FY17 AC/SO Special Requests
Proposed Requests:
ALAC:
ALAC Development Session
ALAC Strategy Session
Academy WG Proposal for WG Chair Facilitation Skills Training Course (TBC)
Captioning project (on behalf of NARALO)
RALOs:
Cross-RALO: Development Session for RALO Chairs and Secretaries at the 2016 AGM (TBC)
AFRALO
APRALO
EURALO
LACRALO
NARALO
NARALO - General Assembly at ICANN 57
- Draft NARALO GA submission - Authors Eduardo, Judith and Glenn This is an update of last years' submission for the GA @Arin
- Project Management Tool Trello
https://trello.com/b/mwvu440a/naralo-general-assembly
FY17 ALAC Criteria for Special Requests:
- Outreach should not be a major focus. Activities to improve engagement with existing members is encouraged.
- If any request is made on outreach, it should probably go through the CROPP program and not this special request process.
- Proposals should include ways in which will make the ALAC and/or the At-Large community more effective and develop the At-Large community.
- RALO requests must go through a bottom up process within their RALO prior to being submitted for consideration by the FBSC.
- RALOs should consider the General Assembly/Summit timeline (NARALO and AFRALO are scheduled for requesting General Assemblies during FY17)
- They must be explicitly supported by the RALO representative on the FBSC.
- Staff is currently expecting that basic resources for community communications/printing will be supported through the core ICANN budget, but that community proposals for printing , etc. will be accepted as a back-up in case expectations change. Specific proposals for communications resources beyond simple printing and editing functions should be prepared and submitted.
FY17 Community Special Budget Request Timeline
FY17 Community Special Budget Request Timeline | Start | End |
Kick off and Submission Period | 15 December 2015 | 15 February 2016 |
FBSC representatives and/or staff to send notice of opening of FY17 special request process to RALOs | 21 December 2015 | 24 January 2016 |
RALOs to review any ALS request or complete a template on behalf of the RALO and send requests to | 4 January 2016 | 22 January 2016 |
Discussion of Proposals with Finance Staff and FBSC | 25 January 2016 | 29 January 2016 |
Revised proposals to be sent to the FBSC for final review. | 5 February 2016 | 5 February 2016 |
The FBSC to review all the RALO requests. | 8 February 2016 | 12 February 2016 |
Submission Deadline (Staff will send the FBSC approved requests to Finance on 15 February 2015.) | 15 February 2016 | 15 February 2016 |
Preliminary review of requests by ICANN staff | 16 February 2016 | 4 March 2016 |
SO/AC consultations at ICANN 55 (by request, during Constituents’ Day) | 5 March 2016 | 10 March 2016 |
Final assessments and recommendations by ICANN staff | 15 March 2016 | 31 March 2016 |
ICANN Board Review and approval at April Board meeting | 1 April 2016 |
15 December 2015 marks the launch of the FY17 SO-AC Community Additional Budget Request process. As you know, this process pertains to a dedicated part of the overall ICANN annual budget that is set aside to fund specific requests from the community for activities that are not already included in the recurring ICANN budget.
Important Documents and Resources
FY17 SO/AC Additional Budget Requests - Finance wikipage (Please note what is new to the process)
In preparation for the submission, please review the following documents:
- FY17 Community Special Budget requests process description and timeline FY17 Community Additional Budget Request Process.pdf
- Principles that govern ICANN’s request assessment work Principles of SO-AC Additional Budget Requests (vFY17-2015).pdf
- FY17 template request form FY17 Community Requests Template.docx