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APRALO Leadership Team participation in the  2018 IGF

(Draft)

Continuing further with the successful previous IGF initiatives, the APRALO Leadership Team proposes participation of 3 members of its Leadership Team at the 2018 IGF.

The specific activities that would be carried out by the three-member Outreach Delegation, jointly and individually, are:

• Participate as APRALO resource persons in different workshops. For this, the team members would be registering themselves as Resource Persons in the IGF Resource Persons' Roster.
• Collaborate and support activities of other ALAC Members
• Explore, and if possible, plan and execute an At-Large Outreach event jointly with other RALOs  and local ALSes, if any, with Universities and other institutions. The objective of such an outreach process would be to introduce At-Large (and thereby, ICANN), and to stimulate growth and participation of local end-user communities in At-Large activities.
• Although there are uncertainties arising out of the approval process of Workshops at IGF, going by past history it is likely that there would be workshops being organized by APRALO members (there were two such workshops last year and one the previous year). The Outreach Delegation would support these workshops.
• Assuming we have other RALO representatives available, consider creating an At-Large 'corner' in the ICANN booth to provide information on ALAC/At-Large, its role, reach and diversity to visitors
• As in the case of 2017, hold talks with AP regional organizations for specific regional collaborative programmes

The IGF's open format allows anyone interested in Internet policy to participate. Consequently, it presents a unique opportunity for outreach as well as for networking and interacting with several global communities that are otherwise difficult to contact independently.

Several members of APRALO—including some of the members of the APRALO Leadership Team—have been actively participating in IGF over the years, and have been organizing workshops on different IG-related topics.

APRALO was able to send an official delegation to IGF 2015 held at João Pessoa, Brazil , IGF 2016 in Mexico and IGF 2017 in Geneva with ICANN budget support. The initiative was very successful, and the APRALO team was able to extensively interact with members of APRALO, members of the Asia-Pacific Internet Governance community, members of other RALOs, ICANN community members, and the larger IGF Community. The APRALO team also supported the APRALO members in organizing their workshops.

As of now, neither the themes for IGF 2018 nor the Call for Proposals have been published. APRALO had discussed a plan to propose a Workshops, as soon as the call for proposals is announced.

Although this RALO request is submitted separate from the At-Large, it is understood that should both be funded, they are complementary and will need to be synchronized.

Diversity in ICANN Leadership Bodies

(Draft)

Olivier Crepin-Leblond (EURALO)

The diversity includes a broad range of data. To enhance diversity we need to be able to collect those data.

It will be useful to gather the data both from an historical point of view and from a current and future situation.

All the ICANN leadership bodies can be concerned but the first one to be discuss (as the data are already collected and in the last mile to be analyzed) must be the Board.

In future steps (specifically going to a workshop during 2018 IGF) we will need to take into account other leadership bodies of other Internet Governance structure (Internet Society, IETF, IGF MAG…).

Workshop's themes:

- what is Diversity (based on the WS2 ccwg-ICANN accountability document)?

- what are the data that need to be collected?

- evolution of diversity in various ICANN leadership groups

- how to enhance diversity in ICANN leadership groups?

Research/Study and Meeting EURALO/At Large/otherSO/AC joint workshop at one ICANN6x (FY2019)

Financial Request: (Travel Support)

Additional one person from EURALO, one from At-Large and one per body concerned will get involved in this workshop.

And 5 people to IGF 2018.

Internet-of-Things (IoT) and the Increasing Governance Challenge Ahead

IGF 2018 Workshop 

(Draft)

The IoT evolution includes a broad range of industries, including the automotive, finance, consumer electronic devices, retail services, manufacturing, agriculture and other sectors important for sustainable development of the humanity. Central to the solutions and deployments of IoT is unified communication. The unified communication relies heavily on the All-IP-Based scheme for end-to-end delivery of IoT solutions.

All-IP-Based Deployment: what about the Internet architecture evolution? All things Internet rely on implementation and deployment as a set of unified protocols, numbering and addressing. What is the role of numbering and naming in IoT environment?

Workshop's themes:

- what is IoT, how to move the public perception from “smart coffee machine” to industry 4.0?

- evolution of IoT protocols and networks and impact on governance

- IoT (small and big) data parsing, building behaviour models and future risks to privacy of individuals

- cross border IoT (IIoT) data exchange and role of governments

- critical infrastructure: bikes vs. nuclear plants. How do we manage critical objects? Do we really want to connect everything to the Internet?

- IP-less communications: All-IP-Based is not a religion, but business approach. At what conditions is there no need to All-IP-Based devices?

- proprietary protocols and war of standards. ISO vs RFC, history repeats or lessons learned?

EURALO IGF 2018 Workshop: At-Large Outreach and Engagement

Financial Request: (Travel Support) 

3 people would be required from the EURALO members, to travel to the workshop. The fund requests for hotel, per diem is $10,000

Support participation of individual users in EURALO

Draft

An association has been created to provide a home for the individual users in EURALO. This association has now grown and has about 40 members. The need is to support the management of the discussions among EURALO individual users about the policy development activities while at the same time promote the association in order to enlarge the number of participating individual users.

In detail, the following activities have been identified:

• to manage an individual users’ mailing list and the EURALO individual users web site http://individualusers.org
• to run polls and votes as needed about policy development activities and decisions
• to conduct periodic meetings in person or teleconference of the EURALO individual users
• to report on activities of the EURALO individual users
• to produce outreach material for involving new individuals

Financial Request:

Technical:

Adobe Connect for teleconferences

Web site development and support

Voting and polling tools

Language Services Support:

Outreach material should be translated in the major European languages, like other EURALO outreach material

Other:

Printing of Brochures

Joint NCUC-EURALO Town Hall Event at ICANN 63 in Barcelona

Draft

EURALO and NCUC organised a Town Hall event at the ICANN Copenhagen meeting. The event consisted of an introduction to NCUC and At-Large during its first part. The second part consisted of an open topical discussion about several policy topics. The proposal is to repeat such an event for the ICANN 63 meeting in Barcelona.

One time activity that is unconflicted - with a potential need to have this activity take place at day -1. The length of the event is 3 to 4 hours (in the afternoon) split into two halves with a 20 minute networking break in the middle.

This Town Hall event is aimed at newcomers: NextGen, Fellows, Onboarding but is open to all. It is proposed  by a single region (EURALO) but should benefit participants from all regions. The format of the session is such that it will appeal to youth too.

Financial Request:

Technical:

This session should be accessible remotely and archived.

Language Services:

Interpretation in French and Spanish would be helpful, considering the location (Barcelona).

Other:

The session will be split by a break with refreshments and canapés. (Tapas)

Travel:

Depending on scheduling an additional hotel night might be needed for panelists (6 people max). All participants need to already be in Barcelona.

LACRALO Leadership Team participation in the 2018 IGF Meeting

DRAFT

Maritza Aguero

(LACRALO)

The 2018 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is an open and public Forum that brings interested participants from various stakeholder groups as equals, under a multistakeholder process. IGF focuses on public policy issues relating to the Internet and is a unique opportunity for outreach as well as for networking and interacting with several global communities that are otherwise difficult to contact independently.

Several members of LACRALO have been actively participating by remote participation for years and because of lack of funding the cannot attend to this global meeting.

LACRALO is facing a Mediation process so this proposal intents to demonstrate to the 2018 IGF participants that LACRALO can work together in policy discussion and we are open to new members that can really contribute in our Region. Also, to demonstrate the work that LACRALO is doing and improving.

We have noticed that other RALOS have being accepted this kind of proposals successfully and the LACRALO Leadership wanted also to extensively interact with members of other RALOs members, ICANN community members, and the larger IGF Community with the participation of 3 members of its Leadership members at the 2018 IGF.

The specific activities that would be carried out by the three-member, jointly and individually, are:

• Actively participate in different workshops.
• Collaborate and support activities of other LACRALO Members activities.
• Collaborate and support workshops of other LACRALO Members.
• Collaborate with ICANN booth and/or other RALO members, including At-Large Team.
• Provide information about LACRALO / At-Large / ICANN role.
• Carry out outreach and engagement for LACRALO.

This request is submitted with independence with other proposal and/or initiatives presented.

This proposal seeks financial support for travel, accommodation, per diem and visa fees as applicable, for three (3) LACRALO Leadership Members for participation at IGF 2018 with the following activities:

• Improve workshops related to topics of relevance for LACRALO Region.
• Provide LACRALO visibility to the international Community.
• Interact with other international members of the IG Community.
• Learn about new perspectives and examples in the Internet Ecosystem that could be replied in the LACRALO Region, specifically in the capacity building and webinars organized by the LACRALO Leadership.

Explain what is LACRALO and its mission.

Financial Request

Travel Support:

Travel support (flight, hotel, per diem, visa fees) for 5 Leadership Members.

NARALO Spanish Language Brochures and Mailcards

The proposal is to request ICANN Communication department to edit and print the NARALO brochure and Mailcard into Spanish.

NARALO’s Team participation in the thirteenth Annual IGF Meeting

Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a United Nations forum which provides a platform to discuss the multistakeholder Internet governance issues with the global Internet community and attendees from developed and developing countries. IGF is one of the best and prominent venues to present ICANN as a an exemplary of multistakeholder model in the Internet governance ecosystem.

At last year’s IGF At Large had great success in carrying out outreach at IGF and promoting the multi stakeholder model to the larger, diverse Internet community and also introducing NARALO to many new people. To achieve the two goals of presenting ICANN as the exemplar of Multi stakeholder, to engage with underserved communities within NARALO target area, and to engage and outreach to others in the North American we seek to have two travel spots approved to support to two NARALO members to attend IGF 2017. We would like to hold several workshops and side events at IGF 2018. By allocating travel support from ICANN we will increase the participation of NARALO at the IGF.                                                               

We plan to further expand our activities at IGF 2018 in terms of organizing sessions, outreach and awareness raising. Having learnt from our past successful experience, we will again hold a booth at the venue (if approved); we will submit proposals for workshops and side events requests for IGF and we will participate in shaping the schedule and sessions for civil society day which usually takes place one day before IGF. We will also hold an outreach event.                                                                 

As a followup to the successful IGF GENEVA 2018 our plan is to work closely with the Outreach and Engagement Committee in their efforts to expand At Large and NARALO’s  outreach and engagement efforts at the IGF.

Our activities include:                                                      

• Participation at civil society day (day-1) as well as help shape its agenda

Hold several workshop which focuses on ICANN, At Large, and are targeted at the unserved communities within NARALO, accessibility, indigenous, low

• income
• Work jointly with the At Large booth at the IGF
• Hold an outreach event jointly with the Outreach and Engagement committee
• Coordinated booth activities
• Outreach to the all the booth organizers
• Active participation and promotion at the IGF Workshops
• Participate as a NARALO resource person in different workshops
• Collaborate and support activities of other ALAC Members

Although this RALO request and other RALO requests are submitted separate from the At-Large, it is understood that should both be funded, they are complementary and will need to be synchronized