[At-Large] APRALO Budget

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Nirmol:

Firstly, please be careful about sending emails to multiple lists.  
Your reply went to the global list, the ALAC committee (who are on  
the global list) and also to AP... Crossposting (and especially  
duplicate posting) is something that bothers many...

With respect to the funding which ICANN provides for At-Large  
activities, the budget for that is drawn up by the staff of ICANN. We  
do want and ask for the input of the regions, and the ALAC, on what  
projects and activities should be priorities for the region and if  
there is any financial component and it is possible to quantify that,  
this is of course helpful. If regions or the ALAC wish to have  
budgets and get funding from other sources, that would of course be  
entirely up to the region.

There is no budget for a specific region; ICANN doesn't budget in  
this way. We could, and it may make sense to do that going forward,  
but that hasn't been the case in the past.

The largest portion of the At-Large budget is for the travel support  
provided to the community to attend ICANN meetings. This is  
sufficient to support 35 people from the community attending each  
ICANN International Meeting. This is made up of the ALAC (15) and the  
ALS representatives from the region which the given meeting is in  
make up the rest. If there are some meetings where less than 35  
people attend, then this funding goes to a meeting where there are  
more people, or to other projects which the community proposes during  
the year - that sort of thing.

As to timelines, regions and the ALAC are all free to propose ideas  
through December, really; I have to get serious about preparing a  
first draft in January. That said, having a set of priorities for  
work over the course of the coming year would be most helpful, and  
since the ALAC and the regional Secretariats are meeting in LA to do  
(amongst other things) just that, perhaps post-LA would be the most  
logical time to begin crafting a plan of activities that supports the  
macro-level strategy.

Of course, the suggestion box is always open. I would much rather put  
together a budget draft that's heavily informed by the community's  
plans and strategy for action than to make one up on my own.

-- 
Regards,

Nick Ashton-Hart
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On 8 Oct 2007, at 15:01, nirmol xxxx wrote:

> Hi Raj,
>
> I havent heard on this myself except that I am a part of the Budget- 
> WG.
>
> In this regard I request all members to send  their views on items  
> they intend us to consider in formulating the next Budget.
>
> Raj, please let me know who will be financing the budget or do we  
> have to undertake a study on sources of funding as well? I  
> understand that so far ICANN was funding the activities.
>
> Please also let us know the time line for the preparation of Budget.
>
> Nick, can you forward me the last budget and guidelines, if any,  
> with respect to the same prepared by ICANN or APRALO so far.
>
> We understand that the Budget is for the FY 2008-2009.
>
> John, please feel free to contact me on the above email to work on  
> this further.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Nirmol
>
>
>
>
> "Rajnesh D. Singh" <rajnesh at pacificit.org> wrote:
> Hi John/Nirmol,
>
> Cheryl advised at the last teleconference that the ALAC budget process
> is underway (or will be very soon).
>
> We need to get the APRALO submission finalised. Please let us know
> status of your WG's work thus far, and what we need to do to get this
> finalised.
>
> Just to revisit, APRALO will meet at:
> (i) ICANN February 2008 meeting (likely to be in Delhi)
> (ii) IGF 2008 (Delhi in November)
>
> Additionally, we need to consider presence at:
> (i) APNG camp
> (ii) APTLD meeting
> (iii) APNIC meeting
>
> We also need to look at support for:
> (i) APNG Camp 2008
>
>
> If anyone has suggestions for further meeting/event support, please  
> advise.
>
> -- 
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Rajnesh D. Singh
>
> COO, PATARA www.patarapacific.com
> Chair, ICANN Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organisation  
> www.apralo.org
> Chairman, Pacific Islands Chapter, Internet Society www.picisoc.org
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> Director, Pacific Internet Technology Centre www.pacificit.org
>
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>
>

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