Page History

Implementation

Development

Staff, under the direction of At-Large leadership, has already begun to rework the website and Wiki to ensure that our “Policy Advice” pages are accurate and understandable. This will continue as volunteer and staff resources allow. We will also ensure that as documents are published, the classification of the document is clear.

Jonathan Zuck

, Marita Moll

and Alberto Soto, Holly Raiche

Participants

The ALAC Chair will work with members of the ALAC and staff to better communicate the role and activities of the ALT ensuring that it is clear what the ALT does and does not do.

The ALAC has begun to review our WGs, ensuring that the ones we have are active and relevant. We have also started the process to revamp our WG web and Wiki presence to ensure that all WGs are properly represented and documented. Groups no longer active will be segregated, but still documented for historical purposes

Javier Rúa-Jovet and Ricardo Holmquist

Participants

The ALAC has had a Metrics WG and an ALS Review Taskforce, both of which largely went into stasis during the IANA Transition and Accountability efforts. It is proposed to revive this activity as part of the At-Large Review Implementation.
The ALAC notes that regional differences make it more difficult to have uniformity over participation metrics, but agrees that is an important target. The ALAC notes that collecting such statistics is a staff-intensive operation.

Dev Anand Teelucksingh and Joanna

Kulesza, Cheryl Langdon Orr, & Maureen Hilyard

Participants

Justine Chew

Nine months
to design, and
then ongoing,
with a checkpoint
one year after
collection
starts, all
presuming
availability of
staff

Need for increased At-Large Community awareness and staff training regarding the use of social media.

The ALAC will request additional staff skill development in the area of social media, and to work cooperatively with ICANN Communications social media specialists.

John Laprise, Sergio Salinas Porto

Participants

Lianna Galstyan

1 year and
then ongoing,
presuming
appropriate
staff
availability.

To the extent allowed by ICANN’s mission and available funding, members of At-Large and the At-Large organizations will continue to, and potentially increase, our involvement
with other I* organizations as a method for increasing the visibility of At-Large, exploring areas for mutual collaboration and for attracting additional At-Large volunteers.

At-Large will continue to work closely with GSE Staff to contribute to regional outreach plans and to encourage participation in a cross-community, cross-organizational fashion.

Tijani Ben Jemaa, Seun Ojedeji and Dan Nanghaka

Participants

Fatimata Seye Sylla Ali AlMeshal

At-Large Staff working with relevant departments to develop a single location which will point to travel funding opportunities and documentation of what resources were ultimately distributed, to the extent supported by those ICANN entities providing funding and reports.

Glenn McKnight and Daniel Nanghaka, Maureen Hilyard

Participants

Lianna Galstyan

At-Large has struggled to reflect/process end-user opinion; barriers to individual participation; perception of unchanging leadership group.

At-Large is increasingly focusing on individuals (both unaffiliated At-Large Members as well as members within
each ALS) instead of just ALS voting representatives. Four of the five (RALOs) allow individual members and the fifth, LACRALO, has already approved the concept and is developing the detailed rules. We will also use the ALSes to communicate with those within an ALS who may have an interest in ICANN.

RALOs have also started to identify experts on ICANN topics within their ALSes and among individual members and to increasingly engage them in ALAC’s policy work. Thus, a bi-directional flow of ICANN information continues to be strengthened.

These activities will require the production of information that is truly understandable (as identified in a recent ALAC-GAC Joint Statement) and available in multiple languages. As some of this will need to be created by At-Large staff, additional resources may be needed. We would suggest that At-Large Staff continue to work together with At-Large Leadership in looking for effective methodologies to coach and onboard new policy volunteers and leaders to facilitate the development of their skills and encourage them to stay and deepen their knowledge and expertise. Regarding the perception of unchanging leadership, statistics reporting involvement will be published.

Bastiaan Goslings, Bartlett Morgan, Sarah Kiden, Satish Babu

Participants

Fatimata Seye Sylla, Justine Chew

Continue to look for opportunities to utilize and develop the skills of At-Large support staff while ensuring that the positions taken by At-Large represent solely those of users. Ensure that the volunteer community has sufficient support services so as to best utilize their volunteer time. This may require a shift or development of skills among At-Large Staff as well as additional staff.

Holly Raiche , Hadia Elminiawi,

Participants

Justine Chew

1-2 years
presuming
staff resources
available.

At-Large will continue to evolve its processes through its bottom-up, consensus based, community deliberations and update as and when needed.

We will continue to investigate opportunities to use Social Media and other online tools that prove useful to bring end-users’ voices to ICANN and vice -versa. However, we caution against seeing social media and online tools as a substitute for other means of participation. We are eager to work with ICANN Organization to understand ICANN’s interests in this area, and the tools available to integrate and communicate our work more effectively.

John Laprise and Dev Anand Teelucksingh, Satish Babu

Participants

The ALAC Technology Taskforce regularly reviews various communications tools with the aim of improving At-Large participation. The At-Large Community is very diverse
and the selection of any new tools must accommodate this diversity. We will also need to continue to investigate how we can overcome the lack of affordable communications for many of our participants and future participants.

Dev Anand Teelucksingh, John Laprise and Sergio Salinas Porto

Participants

The ALAC will proceed with its plans as approved by the Board, pending appropriate funding. As with all At-Large activities, there will be an increased focus on tracking and metrics.

Olivier Crepin-Leblond, Eduardo Diaz, Humberto Carrasco and Holly Raiche

Participants

Ali AlMeshal, Harold Arcos,

ALAC input to a coordinated ICANN Outreach sub-optimal.

As noted in Issue 5, the ALAC supports such external activity to the extent that funding is available and it coincides with ICANN’s mission. Increases in such funding would be appreciated, but in light of the FY19 draft budget, we are now in a mode of trying to minimize impact of the proposed cuts to such activities.

Maureen Hilyard, Alan Greenberg, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Yrjo Lansipuro

Participants

It is the understanding of the ALAC that At-Large may only be funded from ICANN operational funds.

Maureen Hilyard, Alan Greenberg, Cheryl Langdon-Orr

Participants

As noted previously, subject to available funding, we do look for opportunities to explain At-Large and attract new participants at non-ICANN events. When opportunities have arisen where funds are available to bring a targeted group to an ICANN meeting with a good potential for future involvement, we have done so.

Maureen Hilyard, Alan Greenberg,,Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Yrjo Lansipuro

Participants