Description
In late 2019, the APRALO Leadership Team proposed the initiation of an APRALO Policy Platform for 2020. After reviewing input from RALO members to the proposal and in light of the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic, the Leadership Team considers this APRALO Policy Forum to be a modest but useful kickstart to facilitate and coordinate ICANN policy-related discussions at a regional level.
Purpose:
The APRALO Policy Forum aims to:
- Aim 1: Encourage engagement of APRALO members on issues within ICANN's remit
- Aim 2: Facilitate informed, inclusive regional position development on issues within ICANN's remit
- Aim 3: Support APRALO Leadership's participation as a regional partner to the ALAC Policy Platform / the At-Large Consolidated Policy Working Group
- Aim 4: Grow APRALO outreach opportunities within the AP region and with other RALOs and ICANN communities on ICANN policy issues
- Aim 5: Provide suggestions on AP regional issues of interest which may fall within ICANN’s remit
How do we achieve these aims? By:
- Informing the APRALO Community on ICANN policy issues.
- Engaging the APRALO Community in At-Large discussions on ICANN policy issues
- Consulting the APRALO Community to formulate input on ICANN policy issues.
- Building the capacity of the APRALO Community to effectively participate on ICANN policy deliberations
- Participating in inter-RALO discourse on ICANN policy issues
- Creating intra-regional discourse & cooperation opportunities to advocate for individual end user interests
APRALO Priorities for 2023-2024
Area | 1. Vis-à-vis ALAC/At-Large Community | 2. Policy-related priorities | 3. RALO Membership Retention & Engagement priorities | 4. ICANN operating priorities – top 5 to monitor** | 5. Consideration of additional, new topics *** |
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* Per the 2022 Hot Topic Survey.
** For an explanation of the above priorities in area 4, please refer to: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/op-financial-plan-fy22-26-opplan-fy22-2021-en.pdf
*** Per the APF Town Hall Meetings of 10 Aug 2023
Membership:
Open to all APRALO members interested in ICANN policy-related discussions, by subscription to the mailing list. The membership list is published below.
Operation:
The work of the Policy Forum will be facilitated using a combination of the following resources:
- This work space, as the central repository for the Forum
- The apralo-policy@icann.org mailing list which will be moderated by members of the Leadership Team and supported by At-Large Staff.
- Periodic team/small team project/planning calls
- Event calls
The ICANN Expected Standards of Behaviour will apply.
17 Aug 2023
Discussions & Next Events
APRALO Policy Forum Planning Document 2024 (comment-only mode)
Next Event:
- TBC APRALO Policy Forum Call on EPDP on IDNs Phase 2 Preliminary Recommendations, 25 January 2024
Immediate Past Event:
2024 Activities
ACTIVE APRALO Register of Skills & Interests Project (2021-2023)
Background: Tentatively code-named "Project RoSI", this project is intended to produce a dynamic Register of Skills & Interests for APRALO.
Status: Ongoing. Project RoSI Small Team completed preliminary work on data to be presented to the RALO for consultation vide the Hot Topics Survey 2021/2022. See: Infographic report Infographic report
Dedicated Workspace: Project RoSI Workspace
Activity & Meeting Archives
- APRALO Policy Forum Call, 25 January 2024: EPDP on IDNs Phase 2 Preliminary Recommendations
- 2024 Jan-Jun Planning Document
- APRALO Policy Forum Call, 08 December 2022
- APF Regional Hot Topics Survey 2022 Report during ICANN75, 20 September 2022
- ICANN75 At-Large Policy: ICANN’s Goal for a Multilingual Internet through IDNs, 19 September 2022
- APRALO Policy Forum Fireside Chat #3: Let's Talk About Transfer Policy, 29 June 2022
- APRALO Policy Forum Fireside Chat #2: Let's Talk About Closed Generics, 08 June 2022
- APRALO Policy Forum Fireside Chat #1: Let's Talk About GNSO PDP 3.0, 26 May 2022
- APRALO Policy Forum Team Call, 13 May 2022
- APF HTS Project Team Call, 13 October 2021
- APRALO Policy Forum: Webinar on IDNs, 27 July 2021
- APF Project RoSI Team Call, 20 July 2021
APRALO Policy Forum Discussions Archive 2020-2023
Contact
Staff Support Lead: Gisella Gruber
Mailing list: apralo-policy@icann.org
To subscribe to the APRALO Policy Forum mailing list (or read the archives / manage your subscription) please send a request to staff@atlarge.icann.org.
Members
Current membership of the APRALO Policy Forum comprises:
Name | Date Joined / (Resigned) | Subscribed to the Mailing list |
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Justine Chew (Chair) | 04.01.2024 | |
Amrita Choudhury | 04.01.2024 | |
Cheryl Langdon-Orr | 04.01.2024 | |
Gopal Tadepalli | 04.01.2024 | |
K. Mohan Raidu | 04.01.2024 | |
Shah Zahidur Rahman | 04.01.2024 | |
Nitin Walia | 04.01.2024 | |
Nazmul Hasan Majumder | 04.01.2024 | |
Fouad Bajwa | 04.01.2024 | |
Vipul Gautam | 04.01.2024 | |
Houda Chihi | 04.01.2024 | |
Ashirwad Tripathy | 06.01.2024 | |
Nabeel Yasin | 12.01.2024 | |
Laxmi Prasad Yadav | 12.01.2024 | |
Maureen Hilyard | 12.01.2024 | |
Jasmine Ko | 13.01.2024 | |
Prateek Pathak | 13.01.2024 | |
Muhammad Umair Ali | 14.01.2024 | |
Iqra Ejaz Bhatti | 14.01.2024 | |
Ashrafur Rahman Piaus | 14.01.2024 | |
Priyatosh Jana | 15.01.2024 | |
Suhaidi Hassan | 15.01.2024 | |
Harisa Shahid | 15.01.2024 | |
Holly Raiche | 15.01.2024 | |
Dr. N.Sudha Bhuvaneswari | 20.10.2022 | |
Md Toufik Hayder | 03.11.2022 | |
Kashif Adeel | 04.11.2022 | |
Mohammad Kawsar Uddin | 05.11.2022 | |
Md. Jahangir Hossain | 05.11.2022 | |
Eranga Samararathna | 05.11.2022 | |
Rao Naveed Bin Rais | 10.11.2022 | |
Shidul Alam Kaisar | 12.11.2022 | |
Stacy Gildenston | 14.11.2022 | |
Namra Naseer | 16.11.2022 | |
Udeep Baral | 17.11.2022 | |
Samik Kharel | 17.11.2022 | |
Jaewon Son | 18.11.2022 | |
Amir Qayyum | 19.11.2022 | |
Faheem Soomro | 27.11.2023 |
Past Membership
Justine Chew (Chair) | Md Toufik Hayder | Laxmi Prasad Yadav | Bibek Silwal | Suhaidi Hassan |
Shreedeep Rayamajhi (Former Chair) | Kashif Adeel | Rao Naveed Bin Rais | Udeep Baral | Priyatosh Jana |
Amrita Choudhury | Ayesha Iftikhar | Fouad Bajwa | Samik Kharel | Abhishek Gautam |
Nabeel Yasin | Mohammad Kawsar Uddin | Shidul Alam Kaisar | Jaewon Son | Faheem Soomro |
Dr. N.Sudha Bhuvaneswari | Md. Jahangir Hossain | Stacy Gildenston | Amir Qayyum | |
Asyraf Mierza Abd Rahma | Eranga Samararathna | Namra Naseer | Abdul Ghayoor Bawary |
Justine Chew (Co-Chair) | Satish Babu (Co-Chair) | Maureen Hilyard | Aris Ignacio | Nadira Alaraj |
Holly Raiche | Gunela Astbrink | Priyatosh Jana | Kristina Hakobyan | Azatullah Dawoodzai |
Fouad Bajwa | Gopal Tadepalli | Cheryl Langdon-Orr | Mohammad Kawsar Uddin | Sivasubramanian Muthusamy |
Narine Khachatryan | Amrita Choudhury | Shreedeep Rayamajhi | Jaewon Son | Ali AlMeshal |
Mahmoud Lattouf | Lianna Galstyan | Amir Qayyum | Winthrop Yu | Hilmi Ghalib |
Prateek Pathak | Abdul Ghayoor Bawary | K Mohan Raidu | Suhaidi Hassan |