Hello all, just to let you know that several people have come forward and I thank them all. As there is a need for at least one person who is a relative newcomer who could cast a fresh eye on issues and one person who has extensive experience in ICANN, the two first people to have replied are: - Bastiaan Goslings - Bastiaan can provide a fresh look into policy that affects ends users in Europe. Most recently he's attended the Helsinki ICANN meeting - Yrjö Länsipuro - Yrjö was a journalist - his job is to make complex matters understandable to non experts. He's also occupied many positions in ICANN on behalf of At-Large I have transmitted both names to At-Large Staff. Kindest regards, Olivier On 27/07/2016 19:16, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:

Dear EURALO colleagues,

one of the problems of our community is that whenever a request for public consultation comes in, it is often very "dry" in that it asks the question, but does not provide enough information to our community as to why or how this could be important for end users. As a result, we have a terrible response rate from ALSes to the public consultation; only a very small subset of the At-Large's Community 200 ALSes actually takes part in the ICANN policy development through public consultations. The DDDPP (yes, that's the darned name!) is a pilot program to help resolve this problem. The aim is to design, develop and launch an FY16 pilot program to assess the potential, practical processes and mechanisms for providing ICANN community groups with support for the research, development, collaboration, drafting and editing of documents for submission within the policy development processes of ICANN.

In other words, it is a resource (a writer) who will help out explaining how a specific piece of policy will affect end users.

It was agreed at the RALO meeting in Helsinki that at least 2 people from each RALO should take part in the program. As I am involved in policy, I volunteered to be one of these two people in EURALO. We need a second volunteer, who is interested in Policy development, but who also speaks good English as this is going to be work liaising with the person who will be drafting the policy-related explanations for consultations.

Please email me as soon as possible if you would like to volunteer. Kindest regards,

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