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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 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 demonstrated tremendous success in outreach and engagement resulting from a well organized booth presence and coordinated workshop activities with RALO representatives supporting and participating in each others' sessions.

KEY OBJECTIVE for 2018: To continuously improve on our developing At-Large Outreach Strategy targeting global stakeholders in the Internet Ecosystem in order to heighten awareness about At-Large, its role within ICANN and its activities.

This was undertaken very successfully via a visual presence and collaborative outreach by ALAC and RALO representatives at the booth and during formal participation in IGF workshops. At-Large was a noticeable presence at a wide range of IGF session topics, supporting Civil Society, GNSO as well as At-Large sessions.  

Proposal Objectives

The At-Large IGF Outreach Strategy 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, but who can be encouraged to connect by coordinating a more proactive bottom-up approach to outreach through the At-Large booth, as well as from a more collaborative approach to the outreach of other sections of the ICANN community.

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

• encourage At-Large participants to address internet governance issues within ths trusted and inclusive multi-stakeholder Global IGF ecosystem, and to have At-Large recognised by ICANN by sponsoring thir full participation in the Global IGF programmes by the acceptance of the MAG of their successful submission of applications.

Targeted Deliverables

• Enhance ICANN At-Large engagement within the arena of global internet governance by managing a booth to reach out to potential individuals and/or organisations who have the potential to contribute to At-Large’s bottom up approach to engaging key stakeholders in At-Large and the ALAC policy development process.

• Promote At-Large through active engagement with potential new members, encouraging more stakeholder interest in joining At-Large and providing them with directed capacity building about the RALO structures and activities of ICANN.

• Participate in other IGF activities by the various RALO representatives that will encourage wider specific regional outreach, for example the regular APrIGF MSG session to coordinate their annual APRIGF event, or the SIDS session which is a collaborative African , Asia Pacific and Carribbean initatve, coordinated by At-Large, GAC and the GNSO.

• Participate in a minimum of five IGF Targeted Sessions accepted by MAG to increase the opportunity for building awareness and self promotion
• Participation by the regional O&E co-chairs in a global workshop promoting an ICANN internet governance issue and providing baanced regional perspectives on a relevant global issue.

Appendix

Topics

•  Blockchain and the DNS
•  Connecting the Last Billion
•  Building IT Capacity in Emerging Markets
•  Into the Breach: Emerging Practices in Digital Security
•  Multistakesholder empowerment in the Internet Ecoystem
•  Best Practices of Community engagement
•  Data on Purpose: The Promise and Pitfalls of the Connected World.

Moderator and Speaker List

This list of speakers are existing resource persons approved by IGF and some are funded by various other sources ( Indicated by *)

Olivier Crepin Leblond *

Glenn McKnight *

Maureen Hilyard

Judith Hellerstein  *

Tijani Ben Jemmi

Satish Babu

Renata Ribero

Maritza Minano

Ali Almeshal

OIga Cavali  *

Walid Al Saqif  *

Lianna Galstyan *

Ali AlMeshal

Financial Support:

The request is for TWO ALAC and TWO  RALO representatives who will not only be actively involved with Outreach and Engagement among the IGF community within the Booth Compound, but will also be participants in ICANN and MAG-accepted IGF workshop/panel sessions..

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.

This request is for communications and language services support for the ALAC and the five RALOs to allow for more effective outreach and engagement.

Such support would include activities including:

• Production, translation and printing of ALAC and RALO brochures and mailcards
• production of 2 to 3 infographics on end users issues
• production of an AFRALO short awareness video about ICANN, At-Large, ICANN’s mission and policy issues targeting the African Internet users.
• procurement of secondary pop up banners for several RALOs
• procuturement of lapel buttons for At-Large and the RALOs to be given to all leaders and used for WG members – these would include both logo buttons as well as ‘Ask me about At-Large’

This set of activities would result in increased awareness of the ALAC and At-Large, raised ‘brand’ recognition of the ALAC and the RALOs, and facilitate outreach activities.

Financial Support:

Given the scope of work requested, this request likely in the amount of between $10,000-$15,000.