[EURO-Discuss] Towards EURALO: A Proposed Roadmap

[Heike Jensen]

Hi everyone,

Many of us have stressed time and again the goal of having diverse countries
and subregions represented, so this seems a good opportunity to follow
through with this approach.

All other things being equal, I think it also vital to increase women's
meaningful participaton in ALAC and ICANN. Since it looks like this might be
a viable option in the present case, I think the European constitutency
should send out that signal as well.

Heike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Annette Muehlberg" <annette.muehlberg at web.de>
To: "Discussion for At-Large Europe" <euro-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
Cc: <euro-staff at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [EURO-Discuss] Towards EURALO: A Proposed Roadmap


Dear Patrick, dear Wolfgang,

I agree with you, it is essential that we actively work on meaningful
regional representation within Europe especially of regions with very
different political and infrastructural backgrounds.

The good part is, that we not only discussed the importance of this
issue in our past EURALO-prep. meetings but already took action running
a subregional outreach meeting in Prague. This, and our large outreach
meeting in Athens were very fruitful and we can build on these efforts.

There were at least two people from eastern Europe, Vladimir from Serbia
and Veronica from Moldova, who expressed strong interest in joining the
EURALO initiative and helping to build up an organisational structure
for a better representation of individual internet users, especially in
eastern Europe. Both of them have already been working on the issue of
internet infrastructure, domain name registration and new services in
Central and Eastern Europe. Both attended the two ALAC outreach meetings
and I think they have the potential to serve the At-Large well.

Best
Annette

Wolfgang Kleinwächter schrieb:
> Dear Patrick
>
> I agree that we have to be realistic but  I am glad to see that you share
my strategic visions. With regards the CEEC countries: I worked with the
Diplo Foundation in the preparation for our last ICANN Studienkreis meeting
in Prague (www.icann-studienkreis.net) and we were succesful to bring a
handfull of people from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland,
Serbia, Moldova and Russia to the meeting, some of them also potential
members of the ATL community like Veronica from Moldova or the student from
Belgrade who also came to the IGF in Athens. We should encourage this
newcomers and help them to get settled in the broader At Large Community in
Europe. I am preparing now the next ICANN-Studienkreis meeting for Warsaw
(October 11 - 12, 2007) where I am planning to bring people from Belarus,
Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania etc. to the meeting. This could become a
potential source for new recruitments for EU_RALO.
>
> But I agree this is hard work and needs time.
>
> Regards
>
> wolfgang
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> Von: euro-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org im Auftrag von Patrick
Vande Walle
> Gesendet: Fr 12.01.2007 19:59
> An: Discussion for At-Large Europe
> Cc: euro-staff at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> Betreff: Re: [EURO-Discuss] Towards EURALO: A Proposed Roadmap
>
>
> Wolfgang Kleinwächter said the following  on 11/01/07 15:20:
>
>
> Thirs: with regard to the European vacancy in the ALAC, I propose to look
towards Eastern Europe, preferably a non-EU member. This would give the
European group in the ALAC more representativeness and legitimacy and would
be also a signal to the "forgotten countries".
>
> Dear Wolfgang,
>
> It seems I am the only one to date standing to fill the vacancy.  This is
somewhat unfortunate, because it does not give ALAC a choice. If you know
any potential candidate from these "forgotten" countries, please tell them
they should contact the ALAC committee. If they do not stand, they have no
chance of being selected.
>
> Our current membership is mostly in Western Europe. I agree that
representation from Central and Eastern Europe should be enhanced in Euralo,
perhaps with more ALSes from these countries. This is something Euralo
should work on. However, it is a long-ranging goal. I am not convinced we
can solve that before the launch of Euralo, even less before the 16 January
deadline. We need realistic goals to prevent being frustrated in the end.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
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