
1	Harold Arcos - Chair
2	Leon Sanchez (co-chair)
3	Alberto Soto (co-chair)
4	Maritza Aguero
5	Humberto Carrasco
6	Johnny Laureano
7	Aida Noblia
8	Diego Acosta Bastidas
9	Antonio Medina Gómez
10	Delma Rodríguez
11	Sergio Salinas Porto
12	José Arce
13	Dev Anand Teelucksign
14	Humberto Arthos
15	Marcelo Telez
16	Alfredo Velazco
17	Hamzah Haji
18	Lance Hinds

LACRALO WG response to At-Large Review recommendations - See PDF here.

LACRALO Working Group - At-Large Review

Recommendation 1. At-Large members from every region should be encouraged to participate in conferences and events that are related to Internet Governance and policy (IGF, RIR, ISOC), and proactively use these as opportunities to raise awareness among end users regarding At-Large and the opportunities to participate in ICANN-related activities.

LACRALO Working Group - At-Large Review This is a good recommendation. We fully agree. The ALSes are following these instructions with the current model, with or without ICANN's support. They are organizations that coordinate with public and private organizations. Their members are usually invited as speakers to several local, regional and international events.

Recommendation 2. At-Large should be more judicious in selecting the amount of advice it offers, focusing on quality rather than quantity.

LACRALO Working Group - At-Large Review We would like to know the extent of what they consider to be little or too much advice. The Recommendation might be misread. From the text we can interpret that ITEMS was referring to ALAC and not At-Large.

Recommendation 3. At-Large should encourage greater direct participation by At-Large Members (ALM) in ICANN Working Groups (WGs) by adopting our Empowered Membership Model.

LACRALO Working Group - At-Large Review The call to encourage greater participation in the At-Large community is necessary. This gives us the opportunity to discuss the ways to achieve that. On the part of the Empowered Membership Model, we consider that it is not consistent with the bottom-up collective construction model. We also consider important that our volunteers have enough time to actively participate and commit to it. The Empowered Membership Model is imprecise in showing how it would solve the challenge of achieving greater engagement.

Recommendation 4. At-Large Support Staff should be more actively involved in supporting ALM engagement in policy development work for the ALAC, drafting statements and other policy related work.

LACRALO Working Group - At-Large Review This recommendation would strengthen staff support to the active ALSes in the region to enhance their engagement in ICANN's policy development process.

Recommendation 5. At-Large should double its efforts to contribute to meetings between ICANN Senior Staff and Executives, ISOC (and other international I* organizations) to engage in joint strategic planning for cooperative outreach.

LACRALO Working Group - At-Large Review It is a good recommendation that would help strengthen the work being carried out at LACRALO. For example, we are still waiting to sign a MoU with LACNIC. Many things have been done with GSE, but we must increase cooperation.

Recommendation 6. Selection of seat 15 in the ICANN Board of Directors. Simplify the selection of the At-Large Director. Candidates able to self-nominate. The NomCom prepares nominees to produce a list of qualified candidates from which the successful candidate is chosen by random selection.

LACRALO Working Group - At-Large Review A random election among the self-nominated candidates is not considered as a valid option. Changing the selector would not simplify the election process. We also know that they must be knowledgeable and have experience with end users, obtained within our organizations (ALS, RALO, AT-LARGE). This proposal would be taking away the only opportunity that At-Large has to elect their sole representative on the Board.

Recommendation 7. At-Large should abandon existing internal Working Groups and discourage their creation in the future, as they are a distraction from the actual policy advice role of At-Large.

LACRALO Working Group - At-Large Review Again, it seems that ALAC is being confused with At-Large. The Working Groups are an opportunity to engage in the bottom-up system of ICANN's ecosystem. We have members in ALAC, ICANN and cross-community groups. In their meetings, events, and courses with end users, ALSes bring ICANN's knowledge to them and receive the necessary feedback. If the internal groups do not work anymore, who will provide this necessary feedback?

Recommendation 8. At-Large should use social media much more effectively to obtain feedback from end users (such as Twitter / Facebook polls, etc.).

LACRALO Working Group - At-Large Review This is a good recommendation. There is a Social Media Working Group dedicated to enhancing outreach during ICANN's General Meetings and more.

Recommendation 9. At-Large should consider appointing a part-time Web Community Manager. This supporting staff member could be hired, or a current staff member could receive special training.

LACRALO Working Group - At-Large Review We believe this recommendation refers to ALAC, not RALOs, because we do not have a budget for any position.

Recommendation 10. Consider the adoption and use of a Slack-like online communication platform. A work team instant messaging workspace (FOSS) alternative to Skype, Wiki, website, and mailing lists.

LACRALO Working Group - At-Large Review This is a good recommendation. We will send it to our Technology Task Force to make the comparisons with the applications under study at the moment.

Recommendation 11. At-Large should replace the 5-year global ATLAS meetings with an alternative model of annual regional At-Large meetings.

LACRALO Working Group - At-Large Review ALAC and RALOs have invested many hours to coordinate different ICANN meetings. A timeline has been produced and it has been accepted. We consider the face-to-face ATLAS meetings to be necessary because of the work experience in cross-regional groups. These have more linguistic, geographical and gender diversity.

Recommendation 12. As part of its strategy for regional outreach and engagement, At-Large should continue to put a high priority on the organization of regional events. The five RALOs should continue, as part of their annual outreach strategies, to partner with well-established regional events involved in the Internet Governance ecosystem. CROPP and other funding mechanisms should be provided to support the costs of organization and participation of At-Large members.

LACRALO Working Group - At-Large Review It is a good recommendation to ensure the presence of more ALSes in regional development spaces. We have been doing this within our RALO for many years, with and without ICANN's support. Next week we will send a summary of these activities.

Recommendation 13. Working closely with ICANN’s Regional Hubs and regional ISOC headquarters, At-Large should reinforce its global outreach and engagement strategy with a view to encouraging the organization
of Internet Governance Schools in connection with each At-Large regional meeting.

LACRALO Working Group - At-Large Review It is a good recommendation to increase the participation of volunteers in the informed decisions that are necessary for policy development.

Recommendation 14. In the interest of transparency, all At-Large travel fundings should be published in one place on the At-Large webpage.

LACRALO Working Group - At-Large Review It is a good recommendation of best practices that is currently carried out with the publication in the dashboard corresponding to travel allocations.

Recommendation 15. At-Large should be involved in the Cross-Community Working Group on new gTLD Auction Proceeds and initiate discussions with the ICANN Board of Directors in order to gain access to these funds in support of the At-Large Community.

LACRALO Working Group - At-Large Review This is a good recommendation. LACRALO already has members in the Cross-Community Working Group on new gTLD Auction. But this Working Group will not define how these funds will be invested, but rather how the procedures will be. Certainly, when the group is formed to have access to the funds, we will participate.

Recommendation 16. Adopt a set of metrics that are consistent so that the entire At-Large Community can measure the implementation and impact of the EMM, and track the continuous improvement of the At-Large Community.

LACRALO Working Group - At-Large Review This is a good recommendation. Metrics are always necessary. In LACRALO they are almost ready. But if the EMM is implemented, we cannot be responsible for preparing the metrics of a model that we do not know, both in terms of its functionality and its dimension. It is not the same to generate metrics for 50 ALSes than for 50 individuals, or hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of individuals. It also poses a challenge for the number of staff that is required for its implementation.

#	Recomendaciones	Recommendations
1	Los miembros de cada región de At-Large deberían ser incentivados y, de ser posible, recibir los fondos necesarios para participar en conferencias/eventos relativos a la gobernanza de Internet (IGF, RIR, ISOC) en su región, y servirse de dichos eventos como oportunidades para, en forma proactiva, concientizar a los usuarios finales acerca de At-Large y las oportunidades que generan dichos eventos de participar en actividades relativas a la ICANN.	At-Large Members from each region should be encouraged, and where possible funded, to participate in Internet governance / policy-related conferences/events (IGF, RIR ISOC) in their region, and to use these events as opportunities proactively to raise awareness among end- users about the At-Large and the opportunities through them to engage in ICANN-related activities.
2	At-Large debería ser más criterioso al determinar el volumen de asesoramiento que desea generar, haciendo hincapié en la calidad más que en la cantidad.	At-Large should be more judicious in selecting the amount of advice it seeks to offer, focussing upon quality rather than quantity.
3	At-Large debería incentivar una mayor participación directa de sus miembros dentro de los grupos de trabajo de la ICANN mediante la adopción del Modelo de Membresía Empoderada (EMM) que proponemos.	At-Large should encourage greater direct participation by At-Large members in ICANN WGs by adopting our proposed Empowered Membership Model.
4	El personal a cargo de prestar apoyo a At-Large debería prestar apoyo en forma más activa los ALM para su participación en tareas de desarrollo de políticas para el ALAC, redactando declaraciones de posición y demás trabajos relativos a políticas.	At-Large Support Staff should be more actively involved in supporting ALM engagement in policy work for the ALAC, drafting position papers and other policy related work.
5	At-Large debería redoblar sus esfuerzos en pos de contribuir en las reuniones entre el personal sénior y los ejecutivos de la ICANN, la ISOC (y demás organizaciones internacionales I*) a fin de participar en la planificación estratégica conjunta de actividades de cooperación en materia de difusión y alcance.	At-Large should redouble efforts to contribute to meetings between ICANN Senior Staff and Executives, ISOC (and other international I* organisations) to engage in joint strategic planning for cooperative outreach.
6	Selección del miembro que ocupa el puesto 15 dentro de la Junta Directiva de la ICANN. Simplificar la selección del miembro de la Junta Directiva proveniente de At-Large. Los candidatos con experiencia en At-Large se autonominarían. Luego, el NomCom evalúa a los candidatos para generar una lista de candidatos calificados. El candidato ganador se selecciona en forma aleatoria entre los candidatos incluidos en la lista.	Selection of seat 15 on ICANN Board of Directors. Simplify the selection of the At-Large Director. Candidates with experience in At-Large would self-nominate. The NomCom then vets nominees to produce a slate of qualified candidates from which the successful candidate is chosen by random selection.
7	At-Large debería dejar de lado los grupos de trabajo internos existentes y disuadir su creación en el futuro, puesto que son una distracción del verdadero rol de At-Large, el cual consiste en brindar asesoramiento en materia de políticas.	At-Large should abandon existing internal Working Groups and discourage their creation in the future, as they are a distraction from the actual policy advice role of At-Large.
8	At-Large debería usar las redes sociales en forma mucho más efectiva para relacionarse con los usuarios finales (por ejemplo, mediante encuestas en Twitter o Facebook, etc.). Estas encuestas no deberían ser vinculantes en modo alguno, pero el ALAC puede usarlas como indicadores de la opinión de los usuarios finales.	At-Large should use social media much more effectively to engage with end users (e.g. via Twitter / Facebook polls, etc). These polls should not be binding in any way, but the ALAC can use them as a gauge of end user opinion.
9	At-Large debería designar una persona para el puesto de Administrador de la Comunidad Web con dedicación parcial quien, entre otras responsabilidades, se encargaría de las redes sociales (Rec. 8). Estas responsabilidades podrían ser asignadas a un miembro del personal en funciones.	At-Large should appoint a part-time Web Community Manager position who will be responsible for inter alia for social media (Rec 8). These responsibilities could be allocated to an existing member of staff.
10	Considerar la adopción y el uso de una plataforma de comunicación en línea similar a la plataforma Slack. También considerar una alternativa de envío de mensajes instantáneos y espacio de trabajo (FOSS) en reemplazo de Skype, el espacio Wiki, el sitio web y la lista de correo electrónico.	Consider the adoption and use of a Slack-like online communication platform. An instant messaging-cum-team workspace (FOSS) alternative to replace Skype/Wiki/website/mailing list.
11	At-Large debería reemplazar las cumbres mundiales ATLAS que se realizan cada cinco años por un modelo de reuniones regionales anuales de At-Large.	At-Large should replace 5-yearly global ATLAS meetings with an alternative model of annual regional At-Large Meetings.
12	Como parte de su estrategia regional de difusión y alcance, la comunidad At-Large debería continuar otorgándole alta prioridad a la organización de eventos regionales. Dentro de sus estrategias anuales de difusión y alcance, las cinco RALO deberían continuar asociándose a eventos regionales reconocidos en el ecosistema de gobernanza de Internet. El programa CROPP y demás mecanismos de financiamiento deberían destinarse a cubrir los costos organizativos y la participación de los miembros de At-Large (ver Sección 5.3 sobre difusión y alcance).	As part of its strategy for regional outreach and engagement, the At-Large Community should continue to put a high priority on the organisation of external regional events. The five RALOs should continue, as part of their annual outreach strategies to partner with well-established regional events involved in the Internet Governance ecosystem. CROPP and other funding mechanisms should be provided to support the costs of organisation and participation of At- Large members.(see Section 5.3 on outreach)
13	Trabajando en estrecha colaboración con las oficinas nodales regionales de la ICANN y las sedes regionales de la ISOC, At-Large debería reforzar su estrategia global de difusión y alcance con miras a incentivar la organización de Escuelas de Gobernanza de Internet en torno a cada reunión regional de At-Large que, a futuro, se llevará a cabo en paralelo a reuniones apropiadas de la ICANN.	Working closely with ICANN’s Regional Hubs and regional ISOC headquarters, At-Large should reinforce its global outreach and engagement strategy with a view to encouraging the organisation of Internet Governance Schools in connection with each At-Large regional gathering which will in future take place in parallel with appropriate ICANN meetings.
14	En pos de la transparencia, todas las oportunidades de recibir ayuda económica para viajes de At-Large se deberían publicar en una sección del sitio web de At-Large. En la misma sección, se debería publicar un registro de quienes hayan recibido dicha ayuda.	In the interests of transparency, all opportunities for At-Large travel funding support should be published in one place on the At-Large webpage. A record of the beneficiaries of travel support should be published on the same page.
15	At-Large debería participar en el Grupo de Trabajo Intercomunitario sobre Ingresos Obtenidos Mediante Subastas de Nuevos gTLD e iniciar diálogos con la Junta Directiva de la ICANN a los efectos de poder acceder a dichos fondos y destinarlos al apoyo de la comunidad At-Large.	At-Large should be involved in the Cross-Community Working Group on new gTLD Auction Proceeds and initiate discussions with the ICANN Board of Directors with a view gaining access to these funds in support of the At-Large Community.
16	Adoptar una serie de criterios de medición uniformes para toda la comunidad At-Large a fin de medir la implementación y el impacto del EMM y hacer un seguimiento de la mejora continua de la comunidad At-Large.	Adopt a set of metrics that are consistent for the entire At-Large Community to measure the implementation and impact of the EMM and track the continuous improvement of the At-Large Community.

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DRAFT Report for Public Comment: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/atlarge-review-draft-report-31jan17-en.pdf

Resumen Ejecutivo / Executive Summary

: Review of the ICANN At-Large Community - Draft Report for Public Comment

At-Large Workspace: ALAC Response to the At-Large Review Draft Report

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LACRALO WG response to At-Large Review recommendations - See PDF here.