[At-Large] APRALO Budget

Tue Oct 9 01:33:37 EDT 2007

Hi Nick,

Would it be part of ALAC interests/mandate to get more and more of the
'users' from different regions get more involved in its work / engaging with
ICANN. On these lines, should we be putting in some effort to getting more
participants from less represented regions of the world (relative to
potential participation, even if not relative to other regions). 

in which case, making region wise allocations would be more useful, as you
have also suggested. can we ask ICANN to start budgeting in this manner from
this year. how can one go about proposing such an idea? 

thanks
Guru
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IT for Change, Bangalore 
Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities 
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From: alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org
[mailto:alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Nick Ashton-Hart
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 11:45 PM
To: nirmol xxxx
Cc: Asia-Pacific Discuss; RAJNESH D. SINGH; At-Large Worldwide
Subject: Re: [At-Large] APRALO Budget

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.

-- 
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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

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