[APAC-Discuss] Capacity building - new webinar with APNIC on policy development

[Fouad Bajwa]

Hi Siranush,

The webinar is a wonderful effort and I welcome more efforts like this!

I've been a longtime subscriber to APNIC mailing lists shared by your
kindself. It is indeed important that our Asia region membership
participates closely with APNIC policy processes. I will now be
following APNIC more closely.

Thanks for sharing

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Siranush Vardanyan
<siranush_vardanyan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear APRALO colleagues,
>
> I would like to share with you the good news, that as a result of our
> collaboration with APNIC, we have discussed the opportunity to conduct a
> preparatory webinar on policy development. There is the need for some
> knowledge about what the issue is about so that we as ALSes can engage
> appropriately. APNIC professionals agreed to run the webinar for APRALO
> members and this webinar will also be open for other members of your
> organization (it also will be recorded in case if you would like to share it
> with your ALS members). The webinar is planned to take place on the second
> week of August, the doodle will be sent later this month to clarify the time
> and concrete date for webinar. We would highly encourage your participation,
> as well as further active involvement in policy development issues.
>
> Many of our ALSes have just spent time at ATLASII learning about ICANN and
> policy development, this is another stream so that many will also be
> interested in RIRs and learning about how they can contribute to policy
> development in this area as well.
> We would like to encourage our members to become involved, but in order to
> do so we understand that there is a need to learn what we are expecting you
> to get involved in and what it entails and I am sure this webinar will
> provide some in depth information on that.
>
> Some brief information on how APNIC is dealing with this issue, provided by
> Adam Gosling (Internet Policy Development Consultant at APNIC):
>
> You might like to take a look at our online resources
> http://www.apnic.net/community/policy/process
> http://www.apnic.net/community/policy/process/how-to-participate
> http://www.apnic.net/community/policy/proposals
>
> And subscribe to the Policy SIG mailing list
> http://www.apnic.net/community/participate/join-discussions/sigs/policy-sig
> http://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/sig-policy
> (Don’t’ be too frightened of another mailing list. The traffic is not so
> heavy and is generally only active over the two month period around the OPM)
>
> I am about to go on 2 weeks leave, so won’t really be available to advance
> this immediately. Perhaps somebody could help get this rolling by doing a
> doodle poll and booking some web conferencing time. I’ll make myself
> available to suit your time and needs if it’s in that week of the 11th.
>
> If you are really enthusiastic to get started, you could take a look at the
> archive form the last OPM.
> http://conference.apnic.net/37/policy
> There are slide decks, video, and transcripts. The beginning of the first
> session includes a lightweight look at the PDP.
>
> APNIC will be also holding it's meeting in September in Brisbane and those
> are interested are more than welcome to participate (especially those who
> are based in the region).
>
> I would like to thank APNIC staff for such a great opportunity and their
> continuous support, as well as Rinalia for pushing forward this idea and
> suggestion.
>
> Looking forward to learn more together with you all.
>
> Best
>
> Siranush
>
> APRALO Chair
> ________________________________
>



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