September 2008 - APAC-Discuss

New APRALO Wiki
by Karaitiana Taiuru Sept. 8, 2008

Sept. 8, 2008

Colleagues, I strongly encourage you to visit www.apralo.org to visit the new structure of our Wiki and to read the new information that is there. I am certain that most questions can now be answered from our Wiki. If anyone requires some training on how to update/modify the Wiki, there is a link at the bottom. Lastly, thank you to Frederic who spent his weekend updating the all the RALO Wiki. Regards, Karaitiana Taiuru

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9 September 1300 UTC: Discussion on ICANN Travel Procedures and the ALAC Review
by At-Large Staff Sept. 3, 2008

Sept. 3, 2008

Dear all, You have been invited by the ALAC Chair Cheryl Langdon-Orr to join a community-wide discussion on the new ICANN travel procedures and the ALAC Review on Tuesday September 9th. The discussion will start at 1300 UTC and is scheduled to for 30 minutes. It will precede the monthly ALAC teleconference scheduled at 1330 UTC. French and Spanish interpretation will be available for this call if requested. Please get in touch with us before Friday, 1200 UTC if you would like to be on either the French or Spanish channel. If you are in a country with a toll free phone number you can use this number and the access codes to join the English, French or Spanish channel. A list of the toll free phone numbers is available on the meeting page for this meeting. https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?09_september_2008 You will also find additional documents with background information on the ICANN travel procedures and the ALAC Review on this page. Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Frederic Teboul ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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ICANN meeting in Cairo Egypt
by Karaitiana Taiuru Sept. 2, 2008

Sept. 2, 2008

The 33rd ICANN public meeting will be held in Cairo Egypt on November 02-07 2008. Meeting details including Visa, accommodation etc is available at http://cai.icann.org/ . At the moment there is no planned APRALO meeting in Cairo. But if you are are planning on being there could you let me know as we may possibly schedule the monthly APRALO meeting there. Regards, Karaitiana Taiuru

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Updates
by Karaitiana Taiuru Sept. 1, 2008

Sept. 1, 2008

Dear APRALO colleagues, Please find below a number of updates from this past week. Our main web site with the wiki is www.apralo.org . 1. The minutes of the previous meeting have now been uploaded. Available at https://st.icann.org/asiapac/index.cgi?26_august_2008 or Under the "Meetings and Events" link . 2. To assist with greater participation in monthly phone conferences and to ensure greater transparency and ownership, the Agenda items for the following month will be able to be added to by all members in the wiki under the "Meetings and Events" link. Also via email for those with connectivity issues. Thus resulting in the whole list of Agenda items being available to view by all of our members. Our secretary Pavan from ISOC-HK will then collate the Agenda items one week prior to our meeting. The phone details to dial in will also be in the Meetings page. 3. The APRALO finance working group has been re-established and include John Fung from ISOC-HK, Leslie Allison from PICISOC (Pacific Islands) and myself - New Zealand. If anyone with relevant experience would like to join the working group in my place, please let me know. I would like to publically thank John Fung for his efforts and dedication to the finances working group. I would also like to thank the former members. 4. Details of all working group members and appointments are now easily located under the "APRALO Officers" link at www.apralo.org or directly here https://st.icann.org/asiapac/index.cgi?apralo_officers . If you are interested in being involved with any of the working groups, please contact me. 5. A brief presentation describing APRALO is now available from https://st.icann.org/asiapac/index.cgi?resources or under the "Resources". Please feel free to download and use it as you wish. A reminder that our phone conferences are the 4th Tuesday of every month at UTC 05:00. Free dial in numbers are available as is the option to be called out to if you have issues from within your country. Regards, Karaitiana Taiuru APRALO Vice Chairman Karaitiana Taiuru Internet Advocate Ph/txt: +64 21 070 7507 Web: www.taiuru.maori.nz Blog: http://taiuru.maori.nz/blog/ Email: karaitiana(a)taiuru.maori.nz IM: ktaiuru (Skype/MSN/GoogleTalk) Bio: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ktaiuru PO Box 10286 Christchurch, 8145 New Zealand

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PacINET 2008 starting in 45 mn
by Franck Martin Sept. 1, 2008

Sept. 1, 2008

Sorry to be slightly off topic, but this conference may interest you as we are talking about Internet Governance too. We are ready to start on Marratech in 45mn. get Marratech at www.marratech.com then go to https://marratech.webapps.isoc.org:8001/ no login/password needed, just click on ISOC Auditorium We will start 9am CK time GMT-10 Program, etc.. on www.picisoc.org Be there or be square.

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