ATLAS II Recommendations to the ICANN Board

The 2nd At-Large Summit (ATLAS II)
Final Declaration
No.	Recommendation	Recipient	Thematic Group Source	Assignees	Notes	Status
1	ICANN should continue to support outreach programmes that engage a broader audience, in order to reinforce participation from all stakeholders.	ICANN Board; ICANN Staff	TG1	Unknown User (l.sanchez) Rafid Fatani Evan Leibovitch	Chair of TG1 to develop a paragraph and expand the notion of 'broader' based on the materials of the TG1; Broader audience = under-represented community members?
2	ICANN should increase support (budget, staff) to programmes having brought valuable members to the community.	ICANN Board; ICANN Staff	TG1	Outreach Capacity Building Finance and Budget	Define 'programmes' that brought value members to the community. Need to think of ways to optimize budget.
3	ICANN should continue to shape an accountability model reaching not only Board members but all parts of the ICANN community, in order to develop a more transparent and productive environment	ICANN Board; ICANN Staff; ICANN Community	TG1	Future Challenge	Could feed into ICANN accountability process and At-Large work in this process
5	ICANN should examine how best to ensure that end-users remain at the heart of the accountability process in all aspects pertaining to the transition of stewardship of the IANA function.	ICANN Board; ICANN Staff; ICANN Community	TG1	Future Challenges	Could feed into ICANN accountability process and the work of At-Large IANA issues WG.
6	ICANN’s MSM should serve as the reference in encouraging all participants (individuals or parties) to declare and update existing or potential conflicts-of-interest, each time a vote takes place or consensus is sought.	ICANN Board; ICANN Staff; ICANN Community	TG1	Future Challenges	Could feed into the ICANN accountability process.
7	A periodic review of ICANN's MSM should be performed to ensure that the processes and the composition of ICANN’s constituent parts adequately address the relevant decision-making requirements in the Corporation	ICANN Board	TG1	Future Challenges	Could feed into the ICANN accountability process.
9	ICANN should open regional offices with a clear strategy, subject to a cost-benefit analysis, focusing on the areas where the access to the Internet is growing, and where such growth is more likely to occur.	ICANN Board; ICANN Staff	TG2	Staff ALAC	Staff to provide the Strategy document before LA. ALAC to expand on this recommendation
11	ICANN must implement a range of services to facilitate access according to various criteria (gender; cultural diversity) and user needs (disabilities, etc…).	ICANN Board; ICANN Staff	TG2	Accessibility Technology Task Force	ICANN can meet it's strategic goals for inclusion and diversity through the implementation of services that embraces the various communities which have historically suffered from barriers of access. ICANN should use caption technology for all its calls, meetings and presentations. This tool not only makes all ICANN activities and programs accessible to Deaf, blind and low vision consumers, but also the English only calls to be translated into multiple languages courtesy of Google translate. Having the captions available in English also helps people in the ICANN community whose first language is not English as most people can read English even if they can not speak or understand it.
13	ICANN should review the overall balance of stakeholder representation to ensure that appropriate consideration is given to all views, proportionally to their scope and relevance.	ICANN Board	TG2	Future Challenges	Feed in the accountability process
14	ICANN should adjust its contractual framework to minimize conflict between its requirements and relevant national laws.	ICANN Board; ICANN Staff	TG2	Olivier Crepin-Leblond	The ALAC Chair to informally get in touch with colleagues on other SOs and ACs about this issue
15	ICANN should examine the possibility of modifying its legal structure befitting a truly global organization, and examine appropriate legal and organizational solutions.	ICANN Board	TG2	Future Challenges
16	ICANN needs to improve their direct communications regardless of time zones.	ICANN Board; ICANN GSE Staff	TG2	ATLAS II IT ALT		To be discussed by ATLAS II IT in January
20	Input the user perspective, wherever necessary, to advance accountability, transparency and policy development within ICANN.	ICANN Board	TG3	Future Challenges		Proposal is to give mandate to a new ad hoc At-Large WG on Accountability
21	Encourage public campaigns on using the Internet for education, information, creativity and empowerment.	ICANN Board; GSE Staff	TG3	Outreach Social Media
23	The roles and jurisdiction of the Ombudsman should be expanded. The ICANN website should provide a clear and simple way for the public to make complaints.	ICANN Board; ICANN Staff	TG4	Future Challenges Social Media	Future Challenges WG to follow up on the expansion of the roles and jurisdiction of the Ombudsman Social Media WG to provide recommendations for community members to easily make complaints to the Ombudsman via the At-Large website
25	To enhance ICANN's community effort on building a culture of Transparency and Accountability, as called for in the recommendations of ATRT2, oversight of the Board's decisions now requires an effective mechanism of checks and balances, capable of providing true multi-stakeholder oversight and effective remedies.	ICANN Board; ICANN SO and Acs	TG4	Future Challenges	Part of the Accountability Process
26	Current policy management processes within ICANN are insufficient. ICANN must implement a workable Policy Management Process System, available for use across the SO/ACs, in order to: • enhance Knowledge Management, • improve the effectiveness of all ICANN volunteer communities, • improve cross-community policy-specific activity, • enhance policy development metrics, • facilitate multilingual engagement, • create a taxonomy of policy categories, • provide policy development history as an aid for newcomers.	ICANN Policy Staff; ICANN Board	TG5	Social Media Technology Task Force Capacity Building	Chairs of these 3 WGs to discuss how to tackle this task
27	The Board must implement ATRT2 Recommendation 9.1, regarding Formal Advice from Advisory Committees.	ICANN Board	TG5			Status update in progress.
35	The ICANN Board should hold a minimum of one conference call with the At-Large Community in between ICANN Public Meetings.	ALAC; ICANN Board	TG5	ALAC
40	ICANN should offer a process similar to the Community Regional Outreach Pilot Program (CROPP), but applicable to short lead-time budget requests not related to travel.	ICANN Board; ICANN Staff	TG5	Finance and Budget		ALAC/At-Large to request a fund for promotional items for engagement and outreach (could be within FY16 AC/SO Requests)
41	The ALAC should work with the ICANN Board in seeking additional sources of funding for At-Large activities.	ALAC; ICANN Board	TG5	Finance and Budget		ALAC/At-Large to request this recommendation be implemented under the new ICANN Meeting Strategy, esp. Meeting B (AC/SO focused meeting)
42	ICANN should enable annual face-to-face RALO assemblies, either at ICANN regional offices or in concert with regional events.	ALAC; ICANN Board	TG5	Finance and Budget		AFRALO and EURALO to submit requests for face-to-face General Assemblies in FY16 under AC/SO requests

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