I think we need to encourage any and all members of our ALSes to attend our monthly Meetings *and for that matter prospective ALSes and Ind Members (when we sort that out) as well... After all we know who is listed as authorized to vote when and if they are ever called for... The More the Merrier in my view and that gives us a lot more chance of greater edge/community involvement in all we discuss and do... Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO) On 24 June 2011 13:24, Charles Mok (gmail) <charlespmok@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Will!
Will you or someone else from PICISOC be able to join us on our monthly teleconference calls to start to get involved?? Also, we like to start to schedule some ALS members to introduce themselves in our monthly calls, and if possible for PICISOC, we can do it in the next one or two teleconference meeting.
Also, thanks Raj for your kind and continuous support! For one thing, we may start with the ISOC chapters in those economies, I think!
Thanks! Charles
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:29 PM, William Tibben <wjt@uow.edu.au> wrote:
Yes, a well written report Charles. I'm pleased to say that we have a few more PICISOC people keen to get involved after their attendance in SIngapore so I'm looking forward to some positive developments from the Pacific!.
Regards
Will
On 23/06/2011, at 10:00 PM, Rajnesh D. Singh wrote:
Hi Charles,
A great report.
Participation by all ALS' in APRALO has been an issue from the beginning, and I would urge all ALS' to nominate representatives to actively participate in the process - that's why they signed up for APRALO in the first place!!
I also fully support your intention to target specific major economies for ALS representation, in fact perhaps we can look at getting at least one ALS in each economy covered by APRALO.
I remain available to assist in whatever little way I can.
Onwards and upwards!
Raj
----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Mok (gmail)" <charlespmok@gmail.com> To: apac-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 2:20:47 PM Subject: [APAC-Discuss] APRALO Report at ICANN 41 Singapore
*The following is an expanded report from me as APRALO Chair in the Wrap-up meeting this morning at ICANN 41 Singapore. (Because of time I was only able to give a brief verbal summary of the following in the meeting.)*
I will make a brief report for APRALO about our work in the last several months as well as during this ICANN meeting.
We had an election held with voting conducted between May 11-19, 2011, and the result that I (Charles Mok, of Internet Society Hong Kong) elected as Chair, Holly Raiche (of Internet Society Australia) elected as Vice Chair, and Internet Society Hong Kong (represented by Pavan Badhrani) elected as Secretariat, with the term until Jun 30, 2013. Our other Vice Chair remains to be Fauod Bajwa (of Pakistan ICT Policy Monitor), with his term until Jun 30, 2012.
I am the third chair in one calendar year before my election, succeeding Hong Xue, our last APRALO Chair, and certainly someone who leaves a big shoe for me to fill. It was unfortunate for APRALO that Hong cannot continue her service as Chair for us, but we know she will continue to contribute greatly to our community.
The biggest issues we face in our Asia, Australiasia and Pacific Islands community are continuity, stability, outreach, and policy work. Currently we have twenty-one ALS member organizations, in a region with more than seventy countries/regions. Some countries/regions in fact have more than one ALS members in APRALO, such as India, Pakistan and Hong Kong, so we have a long way to go. We are continually challenged by our large and wide geography, diverse language and cultural differences, and relatively little participation from the Arabic world, Central Asia, etc.
In the past, under Hong's leadership, we developed a system dividing the leadership duties of our two vice chairs into outreach and policy works. It was unfortunate that our two vice chairs cannot join our meeting this time, even though it was held within our region. Yet, it is clear that outreach and policy works are closely related -- no good policy comments can be made without wide and deep participation from our ALS members, hence we need good inreach effort in addition to outreach. It is always a worry on my mind that we lack substantive inputs from ALS members for ICANN policy comments we are to make, hence the responses may not be as representative of all views as APRALO likes them to be.
I would also take this opportunity to report that, since the last ICANN meeting in San Francisco in early 2011, APRALO responded in March to the Draft Proposal for the Study of Issues Related to the Delegation of IDN Variants TLDs. We urged ICANN's recognition on the work done by the Asia Pacific community on various related major Asian languages such as the Arabic, Indic and Chinese languages. We also urged ICANN to adopt the bottom-up-developed IDN Variant policies, and to consult APRALO to identify members for the case study team.
In the months preceding this ICANN meeting, we also made a budget proposal to ICANN, requesting funding support for holding a much-needed face-to-face general assembly, and other plans for outreach and promotion. Unfortunately, we did not receive any funding alloted to APRALO, as the ICANN Finance Team explained that since this current ICANN meeting is held in Asia (Singapore), they considered this already an opportunity for us to have a regional summit. However, judging by the number of ALS members of APRALO who are present here, this was clearly not the case. I have made clear our strong comment of disapproval to the ICANN Finance team, and to the ALAC community.
On the other hand, I am happy to report that the two new ALS applications from our region have been approved by ALAC in this meeting, and they are Internet Society India Kolkata Chapter (of India) and NetMission.Asia (of Hong Kong). In fact, supported by DotAsia Organization, over ten young representatives of NetMission.Asia -- the youngest of age 14 -- are present in this ICANN meeting and have joined our APRALO activities here and some of the ALAC meetings. Their number may have set a new record of the number of attendees from one ALS in Asia. Going forward, NetMission.Asia will report back on its participation in ICANN in Hong Kong, elevating the level of awareness. On the other hand, APRALO will continue to encourage more youth participation and volunteering.
Back on the topic of outreach and inreach, we made efforts to warm old ties and build new ones at various regional events, in order to promote APRALO and recruit new ALS members, for instance, in APRICOT-APAN 2011 held in Hong Kong in February, where more than 1,500 people attended, and the Internet Society Regional Workshop in April in Colombo, Sri Lanka. We renewed ties with ALS members from Taiwan, Pakistan, Pacific Islands, etc. and build links to potential new ALS.
I would also like to report that our APRALO Showcase was held successful on Monday afternoon here in Singapore. It was unfortunate that at the very last minute we were informed that ICANN scheduled a briefing on new gTLD at the same time as our event, which has caused the attendance in the Showcase to be less than my expectation. However, all who attended agreed that it was a great event, with keynotes from Rajnesh Singh (the first APRALO chair) and Dr Peng-hwa Ang (well-recognized Internet leader in Singapore). We also have received attention from many remote participants over the audiocast. I would like to thank the Working Group members who have worked hard in the last couple months putting this event together remotely, with participate gratitude to ICANN staff and Pavan, who was my co-chair for the working group.
Looking to the future, in order to strategically improve our outreach and policy comment works, we will focus on driving volunteers participation, raising APRALO and ICANN awareness, etc. In fact, with the new gTLD program,. we will face more attention as well as challenges and opportunities. We will start to do that in Hong Kong, regardless of the support from ICANN. We will encourage the newly-formed Internet Society Singapore chapter to join as an ALS, and I will also propose to target specific major Asian Internet economies, such as Malaysia, Philippines -- to join.
Thank you for your attention and support.
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