AFRALO Outreach & Engagement Strategy FY 21 - Draft
Aim of the Strategy
Following the ATLAS III meeting, the FY21 AFRALO strategy for Outreach and Engagement aims at:
- Reaching out to end-users across Africa to sensitize about the benefits of their involvement in ICANN's activities
- Engaging African End Users to contribute to ICANN Policy Development Processes (PDPs)
- Promoting ICANN's multi-stakeholder model and its bottom-up decision-making process
- Explaining how an Internet organization / association can become an AFRALO At-Large Structure (ALS) and how an unaffiliated person can become a member of AFRALO, especially in unrepresented African countries
- Promoting Africa end-user’s leadership in ICANN activities
- Highlighting ATLAS III AFRALO participants’ milestone O&E activities in their respective countries
Strategy plan
To reach the aims of the strategy, AFRALO shall:
- Increase the number of AFRALO members who are deeply engaged in the ICANN PDP
- Participate in events across Africa and especially in countries without ALSes to make the adequate outreach to bring into ICANN Arena:
- African Internet organizations and make them interested in joining AFRALO as ALSes
- Non-affiliated African individuals and make them interested in becoming AFRALO Individual members
- Make presentations about topics under discussion in ICANN to highlight the African ICANN community effective participation in ICANN policy discussions
- Exhibit ICANN structures’ information, activities and working methods
- Organize local events, in partnership with local ALSes to enhance their engagement and broaden their radiance in their respective countries
- Continue to identify university and academic institutions, organize discussions with students and teachers about Internet Governance and build young people’s interest in joining ICANN
- Identify AFRALO role model leaders who will coach new members towards ICANN leadership positions
- Share AFRALO ATLAS III Ambassadors’ best practices
Outreach Events targeted
The outreach will target forums within the Africa Region to enhance AFRALO participation. The following non-exhaustive list identifies some targeted events:
- AFRINIC-32 – Kinshasa, DRC (June 10-12 2020) Might BE CANCELLED, POSTPONED or Changed to an online meeting (Online meeting can still allow for outreach and engagement in line with adapting to the new reality) - LOOKING FORWARD TO AFRINIC 33 PLANNED FOR NOVEMBER
- Africa Internet Summit 2020– Location Kinshasa, DRC (May 31 – June 12, 2020) WILL BE CANCELLED - PLANNING FOR AIS2021 INSTEAD
- African regional and sub-regional IGFs
