This Workspace has been created to assist the ALAC/At-Large community in developing FY21 Additional Budget Request (ABR) proposals. The ALAC Finance and Budget Sub-committee (FBSC) will review all proposals submitted and will agree on which to submit to ICANN on behalf of the ALAC.
FY21 ALAC/ALT Plus Criteria for Additional Budget Requests: (TBC)
- In the post-ATLAS III environment, proposals should include activities that will make the entire At-Large community more effective in policy advice development.
- 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 go through the CROP program or as a part of a larger ALAC request for RALO Discretionary Funding.
- RALO requests should be strategic and in line with their RALO's strategic outreach plans and must be endorsed by their RALO prior to being submitted for consideration by the FBSC.
- Priority will also only be given to those who have provided draft reports as requested as part of the FY20 ABR approval language. Final reports must be submitted by the end of FY21. For Details see: At-Large FY20 Additional Budget Request Implementation Workspace .
- 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.
Important Documents and Resources from ICANN Finance:
- FY21 Community Additional Budget Requests Process description and timeline FY21 Community Additional Budget Request Process
- Principles that govern ICANN’s request assessment work Principles of SO-AC Additional Budget Requests
- FY21 template request form FY21 Community Requests Template
FY21 Additional Budget Request Timeline
The timeline and deliverables for the process are as follows:
Timeline | Start | End | Status |
Kick off and Submission period | 11/11/2019 | 31/01/2020 | In Progress |
FBSC representatives and/or staff to send notice of opening of FY21 Additional Budget Request (ABR) process to RALOs | 02/12/2019 | 02/12/2019 | Completed |
RALOs to review any ALS request or complete a template on behalf of the RALO and send requests to | 16/12/2019 | 06/01/2020 - extended to 08/01/2020 at 12:00 UTC. | |
Discussion of Proposals with Finance and Policy Staff and FBSC | 06/01/2020 | 10/01/2020 | |
Revised proposals to be sent to the FBSC for final review. | 13/01/2020 | 17/01/2020 | |
The ALAC to review the proposed At-Large FY21 ABRs during their monthly call | 21/01/2020 | 21/01/2020 | |
The FBSC to review all the RALO requests. | 22/01/2020 | 24/01/2020 | |
Submissions Due – send to planning@icann.org (IMPORTANT: At-Large staff will send all At-Large requests to Planning@icann.org) | 31/01/2020 | 31/01/2020 | |
Preliminary review of requests by ICANN.org | 03/02/2020 | 06/03/2020 | |
SO/AC consultations at ICANN 67(by request, during Constituents’ Day) | 07/03/2020 | 12/03/2020 | |
Final assessments and recommendations by ICANN.org | 16/03/2019 | 03/04/2019 | |
ICANN Board Finance Committee Review and recommendation for approval to the Board | 13/04/2019 | 17/04/2019 | |
ICANN Board review and approval at May Board meeting | 20/04/2019 | 12/05/2019 |
ALAC:
Request | Person or Group Submitting | Title of Proposal | Request Number | Description | Comments by ICANN Staff Regarding Possible Collaboration | FBSC Notes and Decision | Status |
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ALAC | ALAC/At-Large Plus | Access by RALOs for Funding of Local Engagement Activities | Request: $6k of RALO Discretionary Funding for each of the five RALOs for a total of $30k. | Approve to continue with request at $30k | |||
ALAC | ALAC on behalf of Judith Hellerstein | Real-time Captioning RTT of Zoom Meetings in English and Spanish | Seeking 12 hours of RTT services in English and 6 hours of RTT services in Spanish. The Spanish RTT will be off the Spanish interpretation that is already provided | Approve to submit | |||
ALAC | ALAC on behalf of Dev Anand Teelucksingh and Glenn McKnight | The support request is for the setup and maintenance of a content management system (CMS) for ICANN At-Large Community to share up to date news and updates about ICANN At-Large Community and its activities in a manner that
Currently a great deal of At-Large updates are done
The proposed content management system would reduce such manual duplication by writing one post about At-Large news and updates and having that content automatically shared via email to At-Large mailing lists, to social media, be discoverable via search engines, accessible on mobile devices. At-Large members can have headlines from the At-Large Content Management System embedded on their websites. Write once, distribute everywhere. At-Large Staff can be editors and At-Large Community members can submit posts about their ICANN activities in their language. The proposed At-Large Community CMS is Wordpress, a popular CMS with relatively minimal hosting requirements and with a variety of plugins and themes. The funding request is to host this CMS outside of ICANN’s hosting so that ICANN’s security is maintained by not having cross-sharing of resources within ICANN.org. The anticipated direct costs are
In addition, Amazon Services offers additional services such as :
As an experiment, some members of the O&E developed a prototype website https://icannatlarge.blog/ showing some of these concepts in action. | Approve to submit; set up call with Mark Segall and Jana J. | ||||
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RALOs:
RALO Requesting | Person or Group Submitting | Title of Proposal | Request Number | Description | Comments by ICANN Staff Regarding Possible Collaboration | FBSC Notes and Decision | Status |
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AFRALO | AFRALO/Seun Ojedeji (AFRALO Chair) | A capacity Building program for the AFRALO ATLAS III ambassadors to be held a the 2021 AIS. It will be a 3 days’ program addressing Policy hot topics for the 2 first days and the third day will be dedicated to “how to draft a policy advice” practical exercise. The 19 ATLAS III selected AFRALO participants + the 3 AFRALO leaders + the 3 AFRALO ALAC Members (25) Interpretation needed for the 3 days program. Travel support needed for the 24 persons (18 ATLAS III Selected participants + 3 AFRALO Leaders + 3 AFRALO ALAC Members) | Significant travel support being requested. Would benefit from incorporation of ICANN Learn or Webinar training. | Work with AFRALO regional leadership on making this training more cost-effective. | |||
AFRALO | AFRALO/Seun Ojedeji (AFRALO Chair) Written by the Technology Task Force-Vice Chair Abdulkarim Oloyede | Adding of a Transbot for French Language Interpretation to the AFRALO Mailing List | Adapting the LACRALO Translation tool called Transbot to add French as an additional Language Amount of support requested: $15k | Approve | |||
AFRALO | ISOC-NG (Caleb Ogundele) | Nigerian School On Internet Governance (NSIG) | While there are regional and continental Schools on Internet Governance within Africa, Nigeria only held the first one in July 2019. This is beginning to make a change in the limited numbers of Nigerians participating in Internet Governance. The Nigerian School on Internet Governance gives Nigerians room to learn more about Internet Governance and subsequently continue to participate in the IG space both locally and regionally. The Nigerian School on Internet Governance was initiated within the Internet Society Nigerian Chapter for the benefit of members of the Nigerian Internet community. The main objective of the Nigeria School of Internet Governance is to train new leaders of opinion in all aspects related to Internet Governance, from a global perspective and with focus on the Nigeria perspective. The program helps interested students, academic as well as individuals working in the private sector as well as in government to get comprehensive and structured knowledge on Internet governance. To better understand the complexity related to Internet governance and its importance in the future of the Internet. The mission of the Nigeria School of Internet Governance is to:
It will consist of 15 sessions covering IG topics. The 2nd NSIG is in its second year and the only national / NRI School of Internet Governance in Nigeria aside the WASIG in the region. There will be opportunities for Q&A, coffee breaks (morning and afternoon), lunch and social events during the 4 day school. Timing: The NSIG will be held in July, 2020 . Specific date is TBD (Subject to the availability / presence of the Federal Minister of Communication and Digital Economy) who is expected to close the Nigerian Internet Governance forum. Request: We are requesting travel, lodging and per diem support for a minimum of 6 speakers well rooted in the ICANN/ ATLARGE process which will augment the pool of local speakers. We also request for travel support fellowship for students and next generation leaders to attend and participate actively in the school. Demographics: There will be at least sixty (60) participants in the School of Internet Governance. This will include 30 members from Internet Society (ISOC) Nigeria chapter who will be given fellowships to attend and interested stakeholders from CSOs to regulator/government, academia, technical community distributed evenly. Potential Sponsorship: $5k | Work with regional leaders to figure out how the SIG requests can be incorporated into the African SIG. | |||
AFRALO | Raymond Selorm Mamattah (At-Large Ambassador) | Ghana School on Internet Governance (GhanaSIG) | Ghana does not have an Internet Governance School, just as it is done in some other countries. Hence, we have registered the Ghana School on Internet Governance (GhanaSIG). With the GhanaSIG we intend to select between 20 and 50 (depending on the total funding we get) participants to be trained for 3 of days on internet governance related issues. They will become fellows of the school after completing. After the event the participants will be equipped to have better understanding of the internet governance ecosystem and also enable them to perform better in their engagements and outreach programs. This idea actually started after our ATLAS III training in Montreal Canada. I shared the idea with my peers here in Ghana who are mostly ICANN fellows and they have bought into the idea. In this regard, we registered a foundation that is called E-Governance and Internet Governance Foundation for Africa (EGIGFA). The foundation will actually be the organizer for the Ghana Internet Governance School (GhanaSIG). We intend to bring on board other likeminded local entities. Our domain names www.ghanasig.org and www.egigfa.org have also being registered. The websites are under construction. I am putting this request for funding on behalf of the foundation in my capacity as an At Large Ambassador (Post ATLAS III) and the President of the foundation. We actually have plans for other outreach events, but for now, this is the flagship of all the events. We hope we will be given the funding support to kick start the first ever internet school in Ghana which will become an annual event. Timing: This will be a recurring event, which will happen once a year. The tentative date will be in August 2020. Request: We estimate about 3 people (estimated $1,500 per person) for a total of $4,500. Demographics: The geographical location is Ghana. The target audience are people who want to know more about internet governance issues and after which they will get more involved. We are targeting the governmental and private workers. We are also targeting individuals who have interest to know more about internet governance and how they can make impacts. Potential Sponsorship: We wish to request any support we can get so we can get the remaining local funding support here in Ghana from other entities. | Work with regional leaders to figure out how the SIG requests can be incorporated into the African SIG. | |||
AFRALO | CAPDA (Michel TCHONANG LINZE) | DIGITAL OPPORTUNITIES: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR SUSTAINABLE EMERGENCE IN OUR COUNTRIES | Symposium and training (AFRICA 2020 ICT Symposium) The growth of digital technology is already producing opportunities that would have been unthinkable just a few decades ago. The effects of this revolution are observed in the ways of life, work, the ways of conceiving leisure, interactions in societal groups, relationships to the worlds and mobility ... A wealth of opportunities emanate from this transformation: energized economies, great advances in education, training, health, enhanced safety and security, greater individual empowerment and optimal means of organizing homes and cities. Because the symposium is conceived as a framework for exchanges and sharing of ideas, seven domains have been selected to scrutinize the theme: 1. Digital sovereignty2. Smart cities3. Training, employment and innovation4. SMEs, handicrafts and incubator5. Protection of children and women online6. Partnerships between actors in the countries7. Digital rights/Internet rights (laws). Timing: From 20th to 24th July 2020 Request: 30 participants 8 resource persons Demographics: Yaounde – Cameroun
Sponsorship: $15,000 | Significant travel support being requested. Would benefit from incorporation of ICANN Learn or Webinar training. | No. Too much travel. | ||
EURALO | Sebastien Bachollet (Euralo Chair) | Youth involvement in At-Large work | ABR 1 | Following ATLAS III involvement of some youths in each RALO. In complement of the work done by NextGen & Fellowship programs. Following the need to have a longer-term engagement of youths in RALOs/At-Large activities. Adding 3 slots for young to participate to ICANN meetings One for the region of the meeting and 2 additional FY 2021 Hamburg (AGM) EU - APAC - LAC Cancun (CF) LAC - NA - EU The Hague (PF) EU - APAC - NA Request Number Budget: 30k$ | Move to ALAC; Develop At-Large wide strategy; put in template. | ||
EURALO | Sebastien Bachollet (Euralo Chair) | IGF Global (2020 in Poland) specific budget | ABR 2 | 2017 GVA - 2018 PAR - 2019 BER - 2020 Katowice IGF Global is organized for the 4th years in a row in EU Each year EURALO is using one on his crop slot to participate and organize the presence of At-Large IGF Global is organized for the 1st time in Eastern Europe It is an opportunity for A-Large to be more involved in this region (covering both EU and AP) As ICANN is now very much organized around 3 pillars: Board - Org - Comm ICANN budget for IGF global must be equal for the 3 groups: Board - Org - Comm At-Large delegation proposal for IGF Global in Poland (Katowice 2020) Chair of ALAC Chair of Euralo Chair of O&E + 5 Co-Chairs of E&O Request Number 3 or 8 people 20K$ to 40k$ | Move to ALAC; | ||
EURALO | Sebastien Bachollet (Euralo Chair) | Youth IGF hubs | ABR 3 | Description As IGF Global is organized for the 1st time in Eastern Europe It is an opportunity for A-Large to be more involved in this region (covering both EU and AP) The requested budget will help to support better engagement of At-Large in Youth IGF activities in few (2 to 4) countries of the region (both Eastern Europe and Western Asia). The goal is to support Annual Youth IGF meeting and more regular activity like monthly (?)) meetings of active youth with key global speakers from At-Large and ICANN Request Number 20K$ to 40k$ | |||
EURALO | Sebastien Bachollet (Euralo Chair) | Training for EURALO ALSes (At EURALO GA in FY21) | ABR 4 | Prior to EURALO f2f General Assembly that will be held in FY21, a training will be organized for all EURALO ALS representatives similar to what was held during ATLAS III. As we had a small number of Euralo participants to ATLAS III, we would like to organize a targeted training on policy involvement for each ALS rep + some members of Euralo IUA (who will be at the GA). Request Number 20K$ to 40k$ | Approve /remove funding numbers | ||
LACRALO | Adrian Carballo | LACRALO Academy at the LARALO General Assembly scheduled to take place during ICANN70 in Cancun. | We will carry out Training activities on topics that represent milestones in the process of Evolution of the Multistakeholder Model within ICANN and Update of Policy Issues within the LACRALO Directory. Fortunately, part of the LACRALO Board of Directors actively participated in ATLAS III, which allows us to ensure an application of what has been learned and an evolution of the process. Our proposal seeks to promote greater participation from countries such as Nicaragua, which has been more actively incorporated shortly before ATLAS III. As part of our regional strategy to promote the participation of countries that are not yet represented in LACRALO, our activity focuses on creating the Regional Strategy, for Five (5) years, that allows us to engage more members with active and informed participation . We want to create an Information Bulletin which allows us to give an institutional voice to the Organization Regional and globally promote the most important activities and information of the Organizations of Users (ALSs) of the Region. Type of Training: Education/training - Capacity Building / Policy Discussion / Outreach Deliverables:
SME: David Plumb Travel Support: For any ATLAS III participant who is not funded for the LACRALO General Assembly. | Approve/remove funding numbers | |||
NARALO | Dustin Loup (ISOC DC) | North American School of Internet Governance | To organize and deliver the third NORTH AMERICAN SCHOOL OF INTERNET GOVERNANCE (NASIG). This would be a two-day capacity building event to provide in-depth knowledge of Internet Governance (IG) issues to approximately 40 individuals, with many from ATLARGE. NASIG 2020 is our third consecutive year and the only School of Internet Governance in North America. Past NASIGs have proven to be successful and well attended, with 28 students in 2018 and 50 students in 2019. NASIG 2020 will consist of 10-15 sessions covering the most pressing IG topics, many of which will align with the strategic objectives and goals identified in ICANN’s Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2021-2025, such as the IANA functions, Universal Acceptance, cybersecurity, the multistakeholder model, ICANN’s role in Internet Governance, and much more. These sessions will be run by community leaders, including many of those actively involved in ICANN. We will seek to bring in students from all across North America and will also seek to take advantage of the high level of interest in Washington, DC. This includes policymakers, tech policy staff for civil society and industry, students from the many universities in the area. By bringing in a wide variety of stakeholders for this educational program, we are contributing to a healthy Internet governance ecosystem, by making sure that the people who have an interest in IG in North America are well-informed, which will lead to better results for the Internet. We are requesting $10,000 to be put toward venue costs, catering, and tech support for livestreaming and captioning. Based on previous experience organizing events in Washington, DC we expect the costs of each to be in line with the following estimates: Venue Rental - $5000 Catering - $6000 Livestream and Captioning - $4000 |