Hi Nick Support Hong's considered intervention. Cheers Leslie On 07/04/2008, Hong Xue <hongxueipr@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Nick,
On the part of IDNs in B&O doc., I hope we add that "the increase of funding should serve to accelerate the implementation of the IDNs and enhance consultation with the relevant local language communities."
Hong
IDN Activities
This is a very important area of work for At-Large – and also for all of ICANN. The extra funding and greatly increased ICANN activity in this area is therefore welcomed. We would like to emphasise the element of communications related to IDNs.
Fundamental choices that will affect the many communities that do not rely upon the Latin character set will be made in the next few years. For that reason, we believe ICANN, in partnership with other stakeholders of course, needs to make a substantial, sustained, greatly increased effort to communicate with these communities –to ensure that the message about the forthcoming choices to be made related to IDNs reaches a far larger pool of potential contributors to the process than is currently aware and participating. This should not simply take the form of translated press releases but really a well-thought-out media campaign which 'reaches out' to the public. We know that efforts to do this work exist – we wish to emphasise that this is extremely important. We note that we have asked the At-Large staff to propose funding in the forthcoming FY to revise and expand the available materials related to outreach to the individual Internet user community and this is just one aspect that such an effort must address.
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:31 AM, At-Large Staff <staff@atlarge.icann.org> wrote:
Dear Community members:
We have been asked to notify you that two draft statements to the ICANN Board from the At-Large Advisory Committee are now open for comments from all members of the At-Large community. Comments will be accepted until 16th April 2008, at 1200 UTC, after which time comments will be reviewed by the ALAC Finance and Budget committee before transmitting the final text to the Board of Directors as an Advisory Committee statement.
Draft Statement to the ICANN Board on the Budget and Operational Plan Framework for 2008/2009: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?al_alac_bud_sc_0308_1_2
Draft Sttatement to the ICANN Board and to the Public Consultation on an ICANN Travel Policy for Volunteers: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?al_alac_bud_sc_0308_1_1
These two are important because the planning now going on – and especially the consultation related to travel support – can have significant impacts upon the participation of the At-Large community in ICANN meetings and in the work of ICANN.
Comments may be made by clicking the 'Comment' button at the top of each of these pages. Please do sign your name in your comments, or the name of your ALS if you are commenting on behalf of an ALS. -- Regards,
Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Frederic Teboul ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff@atlarge.icann.org
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