Report
4.2. Outreach to new ALS including ISOC Disabled and Special Needs
4.3. Cyberwarriors for ex Canadian and US military
4.3. Cropp trips to ARIN in April and NTED in March has been booked, hotel and airfaire received. We have Naralo brochures and NOMCOM bookmarks for distribution
4.4. Chair's recruitment efforts:
4.4.1. Chair presented at Visually Impaired and Blind User Group (VIBUG) meeting 2/8/2014; application pending
4.4.2. Chair had phone calls with Open Media Canada and National Sexual Violence Resource Center; call pending with Online News Association
4.4.3. Chair met with Black Hat in San Francisco while at RSA; considering application
4.4.4. Chair met with Konstantin of ISOC SF to discuss his projects, namely fixing the digital divide with low orbit connectivity satellites
5. Community Activities
6. Committee/Working Group Reports
6.1. Accessibility Working Group had it's inaugural call to formalize the purpose and name of the group; It was decided that the WG focus only on the Disable Community and the group will share their suggestions on helping ICANN be more engaged in working with the disable community and make it's event more accessible
6.2. ATLAS 2 Opportunities Fair: Byweekly calls on issues ie. naming convention, speaker, food, music, sponsorship and other logistics issues
6.3. ALAC Report
6.4 NomCom January Report presented by Louis Houle: http://www.icann.org/en/groups/nomcom/2014/report-cards
On ICANN Functions
Miscellaneous
ALS Interviews on SKYPE, Completed Ed, Kerry, Darlene and Robert( look on NARALO ALS Page)
A ten point tip sheet created to help people create a better SKYPE interview
January 2014
- Summary
January was busy with outreach and in-reach. NARALO contacted 43 new groups and had exchanges and in-person meetings with some. In-reach included ensuring all ALSes had completed the ATLAS II survey and were listed correctly in the database. Some ALS contacts needed updating and we coordinated with staff to correct these. Much effort was put into launching the Accessibility projects - Action Items Completion and Status
2.1. Incomplete Items
2.1.1. Staff Items: Many incomplete including details on Native Fellowships
2.1.2. NARALO AIs: further action on compliance, updates on reserving AL in DNS,
2.2. Completed Action Items-Maureen Hilyard to send a link to Garth with the questions on Metrics. Garth will then request feedback from all the NARALO ALSes. - completed
-Garth Bruen to provide the name of the person who will receive the certificate for Gareth Shearman from the Board.- completed. - completed Darlene received certificate
-Puerto Rico ALSes was approved – Regional Advice was reached : Evan, Alan, Glenn, Darlene, Gordon, Garth, Jolie, Thomas, Eduardo voted in favor.-completed
-Garth Bruen to send an email to staff confirming the Regional Advice. Staff to continue with the accreditation process.- completed
-All - Please note that "New gTLDs" has been removed as a standard item and moved under "ICANN Functions"
-All - Please note that the agenda has been renumbered since the last session
-Heidi Ullrich (Staff) to request information from Christopher Mondini on disabled community access activities. Completed, (see 4.1.)
-Garth Bruen (Chair) to let Sandra Hofferichter and other organizers of the ICANN Academy know of the need for training for RALO Leaders and Secretariats. - Completed (see 5.6).
-Heidi Ullrich (Staff) to look for a Digital certificate of Gareth Shearman - Complete (see 5.7.)
-METRICS WG Feedback: Garth Bruen to request feedback from all the NARALO ALSes. - Integrated in ongoing discussions (see 5.5)
-Staff - Please create a "2014 Teleconference" Directory in the WIKI - Complete
-Staff - Please advise of the status of Buenos Aires Reciprocity Reimbursements-Staff: Please advise on the staff Due Diligence status of new ALS application: Capital Area Globetrotters
- Meetings and Events Reports
3.1. Monthly NARALO teleconference occurred as scheduled
3.2. Chair attended ALAC Monthly, Transcript
3.3. Chair attended ALT Mid-month and Monthly
3.4. Chair attended ATLAS II Events teleconf
3.5 Secretariat chaired the ATLAS ll Celebration organizing committee - Outreach Activities
4.1. Outreach to under served community is being made in earnest with creation of a NARALO Outreach matrix to show which US states territories and Canadian provinces are not represented in our NARALO family. Communication has started with American Samoa which is a in NARALO jurisdiction has a GDP of $8K per year according to the World Bank and eligble for ICANN fellowships. Its one area we have started an outreach for a new ALS
4.2. New ALSes: HET from Puerto Rico and Capital City Globetrotters
4.3. Officers worked diligently with staff to ensure all members had completed the ATLAS II Survey and were listed correctly in the database - Community Activities
5.1. Pushing for compliance disclosure
5.2. Creating Agenda for Tor Sessions in Singapore - Committee/Working Group Reports
6.1. Disabled and Special Community Working group is communication via email but no meeting has taken place since the inaugural discussion in November in BA, First Working Group call is scheduled for Week of Feb 10Th
6.2. CROPP - ARIN in Chicago and NTEN in Washington has been approved- Using two of the five allotted spaces for outreach - ALAC Report
7.1 Cross-Constituency letter to board concerning new gTLD PICs
7.2. Steve Crocker acknowledges ALAC - On ICANN Futnctions
8.1. ALAC is still reviewing the compliance issues
8.2. At-Large is still waiting on a tracking system for staff requests - Miscellaneous
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BLANK 2014
- Summary
- Action Items Completion and Status
- Meetings and Events Reports
- Outreach Activities
- Community Activities
- Committee/Working Group Reports
- ALAC Report
- On ICANN Futnctions
- Miscellaneous