Description
The At-Large Technology Taskforce (TTF) evaluates and reviews different technologies and tools that can help the ICANN At-Large Community (including the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) communicate, collaborate and accomplish their goals and objectives for ICANN activities. These tools range from chat tools, web conferencing tools, captioning to anything that will help Individual Internet users become active in the At-Large Community. Technology provides the tools that enable people to connect, collaborate, and work towards making the world more accessible, enabling the benefits of the Internet to be available to all.
Get Involved
We welcome anyone who is interested in collaborating and seeing how we can better meet the needs of ICANN At-Large to participate, suggest ideas, and become and active member. We have recently opened up the group to other ICANN constituencies and look forward to working with all ICANN communities to solving common problems. All who are interested to join are welcome. We look forward to your participation and involvement.
Mailing list: ttf@atlarge-lists.icann.org
To subscribe to the mailing list (or read the archives / manage your subscription) please visit https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ttf
Contact
Staff Support Lead: Mario Aleman
Please email ICANN At-Large Staff at staff@atlarge.icann.org or the current chairs of the TTF: Dev Anand Teelucksingh or Judith Hellerstein directly.
Next meeting: 12 February 2018
Activity
Monthly Reports
August 2017
The 2017-08-07 At-Large Technology Task Force Call discussed the TTF Policy tracking proposal and the ideas behind a Policy Management Process System, an ATLAS II recommendation.
Re: LACRALO mailing list translation tool, work ongoing to see the new tool deployed before ICAN60. Draft slides for a webinar and possible survey being worked on.
June 2017
The TTF had a session at ICANN59, see recording at http://sched.co/B49U and TTF; Presentation:
Members
The members of At-Large Technology Taskforce WG, organized by regional affiliation, are: Region Member Office Dev Anand Teelucksingh Chair Emeritus LACRALO Juan Manuel Rojas LACRALO Lance Hinds Member LACRALO Jose Arce Member LACRALO Carlos Watson APRALO Sivasubramanian M Member APRALO Nirmal Agarwal Member APRALO Fouad Bajwa EURALO Olivier Crepin-Leblond Member NARALO Avri Doria NARALO Gordon Chillcott Member Conference Tools, Accessibility NARALO Bill Thanis Member Dustin Phillips Destiny Tchéhouali AFRALO Titilayo Bolarinwa Member Mathias HOUNGBO AFRALO Wilson Abigaba Member Kolubahzizi Howard Tomslin Samme-Nlar Krishna Seeburn Tracey HindSub-Groups Mailing List Issue Member N/A N/A N/A Member N/A LACRALO Jason Hynds Member N/A LACRALO Ricardo Holmquist Member N/A LACRALO Harold Arcos Member Open Source LACRALO Renata Aquino Ribeiro Member N/A LACRALO Wladimir Davalos S. Member N/A LACRALO Nacer Adamou Saidou Member N/A LACRALO Raitme Citterio Member N/A LACRALO Carlton Samuels Member N/A LACRALO Eduardo Mendez Member N/A LACRALO Kemel Zaidan Member N/A APRALO Gunela Astbrink Member Accessibility N/A N/A Member N/A APRALO Emani Fakaotimanava-Lui Member N/A APRALO Chaitanya Dhareshwar Member N/A APRALO Mahdi Taghizadeh Member N/A APRALO Satish Babu Member Open Source APRALO Narine Khachatryan Member N/A APRALO Anivar A Aravind Member Free and Open Source, Language Technology, GNU/Linux, Android APRALO Muhammad Shabbir Member Accessibility issues APRALO Justine Chew Member Conference Tools N/A EURALO Matthieu Camus Member N/A EURALO Jimmy Schulz Member N/A EURALO Lutz Donnerhacke Member N/A EURALO Sebastien Bachollet Member N/A EURALO Stuart Clark Member N/A EURALO Mikhail Medrish Member N/A EURALO Fotjon Kosta Member N/A EURALO Dina Solveig Jalkanen Member FOSS tools, Linux, Accessibility Member N/A Open Source NARALO Glenn McKnight Member Linux NARALO Judith Hellerstein Chair Accessibility, Remote Participation, Bandwidth, Conference Tools NARALO Member Website NARALO Murray McKercher Member N/A NARALO Alfredo Calderon Member N/A NARALO Member N/A NARALO Adrian Schmidt Member N/A N/A AFRALO Member Open Source, Linux, Bandwidth Issues N/A AFRALO Beran Dondeh Gillen Member Accessibility, Bandwidth Issues, Conference tools AFRALO Seun Ojedeji Member Bandwidth Issues AFRALO Member N/A AFRALO Norbert Komlan Glakpe Member N/A AFRALO Ramanou S. Biaou Member N/A AFRALO Daniel Khauka Nanghaka Member N/A AFRALO Sarah Kiden Member N/A AFRALO Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong Member N/A AFRALO Fred Kwadwo Aazore Member N/A AFRALO Billy Einkamerer Member N/A AFRALO Member N/A AFRALO Member N/A GAC Tracy Hackshaw Member N/A GAC Member N/A GNSO James Gannon Member N/A GNSO Rafik Dammak Member N/A GNSO Johan Helsingius Member N/A kialo Errikos Pitsos Member N/A Jet Enterprises N.Rajesh Kumar Member N/A Samsung Electronics R&D Institute UK Howard Benn Member N/A ? Kumar Raja Member N/A ? Suun Faye Member N/A
Action Items
About
The TTF was established as part of the recommendations coming from the ALAC/At-Large Improvements Project Final Report in June 2012. These recommendations include:
- Under Recommendation 3 "ALS-RALO-ALAC structure to remain"
- 3.1 - Introduce to the ALSes selected information, dissemination, communication and collaboration tools and provide training.
- Under Recommendation 7 "Choice of communication and collaborative tools"
7.1 Review of communication and collaboration needs considered unmet by ALSes and RALOs globally.
- 7.1(a) - Introduce to the ALSes selected information, dissemination, communication and collaboration tools(such as Posterous, Twitter Twibes, mobile-device compatibility) and provide training.
- 7.2 - Review of technologies used by At‐Large and across ICANN that could fill all or some of the 7.1 needs of the ALSes and RALOs
- 7.2(a) - Establish a Technology Task Force (TTF) of community members that will periodically review the appropriateness of available technology, train RALOs/ALSes in new technologies, and possibly staff a help desk.
7.3 - Review of available technologies not already used by At‐Large or elsewhere in ICANN that could fill the 7.1 needs of the ALSes and RALOs.
- 7.4 - Create and conduct implementation plan for training ICANN's IT Support in the 7.3 technologies (and, as needed, in keeping IT Support current in 7.2 technologies).
- 7.5 - Based on At‐Large's choice of the communication and collaboration tools to best fill its needs, make needed recommendations for use, or not, of these tools across ICANN.
- 7.6 - Create and conduct implementation plan for the periodic identification of technologies, either newly introduced to the market or updated, that can better fill the 7.1 needs of the ALSes and RALOs than those technologies currently being used.
