<div dir="ltr">I like your idea of ICANN chapters within a country or perhaps a subregion of a large country.<div><br></div><div>As an ex-Pres of our Rotary Chapter, I find the Rotary concept interesting, but it does set a model that would encourage a wider opportunity for outreach as well as education and training, and policy input at a country level.. and all organised by the members. Rotary is also self-funding but with the opportunity to get funding from the parent body for special projects. </div><div><br></div><div>But it would also mobilise large groups of individual members who at least have a lot of things in common already as a starting point - language and culture,socio-politics, shared internet environment, etc</div><div><br></div><div>Sounds a little like the Internet Society of China model with everyone in one country under one umbrella. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:04 AM, Dev Anand Teelucksingh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:devtee@gmail.com" target="_blank">devtee@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Here's an idea for an alternative proposal for At-Large to the EMM model proposed in the At-Large Review<br><div><br>My thoughts - The proposed EMM has flaws. Some immediate ones :<br><div><br>- it destroys the community and with that, the consensus building of community with replacement <br>of
individuals with even less ties to the public community. Such
individuals will promote and collude with other individuals to keep
themselves in the loop. Also, with many of the policy discussions in
GNSO being English, this permanently eliminates persons from
developing/emerging economies from non-English from ever participating.<br>- given that any individual could already participate in GNSO, we would be no different from such random individuals <br></div><div>-
it removes the mandate on oversight and accountability on ICANN
activities from end user interests<br></div>- a thousand individuals in one large country will
override 10 individuals from a small country so there will be less
diversity in the EMM model only from those countries with large number of
individuals. <br>- Nomcom appointees to ALAC new to ICANN will serve as Liasions to other groups is not sensible <br><div><br></div>There are many more problems but I want to focus on a IMO a better At-Large model than the EMM one:<br><br><div>- ICANN establishes At-Large Chapters in each country similiar in concept to Rotary or ISOC chapters. <br></div><div>- each chapter is open to anyone interested in ICANN from the interests of end users.<br></div><div>-
ICANN can set guidelines for each chapter - some examples: must do certain level of
outreach, have term limits, have a public F2F awareness meeting to recruit new
persons. ICANN would need to provide some funding to make this happen
but this would be small and the chapters can account to ICANN for
expenses. <br></div><div>- ICANN can provide the tools (mailing lists, conference tools) to facilitate online discussions.</div>- Because there is a consistent brand - At-Large Chapter in the country, marketing/promoting is <br>greatly simplified and easier to explain. <br><div>-
Given that such chapters are virtual, it makes chapters easy to
establish with only a few individuals from a country without the
challenges of having formal organisations with bylaws and pay taxes.<br> <br></div><div>So an At-Large chapter ends up being a virtual ALS in each country in the ALAC/RALO/ALS model. <br><br></div><div>The
RALOs will consist of the chapters from each country in the region with
each chapter electing two persons to coordinate the RALO work. The RALO
will be better positioned to better fulfil its MOUs with ICANN and the
RALO and ALAC would not have to bother with analysing whether an
organisation meets the criteria of an ALS.<br><br></div>The
At-Large chapters will be better able to network with At-Large chapters
in other countries and build consensus on policy issues and help promote
and grow the At-Large Community.<div class="m_3628462047479130250gmail-yj6qo m_3628462047479130250gmail-ajU"><div id="m_3628462047479130250gmail-:u6" class="m_3628462047479130250gmail-ajR"><img class="m_3628462047479130250gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"><br><br>---<br></div><div id="m_3628462047479130250gmail-:u6" class="m_3628462047479130250gmail-ajR">Dev Anand<br></div></div></div></div>
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