Dear all,

As requested by Roberto, I'm forwarding his suggestion to the ALS Engagement list.

Best,

Yrjö
From: Roberto Gaetano <roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2019 3:53 PM
To: Yrjö Länsipuro <yrjo_lansipuro@hotmail.com>
Cc: Matthias M. Hudobnik <matthias@hudobnik.at>; Natalia Filina <filinafilka@gmail.com>; Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com>; euralo-tf-als-engagement@atlarge-lists.icann.org <euralo-tf-als-engagement@atlarge-lists.icann.org>
Subject: Re: [Alac-sc-outreach] The Upcoming EURALO activities in Eastern Europe region
 
Hi Yrjö.
I am following up my earlier message about participation to the UA-IGF and the RIPE meeting that will take place in the week of the 23 September.
My personal opinion is that this participation is in line with some outreach strategic objectives, and namely:
  • Cooperation with other European entities - a RIPE meeting will be part of the agenda for the week, and it will be the opportunity to strengthen our relations and investigating areas for joint opportunities
  • Engaging ALSes and independent members - I plan to keep the EURALO Individual User Association (that I chair) informed about the event and take the opportunity to promote to the participants of the different conferences the possibility to join EURALO as individual user - I note that this has a special importance because of the participation from Eastern Europe
  • Universal Acceptance - we are engaged as ALAC in supporting Universal Acceptance - while UA is not only about IDNs, it is nevertheless important to promote UA in the countries that use a different script, because they are among the people who are most affected by the current lack of Universal Acceptance.
I have raised the issue of the participation to these events to the EURALO Board, and there were some approvals and no objections to characterise this participation as an official presence of EURALO to the UA week.
I am copying the ALS Engagement email list, but not being a member I would respectfully ask you to forward this message - or authorise the list manager to let the message go.
Best regards,
Roberto




On 11.07.2019, at 23:45, Roberto Gaetano <roberto@gaetano.org> wrote:

FYI, I am considering attending the UA IGF, that includes also a RIPE Regional meeting, 23 to 26 September.
R.


On 08.07.2019, at 11:02, Matthias M. Hudobnik <matthias@hudobnik.at> wrote:

Dear Natalia,
 
First of all thank you for the report and your effort ;-). Just a few short comments from my side between the lines!
 
Best,
Matthias
 
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Ing. Mag. Matthias M. Hudobnik
 
Von: Alac-sc-outreach [mailto:alac-sc-outreach-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] Im Auftrag von Natalia Filina
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. Juni 2019 17:50
An: euralo-tf-als-engagement@atlarge-lists.icann.org; natalia.mochu@icann.org; Roberto Gaetano; ALAC Subcommittee Outreach
Betreff: [Alac-sc-outreach] The Upcoming EURALO activities in Eastern Europe region
 
Dear colleagues,

Today in Marakkesh we had an informal short working meeting with Natalia Mochu (Global Stakeholder Engagement Manager, Eastern Europe and Central Asia). We were discussing the possibility to reshape our representation the covering the activities of Euralo in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. This region is still not actively represented in our RALO and we should to start to change this situation. 
 
 
That’s a good point but there were also at least three events where people were involved:
 
1. DNS Forum, Moscow 
2. UADOM, Kyiv
3. SeeDIG
 

Following this meeting, let me suggest for the discussion the next possibility activities:

- Natalia invited me to participate in the open "ICANN65 readout webinar" (scheduled on July 11) with a short presentation about our work and the opportunity to join Euralo. The participants – the stakeholders in ICANN, the Regions – Eastern Europe and Central Asia. (Previous at-Large participant, Liana Galstyan, presented APRALO). For the participation i will prepare a short presentation (if we already have it or infographics, i may use it) about the mechanism of our work explaining how the opinion of end users is transformed during the work into part of the policy development process. 

- The Interaction with RIPE NCC. According to preliminary data, the representatives of engagment interested in beginning such work. (We can hold joint open webinars after each RIPE or ICANN meetings, for example). 
 
 
It is a good idea: EURALO already did this for example concerning the GDPR (https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=79434910), but there is always space to make more webinars I assume?! It is just a matter of organizing them and finding people who are willing to present ;-)!


- We need to start a new tradition to replace the (a little bit) passive position in the region to active role by the invitation of the appropriated organizations (to organize f2f meetings or online-webinars) if this organizations are not yet our ALSs, but potentially may bring to our work a lot of useful suggestions, experience of best solution (I mean the organizations which are working on the Internet right and freedom protection field, as an example).

- We should to use the opportunity of the physical presence with short introduction presentations at events in the region (we are talking about events which don`t  required  the funding for the presence). This is already implied theoretically, but practically we don`t use this possibility.
 
 
I also support this idea ;-)!


I kindly ask you to give the feedback and comments.
 
 
Sincerely,
Natalia Filina
 
Officer of SIG IoT (ISOC)
Member of EURALO Individuals’ Association 
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https://individualusers.org/

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