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At-Large 2017 IGF Proposals
ALAC/Sub-Committee on Outreach and Engagement
Original Proposal to FBSC
The proposal is to organize and implement an effective, coordinated and sustained At-Large strategy to raise awareness of the end-user perspective and engage in targeted outreach and engagement program during the 2017 IGF to be held in Geneva 18-21 December 2017 which is a premier global event targeting global stakeholders in the Internet Ecosystem. The program will include awareness raising on end-user policy issues through 5 workshops, training activities and better utilize the ICANN information booth, thus heighten overall branding of At-Large and ICANN.
Note that this request is being submitted in addition to several RALO-based requests for IGF support. This is necessary because there is no Assurance that a global At-Large IGF request will be accepted, and the individual requests, even if accepted by ICANN, will be contingent on IGF acceptance. However, on the assumption that this request is dealt with favorably, and one or more RALO requests are accepted, it is understood that they will be reconciled and implemented synergistically.
Moreover, it is understood that a global presence of At-Large representing ICANN at an IGF, without a particular ICANN funded workshop, is a new concept, and it is expected that this will need to be phased in over a period of several years.
At-Large wiki page on At-Large IGF propopsals : https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+2017+IGF+Workshop+Proposal+Workspace
The IGF proposal submission form (available below) is now reasonably stable:
https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2017-workshop-proposal-form
IGF 2017 Workshop Proposal Form
I. Session title:
Towards Internet Governance at the Last Mile: Shaping the Digital Future of End-Users
(Length limit is 100 characters)
Internet Governance impacts all communities in various ways including accessibility, cyber- security, child safety, human rights and Internet Shutdowns), simplified & contextualized, and presented in local language at locales ranging from schools to villages The methodologies for effective education to all the end users requires thinking outside the box of the traditional methods of educating the public on these topics. The Shaping the Digital Future of Communities through Internet Governance requires building a set of effective tools based on best practices to engage and educate the end users. The IGF is especially appropriate for discussing such a model, given its open nature and broad remit. The outcome of the session would be provide recommendations on the feasibility of an expanded model of Internet Governance.
II. Session format
Panel - 90 min
III. Proposer
Glenn McKnight
IV. Backup Contact/Co- Proposer
Satish Babu
V. Organizers
Dr. Olivier Crépin-Leblond, EURALO, ICANN
Mr. Dev Anand Teelucksingh, LACRALO, ICANN
Mr. Daniel Nanghaka, AFRALO, ICANN
Mr. Satish Babu, APRALO, ICANN
Mr. Glenn McKnight, NARALO, ICANN
VI. Speakers
Email IDs of provisionally-confirmed speakers:
daniel.nanghaka@isoc.ug, devtee@gmail.com, ocl@gih.com, sbabu@ieee.org, mcknight.glenn@gmail.com
VII Content of the Session
Issues Addressed
Our session will address the Shaping the Digital Future through a discussion of sharing how local strategies can provide a roadmap for others to perform effective outreach and engagement to the end Internet users
Session Overview
An interactive discussion between regional practitioners with the active participation of online and audience to share best practices in outreach and engagement to end users
A brief overview of the session followed by fourth examples of embracing the end-user community based upon the diversity of communities of interest, regionalism and localism. Each round will discuss the challenges and opportunities in incorporating local active participation.
Tentative Session Structure
Introduction - Welcome, purpose and objective of the discussion - 3 minutes
Outreach to Indigenous Groups, Persons with Disabilities and Specific Needs, and Interaction from participants (14 mins)
Regional Perspectives of getting end users engaged in their Digital Futures
Asia Pacific (14 mins - 7 mins for Interaction from participants)
Africa (14 mins - 7 mins for Interaction from participants)
Latin America and the Caribbean (14 mins - 7 mins for Interaction from participants)
Europe (14 mins - 7 mins for Interaction from participants)
North America (14 mins - 7 mins for Interaction from participants)
Wrap up - 3 mins
Total 90 minutes
Format: Panel
Lead: Chair Satish Babu
Speakers
Daniel Nanghaka/Sara Kiden
Glenn McKnight/Judith Hellerstein
Olivier Crepin Leblond
Gunela Astbrink
Dev Anand Teelucksingh/ Maritza Y. Aguero/ Jacqueline Morris
Rapporteur: Judith Hellerstein
Onsite Moderator: Sarah Kiden
Online Moderator: Dev Anand Teelucksingh
Duration
90 minutes
Format
Short Presentation on regional topic
Breakout discussion with audience (both online and in-room)
Remote participation including questions and answers
VIII Relevance of the Issue
Our key focus in Shaping the Digital Future for those that are marginalized from full participation due to national and regional policies, economic barriers and other reasons and to further bring forth experiences from different geographical locations issues pertaining Internet Governance.
IX. Tags
Access and Diversity [id:68]
Enhancing Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities [id:71]
Multistakeholder Cooperation [id:89]
X. Interventions
Each of the speakers for each round has a specific region and community of Interest that they focus upon. They will summarise their achievements and challenges, and discuss opportunities for replication of their strategies for outreach and participation.
All the participants will be invited to a collaborative notes page with details on the short topic discussions
Please describe how you will use your speakers and how their views/perspectives/expertise will be included in the session.
XI. Diversity *
We will have speakers from Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, India, France and Canada. We aim to have 50% of the speakers be female and the majority of the speakers will be from emergent economies, and will also be from the Global South.
XV. Online Participation *
We will promote remote participation to the Facebook Internet Governance Hub, as well as the ICANN AT-LARGE SKYPE, Facebook and Twitter feeds, and through ISOC's Chapters and ISOC's live stream followers
Our Online & Onsite moderators are Sarah Kiden, Judith Hellerstein or Dev Anand Teelucksingh
The remote participation will be fully inclusive. Questions and comments from online attendees will be included in the workshop session on an equal basis with those from in-room participants. A microphone will be provided for the online participants, and the remote moderator will coordinate the overall queue with the in-room moderator.
An important part of workshop sessions is their strategy for online participation. Please clearly describe how you will manage online participation during the session. Please note that tweets and social media applications allow for observations to the online community, but do not constitute online participation. Unless your proposal clearly indicates that it will not offer online participation, and why not, please indicate how you will ensure equal online participation, both in concept and in practice. For example, online attendees will have a separate queue and microphone, which will rotate equally with the mics in the room; the workshop moderator will have the online participation session open and will be in close communication with the workshop’s trained online moderator, to make any adaptations necessary as they arise, etc. Please take seriously the requirement that the workshop should have its own trained remote moderator who has been part of the issue and workshop development, and is prepared to manage this responsibility
XVI. Discussion facilitation *
The Panel format will lend itself to both specific and overall discussion. The agenda above indicates that there will be six main topics, focusing on separate regions/communities. After each opening remarks, there will be 7 minutes for discussion on the specific presentation. At the end of the presentations, the discussion will be opened up for questions and responses on any and all topics, including similarities, possibilities for replication in other regions and communities, examples from participants who are doing similar work, and more.
The panellists are not to be considered “experts” to take up much of the time speaking, but the discussion time is expected to hear from participants in the workshop, both in-room and online.
There will be an opportunity for questions to be grouped so that the discussion can draw out common themes and topics, useful for ongoing work.
AFRALO
APRALO
EURALO
I. Session Title: Reinforcing the role of end-users in defending the Public Interest ==*II. Session Format*== Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min Session Format Description: ==*III. Proposer*== Gender: Male Family Name: Ludwig Given Name: Wolf City of Residence: Basel Country of Residence: Switzerland Nationality: Germany E-mail: wolf.ludwig@comunica-ch.net Stakeholder Group: Civil Society Organization: EURALO Country where Organization is based: Switzerland ==*IV. Backup Contact / Co-proposer*== Gender: Male Family Name: Crepin-Leblond Given Name: Olivier E-mail: ocl@gih.com Stakeholder Group: Technical Community Organization: EURALO Country: Switzerland ==*V. Organizers*== Co-organizers: Mr., Wolf, LUDWIG, civil society, EURALO Olivier, CREPIN-LEBLOND, technical community, EURALO ==*VI. Speakers*== Email addresses of provisionally confirmed speakers (comma separated): mark.carvell@culture.gov.uk,caroline@cloudflare.com,nigel.hickson@icann.org,mariliamaciel@gmail.com,t.tropina@mpicc.de,wolf.ludwig@comunica-ch.net,parminder@itforchange.net VII. Content of the Session: We will bring together regional practitioners, online and in-house participants to share best practices in “The Public Interest” through short and specific reporting. One key component will be the study of ICANN’s special status acting in the “Public Interest”. A workshop organized by EURALO on the “The Public Interest”. EURALO has been at the forefront of the discussions on the Public Interest in ALAC but also in ICANN, through its working group on the Public Interest and its involvement in the ICANN-wide public interest discussions. This workshop would explore the Public Interest in ICANN’s remit and compare it with other Multistakeholder systems and the Public Interest in wider Internet Governance. Representatives from the various stakeholder groups composing the Multistakeholder ecosystem will be invited to explain their perspective. The discussion of the Public Interest in ICANN’s remit would act as a starting point for a wider debate that touches on the broader Internet Ecosystem. It follows up on a more general PI debate and session at the IGF in November 2015 in Joao Pessoa, Brazil. More information about the Public Interest within ICANN’s remit can be found on: https://community.icann.org/display/prjxplrpublicint/Exploring+the+Public+Interest+within+ICANN%27s+Remit+Home Format/Agenda Inter-active with key inputs and inclusive discussion Short Presentation about topic Breakout discussion with audience (both online and in-room) Remote participation including questions and answers VIII. Relevance of the Issue: The Public Interest is an essential component of the multistakeholder model of Internet Governance. This model being a balance of government, civil society and private sector input into governance processes, does not serve the purpose of a single stakeholder. Quite the contrary, the model is supposed to counter any vested interest by a single stakeholder group and to generate discussion that leads to decisions being taken for the public good, both on a technical and on a political level. However, imbalances in the model might bring forward the interest of a few instead of interests of a majority. Participants will focus on good practices for multistakeholder systems to remain balanced and decisions to be taken in the Public Interest. ==*IX. Tags*== Tag 1: Multistakeholder Cooperation Tag 2: Openness [1] Tag 3: Critical Internet Resources X. Interventions: Each of the speakers for each round has a specific region and community of Interest that they focus upon. They will summarize their achievements and challenges, and discuss opportunities for replication of their strategies for outreach and participation. The suggested speakers are asked to concentrate on short and precise introductory statements from their expertise and angles to allow as much time as possible for interactive discussions with the audience. All the participants will be invited to a collaborative notes page with details on the short topic discussions. XI. Diversity: The variety of our suggested speakers -- reflecting gender, regional and other balances -- is designed to provide a broader picture and reflexion on the term and subject of the Public Interest in different regions, societies and contexts. Our panel is both geographically and gender balanced with participants from WEOG, Asia and Latin America. XII. Onsite Moderator: Wolf Ludwig XIII. Online Moderator: Michael Oghia XIV. Rapporteur: Carlton Samuels XV. Online Participation: As a matter of principle, remote participants in our session are equally treated like on-site participants. The chair and session moderator will always check and coordinate with the RP-moderator to find out and include questions and comments from remote participants. Our online moderator will be an inherent part of the discussion, relaying comments and questions from remote participants. At all moments the online moderator will be able to indicate an online contribution - thus the online moderator will not need to be asked to speak by the main moderator. Since the format is a roundtable discussion, it is anticipated that the online moderator will have equal speaking time to all main names participants. XVI. Discussion facilitation: The round table format will lend itself to both specific and overall discussion. The agenda above indicates that there will be three main sessions, focusing on separate regions/communities. After each presentation, there will be 10 minutes for discussion on the specific presentation. At the end of the presentations, the discussion will be opened up for questions and responses on any and all topics, including similarities, possibilities for replication in other regions and communities, examples from participants who are doing similar work, and more. The panelists are not to be considered sole “experts” on the topic to take up much of the time speaking, but the discussion time is expected to hear from participants in the workshop, both in-room and online. As a founding (2008) and member of the Secretariat (2010) and Program Director of EuroDIG, we systematically tried to facilitate and improve discussions at EuroDIG sessions over the years which are documented at EuroDIG’s session principles (avoid big panels and lengthy presentations while fostering inclusive discussions with audiences right from the start etc. This discours concept was adopted and approved by the Swiss IGF as well. See: https://www.eurodig.org/index.php?id=113#jfmulticontent_c2865-3 ==*XVII. Past IGF Participation*== History in IGF: No Report Link: XVIII. Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals ==*XIX. Connecting with IGF Intersessional Groups & NRIs*== Best Practice Forums: None Dynamic Coalitions: Dynamic coalition on Acces and Disability, DC on Accountability etc. National and Regional Initiatives: UK IGF, Swiss IGF, German IGF etc. and EuroDIG XX. Connecting with International or Other Relevant Organizations: XXI. Additional Background Paper (Optional): https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/sites/default/files/webform/EURALO_Thesis-paper_Public-Interest.pdf XXII. Additional Reference Document Link (Optional):
