At-Large Meetings - Wednesday, 24 March 2021

15:30-17:00

(10:30-12:00 Cancún)

At-Large Policy Session 3: Applicant Support: What Does Success Look Like?

The 2012 Applicant Support Program, including the community mentoring initiative, is largely regarded as a failure. Theories abound to explain this failure and the Subsequent Procedures Working Group has made some proposals for improvement, leaving the details to the Implementation team. A question that remains, that should be considered as a matter of policy, NOT implementation, is the identification of goals around the program. These goals need to be result oriented, not measures of effort. Goals could include number of applicants for support, number of awarded and delegated strings and geographic distribution of applicants. In this session, we'll discuss community objectives for applicant support, including some possible concrete goals and measures of success for the next round of gTLDs.

Agenda: 

1.                  Introduction and History – Hadia – 10min
2. Questions to the Panelists – 5min each
   1. What were the goals of the Applicant support Program
   2. What should the goals be for the next one
3. Discussion – 30min
4. Poll the Audience – 5min
5. Q & A  20min
6. Wrap-up and Next Steps – Hadia 10min

Joint AFRALO-AfrICANN Meeting 

Agenda:

1. Welcome address- Seun Ojedeji, AFRALO Chair
2. Opening remarks-Maureen Hilyard, ALAC Chair
3. Guest speakers:
   1. Goran Marby, ICANN President and CEO
   2. Remarks by ICANN Board Members : Leon Sanchez, Mandla Msimang and Ihab Osman
   3. Pierre Dandijinou-Vice President for Africa 
4. A summary of AFRALO webinar on "ICANN on ICANN multi-stakeholder model & increase in national legislations and regulations-Bram 

   Fudzulani

5. Introduction of the topic- Hadia 

   El Miniawi.

6. Presentation of the statement "ICANN multi-stakeholder model and the increase in national legislation and regulations"- Abdeldjalil Bacher, Sarah Kiden, Barrack Otieno, Drafting Team EN version & FR version. 
7. Discussion, modification and adoption of the statement -Abdeldjalil , All.
8. Closing address- Seun Ojedeji, AFRALO Chair

Moderator: Seun Ojedeji 

Lead: SV

Notes: HU

RPMs: 

Not to be used to avoid back to back with LAC Event