Hi, Everyone. Matt has created a wiki for the development of an ALAC statement on the ICANN Consolidated Meetings Strategy Proposal - https://community.icann.org/x/_5MoAg. Please contribute your thoughts and ideas there on this matter so that the input is trackable and staff can follow-up quickly. Best regards, Rinalia ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rinalia Abdul Rahim <rinalia.abdulrahim@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:48 AM Subject: Fwd: ICANN News Alert -- ICANN Consolidated Meetings Strategy Proposal To: ALAC Working List <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> This issue will hit some aspiring developing countries hard and affect diversity. I think the ALAC needs to respond to this. It is difficult to argue against the facilities requirement with an increasingly growing ICANN meeting size, but the least that they should do is continuously and progressively identify newly emerging sites in developing countries that meet the criteria so that the pool of potential sites grows in support of diversity. I look forward to hear the opinion of others, especially on the regional rotation proposal contained in the document (ie., for the period between 2014-2016 first meeting of the year in 2 cities in Asia Pacific, second meeting in 2 cities in Europe and third meeting rotated among other regions). Best regards, Rinalia Abdul Rahim sent via galaxy tab ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "ICANN News Alert" <communications@icann.org> Date: 3 Oct 2012 08:22 Subject: ICANN News Alert -- ICANN Consolidated Meetings Strategy Proposal To: <rinalia.abdulrahim@gmail.com> ICANN News Alert http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-02oct12-en.htm ____________________________________ ICANN Consolidated Meetings Strategy Proposal 2 October 2012 Comment Period Opens on 2 October 2012 Categories/Tags: * Policy Processes * Transparency/Accountability * Reviews/Improvements * Participation * Events/Conferences * Operations/Finances Purpose (Brief): The ICANN meeting operations department is submitting for public comment a proposal on a Consolidated Meetings Strategy for ICANN Public Meetings. The purpose of this document is to advise the ICANN community of the issues surrounding the current process for selecting ICANN Public Meeting locations, and to propose an alternate method of doing so. Public Comment Box Link: http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/meetings-proposal-2012-02oct12-e... ____________________________________ This message was sent to rinalia.abdulrahim@gmail.com from: ICANN | 12025 Waterfront Drive Suite 300 | Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536 Manage Your Subscription: http://app.icontact.com/icp/mmail-mprofile.pl?r=20657474&l=6333&s=R4TD&m=894...