Suggestion for agenda at ICANN Mexico meeting : end user training on how to use the LACRALO wiki
This is a suggestion I made at the LACRALO teleconference on 15th January 2009 : There should be a session or sessions for At-Large Structure (ALS) representatives in Mexico to get some hands-on experience with using the LACRALO wiki at http://www.lacralo.org/. ALSes would understand how to : - log into the wiki - add a page - editing an existing page - how to be notified when changes are made to the LACRALO wiki so that ALSes can better participate in LACRALO and ultimately in ICANN. The LACRALO wiki is a good way to document LACRALO's workflow on ICANN's policy related issues. It is difficult for any ALS (and especially for any new ALSes that join LACRALO) to understand what work (if any) is being done by LACRALO and how or where they can participate. Although emails are being sent to LAC-Discussion list, some ALSes may not get them in time or at all ; perhaps their ISP flagged such emails as spam and didn't allow the message to be delivered to the ALS inbox, for example. The recent confusion by some ALSes re: travel support for ALS representatives to attend the March 2009 ICANN meeting in Mexico City. While emails were sent on this list describing the process, this process itself should have been documented on the LACRALO wiki. So the survey itself should have been linked on the wiki, along with the procedures for ALSes to respond to this survey. Any ALS could turn to the wiki, read what is happening, and then take appropriate measures. ALSes could also post their survey responses (if they wanted to) to the wiki so that we can see what other ALSes in our region are thinking of. ALSes could also add their ideas/thoughts about various ICANN policy related issues to the wiki and a history of LACRALO activity is documented which benefits ALSes in potentially all regions. Another example where the wiki would benefit : an "upcoming deadlines" page on the wiki so that ALSes can see at one location what we need to do by what date. Thoughts? Dev Anand Teelucksingh Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society at http://ttcsweb.org/ "networking local computer users!"
Dev: While I think the training would be worthwhile, I personally think that this training ought to be conducted outside of the Summit and online. I'm sure the At-Large staff would cooperate. But I also believe that this approach would emphasize the importance of the online communications modality to At-large interaction. Carlton On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society < admin@ttcsweb.org> wrote:
This is a suggestion I made at the LACRALO teleconference on 15th January 2009 :
There should be a session or sessions for At-Large Structure (ALS) representatives in Mexico to get some hands-on experience with using the LACRALO wiki at http://www.lacralo.org/.
ALSes would understand how to : - log into the wiki - add a page - editing an existing page - how to be notified when changes are made to the LACRALO wiki
so that ALSes can better participate in LACRALO and ultimately in ICANN.
The LACRALO wiki is a good way to document LACRALO's workflow on ICANN's policy related issues. It is difficult for any ALS (and especially for any new ALSes that join LACRALO) to understand what work (if any) is being done by LACRALO and how or where they can participate.
Although emails are being sent to LAC-Discussion list, some ALSes may not get them in time or at all ; perhaps their ISP flagged such emails as spam and didn't allow the message to be delivered to the ALS inbox, for example.
The recent confusion by some ALSes re: travel support for ALS representatives to attend the March 2009 ICANN meeting in Mexico City. While emails were sent on this list describing the process, this process itself should have been documented on the LACRALO wiki. So the survey itself should have been linked on the wiki, along with the procedures for ALSes to respond to this survey.
Any ALS could turn to the wiki, read what is happening, and then take appropriate measures. ALSes could also post their survey responses (if they wanted to) to the wiki so that we can see what other ALSes in our region are thinking of. ALSes could also add their ideas/thoughts about various ICANN policy related issues to the wiki and a history of LACRALO activity is documented which benefits ALSes in potentially all regions.
Another example where the wiki would benefit : an "upcoming deadlines" page on the wiki so that ALSes can see at one location what we need to do by what date.
Thoughts?
Dev Anand Teelucksingh Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society at http://ttcsweb.org/ "networking local computer users!"
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