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It was decided, as per previous years, that the August call will be skipped for the summer recess and the next EURALO monthly call will be in September.

June Report 2019

The items below cover the reports of EURALO ALS activities for the financial year 2019 (FY19) and the upcoming EURALO events for the financial year 2020 (FY 20) as drafted by Chair EURALO's Task Force on ALS Engagement, Yrjö Länsipuro.
In addition, it includes EURALO community members participation in ICANN 64 meeting, Marrakech, Morocco. As well as the EURALO members selected to participate in ATLAS III taking place in Montreal, Canada in November 2019.
The EURALO upcoming activities in Eastern Europe are included.

A.EURALO 2019/20 Outreach and Engagement Strategic Plans

The EURALO community members participated at various events either, as self-supporting or funded by their organizations. Also, EURALO was able to secure three CROP slots for the regional ALS outreach and engagement for the financial year 2020 activities.

A1. Outreach & Engagement Strategy for Financial Year 2019 (FY 19)
FY 19 in review
There is a growing multitude of all manner of internet-related meetings, conferences and workshops each year in Europe. Some are directly concerned with issues in ICANN’s remit, some offer a whole buffet of internet topics, many of which nevertheless have points of contact with the DNS.
EURALO members participate at many such events on their own or funded by their organizations. Funding by ICANN CROP program has dwindled in recent years. In FY 19, EURALO was able to secure three CROP slots, which were used as follows:
Event: ICANN63, Barcelona, 20. – 25.10.2018
Traveller: Sandra Hoferichter
Goals: To assist EURALO in its outreach to participants at ICANN63, including actively helping out with joint NCUC-At-Large Outreach Session, helping out with the Fellows as well as other At-Large activity at the booth, reaching out to newcomers at the ICANN meeting, explaining the complex ICANN and At-Large ecosystem to newcomers, helping out with the EURALO Virtual General Assembly and activities of the ICANN Academy.
Event: Internet Governance Forum, Paris 11. – 14.11.2018
Traveller: Natalia Filina
Goals: To represent At-Large community, particularly EURALO at the IGF. This will include presence at the booth that EURALO/At-Large are sharing with an Internet Society Special Interest Group; to actively distribute EURALO and At-Large outreach material throughout the IGF venue by targeting specific groups; to meet with current EURALO ALS representatives attending IGF in person in order to get to know them better (networking); to actively coordinate any informal meeting of European Stakeholders, in coordination with the Regional VPs for Global Stakeholder Engagement; to assist the At-Large and/or EURALO performing outreach activities both for individual and ALS member applications; to attempt to organize a speaking slot at IGF for EURALO where EURALO Engagement in ICANN activities will be presented to gain the attention of various experts in the ICANN multistakeholder development processes.
Event: EuroDIG, The Hague, 18.-20.6.2019
Traveller: Natalia Filina
Goals: To assist EURALO in its outreach to participants at ICANN65 including:
actively helping out with joint NCUC-At-Large Outreach Session; helping out with the Fellows as well as other At-Large activity at the booth; reaching out to newcomers at the ICANN meeting and explaining the complex ICANN and At-Large ecosystem to newcomers
A2 Outreach & Engagement Strategy for Financial Year 2020 (FY 20)
The EURALO ALS Engagement Task Force identified major events to be funded by the ICANN CROP for Financial Year 2020 ( FY 20). Likewise, the Taskforce, at its meeting on 14 June, 2019 selected three events for CROP funding and are as follows:
Re:publica
IGF, Berlin
TBD: EuroDIG and SEEDIG mentioned as possibilities.
B. ICANN65 Meeting, Marrakech, Morocco
B1. The table below contains a list of the successful EURALO members selected to attend ATLAS III summit, Montreal, Canada between November 1 - 8, 2019

B2. ALAC Subcommittee Outreach:The Upcoming EURALO Activities in Eastern Europe Region
EURALO members held a meeting to discuss the EURALO outreach and engagement activities in Eastern Europe. The meeting attendance includes Natalia Mochu, ICANN’s Global Stakeholder Engagement Manager, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
One of the takeaways include to increase and extend EURALO activities in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
The full meeting discussions were summarized below by the in-coming EURALO Secretariat, Natalia Filina.

- Natalia invited me to participate in the open "ICANN65 readout webinar" (scheduled on July 11) with a short presentation about our work and the opportunity to join Euralo. The participants – the stakeholders in ICANN, the Regions – Eastern Europe and Central Asia. (Previous at-Large participant, Liana Galstyan, presented APRALO). For the participation i will prepare a short presentation (if we already have it or infographics, I may use it) about the mechanism of our work explaining how the opinion of end users is transformed during the work into part of the policy development process.

- The Interaction with RIPE NCC. According to preliminary data, the representatives of engagement interested in beginning such work. (We can hold joint open webinars after each RIPE or ICANN meetings, for example).

It is a good idea: EURALO already did this for example concerning the GDPR (https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=79434910), but there is always space to make more webinars I assume?! It is just a matter of organizing them and finding people who are willing to present ;-)!
- We need to start a new tradition to replace the (a little bit) passive position in the region to active role by the invitation of the appropriate organizations (to organize f2f meetings or online-webinars) if this organizations are not yet our ALSs, but potentially may bring to our work a lot of useful suggestions, experience of best solution (I mean the organizations which are working on the Internet right and freedom protection field, as an example).

- We should use the opportunity of the physical presence with short introduction presentations at events in the region (we are talking about events which don't require the funding for the presence). This is already implied theoretically, but practically we don’t use this possibility.

B3. ICANN65 At-Large Sessions are reported here http://online.fliphtml5.com/gnel/fqol/#p=91

The below are EURALO members who contributed to the ICANN65 At-Large sessions report:

EURALO Chair, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond
Sébastien Bachollet
Joanna Kulesza
Wale Bakare
Yrjö Länsipuro

April Report, 2019 

A. EURALO Engagement and Outreach FY19

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