[lac-discuss-en] incorrect links to budget issue

Mon Jun 6 13:04:59 UTC 2011

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Carlos Dionisio Aguirre
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> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 07:40:44 -0400
> From: cintra.sooknanan at gmail.com
> To: lac-discuss-en at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> Subject: Re: [lac-discuss-en] incorrect links to budget issue
> 
> Hello everyone
> 
> I have made some changes to the google document, particularly to assist in
> readability of the document as follows:
> 
> LACRALO comment on ICANN’s Draft FY12 Operating Plan and Budgetdraft
> responses (initial from Sergio, edits by Jacqueline, Dev)(extracted from [
> http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/lac-discuss-es/2011/002768.html|
> http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/lac-discuss-es/2011/002768.html])The
> Latin American and Caribbean Regional At-Large Organisation (LACRALO), being
> the Internet end-user representatives in Latin America and the Caribbean
> (LAC), submits our comments regarding ICANN's Draft FY12 Operating Plan and
> Budget http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#op-budget-fy12).We appreciate
> the dialogue and feedback from ICANN Financial Staff to evaluate the
> ALAC/At-Large budget requests that were submitted for inclusion in ICANN's
> draft Operational Plan and Budget 2012. We wish to see such dialogue
> continue in future Operational Plans and Budgets.WHowever, we, the
> representatives of end users of the Internet in Latin America and the
> Caribbean (LAC),  note with considerable concern that, once again, many of
> the budget requests (
> http://forum.icann.org/lists/op-budget-fy2012/pdfUNwycLKGih.pdf) proposed by
> At-Large (http://forum.icann.org/lists/op-budget-fy2012/pdfUNwycLKGih.pdf) to
> improve participation in ICANN of user organizations in ICANN, (the
> basefoundation
> base of the pyramid on which sits the "multi -stakeholder model" sits,) were
> not approved or only partially approved.
> 
> >From our proposals, the budget for a General Assembly (GA) has been cut to
> an extent where only 6 ALS representatives will be funded to attend. The LAC
> region has more than 30 ALSs representatives accredited.
> 
> It is impossible to have a successful General Assembly (GA) without the
> in-personphysical presence and face to face interaction of all the ALS
> representatives of the region, especially infor a system based ion the
> bbottom-up
> participation and democratic principles which define ICANN. This view hais
> consensus throughout the At -Large community.
> These cuts do not only undermine and limit the possibility of real
> participation in the proposed annual LACRALO General Assembly (GA), but
> also, given that there is no funding approved for in-reach and out-reach in
> our region, limit the participation of the end-users of the LAC region in
> the overall ICANN process. We appreciate the limited efforts made by ICANN
> to date, but we strongly believe that users should have a large, active and
> physical presence in all the policy-making processes. There is much more
> that can be done. W, but we fear that the budget cuts reflect a lack of
> commitment to and show a lack of value offor end-user participation in ICANN
> processes.We believe that, given ICANN’s fiscal resources, this budget can
> easily be adjusted to ensure funds to support the participation of the ALSes
> in a General Assembly once a year as well as funds to finance activities
> related to in-reach and out-reach, if these are truly considered important
> by the Board and Staff of ICANN. Regarding LACRALO's proposals for outreach
> that were not approved, we take note of ICANN's Public Participation
> Committee (PPC ; http://www.icann.org/en/committees/participation/) Work
> Schedule to create a "Comprehensive Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement
> Strategy" and look forward to consultations with the PPC to create  such a
> strategy so that it can be implemented as soon as possible,. This is
> crucially important as there is an At-Large presencerepresentation in only
> 15 out of 33 countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region.We look
> forward to your response and call to discuss the possibilities that our
> approach could be as a solution to this dire situation facing those who
> maintain their presence throughout the scaffold structure of the
> Organization.
> ===================================================================================================================
> Regards
> 
> Cintra Sooknanan
> 
> 
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> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:44 PM, <sylvia at internautabrasil.org> wrote:
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> >  Subject: incorrect links to budget issue
> >  From: sylvia at internautabrasil.org
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> >  https://community.icann.org/x/LoH3
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> >  Yuyc / edit? Hl = en_GB &amp; authkey = CMjwrcII&gt; &amp; authkey =
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