At-Large FY22 Budget Development Workspace

Timeline

Start

End

Status

Kick off and Submission period

staff@atlarge.icann.org 

18Jan 2021

(New.  extended date)

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

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.

Translation and Publication of Materials for Individual User Education on DNS Abuse

Chadian School of Internet Governance 2021(TdSIG 2021)

(Four day capacity building event and Chadian SIG)

Chadian School of Internet Governance 2021(TdSIG 2021)

To organize and deliver the Second edition of Chadian School of Internet Governance (TdSIG). This would be a four-day capacity building event to provide 12 sessions in-depth knowledge of Internet Governance (IG) issues to approximately 60 individuals.

TdSIG gives Chadians room to learn more about Internet Governance and subsequently continue to participate in the IG space both locally and regionally. 

TdSIG was initiated by HOUSE OF AFRICA in collaboration with ADETIC for the benefit of members of the Chadian Internet community to actively participate in IG and ICANN process as well at the ATLARGE. 

TdSIG is to "bring Chadian ICT students, Chadian youth and professionals in the digital economy closer to the global internet ecosystem", by teaching them the history of the Internet, its technical management, an overview concepts, issues and institutions of Internet governance and Internet architecture, infrastructure, standards and protocols and management of Internet names and numbers and enable them to understand in depth the new challenges of Internet governance.

Timing:

The TdSIG is planned to be held from September 1-4, 2021

Details:

There will be at least sixty (60) participants in the School of Internet Governance coming from the entire Stakeholder (CSOs, Government, academia, technical community, Youth, Women, and Media) and respecting also women gender.

And 5 trainers/speakers from local and outside.

Requesting: 

 Venue rental, catering and communication, video, t-shirts.

Cost: 

$9,780 

Digital inclusion, Chadian girls at coding

(F2F Training for secondary students)

In collaboration with our partner Wenaklabs, we will organize a discovery and initiation workshop in computer coding for young people aged 13 to 17 for 20 hours spread over eight weeks (between July 1 and June 30, 2022). During this period, more than 50 students (girls and boys) from 10 secondary schools in N'Djamena will be introduced to the use of Scratch software (Scratch is free software) for the creation of video games and the acquisition of knowledge. basics on making cartoons. During this workshop, participants will show their ingenuity by creating their own fun animations. The main lesson learned from this initiative lies in the immensity of the potentialities of adolescents who lie dormant for lack of an awakening and technological reinforcement mechanism. AEPF-Tchad and its partners will very soon initiate during the school holidays, a series of advanced training courses on computer programming languages ​​at the service of pupils and students of N'Djamena, and will lead with them practical projects allowing them to create the start-up of the future. We will ensure that more than half of the beneficiaries are girls. These girls are going to be role models for others. We will rent a room with computers and internet for the training. We will call on other technical partners for the success of the project. Images and activity reports will be shared throughout the ICANN community and on social media. The beneficiaries' productions will also be shared and the activities covered by the media.

The direct beneficiaries of our project are the pupils (girls and boys) of secondary schools in N'Djamena. They are young people between 13 and 17 years old.

Requesting: 

Venue rental, experts, per diem for trainers, translation, travel,  catering, post-meeting analysis, etc. 

Cost: 

$10,010

National Forum on the use of Social Networks

(F2F Training on social networks)

National Forum on the Use of Social Networks. The National Forum on the Use of Social Networks is an initiative of the Malian Chapter of the Internet Society (ALS AFRALO) undertaken following the various problems it has observed in the use of social networks in Mali. 

The ICT and Internet revolution has contributed to a new civic life. Exchanges between individuals on social networks have reached a level that deserves special attention and a new policy of use in our country. Today in Mali, everything is put on social networks: civil status facts; administrative documents, some even confidential, etc.

Worse still, every day we witness the publication on these networks of images, audio or videos of personalities and ordinary citizens with the sole aim of harming them.

In view of this situation, ISOC MALI has initiated a first project "called Debaters" which is in its second edition and which aims at putting the university and secondary schools in a contradictory debate on topics related to the protection of privacy on social networks. This forum is the logical continuation of this project.

If the debaters project targeted the majority of young users of social networks, the forum includes both users and decision-makers.

Timeline:

August 2021

Requesting: 

Venue Rental, Catering, COVID-provisions, training materials

Cost: 

$4,720

2nd edition of Malian School on Internet Governance MaliSIG

(F2F SIG in Mali)

Project Summary

Internet governance is a multidimensional activity carried out by several actors from different sectors.  For this purpose, the actors need proven knowledge adapted to this governance. This session of the Ecole Malienne training course on Internet Governance, which is an initiative of the Malian Chapter of the Internet Society, is the first in Mali. The goal of this training session is to give participants from various sectors and stakeholder groups the opportunity to gain the knowledge and confidence to participate effectively in Internet governance processes and debates at the national, sub-regional, and international levels.

The training will last 5 days and will take place face-to-face with national and international expert speakers. Four (04) themes composed of eleven (11) modules will be given during these 5 days. The expected results of this training include the creation of an innovative framework for discussion and exchange of views on the contributions of each of the stakeholders to the resolution of current issues of Internet development in Mali and the training of 50 people from various sectors and disciplines.

Overall Objectives

The overall objective is to give Malians from various sectors and stakeholder groups the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and confidence necessary to participate effectively in Internet governance processes and debates at the national, sub-regional and international levels.

Specific objectives

The specific objectives of the first MaliSIG training are :

• to strengthen the existing capacity of a wide range of stakeholders in the field of IM in Mali in all sectors;
• to provide an innovative framework for discussion and exchange of views on the contributions of each of the stakeholders to the resolution of current issues related to the development and use of the Internet in Mali;
• to give participants practical experience in IM processes through an internship that involves playing a role on a current topic through multi-stakeholder negotiations; 
• encourage learning and application of skills and expertise at the local level.

Timeline:

October 2021

RequestIng:

Venue Rental, Catering, COVID-provisions, training materials

Cost: 

$4,900

Awareness session followed by debate in the working-class neighborhoods of Bamako on the advantages and dangers of using the Internet

(F2F awareness raising on dangers of the Internet)

Nowadays, the internet is widespread everywhere in Mali, although the cost of use is still high for the middle class.

This is a good thing, because no one can question the immense mine of opportunities behind it, but it has to be said that children, young people and parents are constantly exposed to cybercrime and harassment on the internet.

It is in this context that the association for the promotion of women through ICT for Musodev, wishes to organize awareness-raising sessions in two working-class districts and three peripheral districts of Bamako.

The objective of these sessions is on the one hand to draw the attention of these young people through debates on the advantages as well as the dangers linked to the internet and on the other hand to help parents to put in place measures to protect young people. Students will be also equipped on the ICANN ecosystem and how to get involved.

For a pilot phase, this project will concern two working-class districts and three peripheral districts of Bamako. It may well be spread over the entire territory.

Timeline: 

November 2021

Requesting: 

Communications, logistics

Cost: 

$3,414

AFRALO

Tanzania COMMUNITY NETWORK SUMMIT

(Virtual Tanzania SIG)

Tanzania Community Networks Summit is designed to accommodate technical workshop for Tanzania Community Networks Operator’s Group (tzcNOG), Tanzania Community Networks School of Internet Governance and Annual General Meeting for Tanzania Community Networks Alliance members. It is a localized event similar to African Internet Summit only designed for community networks operators in Tanzania.

Timeline: 

Annual event scheduled 23 – 27 August, 2021

Requesting:

Human Resources and infrastructure, web streaming,  admin assistance, Sign interpreter for hearing impaired participants  (RTT?)

Cost: 

$4,000

Members Force 1: Training and awareness on DNS and personal data protection in Togo

(F2F capacity building on DNS Abuse and privacy)

This project will be a first in Togo in terms of promoting ICANN. It consists of capacity building and awareness of journalists and communicators in Togo on the topic of DNS (Domain Name System) abuse and the protection of personal data, in particular in this period of the Covid-19 pandemic. The activity will contribute to the promotion of the law on the protection of personal data adopted by the Togolese National Assembly on October 29, 2019, therefore recently and the promotion of ICANN works too. We named our activity MembersForce1.

MembersForce1 will allow in a short term:

-  to make ICANN and its role in the Internet governance ecosystem well known to a target audience of local communicators and journalists;

-  it will make it possible to train this target audience on abuses linked to the DNS, in particular those linked to personal data and their protection

- finally, carry out one of the recommendations of the 7th edition of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Togo, held on December 14, 2019 in Lomé, the theme of which was: "Internet governance and data protection in Togo" 

The foregoing necessarily requires adequate information and training of the Togolese population on the issue of DNS abuse and personal data protection; to communicate widely around the Law No. 2019-014 of October 29, 2019 relating to the protection of personal data.

The deliberate choice of the target audience of journalists and communicators is to facilitate a rapid 

multiplicationof these notions in the community of end users since the government of the country, Togo, has recently announced the launching a process of digital transformation of its society.

General objective:  

Make the Internet end-users community in Togo more effective in shaping Internet governance policies.

Specific objectives 

 -  Build the capacities of 20 Togolese journalists on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and on the issue of DNS abuses related to the protection of personal data, in particular in this time of global pandemic due to Covid-19

- Contribute to the promotion of the law on the protection of personal data in Togo in this Digital Transformation era.

- Build the capacities of the Internet ecosystem multistakeholders.

Activities: 

 - Organization of a 2-day face-to-face training workshop for 20 journalists / communicators.

- Organization of a one-day (online) workshop for approximately 100 people to promote the law on the protection of personal data in Togo.

Place and date: Lomé, from 7 to 9 September 2021

General theme of the project:  DNS abuse and personal data protection in Togo.

Sub-themes:

1) Introduction to DNS and DNS abuse

2) Introduction to the concept of personal data protection.

3) Introduction to Internet Governance.

Request:

Logistical support for f2f

Cost: 

$5,374

The AFRALO community is widely diverse and apart from English language, French is the next language that is widely spoken within our members both on our mailing list and other communication media. In view of this, there is need to better communicate to our members hence a need for some form of language translation on our mailing list that will allow messages sent in English to be translated to French on the list and vise-versa.

Fellowship funding to assist active members of PICISOC and other Pacific ALS members to attend and participate in the Pacific IGF in Fiji.

(F2F IGF and education,  training and mentorship)

PICISOC (an At-Large ALS) proposes to hold a 2 day IGF alongside an APTLD Annual meeting and training week. The Pacific participants will be invited to attend a half-day session of the APTLD meeting. The other scheduled times will consist of sessions provided by At-Large, PICISOC, Internet NZ, APNIC,  While funding to host the event and to provide some funding towards Fellowship funding  is already being provided by APTLD, InternetNZ, APNIC, ISOC, DotAsia, the cost of travel and accommodation in the Pacific is expensive and further support would be required to even get  small cohort of about 20 participants from around the Pacific to the event.

The IGF activity is mainly:

1. Education and training in IG issues of relevance to the Pacific with participation including the IGF DC-SIDS, PICISOC members and active At-Large participants in the Pacific region.
2. An opportunity for the ccTLD managers who are intending to attend the APTLD meeting, will also be able to participate in the IGF to network with other regional members from PICISOC, At-Large and other regional organisations such as APNIC, AP-ITU, PacNOG, PITA, etc.
3. Similarly, an opportunity for At-Large leadership to network with the regional ccTLD managers to see how we in At-Large can support their work and vice versa for local ALSes.
4. The Pacific IGF organisations will be able to participate in the Dynamic Coalition of Small Islands Developing States in the Internet Economy – by feeding back reports on their involvement in this event at the DC’s Global IGF session (coordinated by Pacific’s Maureen Hilyard and the Caribbean’s Tracy Hackshaw).
5. The Fellowship programme will be undertaken by a Fellowship Committee consisting of reps of the funders, and applicants will be required to state their intent for participation in the programme – to show their knowledge of ICANN and At-Large (strategic plan-related) topics that will be incorporated into the programme.

The event is proposed to take place 6-11 September 2021. It was originally planned for 2020 and was postponed, but if it is not possible in 2021, it will probably be virtual rather than postponed again. If the situation “down-under” remains at current low levels and vaccination occurs – apparently it should happen around June – it might be possible. But we cannot be assured of a definite answer with all the covid-variants being discovered.

Requesting: 

$5000 to contribute to support the Fellowship attendance of 3 active Pacific ALS members to attend the Pacific IGF in Fiji.

Protecting the Internet’s Unique Identifier System in an Age of Disinformation

(Series of three events: 2 online and 1 at the 2021 Global IGF -  including administrative and travel support)

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:

• Two online events (webinars) between June and December (realistically  between September – December) to identify the problems and explore solutions 
• A communication plan building towards a capacity-building face-to-face event during IGF 2020.
• Rapporteur’s report on the three sessions.

Requesting: 

• Administrative  support
• Liaise with IGF;
• Manage communications
• with ICANN users and other relevant stakeholders (email shots, social media)

• Domain / DNS seizures;
• Registry perspective;
• End user community representatives;
• Experts on disinformation activity;  

• Communications – email shots and social media. Promotional web page. Event registration.
• Web conferencing facilities and technical manager for webinars using Zoom or similar conferencing platform.
• Web streaming depending on facilities available at IGF.

• Travel support for panelists’ travel to venue, and accommodation, assuming that travel will be back to normal by December.

  Support for organiser travel ( London – Poland), accommodation ( 3 nights),  per diem expenses.

Requesting: 

$10k-$15k

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

Diversity in ICANN Leadership bodies (Part I)

(Workshop at either 2021 Global IGF or EuroDIG2022 as well as Research and Study)

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

Printing of documents

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

Diversity in ICANN Leadership bodies (Part II)

(Travel support to ICANN Meetings for three young people)

Following ATLAS III involvement of some youths in each RALO.
And the difficulty to keep them involved.

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

Printing of documents

Adding 3 slots for young to participate to ICANN meetings

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)

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.
The global ICANN budget for IGF global must be split equally between the 3 groups: 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):

• Chair of ALAC
• Chair of Euralo
• Chair of O&E

• If more budget is available, the At-Large delegation will add the 5 Co-Chairs of E&O (one per ICANN regions)

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

Support participation of individual users in EURALO

(Staff support to manage the European Individuals Associaition)

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:

• to manage an individual users’ mailing lists and the EURALO individual users web site http://individualusers.org
• to run polls and votes as needed about policy development activities and decisions
• to conduct periodic meetings in person or teleconference of the EURALO individual users
• to report on activities of the EURALO individual users
• to produce outreach material for involving new individuals

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

LAC DIGITAL is proposed as a space for dialogue and proposals for Civil Society, DNS Ecosystem and States to expose the most recent challenges facing the Internet ecosystem within Latin America and the Caribbean. How to participate and influence the Policy Development Processes.

It will be developed in three (3) days (August-2021) where the Technical areas, Policies and ICT Legislation, Impact on Users will be addressed.

Each day there will be two (2) Thematic Panels (am / pm) with a duration of two (2) hours each.

Education / training - Policy Discussion / Meeting

One time activity

*  Evolve policy development and governance processes, structures and meetings to be more accountable, inclusive, efficient, effective and responsive;

• Promote ICANN’s role and multi-stakeholder approach;
• Encourage engagement with the existing Internet governance ecosystem at national, regional and international levels;
• Participate in the evolution of a global, trusted, including multi-stakeholder Internet governance ecosystem that addresses Internet issues;
• Develop and implement a global public interest framework bounded by ICANN’s mission;
• Promote understanding of the complexities related to Internet Governance and its importance in the future of the Internet.

At-Large Structures (ALSs) accredited within LACRALO and all Regional Internet Users from all levels.  Civil Society, Technical Community, Goverments within de Latin America and Caribbean Islands.

* Report LAC Digital - Conclusions. 

* An individual appraisal from each ALS representatives attending the forum expressing which area will be attending within ICANN Ecosystem and the name of a new member to include.

At least six (6) ALS incorporating new members to ALAC working groups.

At least one new member from each ALS registered on the LACRALO mailing list and participating in the next ALAC working group meetings.

Requesting: 

Zoom Management

Zoom Platform

Adigo

Social Media Manager

ES, EN, FR, PT

Delivery of extensive online training on Internet Governance  in English, French and Spanish

Requesting:

$6,000 for translation