This Workspace has been created to assist the ALAC/At-Large community in developing FY21 Additional Budget Request (ABR) proposals. The ALAC Finance and Budget Sub-committee (FBSC) will review all proposals submitted and will agree on which to submit to ICANN on behalf of the ALAC.
FY22 ALAC/ALT Plus Criteria for Additional Budget Requests:
- In the post-ATLAS III environment, proposals should include activities that will make the entire At-Large community more effective in policy advice development.
- Outreach should not be a major focus. Activities to improve engagement with existing members is encouraged.
- If any request is made on outreach, it should go through the CROP program or as a part of a larger ALAC request for RALO Discretionary Funding.
- RALO requests should be strategic and in line with their RALO's strategic outreach plans and the At-Large 2021 Workplan and must be endorsed by their RALO prior to being submitted for consideration by the FBSC.
- Priority will also only be given to those who have provided draft reports as requested as part of the FY21 ABR approval language. Final reports must be submitted by the end of FY21.
- Staff is currently expecting that basic resources for community communications/printing will be supported through the core ICANN budget, but that community proposals for printing , etc. will be accepted as a back-up in case expectations change. Specific proposals for communications resources beyond simple printing and editing functions should be prepared and submitted.
Important Documents and Resources from ICANN Finance and Policy Staff
- FY22 Community Additional Budget Requests Process description and timeline FY22 Community Additional Budget Request Process
- Presentation by Policy Staff on the Additional Budget Request Process - 10 December 2020
- Principles that govern ICANN’s request assessment work Principles of SO-AC Additional Budget Requests
- FY22 template request form FY22 Community Requests Template
FY22 Additional Budget Request Timeline
The timeline and deliverables for the process are as follows:
Timeline | Start | End | Status |
Kick off and Submission period | 09 Nov 2020 | 29 Jan 2021 | In Progress |
| FBSC representatives and/or staff to send notice of opening of FY21 Additional Budget Request (ABR) process to RALOs | 18 Nov 2020 | 25 Nov 2020 | |
| RALOs to review any ALS request or complete a template on behalf of the RALO and send requests to | 25 Nov 2020 | 18Jan 2021 (New. extended date) | |
| Discussion of Proposals with Finance and Policy Staff and FBSC | 11 Jan 2021 | 18 Jan 2021 (extended dates) | |
| Revised proposals to be sent to the FBSC for final review. | 13 Jan 2021 | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| The ALAC to review the proposed At-Large FY22 ABRs during their monthly call | 19 Jan 2021 | 22 Jan 2021 | |
| The FBSC to review all the RALO requests. | 25 Jan 2021 | 28 Jan 2021 | |
Submissions Due – send to planning@icann.org (IMPORTANT: At-Large staff will send all At-Large requests to Planning@icann.org) | 29 Jan 2021 | 29 Jan 2021 | |
Preliminary review of requests by ICANN.org | 01 Feb 2021 | 05 Mar 2021 | |
SO/AC consultations at ICANN 70 (by request, during Constituents’ Day) | 20 Mar 2021 | 25 Mar 2021 | |
Final assessments and recommendations by ICANN.org | 12 Apr 2021 | 16 Apr 2021 | |
ICANN Board Finance Committee Review and recommendation for approval to the Board | 30 Apr 2021 | 30 Apr 2021 | |
ICANN Board review and approval at May Board meeting | 5 May 2021 | 14 May 2021 |
ALAC:
Request | Person or Group Submitting | Title of Proposal | Request Number | Description | Comments by ICANN Staff Regarding Possible Collaboration | FBSC Notes and Decision | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real-Time Transcription | Judith Hellerstein | Real-time Captioning RTT of Zoom Meetings in Spanish and French | Recurring activity. Seeking 8 hours of RTT services in Spanish and 8 hours in French each month. The Spanish RTT will be off the Spanish language interpretation that is already provided and the French Translation will be off the French language interpretation in the calls. Currently, RTT in English has made it to the core budget, but if for some reason it drops out of the core budget of ICANN than we would like this ABR to cover that RTT in English as well. | ||||
RALOs:
RALO Requesting | Request | Person or Group Submitting | Title of Proposal | Request Number | Description | Comments by ICANN Staff Regarding Possible Collaboration | FBSC Notes and Decision | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EURALO | Protecting the Internet’s Unique Identifier System in an Age of Disinformation ( | Joanna Kulesza, EURALO | Protecting the Internet’s Unique Identifier System in an Age of Disinformation | The aim of this additional budget request is to support ongoing activities aimed at awareness raising and capacity building on the global impact of platforms governance and disinformation among the ICANN community and end-users, to signpost new developments in this highly topical area and to provide inputs for ICANN policy recommendations. We propose to run a series of three events investigating the impact of disinformation actors on the Internet’s unique identifier system and the response by public authorities and private actors. Disinformation is a geopolitical issue involving coordinated activity, often across borders. Disinformation actors target the Internet’s unique identifier system, often with malicious activity. We seek to explore whether this activity might fall into the non-exclusive catalogue of DNS Abuse. Enforcement actions against disinformation may seek assistance from the ICANN community. How do these factors impact on the Internet ecosystem and what concerns are raised by the users? In this context, how can ICANN protect the Internet as an open and interconnected system? The proposed agenda targets both: advancing the multistakeholder model and a better representation of end user interests. It also falls directly into the global geopolitical discussions around platform regulation and their impact onto the existing Internet governance model. The project will seek to identify end user interests as a mean to advancing the multistakeholder model and, supporting the global public interest. It will deepen understanding of how disinformation actors operate, and how enforcement actions are implemented, and in that regard it will contribute to ICANN’s strategic objective of addressing the geopolitics affecting ICANN’s mission and policy development. We will plan and run a series of three events. We will invite speakers from the ICANN community to address the issues and share their experiences. They will include registries and users that have been affected, as well as external actors who could include law enforcement authorities, regulatory bodies, and external experts. Two online events will be culminated by a face-to-face meeting during the IGF planned for December of 2021 in Katowice, Poland. A series of 2 online events (webinars) in the autumn of 2021, , and a communication plan building towards a face-to-face event (panel discussion) during IGF 2020. Deliverables:
Requesting:
Requesting: $10k-$15k | ||||
| EURALO | Internet-of-Things (IoT) and the Increasing Governance Challenges Ahead (Workshop at the 2021 Global IGF) | EURALO (Wale Bakare) | Internet-of-Things (IoT) and the Increasing Governance Challenges Ahead | This is a request for support of a EURALO Workshop at the 2021 IGF. The IoT evolution includes a broad range of industries, including the automotive, finance, consumer electronic devices, retail services, manufacturing, agriculture and other sectors important for sustainable development of the humanity. Central to the solutions and deployments of IoT is unified communication. The unified communication relies heavily on the All-IP-Based scheme for end-to-end delivery of IoT solutions. All-IP-Based Deployment: what about the Internet architecture evolution? All things Internet rely on implementation and deployment as a set of unified protocols, numbering and addressing. What is the role of numbering and naming in IoT environment? Workshop's themes: - what is IoT, how to move the public perception from “smart coffee machine” to industry 4.0? - evolution of IoT protocols and networks and impact on governance - IoT (small and big) data parsing, building behaviour models and future risks to privacy of individuals - cross border IoT (IIoT) data exchange and role of governments - Critical infrastructure: bikes vs. nuclear plants. How do we manage critical objects? Do we really want to connect everything to the Internet? - IP-less communications: All-IP-Based is not a religion, but business approach. At what conditions is there no need to All-IP-Based devices? - Proprietary protocols and war of standards. ISO vs RFC, history repeats or lessons learned? Requesting: RALO Support Staff assistance Zoom Room Interpretation in 6 UN languages | ||||
| EURALO | Diversity in ICANN Leadership bodies (Part I) (Workshop at either 2021 Global IGF or EuroDIG2022 as well as Research and Study) | EURALO | Diversity in ICANN Leadership bodies | The diversity includes a broad range of data. To enhance diversity, we need to be able to collect those data. It will be useful to gather the data both from an historical point of view and from a current and future situation. All the ICANN leadership bodies can be concerned but the first one to be discuss (as the data are already collected and in the last mile to be analyzed) can/must be the Board of ICANN. In future steps (specifically going to a workshop during 2021 IGF) we will need to take into account other leadership bodies of other Internet Governance structure (Internet Society, IETF, IGF MAG…). Workshop's themes: - what is Diversity (based on the WS2 ccwg-ICANN accountability document)? - what are the data that need to be collected? - evolution of diversity in various ICANN leadership groups - how to enhance diversity in ICANN leadership groups? - role of the NomCom to enhance diversity? Research/Study and Meeting EURALO/At Large/otherSO/AC joint workshop at one ICANN7x (FY2022) Requesting: RALO Support Staff assistance Zoom Room Interpretation in 6 UN languages Additional one person from EURALO, one from At-Large and one per body concerned will get involved in this workshop. And 2 people to IGF 2021 or EURODIG2022 | ||||
| EURALO | Diversity in ICANN Leadership bodies (Part II) (Travel support to ICANN Meetings for three young people) | EURALO | Diversity in ICANN Leadership bodies | 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 Timeline: FY 2022 Seattle (AGM) EU - NA - LAC San Juan (CF) LAC - NA - AF The Hague (PF) EU - APAC - AF Requesting: RALO Support Staff assistance Zoom Room Interpretation in 6 UN languages Adding 3 slots for young to participate to ICANN meetings | ||||
| EURALO | IGF Global (2021 in Poland) specific budget - At-Large delegation proposal for IGF Global in Poland (Katowice 2021) (Travel Support for At-Large Delegation to the 2021 Global IGF) | EURALO | IGF Global (2021 in Poland) specific budget - At-Large delegation proposal for IGF Global in Poland (Katowice 2021) | IGF global were organized in 2017 in Geneva (Switzerland – Europe), in 2018 in Paris (France – Europe), in 2019 in Berlin (Germany – Europe), virtually in 2020 and virtually will be organized in 2021 in Katowice (Poland – Europe). IGF Global face-to-face 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 2021):
Requesting: RALO Support Staff assistance Zoom Room Interpretation in 6 UN languages Video & infographic production Adding 3 slots for young to participate to ICANN meetings | ||||
| EURALO | Support participation of individual users in EURALO (Staff support to manage the European Individuals Associaition) | Roberto Gaetano (EURALO) | Support participation of individual users in EURALO | An association has been created to provide a home for the individual users in EURALO. This association has now grown and has about 40 members. The need is to support the management of the discussions among EURALO individual users about the policy development activities while at the same time promote the association in order to enlarge the number of participating individual users. In detail, the following activities have been identified:
Requesting: At-Large Staff Support Adobe Connect for teleconferences Web site development and support Voting and polling tools Outreach material should be translated in the major European languages, like other EURALO outreach material Printing of Brochures | ||||
| NARALO | VSIG Translation | Prof. Alfredo Calderon and Glenn McKnight | Virtual School of Internet Governance | Delivery of extensive online training on Internet Governance in English, French and Spanish Requesting: $6,000 for translation |
