AT-LARGE GATEWAY
At-Large Regional Policy Engagement Program (ARPEP)
ALAC Liaisons and Representatives
At-Large Review Implementation Plan Development
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Request | Person or Group Submitting | Request Number | Description | FBSC Decision | Status |
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Access by RALOs for funding of local engagement activities (Draft) | ALAC | For FY19, the ALAC again requests that each of the five At-Large Regional At-Large Organizations (RALO’s) are given access up to $2,000 each for targeted local discretionary funds to permit the local travel, luncheons, displays, graphic and promotional Facebook/Twitter graphics. As shown by the number of useful activities requested and approved to date in the implementation of the similar FY18 ABR, it is clear that opportunities exist for At-Large members to do local outreach and engagement about ICANN and ICANN policy related issues. Giving the RALOs the ability to identify local engagement activities which they can self-organize provides ICANN and the At-Large Structures with an efficient local team that is knowledgeable on ICANN policies. This results in grass-roots awareness-raising of ICANN in local communities. This project saw significant increase in the number of requests and successfully implemented local events. An additional year of ABR funding would allow this program to build on its success in allowing RALOs and At-Large Structures to reach out to and engage with local communities. | |||
ALAC | This request is for a post-ICANN meeting ICANN Meeting Review and Planning Session. It will occur at the end of each ICANN meeting held in FY19 and will include the ALAC Leadership Team (1 person per Region), the Liaisons to other AC/SOs, other advisors to the ALT (typically the recent past ALAC Chairs of not there in some other capacity) and critical At-Large support staff. This strategy meeting will include a number of components:
Our experience is that in the absence of such a meeting, people disappear immediately for 1-2 weeks to either relax (rare!) or to catch up on their real lives and jobs after being at the ICANN meeting (often taken as vacation time from their real jobs). We then spend considerable time scrambling to get organized again and we inevitable do not quite make it, decreasing the ALAC and leader effectiveness and significantly increasing stress (on both volunteers and staff). In contrast, the ALT Strategy Meetings held to date at the last several ICANN Meetings through previous ABRs have provided space for key discussions on ALAC policy, priorities, and leadership challenges resulting in solid actions that have considerably advanced the work of the ALAC. The ALT Members have expressed that these meetings have provided exceptionally important opportunities for strategic development and team-building. Several other AC/SOs increasingly hold inter-sessional meetings lasting several days with additional travel and accommodation to allow for strategic thinking environments. However, the ALT currently has found that these half day strategy sessions are sufficient for the time being. | ||||
IGF ( Location tba)Outreach Global Engagement and Capacity Building | AT-LARGE Outreach and Engagement Sub-Commettee | AT-LARGE GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY-BUILDING AT THE IGF Location to be determined , Date to be announced Our experience from the Dec 2017 at the IGF Geneva we saw tremendous success in outreach and engagement at the event with a well organized booth presence and coordinated workshop activities KEY OBJECTIVE: To coordinate an effective At-Large Outreach Strategy targeting global stakeholders in the Internet Ecosystem to heighten awareness about At-Large, its role within ICANN and its activities (via outreach at the booth and formal participation in IGF workshops). Proposal Objectives The original objectives of this proposal is to coordinate an effective and sustainable At-Large IGF Outreach Strategy that Incorporates relevant outreach objectives from ICANN’s Strategic Plan - in particular, to:
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Global Indigenous Peoples Ambassador Program In support of Fellowships | ALAC/At-Large | Assign Global Indigenous Fellowships to the ICANN Fellowship Program to increase the ability of global indigenous peoples to engage effectively within ICANN as well as to raise awareness on ICANN-related policy issues among indigenous communities worldwide. This is the third phase of this highly successful program. The FY’2018 request was proposed by ALAC. The FY’ 2017 inaugural request was proposed as a community special request project by Native Public Media (NPM), an ALS based in NARALO. To make the most of the generous opportunity via ICANN, vested global indigenous mentors are paramount in bridging the importance of ICANN’s work to that of indigenous communities around the world. Mentors bridge the work post ICANN Fellowship engagement making the program meaningful, lasting, and relevant across Indigenous communities and raising the impact of ICANN’s work globally. The results achieved from their participation were above expectation and the impact generated resulted in thousands of people getting to know about the program. The ambassador from Bolivia was interviewed on TV in an indigenous language program to discuss Internet policy and how other communities can participate. One of the indigenous fellows from the USA presented the program during the IGF2017 closing ceremony, an event with over 3200 registered participants. The community empowerment this program enabled will continue to be acknowledged for decades as ICANN participants immersion on the community is, in average, 3 years at least. Because of the success of the past year we were approached by RightsCon to create a session on indigenous issues. The program is also enabling an increase in the number of ALSes within the LACRALO and NARALO areas. There is also increasing awareness in Africa on Indigenous issues. In this second year of the Global Indigenous fellowships we would like to expand the program even more. For our last fellowship to ICANN 61 we have over 155 applications and would love to be able to add an additional two ambassadors so that we can have ambassadors from many more regions of the world. | |||
RALO:
Request | Person or Group Submitting | Request Number | Description | FBSC Decision | Status |
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NARALO Spanish Language Brochures and Mailcards | Glenn McKnight | ||||
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