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April 2012

March 2012

February 2012

January 2012

  • regional advice of ALS application for Association of Notary Public Professionals of Uruguay pending
  • new ALS Application received from National Association for Digital Inclusion (Associação Nacional para Inclusão Digital), from Brazil - regional advice pending
  • new ALS application received from The Ecuadorian Association for Free Software - due diligence pending 
  • awaiting response from ICANN Finance to LACRALO's request for extraordinary funding of possible events in CR ; given the ambiguity of whether ALSes would be present in CR, and lack of consensus to plan for a showcase regardless, a poll would be taken whether LACRALO would plan for a showcase if the extraordinary funding request is not approved.

LACRALO Monthly Reports 2011

LACRALO Monthly Reports 2010

LACRALO Monthly Reports 2009

December 2011

  • ISOC Costa Rica Chapter was accepted as our 38th ALS in LACRALO.
  • new ALS application received from the Writers Association of Uruguay. Regional advice pending
  • Separate comments by various ALSes in LACRALO sent to the public comment on ICANN's Geographic Regions Draft Final Report ; see here and here . 
  • After meeting of the Costa Rica Events WG, decision to ask ICANN for funding of a series of LACRALO events in Costa Rica. Letter was drafted and sent to ALAC. 

November 2011

  • Call for LACRALO Costa Rica Events WG issued to list with 14 persons responding to the call. First conference call scheduled for Wed November 23 2011
  • Regional advice to accept the ALS application from ISOC Costa Rica Chapter sent.
  • LACRALO monthly call on Thursday November 17 2011 went poorly due to interpretation issues with both English and Spanish channels not understanding each other.
  • LACRALO call on Monday November 21 2011 with new interpreters from ICANN (the same that work at ICANN conferences) went very well. Well attended call with lively discussion on the ICANN's Geographic Regions Draft Final Report and its impact on the Caribbean and discussion on LACRALO bylaw modifications as it relates to proposed diversity requirement for the ALAC representatives elected by LACRALO. A 2nd LACRALO issue call on these topics tentatively scheduled for next week.

October 2011

  • ALAC voted to accept the regional advice to accredit the ALS application from Ageia Densi Colombia and Ageia Densi Colombia was accepted as our 37th ALS in LACRALO
  • ALS application from ISOC Costa Rica received
  • LACRALO 17.10.2011 Teleconference call to discuss diversity requirement for ALAC cancelled due to lack of participation. 

September 2011

August 2011

July 2011

June 2011 - Singapore

May 2011

  • Google Doc capturing the discussions from the regional calls and LACRALO calls since February 2011 on how to deal with inactive ALSes due to their participation/involvement in LACRALO and ICANN policy issues was posted.
  • A breakdown in the existing LACRALO mailing list for 2 weeks impeded discussion of issues. The mailing list is now functioning as usual as of May 19 2011. 

April 2011

March 2011 - San Francisco

February 2011

The draft proposals to the [LACRALO bylaws|LACRALO:LACRALO Bylaw Working Group] regarding ALS participation were discussed on the sub-regional calls in February.

Limited testing of an alternative LACRALO mailing list with machine translation has begun and ongoing.

A call for candidates for the chair and secretariat of LACRALO will be posted before the end of the month since the terms of the LACRALO representatives ends in April 2011.

January 2011

With the discussion in the LACRALO bylaw working group and further discussion among several of the ALSes at the ICANN meeting in Cartagena, Colombia regarding participation of ALSes in LACRALO, it was decided by the LACRALO President and Secretariat to have :

- a conference call with ALSes from the Latin American region
- a conference call with ALSes from the Caribbean region

Both of these conference calls took place before the monthly LACRALO conference call.

The agenda of these two regional conference calls :
* hear what ALSes have to say regarding their involvement in LACRALO and the way forward for improved ALS participation in LACRALO.
* what information is needed by ALSes and its members to better participate in LACRALO. A series of possible briefing calls could then be planned.
* mention of the possible LACRALO bylaw modifications to address participation in LACRALO.
* a discussion regarding the idea of possible regional balance of the ALAC representatives from LACRALO so that one ALAC Representative from an ALS from the Latin American region and one ALAC Representative from an ALS in the Caribbean region.

Several LACRALO members responded to the call for comments on the draft ICANN strategic plan 2011-2014 on the LACRALO mailing list. A Google Document was used to draft/collect comment submissions. The LACRALO comments can be viewed at the ICANN Strategic Planning Development 2011 Workspace.

Several draft proposals to the LACRALO bylaws regarding ALS participation have been posted. Discussion is ongoing on the way forward.

Many persons have complained about the quality of the machine translation of the LACRALO mailing lists. There have been assurances from ICANN At-Large Staff that mechanisms are being put into place to improve this machine translation.

December 2010

Four ALS Applications from the Latin America and Caribbean region were received and were accepted as ALSes in LACRALO by the ALAC:

José Ovidio Salgueiro was recommended by LACRALO to be our Nomination Committee Delegate from LACRALO for a 2nd term.

Four candidates submitted nominations for the LACRALO representative to serve on the ALAC for a term beginning at the end of the December 2010 ICANN meeting to the 2012 ICANN's Annual General Meeting. There was a teleconference held on August 31 2010 with the four candidates before the start of the election period. The  election of the LACRALO representative to serve on the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) was completed, with Sergio Salinas Porto elected as the LACRALO representative. ALS participation in this election was high, with 28 out of 34 ALSes in LACRALO having voted in this election. This high level of online participation is a positive step in having a LACRALO virtual GA to vote on motions related to the modifications of the LACRALO Organising Documents.

A LACRALO Bylaw Working Group was created from 25 August 2010 to look at two issues:

  • to increase the length of the terms of the LACRALO chair and secretariat from one year to two years and for a maximum of two consecutive terms.
  • to suggest options and procedures in dealing with inactive ALSes and possible draft modifications to the LACRALO organising documents to deal with inactive ALSes in LACRALO as it relates to quorum.
    The LACRALO Bylaw WG worked online via a mailing list and had 3 teleconferences in November 2010. Discussion is ongoing.

A LACRALO Cartagena Showcase Working Group was created to plan and organise a LACRALO Showcase event at the ICANN Cartagena meeting in December 2010 to:

  • highlight the activites of the ALSes of LACRALO in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • engage in outreach activities for regional Internet user organisations attending Cartagena.

The WG had several teleconferences in October and weekly teleconferences in November 2010. The LACRALO showcase event was held on Monday December 6, 2010. 

Several persons initially responded to the call for regional persons to join the At-Large Improvements Working Teams , but attendance on actual At-Large Improvements Workspace conference calls were low with only 2 persons participating.

Two persons from LACRALO, Jacqueline Morris and James Corbin served on the BCEC.

August 2010

Regional advice given on ALS application from Fundación Incluirme ((PDF, 147 KB) and Paraguayan Association of Information Technology Law (APADIT) ((PDF, 241 KB) which was accepted by ALAC.

Two new ALS applications received from ISOC Peru and from Red Internacional de Diseño . Regional review to begin.

José Ovidio Salgueiro was recommended to be our Nomination Committee Delegate from LACRALO for a 2nd term.

There are 4 candidates for the LACRALO representative to serve on the ALAC for a term beginning at the end of the December 2010 ICANN meeting to the 2012 ICANN's Annual General Meeting. There will be a debate followed by elections. The LACRALO Election 2010 page has more details.

July 2010

Regional review of two ALS applications :

should be completed shortly.

As part of the necessary outreach/inreach for ALSes in LACRALO, rewritten the LACRALO Organising Documents page
and created a new page "LACRALO Representatives" to better explain the representatives of LACRALO and how representatives are elected to serve on other ICANN Supporting Organisations including ALAC.

A call for candidates for ALAC representative and for the recommendation of candidates to ALAC for a LACRALO delegate to Nomcom.
The LACRALO Election 2010 page has more details

May 2010

Inactive ALSes are being contacted to encourage their participation in LACRALO and for them to complete the ALS Survey.

LACRALO bylaw modifications by a WG will begin shortly

April 2010

LACRALO Elections for the officer positions of President/Chair and Secretariat were held.

Regional advice to approve the ALS application from "Asociación CONEXIÓN al Desarrollo El Salvador" was given.

March 2010

LACRALO Report Nairobi

In December, created a LACRALO Dashboard using Google Spreadsheets for ALSes in LACRALO to

  • plan for and keep track of LACRALO and ICANN activities (public policies, briefing sessions)
  • track countries in the region where ALSes are present and absent, countries whose ccTLD are in the ccNSO, and combinations thereof.

The dashboard is proving useful to plan for future outreach activities in the region.

To better prepare prospective ALSes to understand At-Large and LACRALO, a LACRALO Brochure has been developed and a final version available in English, Spanish and Portuguese after three draft versions produced.

Work is continuing on a welcome Starter Pack of documents to be provided to new or prospective ALSes joining LACRALO.

Regional review should be completed shortly on an ALS application from El Salvador.

Comments on the ICANN 2010-2013 Strategic Plan were submitted and extensive discussion on the At-Large Board Selection Process during one of our monthly teleconferences. Candidates from the region have volunteered to serve on the various teams in this process.

February 2010

LACRALO Brochure

3rd and final version, including quote from Caribbean ALS about LACRALO. LACRALO Brochure

LACRALO Dashboard

The LACRALO Dashboard has a page containing links to the PDFs (in English) of ICANN policies out for comment and links to Google Translate versions in Spanish and Portuguese.

See http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=r82Z8wLg9K4sGy8OPjLdofw&gid=13

January 2010

LACRALO Brochure

2nd version of LACRALO brochure was approved. Final translations in English and Portuguese will be done. LACRALO Brochure

LACRALO Dashboard

improvements to the LACRALO Dashboard include the ability to read the policy issues, the URL and start and close dates for comment directly ICANN's public comment website (http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/) automatically with no manual additions.

LACRALO Starter Pack

A draft welcome document showing how ALSes can participate in LACRALO can be found at LACRALO-At-Large-Starter-Pack

ALS application

ALS application received from "Asociación CONEXIÓN al Desarrollo El Salvador" on January 18th, 2010

Comments submitted on draft ICANN Strategic Plan 2010-2013

Comments can be found at https://st.icann.org/alac-docs/index.cgi?lacralo_position_on_the_icann_strategic_plan_2010_2013

December 2009

LACRALO Dashboard

Created a LACRALO Dashboard using Google Spreadsheets for ALSes in LACRALO to plan for and keep track of LACRALO activities.

At the top of the LACRALO Dashboard, you will see several sections you can click on :

  1. Stats : This is a summary generated from the other sections
  2. Action-Items : that persons in LACRALO are working on.
  3. ICANN-Policy-Issues : directly read from At-Large Policy Advice Development Schedule and from the ICANN Public Comment website.
  4. ALSes : A list of all the At-Large Structures (ALS) in LACRALO, sorted by country along with the ALS website, the ALS representative and the ALS representative email.
  5. Countries : Shows for each country in Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of ALSes in each territory (directly calculated from the ALSes section) and whether the country's ccTLD is in the ccNSO. This information will be useful for the upcoming ALS-ccNSO survey and for the next section.
  6. Country-breakdowns : Using the information from the "ALSes" and "Countries" sections, a listing of countries grouped in several columns are dynamically generated. So we can see : countries with ALSes, countries with NO ALSes, countries whose ccTLD are in the ccNSO, countries whose ccTLD are NOT in ccNSO and combinations such as countries with NO ALSes and whose ccTLD are not in the ccNSO.

So the country breakdowns section can be used to plan where to target LACRALO outreach to find new ALSes to join LACRALO.

LACRALO Brochure

Work is ongoing to create a LACRALO brochure using the EURALO brochure as a starting point. A first draft has been created : LACRALO Brochure

LACRALO Starter Pack

The recent accreditation of Nexti has realised the lack of a At-Large Starter Pack, a collection of documents for new ALSes to understand and participate in LACRALO. While documents have been identified, there is need for a document showing how ALSes can participate in LACRALO. Work on this has begun. LACRALO-At-Large-Starter-Pack

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