Hi Nick,
Would it be part of ALAC interests/mandate to get more
and more of the 'users' from different regions get more involved in its work /
engaging with ICANN. On these lines, should we be putting in some effort to
getting more participants from less represented regions of the world (relative
to potential participation, even if not relative to other regions).
in which case, making region wise allocations would be
more useful, as you have also suggested. can we ask ICANN to start budgeting in
this manner from this year. how can one go about proposing such an idea?
thanks
Guru
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Gurumurthy K IT for Change, Bangalore Bridging Development Realities and Technological
Possibilities www.ITforChange.net
Nirmol:
Firstly, please be careful about sending emails to multiple lists. Your
reply went to the global list, the ALAC committee (who are on the global list)
and also to AP... Crossposting (and especially duplicate posting) is something
that bothers many...
With respect to the funding which ICANN provides for At-Large activities,
the budget for that is drawn up by the staff of ICANN. We do want and ask for
the input of the regions, and the ALAC, on what projects and activities should
be priorities for the region and if there is any financial component and it is
possible to quantify that, this is of course helpful. If regions or the ALAC
wish to have budgets and get funding from other sources, that would of course be
entirely up to the region.
There is no budget for a specific region; ICANN doesn't budget in this way.
We could, and it may make sense to do that going forward, but that hasn't been
the case in the past.
The largest portion of the At-Large budget is for the travel support
provided to the community to attend ICANN meetings. This is sufficient to
support 35 people from the community attending each ICANN International Meeting.
This is made up of the ALAC (15) and the ALS representatives from the region
which the given meeting is in make up the rest. If there are some meetings where
less than 35 people attend, then this funding goes to a meeting where there are
more people, or to other projects which the community proposes during the year -
that sort of thing.
As to timelines, regions and the ALAC are all free to propose ideas through
December, really; I have to get serious about preparing a first draft in
January. That said, having a set of priorities for work over the course of the
coming year would be most helpful, and since the ALAC and the regional
Secretariats are meeting in LA to do (amongst other things) just that, perhaps
post-LA would be the most logical time to begin crafting a plan of activities
that supports the macro-level strategy.
Of course, the suggestion box is always open. I would much rather put
together a budget draft that's heavily informed by the community's plans and
strategy for action than to make one up on my own.
--
Regards,
Nick
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On 8 Oct 2007, at 15:01, nirmol xxxx wrote:
Hi Raj,
I havent heard on this myself except that I am a part of the
Budget-WG.
In this regard I request all members to send their views on items they
intend us to consider in formulating the next Budget.
Raj, please let me know who will be financing the budget or do we have to
undertake a study on sources of funding as well? I understand that so far
ICANN was funding the activities.
Please also let us know the time line for the preparation of
Budget.
Nick, can you forward me the last budget and guidelines, if any, with
respect to the same prepared by ICANN or APRALO so far.
We understand that the Budget is for the FY 2008-2009.
John, please feel free to contact me on the above email to work on this
further.
Regards,
Nirmol
Hi
John/Nirmol,
Cheryl advised at the last teleconference that the ALAC
budget process
is underway (or will be very soon).
We need to get
the APRALO submission finalised. Please let us know
status of your WG's
work thus far, and what we need to do to get this
finalised.
Just
to revisit, APRALO will meet at:
(i) ICANN February 2008 meeting (likely
to be in Delhi)
(ii) IGF 2008 (Delhi in November)
Additionally, we
need to consider presence at:
(i) APNG camp
(ii) APTLD
meeting
(iii) APNIC meeting
We also need to look at support
for:
(i) APNG Camp 2008
If anyone has suggestions for further
meeting/event support, please advise.
--
Kind
regards,
Rajnesh D. Singh
COO, PATARA www.patarapacific.com
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ICANN Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organisation www.apralo.org
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