[EURO-Discuss] Towards EURALO: A Proposed Roadmap

Annette Muehlberg annette.muehlberg at web.de
Sun Jan 14 07:42:16 EST 2007


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
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>  
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> 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
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> Wolfgang Kleinwächter said the following  on 11/01/07 15:20: 
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> 	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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