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The Outreach Program of new gTLDs and for the Support program

At-Large members have expressed concern on the reach of the current New gTLD Outreach Program, in that it has not seemed to include outreach beyond centrally located communities in the capitals of the developed world.  In most communities in developing economies, there is still no knowledge of the New gTLD program let alone an Applicant Support Program.  In extending the Outreach program to include the Applicant Support program, there will be a need to increase the reach of the program beyond the current scope.  As the Applicant Support Program does not yet contain the specifics of the revamped Outreach program beyond a statement about advertising the Applicant Support Program, it is important that the Staff Implementation team work with a group of JAS WG volunteers to develop an Outreach program adequate to the needs of the Applicant Support Program.  

The lack of action on the creation of a Foundation and/or Fund for the purpose of fund raising.

One of the recommendations of the JAS WG was that a Board initiated community wide committee be created to investigate the means and methods of creating an ICANN charitable foundation that could both do fund raising and could make decisions about grants to worthy applicants, including to those attempting to create registries in developing economies.  A resolution initiating this Board committee was not included among the 8 December 2011 resolutions and no further statements have been made on this recommendation.  As the questions that need to be answered in the investigation of an ICANN charitable foundation are many and establishing such a fund would be time consuming, and as such a foundation or fund would be necessary in any fundraising effort to assist Support Applicants beyond the $2 MUSD allocated by the ICANN Board, we reiterate the JAS WG recommendation that this effort be initiated as soon as possible.

Thank You

At-Large New gTLD Working Group

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