AfRALO Participation Document
Dear All, As i promised on last AfRALO Teleconferences, please find attached my proposed document on AfRALO active participation document,The main objective this document is to list the available AfRALO participation channels and tools ( e.g AfRALO teleconferences, AfRALO mailing list, ..ect ), and set a minimum participation criteria for the participation of AfRALO members in order to encourage an active participation in ICANN policy development processes. This document can be provided also to new African ALS to provide information on how to participate within AfRALO. Attached is the same English document translated to French . Regards, Mohamed -------------------------------------------------------------- French Translation : using google translation -------------------------------------------------------------- Chers tous, Espérons que vous avez fait un bon voyage à Sydney. Comme je l'ai promis à la dernière AfRALO Téléconférences, s'il vous plaît trouver ci-joint mon projet de document sur la participation active AfRALO document L'objectif principal de ce document est de dresser la liste des chaînes disponibles AfRALO participation et des outils (par exemple AfRALO des téléconférences, AfRALO mailing liste, ect ..), et fixer une participation minimale des critères pour la participation des membres AfRALO afin de favoriser une participation active au processus d'élaboration des politiques ICANN. Observe, Mohamed
Hi Mohamed and thank you for the great work. I have been very silent these days due an extremely busy calendar (workwise, family wise and health wise), not very easy to explain but I am surviving! I would suggest to include our idea of providing "YELLOW" cards to warn not very involved ALS (less than 55% participation), "RED" cards to sound more serious about the warning (less than 40% participation) and "GREEN" cards will be allocated to the good achievers (more than 80% participation). What do you think? Best, Fatimata French: Bonjour Mohamed et merci pour l'excellent travail. J'ai ete tres silencieuse ces jours-ci a cause d'un calendrier extremement charge (sur les plans travail, famille et sante), pas tres facile a expliquer mais je survis. Je voudrais suggerer d'inclure notre idee de fournir des cartons "JAUNES" d'avertissement aux ALS qui ne sont pas tres impliquees (moins de 55% de participation), "ROUGE" pour renforcer l'avertissement quand c'est moins de 40% de participation et "VERT" pour encourager les plus performantes (plus de 80% de participation). Qu'en pensez-vous? Meilleurs souhaits, Fatimata On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Mohamed EL Bashir <admin@isoc.sd> wrote:
Dear All,
As i promised on last AfRALO Teleconferences, please find attached my proposed document on AfRALO active participation document,The main objective this document is to list the available AfRALO participation channels and tools ( e.g AfRALO teleconferences, AfRALO mailing list, ..ect ), and set a minimum participation criteria for the participation of AfRALO members in order to encourage an active participation in ICANN policy development processes.
This document can be provided also to new African ALS to provide information on how to participate within AfRALO.
Attached is the same English document translated to French .
Regards, Mohamed -------------------------------------------------------------- French Translation : using google translation -------------------------------------------------------------- Chers tous,
Espérons que vous avez fait un bon voyage à Sydney.
Comme je l'ai promis à la dernière AfRALO Téléconférences, s'il vous plaît trouver ci-joint mon projet de document sur la participation active AfRALO document L'objectif principal de ce document est de dresser la liste des chaînes disponibles AfRALO participation et des outils (par exemple AfRALO des téléconférences, AfRALO mailing liste, ect ..), et fixer une participation minimale des critères pour la participation des membres AfRALO afin de favoriser une participation active au processus d'élaboration des politiques ICANN.
Observe, Mohamed
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Fatimata, i guess the document can be used an awareness document to be given to new ALS to inform they how to participate and what activity is required from them. I happy to implement the cards ideas " GREEN - YELLOW -RED" to track the participation, but this will need a some work from our secretariat and staff to track the teleconference attendances and include this info in our Wiki, this will be very useful .. What others think ? Regards, Mohamed ------------------------- French Translation ------------------------- Fatimata, Je suppose que le document peut être utilisé un document de sensibilisation à donner à nouveau la SLA à informer leur façon de participer et de ce que l'activité est nécessaire de leur part. J'ai plaisir à mettre en oeuvre les cartes d'idées "GREEN - jaune-rouge» pour la participation, mais il aura besoin d'un certain travail de notre personnel de secrétariat et de suivre la téléconférence en présence et d'inclure ces informations dans notre Wiki, ce sera très utile. . Qu'est-ce que les autres pensent? Observe, Mohamed Fatimata Seye Sylla wrote:
Hi Mohamed and thank you for the great work. I have been very silent these days due an extremely busy calendar (workwise, family wise and health wise), not very easy to explain but I am surviving!
I would suggest to include our idea of providing "YELLOW" cards to warn not very involved ALS (less than 55% participation), "RED" cards to sound more serious about the warning (less than 40% participation) and "GREEN" cards will be allocated to the good achievers (more than 80% participation).
What do you think?
Best, Fatimata
French:
Bonjour Mohamed et merci pour l'excellent travail. J'ai ete tres silencieuse ces jours-ci a cause d'un calendrier extremement charge (sur les plans travail, famille et sante), pas tres facile a expliquer mais je survis.
Je voudrais suggerer d'inclure notre idee de fournir des cartons "JAUNES" d'avertissement aux ALS qui ne sont pas tres impliquees (moins de 55% de participation), "ROUGE" pour renforcer l'avertissement quand c'est moins de 40% de participation et "VERT" pour encourager les plus performantes (plus de 80% de participation).
Qu'en pensez-vous?
Meilleurs souhaits, Fatimata
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Mohamed EL Bashir <admin@isoc.sd <mailto:admin@isoc.sd>> wrote:
Dear All,
As i promised on last AfRALO Teleconferences, please find attached my proposed document on AfRALO active participation document,The main objective this document is to list the available AfRALO participation channels and tools ( e.g AfRALO teleconferences, AfRALO mailing list, ..ect ), and set a minimum participation criteria for the participation of AfRALO members in order to encourage an active participation in ICANN policy development processes.
This document can be provided also to new African ALS to provide information on how to participate within AfRALO.
Attached is the same English document translated to French .
Regards, Mohamed -------------------------------------------------------------- French Translation : using google translation -------------------------------------------------------------- Chers tous,
Espérons que vous avez fait un bon voyage à Sydney.
Comme je l'ai promis à la dernière AfRALO Téléconférences, s'il vous plaît trouver ci-joint mon projet de document sur la participation active AfRALO document L'objectif principal de ce document est de dresser la liste des chaînes disponibles AfRALO participation et des outils (par exemple AfRALO des téléconférences, AfRALO mailing liste, ect ..), et fixer une participation minimale des critères pour la participation des membres AfRALO afin de favoriser une participation active au processus d'élaboration des politiques ICANN.
Observe, Mohamed
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-- Fatimata Seye Sylla
Hi Mohamed, This is a very good document. I have also a suggestion: Apart all the listed mechanisms in place now, I would like a volunteer to send another reminder to the list at leat 48 hours before the monthly teleconference. Thanks Yaovi --- En date de : Lun 6.7.09, Mohamed EL Bashir <admin@isoc.sd> a écrit : De: Mohamed EL Bashir <admin@isoc.sd> Objet: [AFRI-Discuss] AfRALO Participation Document À: afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org Date: Lundi 6 Juillet 2009, 20h28 Dear All, As i promised on last AfRALO Teleconferences, please find attached my proposed document on AfRALO active participation document,The main objective this document is to list the available AfRALO participation channels and tools ( e.g AfRALO teleconferences, AfRALO mailing list, ..ect ), and set a minimum participation criteria for the participation of AfRALO members in order to encourage an active participation in ICANN policy development processes.. This document can be provided also to new African ALS to provide information on how to participate within AfRALO. Attached is the same English document translated to French . Regards, Mohamed -------------------------------------------------------------- French Translation : using google translation -------------------------------------------------------------- Chers tous, Espérons que vous avez fait un bon voyage à Sydney. Comme je l'ai promis à la dernière AfRALO Téléconférences, s'il vous plaît trouver ci-joint mon projet de document sur la participation active AfRALO document L'objectif principal de ce document est de dresser la liste des chaînes disponibles AfRALO participation et des outils (par exemple AfRALO des téléconférences, AfRALO mailing liste, ect ..), et fixer une participation minimale des critères pour la participation des membres AfRALO afin de favoriser une participation active au processus d'élaboration des politiques ICANN. Observe, Mohamed -----La pièce jointe associée suit----- _______________________________________________ AFRI-Discuss mailing list AFRI-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/afri-discuss_atlarge-lists.i... Homepage for the region: http://www.afralo.org Posting guidelines to ensure machine translations of emails sent to this list are more accurate: http://www.funredes.org/mistica/english/emec/method_emec/presentation.html#a...
Yaovi, Thanks for volunteering, am gathering the comments raised in the mailing list to include them in the document . we can discuss the mechanisms on how to make this approach work .. Regards, Mohamed Yaovi Atohoun wrote:
Hi Mohamed,
This is a very good document. I have also a suggestion:
Apart all the listed mechanisms in place now, I would like a volunteer to send another reminder to the list at leat 48 hours before the monthly teleconference.
Thanks Yaovi
--- En date de : Lun 6.7.09, Mohamed EL Bashir <admin@isoc.sd> a écrit :
De: Mohamed EL Bashir <admin@isoc.sd> Objet: [AFRI-Discuss] AfRALO Participation Document À: afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org Date: Lundi 6 Juillet 2009, 20h28
Dear All,
As i promised on last AfRALO Teleconferences, please find attached my proposed document on AfRALO active participation document,The main objective this document is to list the available AfRALO participation channels and tools ( e.g AfRALO teleconferences, AfRALO mailing list, ..ect ), and set a minimum participation criteria for the participation of AfRALO members in order to encourage an active participation in ICANN policy development processes..
This document can be provided also to new African ALS to provide information on how to participate within AfRALO.
Attached is the same English document translated to French .
Regards, Mohamed -------------------------------------------------------------- French Translation : using google translation -------------------------------------------------------------- Chers tous,
Espérons que vous avez fait un bon voyage à Sydney.
Comme je l'ai promis à la dernière AfRALO Téléconférences, s'il vous plaît trouver ci-joint mon projet de document sur la participation active AfRALO document L'objectif principal de ce document est de dresser la liste des chaînes disponibles AfRALO participation et des outils (par exemple AfRALO des téléconférences, AfRALO mailing liste, ect ..), et fixer une participation minimale des critères pour la participation des membres AfRALO afin de favoriser une participation active au processus d'élaboration des politiques ICANN.
Observe, Mohamed
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Dear Mohammed and others, On 06 Jul 2009, at 8:28 PM, Mohamed EL Bashir wrote:
As i promised on last AfRALO Teleconferences, please find attached my proposed document on AfRALO active participation document,The main objective this document is to list the available AfRALO participation channels and tools ( e.g AfRALO teleconferences, AfRALO mailing list, ..ect ), and set a minimum participation criteria for the participation of AfRALO members in order to encourage an active participation in ICANN policy development processes.
This is very kind of you and I agree with others comments that it is a great effort. Thank you! The following are my personal comments and do not necessarily reflect the views of ISOC-ZA.
Minimum Participation: ALS are encouraged to participate in AfRALO month teleconference, and maintain minimum of 50% of AfRALO yearly Teleconference “12 teleconference” ( 6 teleconference a year ). Any ALS will be participate in less than 50% of the teleconferences will be considered un-active member.
I have participated in one teleconference and attempted to participate in two others. I am sorry that I found it very frustrating, it is challenging to deal with the poor telecommunications infrastructure in Africa. I found that combined with the challenge of real time translation it is not workable for me. At this stage I cannot find another volunteer who will do this. I suggest that another format must be used if you want to drive teleconference participation.
Minimum Participation: it’s not hard measure mailing list postings but members are required to participate and post a in a minimum 1 discussed topic in a given month.
I have been through the mailing list and I'm not certain that there are sufficient topics relevant to African development to insist on this. In reality there are possibly only a couple of issues that ICANN touches on that really effect African users. I am not certain if this is one I will support although I am possibly missing the point.
Minimum Participation: Online participation in wikis can differ from a member to another member, but AfRALO members should minimally contribute to one Wiki topic at a given month.
Similar to mailing list.
Minimum Participation: African ALS are encouraged to participate in AfRALO GM .
This is a generic requirement and probably the one that I most agree with although I suggest some minor changes. - African ALS are required to vote in every AFRalo decision ALSs are consulted on and require a vote (including appointment of new ALAC members, policy decisions, polls, etc.) Should any ALS not vote on any three consecutive voting opportunities they are removed as an ALS (there will need to be various warnings should there be a vote and this will need to be added to the bylaws if it is to hold any weight). If there is any further participation requirement I would add: - African ALS are required to inform all their members of AfRALO activities and opportunities to participate, as well as any ICANN activities that may directly effect them. - African ALS are required to initiate and participate in any discussion that directly relates to African Internet Users. Please feel free to flame me :) warm regards to you all, Alan
hi Alan, I agree with your points and think it not useful that African RALOs are held to astandard of participation that no one else in the internet policy making is subject to (that I am aware of anyway). apologies for the top posting. regards, McTim On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Alan Levin<alan@futureperfect.co.za> wrote:
Dear Mohammed and others,
On 06 Jul 2009, at 8:28 PM, Mohamed EL Bashir wrote:
As i promised on last AfRALO Teleconferences, please find attached my proposed document on AfRALO active participation document,The main objective this document is to list the available AfRALO participation channels and tools ( e.g AfRALO teleconferences, AfRALO mailing list, ..ect ), and set a minimum participation criteria for the participation of AfRALO members in order to encourage an active participation in ICANN policy development processes.
This is very kind of you and I agree with others comments that it is a great effort. Thank you!
The following are my personal comments and do not necessarily reflect the views of ISOC-ZA.
Minimum Participation: ALS are encouraged to participate in AfRALO month teleconference, and maintain minimum of 50% of AfRALO yearly Teleconference “12 teleconference” ( 6 teleconference a year ). Any ALS will be participate in less than 50% of the teleconferences will be considered un-active member.
I have participated in one teleconference and attempted to participate in two others. I am sorry that I found it very frustrating, it is challenging to deal with the poor telecommunications infrastructure in Africa. I found that combined with the challenge of real time translation it is not workable for me. At this stage I cannot find another volunteer who will do this. I suggest that another format must be used if you want to drive teleconference participation.
Minimum Participation: it’s not hard measure mailing list postings but members are required to participate and post a in a minimum 1 discussed topic in a given month.
I have been through the mailing list and I'm not certain that there are sufficient topics relevant to African development to insist on this. In reality there are possibly only a couple of issues that ICANN touches on that really effect African users. I am not certain if this is one I will support although I am possibly missing the point.
Minimum Participation: Online participation in wikis can differ from a member to another member, but AfRALO members should minimally contribute to one Wiki topic at a given month.
Similar to mailing list.
Minimum Participation: African ALS are encouraged to participate in AfRALO GM .
This is a generic requirement and probably the one that I most agree with although I suggest some minor changes.
- African ALS are required to vote in every AFRalo decision ALSs are consulted on and require a vote (including appointment of new ALAC members, policy decisions, polls, etc.) Should any ALS not vote on any three consecutive voting opportunities they are removed as an ALS (there will need to be various warnings should there be a vote and this will need to be added to the bylaws if it is to hold any weight).
If there is any further participation requirement I would add: - African ALS are required to inform all their members of AfRALO activities and opportunities to participate, as well as any ICANN activities that may directly effect them. - African ALS are required to initiate and participate in any discussion that directly relates to African Internet Users.
Please feel free to flame me :)
warm regards to you all,
Alan
McTim, no body is enforcing any things on AfRALO, this is an internal RALO discussion to enhance our participation and have a meaningful outcomes of our participation. we have many other issues in Africa and many of the African ALS are working on it but that's dose not mean we should not activley participant and bring an African prospective to internet policy making . Regards, Mohamed McTim wrote:
hi Alan,
I agree with your points and think it not useful that African RALOs are held to astandard of participation that no one else in the internet policy making is subject to (that I am aware of anyway).
apologies for the top posting.
regards,
McTim
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Alan Levin<alan@futureperfect.co.za> wrote:
Dear Mohammed and others,
On 06 Jul 2009, at 8:28 PM, Mohamed EL Bashir wrote:
As i promised on last AfRALO Teleconferences, please find attached my proposed document on AfRALO active participation document,The main objective this document is to list the available AfRALO participation channels and tools ( e.g AfRALO teleconferences, AfRALO mailing list, ..ect ), and set a minimum participation criteria for the participation of AfRALO members in order to encourage an active participation in ICANN policy development processes.
This is very kind of you and I agree with others comments that it is a great effort. Thank you!
The following are my personal comments and do not necessarily reflect the views of ISOC-ZA.
Minimum Participation: ALS are encouraged to participate in AfRALO month teleconference, and maintain minimum of 50% of AfRALO yearly Teleconference “12 teleconference” ( 6 teleconference a year ). Any ALS will be participate in less than 50% of the teleconferences will be considered un-active member.
I have participated in one teleconference and attempted to participate in two others. I am sorry that I found it very frustrating, it is challenging to deal with the poor telecommunications infrastructure in Africa. I found that combined with the challenge of real time translation it is not workable for me. At this stage I cannot find another volunteer who will do this. I suggest that another format must be used if you want to drive teleconference participation.
Minimum Participation: it’s not hard measure mailing list postings but members are required to participate and post a in a minimum 1 discussed topic in a given month.
I have been through the mailing list and I'm not certain that there are sufficient topics relevant to African development to insist on this. In reality there are possibly only a couple of issues that ICANN touches on that really effect African users. I am not certain if this is one I will support although I am possibly missing the point.
Minimum Participation: Online participation in wikis can differ from a member to another member, but AfRALO members should minimally contribute to one Wiki topic at a given month.
Similar to mailing list.
Minimum Participation: African ALS are encouraged to participate in AfRALO GM .
This is a generic requirement and probably the one that I most agree with although I suggest some minor changes.
- African ALS are required to vote in every AFRalo decision ALSs are consulted on and require a vote (including appointment of new ALAC members, policy decisions, polls, etc.) Should any ALS not vote on any three consecutive voting opportunities they are removed as an ALS (there will need to be various warnings should there be a vote and this will need to be added to the bylaws if it is to hold any weight).
If there is any further participation requirement I would add: - African ALS are required to inform all their members of AfRALO activities and opportunities to participate, as well as any ICANN activities that may directly effect them. - African ALS are required to initiate and participate in any discussion that directly relates to African Internet Users.
Please feel free to flame me :)
warm regards to you all,
Alan
Alan, I do agree with some of your point and disagree with others, find bellow my comments : * The main intention is to first provide info on the participation tools for new African ALS, second is to encourage participation and have a benchmarking . * it seems the lack of activity is the reason for losing your interest in participation " as you stated", how can we encourage this participation so active and knowledgeable professional like you can contribute " your suggestions will be useful" . * I do agree with you that most of the ICANN policy topics are not of a prioritry for our region, we have more urgent issues now in terms of internet access, coverage and prices. am sure in South Africa, one of the most advanced technically-economic African countries you facing important internt user's issue which is not in ICANN area . Said that, we should not stop our participation and contributions to ICANN, someone like yourself and others could bring an African prospective when ICANN is discuss issues that will effect African Domain owners in the gTLD space . we need to extend this participation to more members-ALS not just few active persons . * "If there is any further participation requirement I would add: - African ALS are required to inform all their members of AfRALO activities and opportunities to participate, as well as any ICANN activities that may directly effect them. - African ALS are required to initiate and participate in any discussion that directly relates to African Internet Users. " I agree with your suggestions .. this is critical and special an active secretariat empowered with translation and simplifed documents prepared by ICANN specifically for At-Large . * The mailing list could be used as a forum to discuss African Internet user's issue, it dose not have to be only ICANN policy topics . Regards, Mohamed Alan Levin wrote:
Dear Mohammed and others,
On 06 Jul 2009, at 8:28 PM, Mohamed EL Bashir wrote:
As i promised on last AfRALO Teleconferences, please find attached my proposed document on AfRALO active participation document,The main objective this document is to list the available AfRALO participation channels and tools ( e.g AfRALO teleconferences, AfRALO mailing list, ..ect ), and set a minimum participation criteria for the participation of AfRALO members in order to encourage an active participation in ICANN policy development processes.
This is very kind of you and I agree with others comments that it is a great effort. Thank you!
The following are my personal comments and do not necessarily reflect the views of ISOC-ZA.
Minimum Participation: ALS are encouraged to participate in AfRALO month teleconference, and maintain minimum of 50% of AfRALO yearly Teleconference “12 teleconference” ( 6 teleconference a year ). Any ALS will be participate in less than 50% of the teleconferences will be considered un-active member.
I have participated in one teleconference and attempted to participate in two others. I am sorry that I found it very frustrating, it is challenging to deal with the poor telecommunications infrastructure in Africa. I found that combined with the challenge of real time translation it is not workable for me. At this stage I cannot find another volunteer who will do this. I suggest that another format must be used if you want to drive teleconference participation.
Minimum Participation: it’s not hard measure mailing list postings but members are required to participate and post a in a minimum 1 discussed topic in a given month.
I have been through the mailing list and I'm not certain that there are sufficient topics relevant to African development to insist on this. In reality there are possibly only a couple of issues that ICANN touches on that really effect African users. I am not certain if this is one I will support although I am possibly missing the point.
Minimum Participation: Online participation in wikis can differ from a member to another member, but AfRALO members should minimally contribute to one Wiki topic at a given month.
Similar to mailing list.
Minimum Participation: African ALS are encouraged to participate in AfRALO GM .
This is a generic requirement and probably the one that I most agree with although I suggest some minor changes.
- African ALS are required to vote in every AFRalo decision ALSs are consulted on and require a vote (including appointment of new ALAC members, policy decisions, polls, etc.) Should any ALS not vote on any three consecutive voting opportunities they are removed as an ALS (there will need to be various warnings should there be a vote and this will need to be added to the bylaws if it is to hold any weight).
If there is any further participation requirement I would add: - African ALS are required to inform all their members of AfRALO activities and opportunities to participate, as well as any ICANN activities that may directly effect them. - African ALS are required to initiate and participate in any discussion that directly relates to African Internet Users.
Please feel free to flame me :)
warm regards to you all,
Alan
participants (5)
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Alan Levin -
Fatimata Seye Sylla -
McTim -
Mohamed EL Bashir -
Yaovi Atohoun