[Euro-board] WG: [Summit-participants] constructive critical contribution to ALAC

[Wolf Ludwig]

Hi all,

at this mornings ALAC session, Max made some suggestions (see below) and Sébastien suggested - what Wolfgang proposed before as well - to bring Max' point 4 as a motion into our Tuesday's GA - to vote on it and forward it (in case of acceptance) to other RALO-GAs ongoing here.

4) My last point is asking to explore how to make another ALAC summit like the one in mexico possible. These face-to-face meetings are very very essential to build the relationships and trust to start meaningfull work.

See you,
best,
Wolf


Max Senges wrote Sun, 1 Mar 2009 10:58:
>Dear ALAC review team - dear ALAC colleagues
>
>Allow me to briefly restate the comments I made during the session on ALAC
>review this morning and encourage you to also contribute constructively to
>planning the future setup of ALAC @
>http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#alac-review
>
>1) information overload
>As a volunteer it is very difficult to follow all the complexities of ICANN
>developments. It would be great if the core ALAC team can summarize and give
>short updates on hot themes and especially calls for defined action (like
>votes etc.). Another worthwhile effort might be a 5 min video newbie-guide
>on what are the common practices and points of leverage for ALAC member
>organizations.
>
>2) education about ALAC & Internet Governance
>I support the idea to develop educational resources (e.g. for teaching
>Internet Governance and ICANN matters in school and university) as well as
>to hold online lectures. Hereby learning materials and activities should be
>addressed to ALAC members as well as the general public/users.  I am happy
>to help in developing this initiative as this is my field of work and i have
>concrete ideas in how to bring this forward.
>
>3) Facilitate organization - enable bootstrapping - POWER - funded
>initiatives
>I would like to reinterprete Karl Auberback's point raising that in the end
>ICANN is at least not only a technical but also a policial institution in
>which the name of the game is power. I'd like to add power is represented by
>governmental diplomacy AND of course by money. Hence as Karl also pointed
>out it is good and important to give advise - but as he rightly said
>everybody can give advise and we as user representatives should continue to
>influence ICANN's governance structure to give civil society/ user
>representitives advise relevance.
>
>Nevertheless my constructive critical constribution to the review is to
>improve the support (bootstrapping) for initiatives coming from ALAC member
>organizations. One aspect that i'd like to single out is for ALAC staff to
>facilitate to find funding for initiatives because there is only so much one
>can do voluntarily.
>
>In this context allow me to mention that an innitiative is forming to work
>on a User/Registrant Rights Charter which eventually will lead to better
>user/consumer rights for all by integrating the charter into all Registrars
>offerings. You are very much invited to join our team - please contact me
>and/or come to our workshop on Tuesday, 3 March, 2009 16:30 - 18:00  Room:
>Alameda 3 (Hotel Meliá) http://mex.icann.org/node/2651
>
>4) My last point is asking to explore how to make another ALAC summit like
>the one in mexico possible. These face-to-face meetings are very very
>essential to build the relationships and trust to start meaningfull work.
>
>Kind regards,
>Max
>
>
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>
>Dr. Max Senges
>
>www.maxsenges.com
>www.knowledgeentrepreneur.com
>
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>

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