December 2008 - APAC-Discuss

Agenda for December meeting on 23/12/2008
by Pavan Budhrani Jan. 4, 2009

Jan. 4, 2009

Dear all, These are the agenda items for our meeting on the *23rd of DECEMBER 2008.*any comments, do send it back to me by the 19th of December, Thanks. Action Items update from last meeting Discuss start times and Duration of future meetings for 2009. Hong Update on IGF meeting in Hyderabad Les PI Outreach update. Thu Vietnam Outreach update ALAC update - Issues, new consultations etc . Roles and Responsibilities discussion. Vice Chair Elections Pavan Budhrani Communications Manager, DotAsia Organisation

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Apologies
by leslie.allinson＠gmail.com Dec. 24, 2008

Dec. 24, 2008

All Just connected for teleconference and discovered it was yesterday and not today. Sincere apologies for missing the teleconference. :( Regards Les

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Appointment of interim Vice Chairs
by Karaitana Taiuru Dec. 23, 2008

Dec. 23, 2008

Dear colleagues, We would like to appoint 2 Interim Vice Chairs prior to January 19 2009 with the intention that either a vote will occur to elect the 2 vice chairs, or if only 2 nominees are made then an appointment for the interim positions will be made on the 19th. The thinking behind this is that we currently have no Vice Chair, I am the interim Chair and that the 2 Vice Chairs and Chair and Secretary positions will under go a formal election process during the General Summit in March in Mexico. APRALO have gone through many months of instability, no leadership, change and orientation in the executive area leading to massive delays in development. It is hoped that implementing an interim executive will minimise further disruption. Pavan our current Secretary (whom does a magnificent job) intends to seek re election in March. Pavan and I work well as a team and have made some major operational adjustments for the benefit of APRALO and to the satisfaction of our regular attendees. Therefore I also will seek nomination and election as Chair next year. With this thought and the fact we are all interim, we would like to operate a full interim executive that we can trial out for a few months prior to an official election. The intention is that by election time you should be able to vote with an educated mind on the effectiveness/ineffectiveness of the Interim executive. We currently have one nomination for an Interim Chair position. Les from the Pacific Islands which would make the interim executive representative in Oceania/Pacific/Asia(HK). Please feel free to chat with me about this or send your suggestions to the list before January 19 UTC 12:00 2008. Merry and safe Christmas to you all and to your families. Karaitiana Taiuru

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Why excluded the AP Internet user community from the planning of Open Dialogue on Multilingualism?
by Hong Xue Dec. 3, 2008

Dec. 3, 2008

Dear IGF Secretariat, Please refer to the following email from you regarding inclusion of the APRALO's proposed workshop in the Main Session on "Multilingualism". APRALO, in the belief that multilingualism is a critically important issue for the individual Internet users in Asis-Pacific Region, expressed her willingness to merge with the other stakholders' proposals to create a super Main Session Workshop. Since you confirmed that APRALO would be one of the co-organizers of the captioned Main Session in August, the APRALO's representatives, Hong Xue and other colleagues, have been working diligently with the other co-organizers. Since June 2008, IGF workshop planning has been discussed at every monthly meeting of APRALO. An APRALO IGF Planning Chronicles can be seen from her website at https://st.icann.org/asiapac/index.cgi?planning_for_igf_2008. The APRALO notes that your appointed Chair on Multilingualism Panel, Mr. Patrik Fältström, has been very successfully engaging all the co-organizers from the different stakeholders (ICANN, UNESCO, APRALO, etc.) to do the planning work. He created the mailing list on multilingualism that involves all the relevant parties, including APRALO. On behalf of the APRALO, Hong, since September 2008, has been working closely with Patrik and others on document drafting, program development and other arrangement. She attende all the face-to-face meetings in Geneva, Cairo and Hyderabad and joined the discussions on the list. APRALO has always been a responsible and responsive stakeholder and organizer of the Main Session. Surprisingly, when the APRALO representative, Hong, attended the pre-meeting for the Open Dialogue following the Main Sessions on Multilingualism and Access on December 3, she was specifically excluded by Mr. Adam Peak, whom we heard is representing the IGF Secretariat. Mr. Peak's explanation that it was supposed to be a working session without any irrelevant persons. However, the pre-meeting message was circulated in the multilingual list and it should be interpreted as a meeting for all co-organizers. APRALO is relevant indeed. Why APRALO was the one that was excluded? We believe we deserve an answer here. We hope the secretariat could be consistent with the WSIS Principles on multistakeholdership. As an UN event held in Asia, the participation of the Asia Internet user community is important. We regret that the users who are genuinly willing to contribute to IGF process are deprived of such opportunity. Finally, we respectfully request the IGF secretariat to send an answer to APRALO list at <apac-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org>, which is open to any individual Internet users in AP region and subscribed to the list. The message is being copied to the Chair of ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee, Ms Cheryl Langdon-Orr, who is another APRALO representative on the IGF planning. Cordially Hong Xue APRALO On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:43 PM, IGF <IGF(a)unog.ch> wrote: > > Dear Mr. Xue, > > You have submitted a proposal for a workshop entitled 'An Asian Perspective > on Internationalization' for the IGF Hyderabad Meeting. As you may have > noted when reading the last Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) Meeting > and Program Outline, we plan to introduce new type of workshops into the > programme of the Hyderabad Meeting called 'Main Session Workshops'. > > The main session workshops will be held in the main meeting hall and > benefit from being Web cast (video and audio). They will also have real-time > transcription and thus be part of the verbatim written record of the > meeting. In addition, the main session workshops will have interpretation > into all six UN languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and > Spanish). The main session workshops will be co-organized with and overseen > by the MAG and supported/facilitated by the IGF Secretariat. > > The main session workshops will focus on the main themes described in the > program paper. We have identified your proposed workshop as a potential > component for one of the main session workshops and therefore offer you an > opportunity to pool resources with other workshop proponents and join the > main session workshop under the ''Multilingualism' 'sub-theme under the > main heading '' Reaching the Next Billion'' . However your workshop would > not retain its original identity if it is merged into a main session > workshop. > > Right now we are also in the process of approaching other workshop > proponents with the same request. Please find attached what we think are > related workshops as candidates for merging into a main session workshop. > This list is not final and conclusive. You can view our website for more > information on the workshops > http://www.intgovforum.org/workshops_08/wrkshplist.php > > However you are free to maintain your original workshop proposals. Please > note that at this stage we cannot confirm whether we will have available > slots, as the request for workshops exceeds the time and space available. > Therefore we are encouraging mergers of workshops with similar proposals > (and this independently from setting up the main session workshops.) > > Please let us know whether or not you will be interested to join one of the > main workshops under the sub-theme 'Multilingualism'. > > Thank you, > > IGF Secretariat >

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FW: [ALAC-Announce] Summary of Public Comments on Including Individual Internet Users in the GNSO
by Karaitana Taiuru Dec. 3, 2008

Dec. 3, 2008

Apologies for any cross posting. Please note this will be an agenda item for our December 23 meeting for any Q and A. -----Original Message----- From: alac-announce-bounces(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-announce-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org]On Behalf Of At-Large Staff Sent: Wednesday, 3 December 2008 9:07 p.m. To: alac-announce(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org Cc: lac-discuss-en(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: [ALAC-Announce] Summary of Public Comments on Including Individual Internet Users in the GNSO Dear All: As you know, a public comment period was recently conducted on the role of individual Internet users in the GNSO. The summary of the comments received is available at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-users/msg00012.html -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Marie-Hélène Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org _______________________________________________ ALAC-Announce mailing list ALAC-Announce(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac-announce_atlarge-lists. icann.org At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org

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