[APAC-Discuss] Beijing APRALO Showcase

Tue Nov 13 08:56:47 UTC 2012

Hi Edmon (and Rinalia)

Good call to get the discussions started early.. and I am so looking forward
to it already. 

I have a rare face-2-face meeting with my Board next week in Fiji, at our
PacINET, and I'd like to discuss these activities that you have raised to
get their feedback on them as well, especially about how we can represent
ourselves as an ALS at the showcase.. We might have to put together a
video... or slide show ... or come in person.. or something... (these newly
appointed Board members come from all over the Pacific - Cook Islands (me),
New Zealand (2), Vanuatu (2), Niue and the Solomon Islands)

I love the idea of inviting newbies who aren't fellows, to the fellowship
meetings. The content in these sessions is invaluable to anyone who doesn't
know about how ICANN works, yet the sessions give you small snippets of
understanding at a time without completely overwhelming you. Janice does
such a great job. So that you gradually put together a collage of the
grandness of the ICANN organisation and what it does. I think we are all
still learning... 

Capacity building / policy development / outreach activities / enhancing
dialogue with and for ALSes.. a great call...  I can see my Board members
already trying to think of fundraising ideas to get themselves to Beijing!
Some of them should be able to travel there within 24 hours of leaving
home....  (I'm not kidding! One member has one flight a week out of his
island so its usually a long time waiting to catch a plane somewhere)

Maureen

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Chung
Sent: Monday, 12 November 2012 10:15 p.m.
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Subject: [APAC-Discuss] Beijing APRALO Showcase

Hi Everyone,

Prompted by a short chat with Rinalia and following from our discussion in
Toronto... would like to get the discussion about what we should do in
Beijing started.

1. Special Showcase Event
As brought up in Toronto, and with Hong Xue's help, we would like to explore
the possibility of having the APRALO showcase event together with the
Welcome Reception (on the Monday late afternoon/early evening).  I can
probably suggest for DotAsia to help with some sponsorship for this as well
:-)

This will not only ensure more participation and reduce conflict in
schedules, but also allow us to make the whole event more exciting.  We also
discussed the interest to avoid boring speeches, so we should discuss how
perhaps we can "showcase" the work of different ALSes and also of APRALO
during the event. Perhaps we can produce a short video (just to get the
ideas started)...

2. Leveraging Fellowship program
Instead of daily early morning "capacity building" sessions, we can leverage
the fellowship program and send all ALS representatives (especially those
who have not participated at ICANN as much) to the fellowship sessions
(which are held early morning).

3. Multi-stakeholder Policy discussions/roundtables With the "capacity
building" sessions taken care of by the fellowship program, the idea is to
hold more intensive policy discussion sessions.  With the benefit of having
all the ALSes from AP there the idea is to further take the opportunity to
invite other stakeholders, including government representatives, registries
(applicants), registrars, intellectual property rights experts, ISPs and
other NGOs in the region to join in a multi-stakeholder dialogue with a goal
towards potentially producing a sort of communique at the end of the meeting
to establish some views on various policies and issues.

4. APRALO Pin / Badge Decoration / ...
We also talked about producing a pin or badge decoration or something that
can be worn (name tag strap?) by  APRALO...

Of course before all of these, we need to figure out the type of budget that
we have, and potential additional sponsorship we can raise...

Edmon

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