[APAC-Discuss] Beijing APRALO Showcase

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

Hi Fouad,

The idea is to encourage ALS participation in APRALO and also help to
facilitate their involvement into the diverse policy spaces within ICANN
from APRALO. There is no one way to do capacity building. Nothing about
APRALO membership suggests that APRALO dictates to the ALSes how to run
their organisations, there is autonomy.

We are commenting from making it inclusive to enable ALSes to be involved
within APRALO. You can imagine each ALS is significant and has powerful and
immense reach in their countries and region so they are all important -
there is no issue there. Where we need to focus on building is how to build
critical mass from all the ALSes in terms of strengthening their
involvement in APRALO because when APRALO is strengthened and enhanced it
means that At Large expands. Expansion is not in numbers only but also in
quality of participation.

The Showcase should be a way of showing off all ALSes within APRALO.
Because of the time frame, it is important that Heads of ALSes are
forewarned so they can plan travel and accomodation in advance etc.

Kind Regards,
Sala