[NA-Discuss] Requesting Your Input...

[Thompson, Darlene]

Hi all,

 

Here is one of the things that the Secretariats will be discussing in LA
and I would like to get NA feedback before I'm there "representing" us.
Here it is:

 

"Currently, ICANN's budget provides that funding exists for
approximately 18-20 persons from the At-Large community from the region
each ICANN meeting is held in to attend the meeting. This has to the
present day been used to sponsor one representative of each ALS in
attending, but as the community grows this will not be sustainable.

 

ICANN would like the input of the Secretariats about what kind of travel
support is actually useful to support policy work. Would 'means testing'
- requiring active engagement by community members in order to receive
travel support, for example - be useful to increase participation? Would
more regional ALS meetings be a better use of the funds? Is a hybrid
approach of some regional meetings and some ICANN meetings sensible?

 

In addition, this track of work is meant to discuss the idea for an
At-Large Summit. What could it achieve, and how? Is such a meeting the
only way to achieve certain objectives - and if so, which ones?"

 

So, I would like your contribution into this issue.  I, for one, will be
asking for more regional input into HOW these funds are spent.  Note -
not ALAC input but our own region's input.  But this is only part of
what we will be discussing.  So, if you have any thoughts, please
forward them to me or discuss them on the list so that I will know which
way we want to take this.

 

Thank you,

 

D

 

Darlene A. Thompson

Community Access Program Administrator

Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP

c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910

Iqaluit, NU  X0A 0H0

Phone:  (867) 975-6531

Fax:  (867) 979-8870

dthompson at gov.nu.ca

 

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