At-Large FY21 Budget Development Workspace

Request: 

$6k of RALO Discretionary Funding for each of the five RALOs for a total of $30k. 

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

At-Large Content Management System

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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

• reduces duplicative efforts in sharing At-Large Community news and updates
• makes At-Large Community news and updates more accessible to people on mobile devices
• allows for easier, automatic sharing of At-Large Content news and updates on At-Large social media channels and At-Large Community members’ websites and their social media channels.
• allows for better outreach to persons interested/involved in Internet Governance by making At-Large Community news and updates more discoverable via search engines and via social media so that such persons can decide to join and participate in the At-Large Community.

Currently a great deal of At-Large updates are done

• via emails manually copied to multiple At-Large Community mailing lists which are mostly invisible to search engines and not conducive to sharing over Instant Messaging or social media.
• via the At-Large wiki which is not easily accessible over mobile devices which makes for poor sharing via social media. The At-Large wiki also suffers by being a labyrinth to navigate making it confusing to even regular At-Large Community members as to where information on activities are located.
• a separate update is done on the At-Large Calendar about meetings.
• separate postings are done on At-Large social media mostly pointing to links on the At-Large wiki which is not easily accessible on mobile devices and confusing to non-At-Large Community persons who may stumble on the links
• possible further updates to the At-Large website when an activity has passed.
• This wastes a lot of effort manually copying and pasting information for emails, social media, updating wiki pages, calendars costing time, money and effort in just getting the information out. 

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

• $5 US /mth for a virtual server on Amazon Services or $60 US / year
• cost of a domain name to point to the website. $25 US / year

In addition, Amazon Services offers additional services such as :

• Amazon Translate (https://aws.amazon.com/translate/) which would allow for machine translation of articles in other languages, (such as from English to French and Spanish as well as content written in French and Spanish able to be translated to English), increasing the availability of content to the global, diverse At-Large Community and to potential At-Large members
• Amazon Polly (https://aws.amazon.com/polly/) which turns text into lifelike speech, allowing for At-Large updates to be read to persons (in combination with Amazon Translate) in their language. Apart from making At-Large updates more accessible, this offers possibilities of select At-Large updates being syndicated as a audio podcast.

As an experiment, some members of the O&E developed a prototype website https://icannatlarge.blog/ showing some of these concepts in action. 

2017 GVA - 2018 PAR - 2019 BER - 2020 Katowice

IGF Global is organized for the 4th years in a row in EU

Each year EURALO is using one on his crop slot to participate and organize the presence of At-Large

IGF Global is organized for the 1st time in Eastern Europe

It is an opportunity for A-Large to be more involved in this region (covering both EU and AP)

As ICANN is now very much organized around 3 pillars: Board - Org - Comm

ICANN budget for IGF global must be equal for the 3 groups: Board - Org - Comm

At-Large delegation proposal for IGF Global in Poland (Katowice 2020)

Chair of ALAC

Chair of Euralo

Chair of O&E

+5 Co-Chairs of E&O

Request Number

3 or 8 people

20K$ to 40k$

A capacity Building program for the AFRALO ATLAS III ambassadors to be held a the 2021 AIS. It will be a 3 days’ program addressing Policy hot topics for the 2 first days and the third day will be dedicated to “how to draft a policy advice” practical exercise.   

The 19 ATLAS III selected AFRALO participants + the 3 AFRALO leaders + the 3 AFRALO ALAC Members (25)

Interpretation needed for the 3 days program. 

Travel support needed for the 24 persons (18 ATLAS III Selected participants + 3 AFRALO Leaders + 3 AFRALO ALAC Members)

Significant travel support being requested. 

Would benefit from incorporation of ICANN Learn or Webinar training. 

AFRALO/Seun Ojedeji (AFRALO Chair)

Written by the Technology Task Force-Vice Chair Abdulkarim Oloyede

The At-Large Community represent a wide-ranging set of individual Internet user interests from different regions of the world. Language is seen as a major barrier to participating in ICANN activities especially on the mailing list. Hence there is a need to have an effective translation tool to translate from one language to the other. This is more important for Atlarge because it has a role of conducting outreach to individual internet users while promoting and developing informational and educational activities related to ICANN around the world. French is widely spoken in all regions of the world particularly French is widely spoken in Africa, North America (Canada in Particular) and Europe.

At the moment the IT department have been able to develop a similar tool for English to Spanish and vice versa but not other languages. This tool should be easily relatively easy to develop as the IT department can adapt the current Spanish tool (TRANSBOT) for French . However, the IT department    

Would require some money to be able to develop or adapt the current tool for French.

Amount of support requested: $15k

Staff comments: Add clarification in text that the transbot is for AFRALO. Add $15k in costs. 

No call with Engineering team needed as they have seen the request. 

While there are regional and continental Schools on Internet Governance within Africa, Nigeria only held the first one in July 2019. This is beginning to make a change in the limited numbers of Nigerians participating in Internet Governance. The Nigerian School on Internet Governance gives Nigerians room to learn more about Internet Governance and subsequently continue to participate in the IG space both locally and regionally.

The Nigerian School on Internet Governance was initiated within the Internet Society Nigerian Chapter for the benefit of members of the Nigerian Internet community.

The main objective of the Nigeria School of Internet Governance is to train new leaders of opinion in all aspects related to Internet Governance, from a global perspective and with focus on the Nigeria perspective.

The program helps interested students, academic as well as individuals working in the private sector as well as in government to get comprehensive and structured knowledge on Internet governance. To better understand the complexity related to Internet governance and its importance in the future of the Internet.

The mission of the Nigeria School of Internet Governance is to:

1. Increase the number of representatives from Nigeria in the international Internet Governance debate spaces.
2. Motivate its participants presenting their opinions and to become active participants in Internet Governance meetings and activities, where the future of the Internet is shaped.
3. Make the participants become the future leaders on Internet Governance in the Nigeria space and region.

It will consist of 15 sessions covering IG topics.

The 2nd NSIG is in its second year and the only  national / NRI School of  Internet Governance in Nigeria aside the WASIG in the region.

There will be opportunities for Q&A, coffee breaks (morning and afternoon), lunch and social events during the 4 day school.

Timing:

The NSIG  will be held in July, 2020 . Specific date is TBD (Subject to the availability / presence of the Federal Minister of Communication and Digital Economy) who is expected to close the Nigerian Internet Governance forum.

Request: 

We are requesting travel, lodging and per diem support for a minimum of 6 speakers well rooted in the ICANN/ ATLARGE process which will augment the pool of local speakers. We also request  for travel support fellowship for students and next generation leaders to attend and participate actively in the school.

Demographics: 

There will be at least sixty (60) participants in the School of Internet Governance. This will include 30 members from Internet Society (ISOC) Nigeria chapter who will be given fellowships to attend and interested stakeholders from CSOs to regulator/government, academia, technical community distributed evenly.

Potential Sponsorship: 

$5k

Ghana does not have an Internet Governance School, just as it is done in some other countries. Hence, we have registered the Ghana School on Internet Governance (GhanaSIG). With the GhanaSIG we intend to select between 20 and 50 (depending on the total funding we get) participants to be trained for 3 of days on internet governance related issues.  They will become fellows of the school after completing.

After the event the participants will be equipped to have better understanding of the internet governance ecosystem and also enable them to perform better in their engagements and outreach programs.  This idea actually started after our ATLAS III training in Montreal Canada.  I shared the idea with my peers here in Ghana who are mostly ICANN fellows and they have bought into the idea.  In this regard, we registered a foundation that is called E-Governance and Internet Governance Foundation for Africa (EGIGFA).  The foundation will actually be the organizer for the Ghana Internet Governance School (GhanaSIG). We intend to bring on board other likeminded local entities.

Our domain names www.ghanasig.org and www.egigfa.org have also being registered.  The websites are under construction.  I am putting this request for funding on behalf of the foundation in my capacity as an At Large Ambassador (Post ATLAS III) and the President of the foundation. 

We actually have plans for other outreach events, but for now, this is the flagship of all the events.  We hope we will be given the funding support to kick start the first ever internet school in Ghana which will become an annual event.

Timing: 

This will be a recurring event, which will happen once a year. The tentative date will be in August 2020.

Request: 

We estimate about 3 people (estimated $1,500 per person) for a total of $4,500.

Demographics: 

The geographical location is Ghana.  The target audience are people who want to know more about internet governance issues and after which they will get more involved.  We are targeting the governmental and private workers.  We are also targeting individuals who have interest to know more about internet governance and how they can make impacts.

Potential Sponsorship:

We wish to request any support we can get so we can get the remaining local funding support here in Ghana from other entities.

Symposium and training (AFRICA 2020 ICT Symposium)

The growth of digital technology is already producing opportunities that would have been unthinkable just a few decades ago. The effects of this revolution are observed in the ways of life, work, the ways of conceiving leisure, interactions in societal groups, relationships to the worlds and mobility ... A wealth of opportunities emanate from this transformation: energized economies, great advances in education, training, health, enhanced safety and security, greater individual empowerment and optimal means of organizing homes and cities. Because the symposium is conceived as a framework for exchanges and sharing of ideas, seven domains have been selected to scrutinize the theme: 1.    Digital sovereignty2.    Smart cities3.    Training, employment and innovation4.    SMEs, handicrafts and incubator5.    Protection of children and women online6.    Partnerships between actors in the countries7.    Digital rights/Internet rights (laws).

Timing: 

From 20th to 24th July 2020

Request: 

30 participants

8 resource persons

Demographics: 

Yaounde – Cameroun

• Local and parliamentary authorities,
• Educational communities (administrators, teachers, university researchers, educational consultants, learners ...),
• Organizations of women and girls
• Academics and higher institutions
• Regulators and decision-makers,
• ICT operators,
• The startups
• Job seekers

Sponsorship: 

$15,000 

Significant travel support being requested. 

Would benefit from incorporation of ICANN Learn or Webinar training. 

EURALO

Sebastien Bachollet (Euralo Chair)

ABR 1

Following ATLAS III involvement of some youths in each RALO.

In complement of the work done by NextGen & Fellowship programs.

Following the need to have a longer-term engagement of youths in RALOs/At-Large activities.

Adding 3 slots for young to participate to ICANN meetings

One for the region of the meeting and 2 additional

FY 2021 

Hamburg (AGM) EU - APAC - LAC

Cancun (CF) LAC - NA - EU

The Hague (PF) EU - APAC - NA

Request Number

Budget: 30k$

EURALO

Sebastien Bachollet (Euralo Chair)

Youth IGF hubs

ABR 2

Description

As IGF Global is organized for the 1st time in Eastern Europe

It is an opportunity for A-Large to be more involved in this region (covering both EU and AP)

The requested budget will help to support better engagement of At-Large in Youth IGF activities in few (2 to 4) countries of the region (both Eastern Europe and Western Asia).

The goal is to support Annual Youth IGF meeting and more regular activity like monthly (?)) meetings of active youth with key global speakers from At-Large and ICANN

Request Number

20K$ to 40k$

EURALO

Sebastien Bachollet (Euralo Chair)

Prior to EURALO f2f General Assembly that will be held in FY21, a training will be organized for all EURALO ALS representatives similar to what was held during ATLAS III.

As we had a small number of Euralo participants to ATLAS III, we would like to organize a targeted training on policy involvement for each ALS rep + some members of Euralo IUA (who will be at the GA).

Request Number

20K$ to 40k$

We will carry out Training activities on topics that represent milestones in the process of Evolution of the Multistakeholder Model within ICANN and Update of Policy Issues within the LACRALO Directory.

Fortunately, part of the LACRALO Board of Directors actively participated in ATLAS III, which allows us to ensure an application of what has been learned and an evolution of the process.

Our proposal seeks to promote greater participation from countries such as Nicaragua, which has been more actively incorporated shortly before ATLAS III.

As part of our regional strategy to promote the participation of countries that are not yet represented in LACRALO, our activity focuses on creating the Regional Strategy, for Five (5) years, that allows us to engage more members with active and informed participation .

We want to create an Information Bulletin which allows us to give an institutional voice to the Organization

Regional and globally promote the most important activities and information of the Organizations of Users (ALSs) of the Region.

Type of Training: Education/training - Capacity Building / Policy Discussion / Outreach

Deliverables: 

• Paper: Evolve of Regional Strategy for next five (5) years.
• Guidelines to Detect and Mentor potential active members from our four (4) sub-regions.

SME: David Plumb

Travel Support: For any ATLAS III participant who is not funded for the LACRALO General Assembly.

To organize and deliver the third NORTH AMERICAN SCHOOL OF INTERNET GOVERNANCE (NASIG). This would be a two-day capacity building event to provide in-depth knowledge of Internet Governance (IG) issues to approximately 40 individuals, with many from ATLARGE. NASIG 2020 is our third consecutive year and the only School of Internet Governance in North America. Past NASIGs have proven to be successful and well attended, with 28 students in 2018 and 50 students in 2019.  

NASIG 2020 will consist of 10-15 sessions covering the most pressing IG topics, many of which will align with the strategic objectives and goals identified in ICANN’s Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2021-2025, such as the IANA functions, Universal Acceptance, cybersecurity, the multistakeholder model, ICANN’s role in Internet Governance, and much more. These sessions will be run by community leaders, including many of those actively involved in ICANN.

We will seek to bring in students from all across North America and will also seek to take advantage of the high level of interest in Washington, DC. This includes policymakers, tech policy staff for civil society and industry, students from the many universities in the area.

By bringing in a wide variety of stakeholders for this educational program, we are contributing to a healthy Internet governance ecosystem, by making sure that the people who have an interest in IG in North America are well-informed, which will lead to better results for the Internet.

We are requesting $10,000 to be put toward venue costs, catering, and tech support for livestreaming and captioning.

Based on previous experience organizing events in Washington, DC we expect the costs of each to be in line with the following estimates:

Venue Rental - $5000

Catering - $6000

Livestream and Captioning - $4000