OK, here's some notions: How about $5,000 for regional survey research work on matters of policy importance to consumers in the NA region. So that we don't have to keep winging it so much when we need to talk intelligently about what people want. How about $1,000 to make an outreach video for YouTube, Blip.TV and other fora that ICANN doesn't seem to see the value of. How about $3,000 in travel expenses for members of the NA community to travel to other ICANN regional and community meetings (not the thrice-weekly big meetings, but the frequent smaller ones the organization holds for the contracted parties and others)? The user community should have a forum to voice user needs at these meetings and be there as a representative to check on what everyone else is up to. How about $10K for creation and maintenance of a real NA RALO web site and presence? Not some crap wiki on the ICANN site. -----Original Message-----
From: Gareth Shearman <shearman@victoria.tc.ca> Sent: Jan 20, 2011 5:04 PM To: "<na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> List" <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: [NA-Discuss] NARALO input to the ALAC budget
Further to Darlene's note:
Please review the page at this link:
https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+FY12+Budget+Development...
Send your submissions to me using the Excel form linked from the above page.
In the past we have unsuccessfully requested:
Money for a NARALO general assembly of our ALSes - next opportunity is ICANN meeting #45 which is currently scheduled to be in North America in October of 2012. Money for regional outreach events, taking advantage of events sponsored by other organizations.
I think we need to include these two items in our request.
Let's hear *your* ideas - I'm not going to try and do this alone!
Remember - time is short.
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