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Access by RALOs for funding of local engagement activities (Draft)

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 Leadership Team (ALT) Strategy Sessions (Draft)

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:

1. Debriefing on the meeting just completed.
2. Address issues that have arisen during the meeting
3. Plan for ALAC actions over the coming months.
4. If available and practical, meet with senior ICANN staff (Chair of the Board, CEO, Senior Vice President, Policy Development Support – such interactions have proven very constructive in the past),

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:

• promote ICANN’s role within the context of At-Large, targeting global stakeholders within the Internet Ecosystem who are not yet engaged with ICANN and by coordinating a more proactive and collaborative approach to the outreach of other sections of the ICANN community.

• take ICANN’s multi-stakeholder model to the world by way of a heightened participation and engagement of a balanced representation of At-Large’s diverse community, within an existing international internet governance ecosystem

• enable At-Large participants to address internet governance issues within a global, trusted and inclusive multi-stakeholder internet governance ecosystem, by submitting successful workshop applications to enable their full participation in the IGF 2017 programme
  
  

Target Deliverables

• Enhance ICANN At-Large engagement within the arena of global internet governance

• Manage a booth which will enhance reaching out to potential individuals and/or organisations who will contribute to At-Large’s bottom up approach to engaging key stakeholders in At-Large and the ALAC policy development process.

• Coordinate and participate in a directed capacity building about the RALO structures and activities of ICANN in order to engage more stakeholder interest in joining At-Large

• Participate in other IGF activities that will encourage wider specific regional outreach in the name of their RALO (for example the APrIGF session which happens at each Global IGF, or a SIDS session on some IG topic relevant to APC SIDS)

• Participate in five IGF Targeted Sessions accepted by MAG to increase the opportunity to build awareness and self promotion

• Build a long term sustainability plan
  

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.