EXCELLENT ideas, V! ________________________________ From: Vittorio Bertola [mailto:vb@bertola.eu] Sent: Tue 7/3/2007 4:31 PM To: Thompson, Darlene Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Global At-Large Summit Thompson, Darlene ha scritto:
Hi all,
It was discussed at the meeting in San Juan that there is an interest amongst the At-Large community to have a global meeting of the ALSs, now that all of the RALOs are formed. As 1/2 of your interim Secretariat, I will be having contact with the other RALOs to work on moving this forward.
Would anybody else be interested in forming a working group or task force on this matter with me? Please let me know.
Please keep me posted. I guess that it will be me (at least if I'm reappointed) to have to convince ICANN's COO and CEO, if not the entire Board, that this event deserves $100-150k of additional expenditure. Especially, we should work out on a compelling case on why such an event would be particularly useful; shaking hands and socializing among such diverse people would be a good thing, but on the other hand discussions are already quite pointless and relatively ineffective in the meetings of 15 ALAC people plus a few from one or two RALOs... just imagine with 100 RALO representatives from five continents in the same room. Such a meeting is absolutely doable, but it would require a clear agenda, clear procedures, clear deliverables and clear objectives: it needs a well thought out plan. On another matter - it occurred to me that Avri Doria, the GNSO Chair, is now living in Lulea (in Sweden) and working on networking and education opportunities for the Sami people, who live in Scandinavia beyond the Arctic circle (well, beyond if looking from where I live). I guess that the Sami might share many challenges with the Inuit; I don't know whether you met Avri in San Juan, in any case it might be interesting for you to get in touch with her. Regards, -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------