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Travel and accommodation support to attend the Asia Pacific Regional IGF, Youth IGF and Pacific IGF to be jointly held on Vanuatu 13-16 August 2018.

I drove to the train station and took the express train to Montreal, roughly 5 hours on Thursday night,  I discovered i had a flat tire a couple of hours before my train at 5 30.  needed to rush and have it repaired and back on the car to drive to the station for the train.  

Event was a full day.  Didn't stay for the cocktail party due to departure time of the train. 

No information booth for ICANN at the event.   Registration was 200 but  after lunch it was more like 100 in the room

Full slate of speakers on DNS .  Very technical sessions,  Didn't laugh at the jokes, they were too many insider jokes for me.  Pleasantly surprised to see Steve Crocker. He is writing a book on the early years on the Internet. Very busy guy, looks good, doesn't miss the board.  

Great opportunity to interface with the folks,  most of which were IETF people from outside of North America which added the session on to their IETF meetings. 

All the valuable slides were photographed and shared with the online Adobe session and ATLARGE

1.  Pictures

https://www.flickr.com/photos/glennmcknight/albums/72157693203985620 [flickr.com]

160 pictures

All the speakers

Tweeted the entire morning 

Photos of  ISOC Quebec and  ICANN Staff

Distributed to Shelly Robinson for monthly newsletter

Sent to staff including Chris Modini

2. Video 

No video 

3. Promotion 

NARALO brochures 

Need generic Atlarge business cards 

Will followup on some leads

Glenn McKnight

NARALO Secretariat.

Trip to ICANN Studienkreis

Date: 30-31 August 2018

The local RALO Outreach Plan has been mentioning ICANN Studienkreis for several years. Each time the use of additional budget request process was explained as this is a major local event that is sponsored by ICANN. The additional budget request was never granted, thus no end user representative was ever supported for this meeting. Alarmingly, ICANN Studienkreis has taken place for over 15 years, with a very low turn-out of end user representatives. Since the event is by invitation only and an invitation was received by EURALO, this was an opportunity to seize.

EURALO Chair Olivier Crépin-Leblond made the trip to Tallinn. Hotel accommodation was sponsored by the Studienkreis organisers, thus only travel support was needed.

The two day meeting had a stellar line-up of speakers introducing topics which were then discussed around the table. ICANN CEO Göran Marby led a discussion on how the ICANN Multistakeholder Model needed to evolve to take into account national and regional legal initiatives. Other topics of note focussed on ICANN's new role in the global Internet governance ecosystem, the lessons learned on Next Generation TLDs, the GDPR challenge in the next generation WHOIS, as well as the Future of root governance and ICANN, stability in cyberspace & Internet governance 2020. A session was also led by ICANN Board Chair Cherine Chalaby, that addressed Issues, problems and solutions relating to ICANN's structure, strategy and mission.

From the line-up of participants, it was clear that whilst some civil society participants were already present around the table, an At-Large voice defending the interests of end users had been missing until this year. Olivier Crépin-Leblond took part in the discussion of each topic, taking his responses from experience with past ALAC Statements and positions. Surprisingly, most of the ALAC's positions were found to be in-line with many of the points made by other participants who expressed their surprise that the ALAC had developed such positions, although these are clearly accessible on the ALAC's Web Site. Considering the make-up of the participants around the table which included both contracted parties and non-contracted parties, it was surprising to note that the great majority of participants were not eager to rush into another round of new gTLDs. On the other hand, compliance with GDPR by reducing the amount of information made available about domain registrants in the WHOIS database was supported to an extent that brought discomfort for the At-Large and technical participants.

All in all, this meeting is an important multi-stakeholder meeting that unites European key Stakeholders around the discussion table and it was important that EURALO could have a representative in attendance. Outreach was made to the handful of people that Olivier did not already know well, such as Marina Kaljurand, Chair of the Global Commission on Stability in Cyberspace, former Estonian Foreign Minister, and Alexander Klimburg, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, who is the Director of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) Initiative. As a result of this meeting, the EURALO Chair was invited to speak at the GCSC's event at the 13th Global IGF that took place in Paris in November 2018.

The GCSC will also have its meeting in Kobe, back to back with the ICANN meeting and this opens the door for further collaboration with EURALO and with the ALAC.

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Trip to Brussels CENTR General Assembly

Date: 10 October 2018

The CENTR General Assembly took place in Brussels on 10 October 2018. EURALO was invited to attend in order to support its application to become an Observer Member of the organisation. The local RALO Outreach Plan specifically mentions enhancing of relations with the European Top Level Domain organization CENTR. Following discussions between the EURALO Chair and CENTR General Manager Peter van Roste, the first step to a MoU was decided that EURALO should apply as an Observer to CENTR. Support of this application at the CENTR AGM was needed. Other Observer members of CENTR include the European Commission, the Internet Society, RIPE NCC, OARC etc.

Christopher Wilkinson lives locally in Belgium and needed minimal support in order to spend the night in a hotel close to the CENTR offices in order to attend the AGM which started early in the morning. Christopher therefore attended the meeting on behalf of EURALO. Unfortunately the meeting's flow was delayed due to unforeseen events that were not related to EURALO's application. By the time the meeting reached its end, the Chair was unable to address EURALO's application. As a result, whilst Christopher Wilkinson's attendance was well acknowledged, CENTR was unable to ratify EURALO's application for Observer member. The EURALO Chair received an apology from CENTR General Manager a few days after the meeting, with the invitation to have the ratification of Observer membership taking place at the next CENTR meeting in Bordeaux, on 21st March 2019. However, Christopher Wilkinson's attendance at the AGM was beneficial in that it opened the road to the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation between CENTR and EURALO which was signed in a ceremony that took place at the 13th Global IGF that took place in Paris in November 2018.

The recommendation that came out of this process is that EURALO would need to send a representative to the CENTR Bordeaux meeting on 21st March 2019.

Our At-Large structure, ISOC Morocco will organize the National Internet Day in Morocco: on the theme: "Protection of Personal Data: current situation and perspective".

The event will take place on December 08, 2018 in Fez.

This theme represents an important issue for both Morocco and the African region.
The objective is to highlight the implications and consequences on the processes of companies, organizations and end-users in the areas of privacy, security and the protection of citizens' personal data.

Report

Funding to support event registration at $145 and round trip airfare from Toronto to Charlotte, NC $437.00

Full participation in the Digital Inclusion Conference, networking with potential ALS from US and Canadian non profits

InterAmerican University, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Local production and distribution of AFRALO brochures (1000 copies in English and a major Nigerian language) for the 2019 Nigeria

DigitalSENSE Forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) and Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable in Lagos, Nigeria.

Alfredo Calderon

Funding to cover the registration fees at the Net INCLUSION 2019 Conference

Travel to CENTR AGM