WELCOME TO ICANN AT-LARGE & LACRALO Dear Jose Mendoza and Carlina Fernandez, Thank you for creating your ICANN Accounts and subscribing to your RALO’s discussion list. ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is pleased to inform you that “Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sobre Internet” has been accredited as an At-Large Structure (ALS). The ALAC greatly appreciates your group's interest in involving individual users in LACRALO and ICANN and looks forward to working with you and your colleagues. The ALAC is eager to promote a productive working relationship between your organization, other ALSes, and the ALAC (and ICANN in general), and your input on how we can make this a success would be greatly appreciated. It’s very important to keep the members of your organization informed (about significant news from ICANN and information on ICANN policy-development efforts) and engaged in activities of interest. Here are a few of the tools members of At-Large find useful: The At-Large wiki space is where you can find most of the relevant information: The At-Large introductory page<https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/atlarge/pages/99516418> helps you navigate through the wiki contents. This is where you can find the latest announcements, and subscribe to the At-Large Google calendar<https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/l4zwBQ> at the bottom of the page. This will ensure you never miss a meeting! From any chosen page in the At-Large wiki, you can find your bearings easily by navigating from the At-Large Community page<https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/k4zxBg>. It is very convenient to be able to consult the latest At-Large Policy Development Activity<https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/BQAeBg>, find out more about the Regional At-Large Organizations (RALOs)<https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/8OvwBQ>, and about At-Large Working Groups<https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/F1-xBQ>. For the most up to date information about At-Large meetings during ICANN Public meetings, it is worth bookmarking this wiki page<https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/BlfxBQ>! Regional wiki webpages also have been created to distribute information (including in local languages) on activities, events and issues of particular interest to people in each region. These are maintained by the community. They are: * African Region<https://afralo.org/> * Asia/Australia/Pacific Region<https://apralo.org/> * European Region<https://euralo.org/> * Latin America/Caribbean Region<https://lacralo.org/> * North American Region<https://naralo.org/> At-Large Working Groups & Mailing Lists via ICANN Join. There are many At-Large working groups and email lists, for each region, you can enroll through all groups through an application called ICANN Join that you have been granted access to. If you have not used ICANN Join, please follow these instructions<https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/658899266/At...>. An ICANN Account<https://account.icann.org/login> is required to access ICANN Join and other opportunities to access newcomer information. ICANN Learn: This application can also be accessed through ICANN Account<https://account.icann.org/login>. The Policy Development catalog is where you should begin. Here you can find a variety of introductory courses related to policy and advice. Specifically, there are two At-Large specific courses staff encourages you to take. ALAC website. The ALAC website<http://www.atlarge.icann.org/> is a good source for ICANN news and information of interest to individual Internet users. We encourage you to provide your members with a link. The ALAC relies on volunteers to translate information into multiple languages. Translations of documents on the website are welcome and should be sent to At-Large Staff<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org>. ICANN website: The ICANN website<https://www.icann.org/> is where all announcements<https://www.icann.org/news> are posted, and where you can find practical information about ICANN Public meetings<http://meetings.icann.org/>. Teams chat: At-Large community members and staff use Teams group chats extensively. A group chat exists for most Working Groups and RALOs. So please don¹t hesitate to send At-Large Staff<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> your Teams ID and we’ll gladly add you to the relevant chats. Please click here<http://www.skype.com/en/> if you don’t have a Teams account. It’s free and staff are available to help if you run into any trouble. We look forward to working with you and your organization's members to advance individual Internet users' interests within ICANN. If you have any questions, or need additional information, please contact us at staff@atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org>. Sincerely, The At-Large Advisory Committee http://www.atlarge.icann.org<http://www.atlarge.icann.org/> staff@atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org>