There was a CEDNET conference in Saskatoon last week and I believe that one of the Telecommunities Canada directors took ICANN materials with her to that one. Other than materials, though, that is all that was done. D Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 E-mail: dthompson@gov.nu.ca -----Original Message----- From: na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Evan Leibovitch Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 12:11 PM To: Robert Guerra Cc: NA Discuss Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] FW: TR : Improvement of the win-win relationship between the Staff and the At-Large Community Robert Guerra wrote:
I welcome Frederic's efforts, and will submit comments ASAP. However,
timing is not unexpected - as constructive changes @ at-large could have taken place long ago, but seem to take place just when the ALAC review is taking place.
I am still concerned with the lack of outreach. If there's one "meta comment" i can make at this moment - is that if indeed ALAC and at- large is supposed to represent users "everywhere" then we really need
to get far more people - to know about ICANN, its complex technical and policy issues and find ways to constructively engage on mission specific items.
Over the last year, if i'm not mistaken we've had just - 1 - new group join NARALO. Obviously more would be better. Ideas on how to best grow - would be most welcome.
Well, we've already asked for -- and I believed Nick has budgeted for -- each RALO to attend up to three events to do outreach. So far I've heard that we should be at N-TEN (to reach the NGO community) and CES (to reach the general public). Both of these are in the US. Is there a suggestion of a Canadian conference at which we should be participating? - Evan ------ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss_atlarge-lists .icann.org Visit the NARALO online at http://www.naralo.org ------