[EURO-Discuss] Important: Lisbon GA planning and procedures

Adela Danciu adelada at gmail.com
Wed Mar 20 10:10:41 UTC 2013


Hi everybody,

I fully support Sandra's points and Yrjo's comments and I further add my 2
cents, though this may lead to addressing and debating the issues already,
even before the GA.

>From my own (short) personal experience as ALS representative in EURALO, I
think it all comes down to 2 main issues - and respectively finding the
proper means to improve and stimulate:

1. Communication with the ALS representatives. And here I don't mean
necessarily the tools for communication -email, wiki, conference call - but
rather the message itself, that needs to be fully understood in order to
trigger a reaction. And here I think the question(s) would be how to convey
the importance of certain topics and debates for the ALSs and how to
translate the ICANN jargon (not only the acronyms, but often the substance
as well) to get the meaning easier, who should do that and at what cost (of
time and energy). This also implies an effort to learn from the ALS
representatives part, since the communication needs to be both ways - and
this links to the next issue:

2. The interests and area of expertise of the ALS organisation in general
and ALS representative in particular. I think that the recipe for a
(meaningful) participation in ICANN debates is the matchmaking between the
ALS (organisation and representative) activity and the ICANN topic. And
here I mean at a more specific level, not the general user interest that
any ALS is supposed to follow. Through their membership and activity, each
ALS has a certain footprint and its representative in EURALO bears this
footprint along with his/her personal expertise (technical, legal, policy,
human rights, etc.). Maybe it would be useful to identify and map the
EURALO members interests and expertise with the occasion of this General
Assembly in order to facilitate somehow this matchmaking in the future?

I hope I made some sense and looking forward to discuss more at the GA or
in preparation of the GA.

Best,

Adela




On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Yrjö Länsipuro <yrjo_lansipuro at hotmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi all,
> Sandra's list of questions is a good basis for discussing how to improve
> the  participation of European ALS's in dealing with substantive, sometimes
> even operational issues like .health. There may be more of that kind when
> the new gTLD process goes on. Such a discussion is urgently needed.
> As it was suggested tonight on the EURALO call, we have to concentrate on
> issues that are of real importance to end users.  We don't need to spend
> precious time of our calls on issues that are far removed from that
> context,  very few of us even understand and nobody wants to comment on.
> I hope  we could devote a part of each call to a substantive discussion on
> whatever issue  is deemed to be important from an end user point of view.
> As far as communication tools are concerned, the simpler the better. Plain
> old e-mail is OK, if the topic is interesting enough.
> As ALS's, we have to try to find out what internet end users in our
> country/area really think about issues at stake. We are not opinion
> research institutions and can't afford to commission such studies. But we
> have our contacts, our networks, our ability to raise an issue and stir a
> debate.
> My 2 (€)cents,
> Yrjö
>
>
> > From: william.drake at uzh.ch
> > Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:12:39 +0100
> > To: euro-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> > Subject: Re: [EURO-Discuss] Important: Lisbon GA planning and procedures
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Sandra's proposal makes a lot of sense to me.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Mar 14, 2013, at 11:10 AM, sandra hoferichter <info at hoferichter.eu>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Wolf wrote: "Please give us your inputs on the agenda setting and let
> us know your related ideas ASAP (or until middle of April latest) to
> compile a complete draft GA agenda in time. (Christoph and Dick submitted
> their ideas already – thanks!)"
> > >
> > > I propose we discuss how the participation process within EURALO can
> be improved or revitalised. The .health objection process was a good
> example that there is no working mechanism to gather feedback form At-Large
> or have a discussion on an issue where the ALAC is supposed to vote on in
> the interest of the end user?
> > >
> > > Questions to be considered (but not limited to):
> > >
> > > - Are ALS´es aware of the issues currently under discussion at ALAC /
> ICANN? If not, why?
> > > - How can EURALO fulfil it's mandate to represent the end user voice?
> > > - How can we better link the levels of At-Large and ALAC?
> > > - Is email the right communication tool, if not what are the
> alternatives? Are there any?
> > > - How can ALS activities be linked to ICANN discussions and the other
> way round?
> > >
> > > Best Sandra
> > >
> > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > > Von: euro-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:
> euro-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] Im Auftrag von Wolf Ludwig
> > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. März 2013 18:12
> > > An: 'Discussion for At-Large Europe'
> > > Cc: matthieu.camus at isoc.fr; Nacho Amadoz; Oliver Passek
> > > Betreff: [EURO-Discuss] Important: Lisbon GA planning and procedures
> > > Wichtigkeit: Hoch
> > >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > until the end of the registration deadline for the Lisbon 2013 GA, we
> have received 27 confirmations from our members what is more than 80 per
> cent of the current total (33). Thanks for your support!
> > >
> > > These 27 participants were listed and sent to At-Large Staff and ICANN
> Constituency Travel who is preparing the booking arrangements with you at
> the moment. I assume, you will be contacted directly by CT during the next
> two weeks to handle your flight bookings with them. A complete list of
> travellers you can find here
> > >
> https://community.icann.org/display/EURALO/EURALO+ALSes+Representatives+to+the+2013+GA
> > > Please check names, ALS and preferred “home” airport again and let us
> know any changes needed.
> > >
> > > Your hotel rooms in Lisbon are pre-booked already for the nights from
> Wednesday 19 and 20 June (incl. EuroDIG) in the Altis hotel what will be
> the venue for the GA and EuroDIG – see:
> > > http://www.altishotels.com/EN/
> > >
> > > For Per diem arrangements you will be contacted at a later stage.
> > >
> > > Please be aware that due to the high percentage of participation, our
> travel budget is rather tight and we can only offer low budget flights (by
> Easyjet and the like) wherever possible. But for short-distance flights to
> Lisbon we consider this as acceptable. To get an idea about potential
> adventures aspects of it, you can check the YouTube clip ;-)
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPyl2tOaKxM
> > >
> > > As indicated before, those of you who would like to extend their stay
> in Lisbon for a cosy summer weekend should arrange this directly with CT
> for your individual booking – what shouldn’t effect higher flight fares
> however. Extra costs for hotel nights in Lisbon will be on your own
> expenses as well.
> > >
> > > The planning and preparation of our Lisbon GA agenda will be discussed
> at our upcoming monthly calls (March and April). Besides the usual and
> statutory parts of the GA (Board report, re-elections etc.), we would like
> to draft an interesting *content part* with issues that are relevant for
> and desired by YOU. Please give us your inputs on the agenda setting and
> let us know your related ideas ASAP (or until middle of April latest) to
> compile a complete draft GA agenda in time. (Christoph and Dick submitted
> their ideas already – thanks!)
> > >
> > > For any further questions on practical issues, org. and planning
> procedure or the agenda, please let me know.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Wolf
> > >
> > > EuroDIG Secretariat
> > > http://www.eurodig.org/
> > > mobile +41 79 204 83 87
> > > Skype: Wolf-Ludwig
> > >
> > > EURALO - ICANN's Regional At-Large Organisation
> > > http://euralo.org
> > >
> > > Profile on LinkedIn
> > > http://ch.linkedin.com/in/wolfludwig
> > >
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