[At-Large] [APAC-Discuss] ICANN.org Announcement: Asia-Pacific Internet Users Big Part of ICANNs New Delhi Meeting

[Franck Martin]

Thanks for mentioning the Pacific Islands, always appreciated!

On 15/02/2008, Nick Ashton-Hart <nick.ashton-hart at icann.org> wrote:
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> Asia-Pacific Internet Users Big Part of ICANN's New Delhi Meeting
> http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-14feb08.htm
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> Ceremony recognizes Regional At-Large Organization, first Asia-Pacific
> At-Large General Assembly
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> 14 February 2008
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> NEW DELHI, INDIA: Individual Internet users from Asia, Australia, and
> the Pacific Islands have direct input into the Internet Corporation
> for Assigned Names and Numbers, a fact recognized today with the
> ceremonial signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between ICANN and
> the Internet user groups who participate in the Asia-Pacific Regional
> At-Large Organization (APRALO).
>
> The APRALO conducted its first General Assembly as a part of ICANN's
> 31st International Public Meeting in New Delhi. They discussed issues
> that will affect Internet users throughout the region and the world.
> The Internet user groups who are a part of APRALO are incredibly
> diverse, and include users from India, Japan, China, Australia, New
> Zealand, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates.
>
> "Today's ceremony recognizes the ICANN community's success in creating
> a formal, global structure to help ensure ideas and feedback from
> individual Internet users around the world is heard in our policy
> processes," said Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN's President and CEO. "ICANN's
> work to introduce a process for applying for new top level domains –
> the part after the dot – especially those using the more than 100,000
> characters from the languages of the world which do not use the Latin
> character set – will benefit from formal inputs through the Regional
> At-large Organizations worldwide. The Asia-Pacific RALO is a key
> contributor to this process."
>
> There are now more than 100 user groups taking part in ICANN's five
> Regional At-large Organizations, or RALOs, from the Asia-Pacific,
> Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, Europe, and Africa.
> APRALO was created on 30 March 2007 and has been informing the
> region's individual Internet users about ICANN activities and
> providing advice to ICANN on their behalf for nearly a year.
>
> The RALOs have direct input to ICANN, especially through the
> international At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), which represents
> Internet users in ICANN and whose members are chosen largely by the
> RALOs.
>
> "ICANN's ongoing coordination of the domain name system, and its
> policy work, has a large impact on the Internet and the more than one
> billion people around the world who use it – and the billions more who
> should be able to use it," said Cheryl Langdon-Orr, ALAC Chair. "By
> bringing together Internet users from across the globe, the RALOs are
> at the heart of ensuring that users have a say on what's happening at
> ICANN."
>
> More information on the participation of individual Internet users in
> ICANN is available at http://alac.icann.org/
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Nick Ashton-Hart
> Director, At-Large
> ICANN
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