Dear All, Just as an update, the LACRALO Outreach Strategy at https://community.icann.org/x/6500Aw was approved by the regional GSE. As per the strategy, LACRALO members in the At-Large Outreach and Engagement SC (https://community.icann.org/x/cqfbAQ) have started working on surveying possible persons and organisations that can be possible members in At-Large from the 13 countries in the LAC region without ALSes. Screenshots of the spreadsheet being used were posted on the agenda page at https://community.icann.org/x/2ZlYAw for the Outreach and Engagement SC call on September 28 2015. As a reminder, the ALAC Subcommittee on Outreach and Engagement (O&E ; https://community.icann.org/x/cqfbAQ) develops strategies on reaching out to new potential members of the At-Large community (Outreach) and to engage new and existing members of the At-Large Community (Engagement) to continue to fulfill At-Large and ALAC’s role in ICANN activities. This Subcommittee will work with the At-Large Community to ensure such strategies are implemented successfully. Anyone interested in reaching out to persons to join the At-Large Community and getting existing At-Large Community members more engaged in At-Large activities are welcome to join and participate in the ALAC Subcommittee on Outreach and Engagement by emailing At-Large Staff at staff@atlarge.icann.org Kind Regards, Dev Anand Teelucksingh Outreach and Engagement SC chair On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Alberto,
The draft outreach strategy text was updated with this concluding paragraph:
"If there are no particular outreach events in a country without ALSes and no formal organisations that could be ALSes, but there are a sufficient number of individuals present, then efforts would be made to organise a F2F event to bring such individuals together to help create a organisation that could be an ALS. Annual funding for such events would be sought from ICANN by LACRALO. Ideas for the planning of such events can be found on the LACRALO wiki at https://community.icann.org/x/Aa7hAg "
This strategy still emphasies working before applying for F2F event funding by researching suitable contacts, maintaining a events calendar, having conference calls with suitable contacts as per the first draft of text.
You can read the latest version at http://bit.ly/1XR1pa9
You are mistaken that the draft LACRALO Strategy text was approved on the call, it was only presented for initial comments. There are several members from LACRALO on the Outreach and Engagement SC (https://community.icann.org/x/cqfbAQ) and the text was shared and commented on by the LACRALO members in the Outreach and Engagement SC before it was presented on the Outreach and Engagement SC call of September 9 2015. Given there is a September 30 2015 deadline to meet for the strategy to be filed with ICANN, the Outreach and Engagement SC is looking at Monday September 14 2015 for having these strategies approved by At-Large before sending to regional Global Stakeholder Engagement.
Your input (and anyone else in LACRALO) is welcomed and the Outreach and Engagement SC will try to incorporate any suggestions.
One note about the idea of having funding for F2F events. The current mechanism of obtaining funding for At-Large Budget requests typically requires At-Large Budget requests to be filed early in the calendar year.Also such Budget Requests are for use for the next fiscal year (typically mid year to next year). ICANN Finance will then approve or disapprove the budget requests around mid year.
So its a challenge to seek funding for F2F events based on research into suitable persons that can be in At-Large and then have a long gap for several months or even a year before the F2F meeting can be implemented.
It is also a challenge for At-large to fully anticipate needs up to 16 months in advance that would require budget support. One of the At-Large Summit II recommendations, Recommendation 40 attempts to address this challenge.
Recommendation 40 (https://community.icann.org/display/als2/ATLAS+II+Recommendation+40) says "ICANN should offer a process similar to the Community Regional Outreach Pilot Program (CROPP), but applicable to short lead-time budget requests not related to travel."
On the ATLAS II Implementation Taskforce call (https://community.icann.org/x/vopYAw) yesterday (in which Alberto was also present), I mentioned that if this Recommendation was implemented, it would make applying for shorter term budget requests such as F2F events easier. I also noted that during the ICANN53 meeting with the ICANN Board and the ALAC, the ICANN CEO expressed support for the concept of having contingency funds available to At-Large to deal with sudden, last minute budget requests, which no one appeared to disagree. So I'm hopeful that Recommendation 40 can be implemented and supported by ICANN.
I'll investigate further whether any funding is possible from the LAC Strategy with the LAC Strategy Steering Committee meetings happening next week.
Also, Alberto, you and anyone in LACRALO are welcome to join the Outreach and Engagement SC by emailing staff@atlarge.icann.org
Kind Regards,
Dev Anand Teelucksingh At-Large Outreach and Engagement SC chair
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:42 AM, <asoto@ibero-americano.org> wrote:
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Subject: Re: Draft LACRALO Outreach Strategy for 2015 - mid 2016 From: asoto@ibero-americano.org
I agree with what was said Alexander. In yesterday's meeting, I pointed out that we have a document that we have all the problems in our region, and had their treatment and should be implemented, but it was not considered by this committee. This document was written after making experiences. In addition, I presented with all countries of the region and its coverage in 2013.
In this document we say:
- Trying to get contacts in the countries not covered. These contacts may be personal or institutional. This is a task that can be performed by any ALS in our region.
- Once the contacts made, obtain the necessary information on one or several existing organizations as likely to be certified.
- To guide it so that it can submit its application for certification.
With this, it is clear that the initial purpose is not to make a trip, but to make contact as possible organizations and guide them to the certification process
Also I noted yesterday, a strategy for a defined and approved by two members of the Region THIN, but we never saw a proposal within it. It is not the way they perform their task working groups that generate overview and then are sent to the RALOS for consideration.
Best regards
Alberto Soto
From: lac-discuss-es-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto: lac-discuss-es-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] In the name of Alejandro Pisanty Posted on: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 3:43 a.m. To: Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee@gmail.com> CC: lac-discuss-es@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [lac-discuss-en] LACRALO Draft Outreach Strategy for 2015 - mid 2016
Dev,
the information is too aggregated to take detailed decisions.
ALS few months ago of an island country he said that in his considered opinion, the extension ("outreach") in its region should be made favoring face contact.
Our position is that you should maximize the use of the Internet tools themselves for many reasons. One is to detect whether there is a community interest and commitment really enough.
In either case the extension program should be redesigned so that if carried out missions to these countries with small populations, they have a sense of continental integration and are mainly made up of multilingual people outside the specified subregion. Organizations (ALS) in the subregion must have contributed to the harmonious development of LACRALO and guarantee civil and constructive ALS delegates receiving visitors.
We have taken note of vehement remarks about the use of time in international transfers and hope that those who have made are consistent with the discipline demanded.
Alejandro Pisanty
09/08/2015 7:55 GMT-05: 00 Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee@gmail.com <mailto:devtee@gmail.com> >:
Dear All,
LACRALO members of disclosure and commitment SC ( https://community.icann.org/x/cqfbAQ) have developed an outreach strategy LACRALO to be presented in the call SC Extension and commitment to September 9, 2015 at 1800 UTC ( https://community.icann.org/x/iYRYAw).
In addition to guiding the activities of members of LACRALO in SC outreach and commitment for the year, a strategy such extension need to be approved by At-Large and the regional GSE (Rodrigo de la Parra) before 30 September 2015, otherwise the funds for Regional Community Outreach Program Pilot (CROPP) not available.
Comments are welcome suggestions for the draft strategy Outreach LACRALO.
Here is the draft Strategy Extension LACRALO:
"A key element of the strategy for the dissemination of LACRALO will get organizations accredited At-Large Structures (ALS) of territories in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) that have no ALS.
From our analysis we have done through our LACRALO Dashboard (Http://bit.ly/lacralo-dashboard), there are 13 countries out of 33 countries without At-Large.
One objective will be to try to get 3 new three territories without ALS ALS for FY16.
LACRALO will keep a calendar broadcast http://bitly.com/LAC-Outreach-Calendar to track potential ICT and GI events in those territories without ALS and IG regional events where people and / or possible ALS of those Territories to attend.
Furthermore, in collaboration with regional interest groups Global Commitment ICANN LAC, potential individuals and / or organizations that would be At-Large candidates without ALS in those countries were surveyed. Other stakeholders of ICANN (GAC, ccNSO, trainees) in territories without ALS are also available for At-Large find suitable candidates.
Once a sufficient number of individuals / groups identified, we attempted to contact those people to invite to a series of conference calls the introduction to the basics of DNS, ICANN and At-Large ".
Best regards,
Dev Anand Teelucksingh At-Large Outreach and Engagement SC chair
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