[EURO-Discuss] Improvement of the win-win relationship between the Staff and the At-Large Community

[Kleinwächter, Wolfgang]

Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Medienstadt Leipzig e.V., EU-RALO:
 
 
1.   What issues being debated in ICANN do you believe are the most important to your RALO?

User and consumer rights, in patricular with regard to the so-called ICANN issues (including freedom of expression, date protection, privacy, prices, security, stability, diversity, multilingualism)


2.   How can we help make the time you spend on ICANN issues as valuable and efficient to you as possible?

a. To avoid long and time consuming buerocratical procedures and discussions
b. to concentrate on substance and relevant issues
c. to imrpove the interaction with other ICANN constituencies
d. to work towards a more significant AL representation in the BoD (from Voice to Vote)

3.   What challenges and opportunities do you see for your RALO and for At-Large more generally (in the context of ICANN work)?

ALAC and the RALO mechanism have a great opportunity (and responsibility) to become the center of gravity for individual Internet users around the globe. For ICANN as a whole such an acceptance would produce a much higher level of legitimacy and would help ICANN to become - as stated in the Annex to the JPA - a model of a multistakeholder organisation. If ICANN can achieve this, it will be much safer against a new wave of efforts by various (governmental) groups to get a more direct governmental oversight over the management of critical Internet ressources.  This is in particular important in the context of the IGF. 
 
4.   How interaction between and within RALOs be increased?

Specialized F2F meetings, also on the local/rgional level are important. Workshops, Round Tables etc. with opportunities for remote participation are very helpful but have to be prepared carefully. There has to be substance für such events, not just "coming together and strengthening relationships". A workplan which would identify three to five main priority topics for individual Internet users for a period of three or five years would helpful. Based on working papers, such a process could produce a discussion around issues aimed at a final document which could lead to an "At Large Publication Series" where users get quick access to answers. 

5.   What are the top three things you would like your RALO to achieve?

a. to stablize its still fragile institutional structure
b. to do more outreach to get a sub-regional geographical balance (in case of EU-RALO this means CEEC, Russia but also Northern Europe (Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Greenland)  
c. to produce more substance / input
d. to become a key player in the EURO-IGF


6.   What are the top three things you believe ICANN Staff could do to help your RALO?
 
a.reduce the  burocratical barriers to get things done
b.organize financial support for local and regional activities
c. fight for ALAC interests and positions within the ICANN burocracy 
d. help to transform ALAC into an ALSO which would give the AL the same right as the three other SOs have, that is to send two voting directors to th Board.