AT-LARGE GATEWAY
At-Large Regional Policy Engagement Program (ARPEP)
At-Large Review Implementation Plan Development
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Request | Person or Group Submitting | Title of Proposal | Request Number | Description | Comments by ICANN Staff Regarding Possible Collaboration | FBSC Notes and Decision | Status |
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ALAC | ALAC/At-Large Plus | Access by RALOs for Funding of Local Engagement Activities | Given the significant success of the RALO Discretionary Funding granted in FY18, FY19 and FY20, for FY21 the ALAC requests that each of the five RALO’s be given access up to $6,000 each for a total of $30k for targeted discretionary funds to permit the support of policy-related engagement activities as catering, meeting room rental for such activities as At-Large Structure read out sessions, registration fees, displays, graphics and travel within their region – as well as one cross-regional activity.
This is particularly the case given the At-Large Post-ATLAS III set of activities in outreach and engagement, capacity building, and communication as well as the At-Large Review Implementation, in particular Issue 2 on reducing barriers to ALS/individual participation and Issue 13 on the need for more systematic engagement in regional activities. Giving the RALOs the ability to identify policy-related engagement and outreach 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 communities that are key for At-Large and ICANN. All RALO Discretionary Funding requests are developed and reviewed according to criteria agreed to by the RALO leadership. Funding has allowed for catering, printing costs and other activities associated with holding policy-related activities such as ALS readouts. The funding allows for regional travel which has been used for such activities as participation in regional Internet policy-related conferences and strengthening relations with regional Internet/DNS associations. The request for one international travel is meant to include recognized global events at which the requestor is presenting on an ICANN-related policy event on a topic that can’t be covered by an At-Large member in the region. These funds have seen year on year 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, regional and even international communities. Request: $30k in funds allocated to the At-Large RALOs for outreach and engagement activities. The funds will be managed by At-Large staff in collaboration with GSE and At-Large Regional Leadership based on agreed upon criteria. | Approve to continue with request of $30k. | Submitted | ||
ALAC | ALAC on behalf of Judith Hellerstein | Real-time Captioning RTT of Zoom Meetings in English and Spanish | Seeking 12 hours of RTT services in English and 6 hours of RTT services in Spanish. The Spanish RTT will be off the Spanish interpretation that is already provided | Approve to submit. | Submitted | ||
ALAC | ALAC on behalf of Dev Anand Teelucksingh and Glenn McKnight | The support request is for the setup and maintenance of a content management system (CMS) for ICANN At-Large Community to share up to date news and updates about ICANN At-Large Community and its activities in a manner that
Currently a great deal of At-Large updates are done
The proposed content management system would reduce such manual duplication by writing one post about At-Large news and updates and having that content automatically shared via email to At-Large mailing lists, to social media, be discoverable via search engines, accessible on mobile devices. At-Large members can have headlines from the At-Large Content Management System embedded on their websites. Write once, distribute everywhere. At-Large Staff can be editors and At-Large Community members can submit posts about their ICANN activities in their language. The proposed At-Large Community CMS is Wordpress, a popular CMS with relatively minimal hosting requirements and with a variety of plugins and themes. The funding request is to host this CMS outside of ICANN’s hosting so that ICANN’s security is maintained by not having cross-sharing of resources within ICANN.org. The anticipated direct costs are
In addition, Amazon Services offers additional services such as :
As an experiment, some members of the O&E developed a prototype website https://icannatlarge.blog/ showing some of these concepts in action. | Approve to submit; set up call with Mark Segall and Jana Jugonovic. | Submitted | |||
ALAC | ALAC on behalf of Sebastien Bachollet | IGF global were organized in 2017 in Geneva (Switzerland – Europe), in 2018 in Paris (France – Europe), in 2019 in Berlin (Germany – Europe) and will be organized in 2020 in Katowice (Poland – Europe). IGF Global is organized for the 4th years in a row in Europe but for the 1st time in Eastern Europe. To allow the participation of At-Large and organize its presence during Global IGF each of the last 3 years EURALO used one on its crop slot. This proposal is to leave a crop slot to Euralo and to allow a new opportunity for At-Large to be more involved in Eastern part of Europe (covering both EU and AP). As ICANN is now very much organized around 3 pillars: ICANN Board, ICANN Org. & ICANN Community. Part of the ICANN Community budget will be used by At-Large in the following way. At-Large delegation proposal for IGF Global in Poland (Katowice 2020):
If more budget is available, the At-Large delegation will add the 5 Co-Chairs of E&O (one per ICANN regions). Travel Support: Request Number 3 or 8 people | Place into Template; Remove estimate cost. Flesh out details. | Submitted |
RALOs:
North American School of Internet Governance
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