Hi Edmon (and Rinalia) Good call to get the discussions started early.. and I am so looking forward to it already. I have a rare face-2-face meeting with my Board next week in Fiji, at our PacINET, and I'd like to discuss these activities that you have raised to get their feedback on them as well, especially about how we can represent ourselves as an ALS at the showcase.. We might have to put together a video... or slide show ... or come in person.. or something... (these newly appointed Board members come from all over the Pacific - Cook Islands (me), New Zealand (2), Vanuatu (2), Niue and the Solomon Islands) I love the idea of inviting newbies who aren't fellows, to the fellowship meetings. The content in these sessions is invaluable to anyone who doesn't know about how ICANN works, yet the sessions give you small snippets of understanding at a time without completely overwhelming you. Janice does such a great job. So that you gradually put together a collage of the grandness of the ICANN organisation and what it does. I think we are all still learning... Capacity building / policy development / outreach activities / enhancing dialogue with and for ALSes.. a great call... I can see my Board members already trying to think of fundraising ideas to get themselves to Beijing! Some of them should be able to travel there within 24 hours of leaving home.... (I'm not kidding! One member has one flight a week out of his island so its usually a long time waiting to catch a plane somewhere) Maureen -----Original Message----- From: apac-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:apac-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Edmon Chung Sent: Monday, 12 November 2012 10:15 p.m. To: 'apralo' Subject: [APAC-Discuss] Beijing APRALO Showcase Hi Everyone, Prompted by a short chat with Rinalia and following from our discussion in Toronto... would like to get the discussion about what we should do in Beijing started. 1. Special Showcase Event As brought up in Toronto, and with Hong Xue's help, we would like to explore the possibility of having the APRALO showcase event together with the Welcome Reception (on the Monday late afternoon/early evening). I can probably suggest for DotAsia to help with some sponsorship for this as well :-) This will not only ensure more participation and reduce conflict in schedules, but also allow us to make the whole event more exciting. We also discussed the interest to avoid boring speeches, so we should discuss how perhaps we can "showcase" the work of different ALSes and also of APRALO during the event. Perhaps we can produce a short video (just to get the ideas started)... 2. Leveraging Fellowship program Instead of daily early morning "capacity building" sessions, we can leverage the fellowship program and send all ALS representatives (especially those who have not participated at ICANN as much) to the fellowship sessions (which are held early morning). 3. Multi-stakeholder Policy discussions/roundtables With the "capacity building" sessions taken care of by the fellowship program, the idea is to hold more intensive policy discussion sessions. With the benefit of having all the ALSes from AP there the idea is to further take the opportunity to invite other stakeholders, including government representatives, registries (applicants), registrars, intellectual property rights experts, ISPs and other NGOs in the region to join in a multi-stakeholder dialogue with a goal towards potentially producing a sort of communique at the end of the meeting to establish some views on various policies and issues. 4. APRALO Pin / Badge Decoration / ... We also talked about producing a pin or badge decoration or something that can be worn (name tag strap?) by APRALO... Of course before all of these, we need to figure out the type of budget that we have, and potential additional sponsorship we can raise... Edmon _______________________________________________ APAC-Discuss mailing list APAC-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/apac-discuss Homepage for the region: http://www.apralo.org