Hi Holly and everyone, I just wanted to add that I mentioned the idea of a future webinar on accessibility for people with disability and the role of ICANN. I'm happy to discuss further. Gunela On 25/09/13 3:12 PM, Holly Raiche wrote:
Hi Everyone
A brief summary of the APRALO call, plus some reminders.
First - the spotlights: Ali in October and Siranush in November.
Next, KT needs to work with Pavan and me on on indigenous domain names for our first webinar. Both Sala and Rinalia , both of you expressed interest - and are most welcome to join this organising group.
And Silvia - would you please post this on the monthly report form APRALO
Finally, we will be sending individual reminders to you all to PLEASE update the information on our website about your organisations.
Holly
APRALO MONTHLY REPORT: SEPTEMBER 2013
APRALO Meeting in August:
- Spotlight: Karaitiana Taiuru (KT) talked about the New Zealand Maori Internet Society. New Zealand is a bi-cultural, bi-lingual society and the Maori Internet Society represents Maori users. It was formed in 1997 as a grass roots organisation, and became an ALS in 2006. Their current issues incude cyber safety issues, protecting users from viruses, on-line scams, etcand a lack of access to the Internet. Members interact using emails, Facebook, Twitter and blogs. Currently they are doing research on how indigenous names are being used, which KT will present the first week in November.
- Policy Update: Olivier summarized the current issues before ICANN, including ALAC’s involvement in the policies. Participation of ALSs in policy discussions was encouraged. The Board has issued a call for volunteers for the Implementation Advisory Group for Consumer Trust and Consumer choice metrics. See
<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-17sep13-en.htm>. People should apply, but realize that Board review teams take considerable time and effort. The ALCA will be asked to nominate one or two people.
APRALO meeting in Argentina: The APRALO meeting in November is scheduled for Wednesday 19 November at 1700 Buenos Aires time (UTC -3 hurs)
Update on ROP Review Working Group: CLO reported on the first meeting of the RoP working group. They are currently reviewing the reference documents, including the updated ALAC Rops.
Report on APrIGF meeting in Soeul: Pavan reported that this meeting was success, with the number of sessions and delegates up from the previous APrIGF. Gunela provided a further report on the conference. Presentations and reports available from http://2013.rigf.asia/day1/. Members should contact Pavan if they want to be on the mailing list for the next IGF.
Next Spotllights:
October: Ali AlMeshal, Bahrain Internet Society
November: Siranush Vardanyan
Action items on everyone (including staff)
· KT to let ICANN staff know when he has presented research on the use of indigenous domain names.
· Pavan and Holly to organisae a Webinar on the use of indigenous doman names, based on the research presented by KT
· Pavan to provide link for reports on the APrIGF
· Contact Pavan if you want to be on the mailing list for the Bali meeting
· be sure all of you are signed up to the APRALO and other mailing lists
· on the APRALO ALS list, check that the entry for your ALS is correct - and let staff know if anything that needs correcting
· volunteer to talk about your ALS to an APRALO meeting
· suggest policy topics for webinars _______________________________________________ APAC-Discuss mailing list APAC-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/apac-discuss
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