January 2018 Report 

Certification of Norway Chapter of the Internet Society as an EURALO At-Large Structure (ALS)

The At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) voted by accepting the Norway Chapter of the Internet Society application as an At-Large Structure of EURALO.

The ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is pleased to inform you that Norway Chapter of the Internet Society has been certified as an At-Large Structure (ALS).  The ALAC greatly appreciates your group's interest in involving individual users in EURALO and ICANN and looks forward to working with you and your colleagues. 

EURALO Board Call, 18/01/2018 at 19:00 UTC

The EURALO Board call was held on 18 January 2018 had some of the newly elected Board members in attendance. Some matters were discussed and agreed on include, the suggested proposals during the brainstorming session at the joint ICANN/ISOC dinner at the IGF, Geneva 2017. 

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EURALO Secretary, Wale Bakare volunteers to update EURALO Facebook page.

EURALO Community Regional Outreach Program (CROP) Requests

The CROP requests need to be filed 6 to 8 weeks ahead of an event. Forecasting of CROP requests is therefore very important. The EURALO Board agreed to propose the following use of CROP slots for this Financial Year, ending 30^th June 2018:

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- EuroDig 2018 to take place in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 5 – 6 June 2018. There are 2 CROP slots for EuroDIG

EURALO Outreach Calendar

- The calendar needs to be populated

-  The question on how to populate the calendar will be placed to the EURALO ALS Engagement Taskforce in coordination with communications team.

Collaboration with RIPE and Next Steps

EURALO Chair, OCL to get in touch with Chris Buckridge of RIPE to inquire about the upcoming meeting in Marseille, France.

OCL to explore collaboration with CENTR with the goal to sign an MOU in Barcelona, Spain during ICANN63 meeting.

EURALO Monthly Call

The call started with a review of ICANN Policy Consultations currently in place.

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All ALAC and RALO Additional Budget Requests can be found on: https://community.icann.org/x/mwhyB

EURALO February 2018 Report

EURALO Taskforce on ALS Engagement Call 6 February 2018 at 17:00 UTC

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OCL has emailed Lutz Donnerhacke asking him whether he would be interested in participating in the SSR2, as an EURALO representative to the Review Team2.

EURALO March 2018 Report

San Juan ICANN61: RALO Leadership meeting – Sunday 11, March 2018

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Olivier Crepin-Leblond to request volunteers to participate in the EURODIG 2018 meeting, considering the 6 weeks requirements to file CROP funding requests.

EURALO April 2018 Report

1. General Data Protection Regulation and ICANN

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OCL mentioned the CROP slots and the number of slots available for this year. He mentioned of ISOC Bulgaria, and that two EURALO members, OCL and SB would be attending ISOC European Chapters meeting where they would take At-Large brochures.

ALAC and EURALO 2018 Election

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SB asked when the nominated candidates will be announced. Heidi Ullrich responded that results will be announced shortly after the nomination period. 

Community Onboarding Program

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YL commented that an online course should also be an option.

Webinar on The Impact of Human Rights

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YL commented that there is a need for members to put more information to grow the group for outreach activities. 

Selection of Community Onboarding Program (COP) Candidate for EURALO (In-Camera)

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The Chair has transmitted these names to the CROP application which was filed accordingly. 

Action Items

• Olivier Crepin-Leblond to take the lead on the coordination of the third GDPR Webinar, targeting the last week of April or first 2 weeks of May. The objective will be to make it a “reporting” session with ALS sharing their experiences on the implementation of GDPR. Olivier Crepin-Leblond to send another email to all EURALO ALSes asking them to share their experiences on GDPR.
• Olivier Crepin-Leblond to liaise with Annette Mühlberg to set-up a Webinar on the topic Framework of Interpretation and Develop a checklist for human rights impact assessment. 
•  On Proposal 3: Discussions are still ongoing about RDS (Registration Directory Services) and SSR2-RT (Security & Stability Review Team #2); there is still a focus on the security aspect: privacy vs. security. Olivier-  to contact SSAC, first to identify what is the best time to start a discussion and as suggested by Jean Jacques highlighting the point that the privacy aspect must be considered alongside security and stability aspects. That is a central concern of our user community.
• Silvia Vivanco to open a wiki page on Proposal 3 in coordination with Olivier. 
• Wale Bakare to continue updating and promoting the EURALO Facebook. Olivier Crepin-Leblond to send an email to all EURALO ALs encouraging them to get engaged in the EURALO FB page. 
• Olivier Crepin-Leblond to notify Alan Greenberg that Matthias Markus Hudobnik is the selected EURALO COP candidate.
• Olivier Crepin-Leblond to notify Andrei Kolesnikov, Clement  Genty and Oksana  Prykhodko on their selection for the CROP slots for EURODIG.

EURALO May 2018 Report

A.     EURALO May call 

- Regional Outreach: EURALO Members at re:publica 2018 Belin, Germany

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AM added in that there is a multistakeholder section in re:publica. And there are people more interested in IT infrastructure, political issue, the privacy issue.

- Joint Civil Society Outreach at ICANN 62 

OCL reported that there is going to be the At-Large capacity session at ICANN62 in Panama. He said the NCSG asked whether At-Large could do a joint session – ( this was accepted). OCL suggested that people from next Gen should attend to get a better feel for ICANN issues.

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OCL mentioned that John Laprise, the At-Large Social media Working Group chair is asking people to join the social media group. OCL commented that interested EURALO members to send email to the mailing list.

C. EURALO Webinar on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), 29 May 2018  

The EURALO webinar took place on the 29 May 2018, the following speakers participated in the discussions of the GDPR:  

1.    EURALO chair, Olivier Crépin-Leblond welcomed the participants, then introduced the speakers.

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1. Michele's Blog Post about the case
2. Oksana Prykhodko spoke about how the GDPR will affect the Eastern Europe - a report from Ukraine, European Media Platform.  
3. Big Brother Awards - for GDPR non-compliance - a report from Germany by Oliver Passek, Digital Courage, through Olivier Crépin-Leblond. Olivier Crepin-Leblond talked about the use of software system for keeping refugees’ records in Germany.  
4. Mr. Lucien Castex, from the Internet Society France Chapter spoke about the e-Bastille initiative: how to protect your personal data with GDPR.  
5. e.    Mr. Raoul Plommer and Mr.Teemu Ropponen – from the Open Knowledge Finland and the Internet Society Finland Chapter presented the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on GDPR 

 D. 2018 EURALO ALAC Member and ALAC NOMCOM REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION RESULTS

 The following EURALO candidates have been selected by acclamation and election in 2018:

 Bastiaan Goslings – ALAC Member representing EURALO (Term: 2018 AGM – 2020 AGM; by acclamation)

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As at Poll close: Wednesday 30 May 2018 23:58 UTC
Number of voters: 31 · Group size: 37 · Percentage voted: 83.78
Ranked by votes

 You may review the results independently under:

https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=803366a84MLcwbXSVjkIF7QrLN

 Action Items

        ·   EURALO to consider a panel or talk to participate in "Re:publica" in 2019 and add this to EURALO's strategic plan.

• Olivier Crepin-Leblond and Wale Bakare to start populating the EURALO event calendar with regional events.