[APAC-Discuss] Beijing APRALO Showcase

[Fouad Bajwa]

Still Sala, we need to lower the tone and give space to participate,
why do they not actively present themselves already? Lets not
construct a process for everything including participation in a
loosely connected system. Lets have the dynamics evolve by itself.
Lets give a call to ALSes to participate and present in the Showcase
and then the Co-Chairs can get in touch with individual ALSes and come
back with the results to the APRALO Chair. We will have to put
together a small one paragraph that APRALO is organizing this and
this, these are the fellowships, this is the showcase and your active
participation is required. Simple and straight and we can follow-up.
We already have two 4 ALSs on board, mine, Edmon's, your's, Hong's?

Best

Fouad

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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