Hi Edmon and Sala, Very good recommendations and I would second all of them because I have been a fellow twice with the fellowship program and the morning sessions are both intensive and well visited by all top ICANN people to build capacity and make the participants aware of ICANN's functionality and Janice has her magic that helps new comers navigate around ICANN much easily. There is no one single way to build capacity and help navigation across voluntary organizations but our ALS's should be fine. Sala, I personally feel very uncomfortable when we have to conform to a single basket design and being told what to do, how to do it and how to show it without my own willingness. I don't think we should dictate how ALS's participate and that is a critical element in participatory involvement. We can help facilitate but not force ALS's to follow a certain criteria because these are either ISOC chapters, NGO's, community groups or loosely connected and organized communities. Thats also a tipping point in ALS active involvement that many of don't seem to understand. This gap has to be understood and I am being vocal about it. For example, my ALS (now called the Internet Research Group) protects and defends cyber dissent, that is sensitive for the well-being of our membership. It is a loosely connected membership consortium of people concerned about the future of the Internet in Pakistan, combating censorship, responding to govt actions, building and enabling further Internet groupings like ISOC chapters and consumer groups etc. I have members from media, think tanks, people leading ICT organizations and playing an important part in shaping the countries ICT and Internet Public Policy. They come from govt, regulators, telcos, policy and donor orgs, private sector, academia and research. No one in my group wants to be named beyond their organization, be directly named or associated with ICANN however they are willing to share their contributions and benefit from the knowledge that comes down through ICANN and ALAC because it helps build foresight and creating the playing field where Pakistan can also enter the domain and IP addressing playing field. We+one of our members is organizing part of a world launch of a UN flagship research report at the end of this month and have a series of policy round tables on Internet Public Policy, New GTLDs, Cybercrime etc happening by the Beijing Meeting that we intend to share and showcase. We will also be presenting a physical copy of the report to the Chair and CEO of ICANN if present during the APRALO showcase to show that we are contributing to global policy development in the field of ICTs and Internet. This small presentation could be one of the highlights because I can seek permission from the UN to show and tell the report in 5-10 minutes and it lists my name for substantive inputs to the report. So Sala, instead of telling ALSes WHAT TO DO we should help them share what they WANT to show. My ALS will be bringing a physical global contribution to ICT policy development. That will be our contribution from Pakistan. Similarly we should ask everyone across the ALS network that you can show what you want. We will help you show'n'tell etc. Best Fouad On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Edmon and All,
Some thoughts to add to Edmon/Hong and Maureen's ideas:
*Part 1*
- Verify contact details of all ALSes; - Have an APRALO meeting with Heads of all ALSes; [conference call] - Talk to the ALSes and find out what are two most important things for them; - Create long term development strategy for APRALO and launch it at the Showcase; - Identify representative from each ALS to liaise between APRALO and ALS on planning matters; - Pre-warn the ALSes of dates so they can make arrangements and book flights in advance;
*Part 2*
- We need to preserve the diversity in APRALO and emphasize the diversity, that is Arab/Asia/Australasia/Pacific components; - Use the preparation time as a chance to build relationships with the ALSes;
- Create booths around to showcase the different ALSes - allocate spaces where they can set up displays etc; - Each ALS can have a 2 min video loop; - Create and identify youth within all the ALSes and identify means of organising a Youth Forum for seamless immersion of youth;
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Hong Xue <hongxueipr@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, all very good ideas. I can organize the Beijing local ALSes' participation in the showcase if needed.
In addition, may I suggest to have a Youth Forum for young people from all ALSes.
Hong
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Edmon Chung <edmon@isoc.hk> wrote:
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
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