[APAC-Discuss] Beijing APRALO Showcase

Wed Nov 14 00:34:12 UTC 2012

Hi Edmon and Sala,

Very good recommendations and I would second all of them because I
have been a fellow twice with the fellowship program and the morning
sessions are both intensive and well visited by all top ICANN people
to build capacity and make the participants aware of ICANN's
functionality and Janice has her magic that helps new comers navigate
around ICANN much easily. There is no one single way to build capacity
and help navigation across voluntary organizations but our ALS's
should be fine.

Sala, I personally feel very uncomfortable when we have to conform to
a single basket design and being told what to do, how to do it and how
to show it without my own willingness. I don't think we should dictate
how ALS's participate and that is a critical element in participatory
involvement. We can help facilitate but not force ALS's to follow a
certain criteria because these are either ISOC chapters, NGO's,
community groups or loosely connected and organized communities. Thats
also a tipping point in ALS active involvement that many of don't seem
to understand. This gap has to be understood and I am being vocal
about it.

For example, my ALS (now called the Internet Research Group) protects
and defends cyber dissent, that is sensitive for the well-being of our
membership. It is a loosely connected membership consortium of people
concerned about the future of the Internet in Pakistan, combating
censorship, responding to govt actions, building and enabling further
Internet groupings like ISOC chapters and consumer groups etc.

I have members from media, think tanks, people leading ICT
organizations and playing an important part in shaping the countries
ICT and Internet Public Policy. They come from govt, regulators,
telcos, policy and donor orgs, private sector, academia and research.
No one in my group wants to be named beyond their organization, be
directly named or associated with ICANN however they are willing to
share their contributions and benefit from the knowledge that comes
down through ICANN and ALAC because it helps build foresight and
creating the playing field where Pakistan can also enter the domain
and IP addressing playing field.

We+one of our members is organizing part of a world launch of a UN
flagship research report at the end of this month and have a series of
policy round tables on Internet Public Policy, New GTLDs, Cybercrime
etc happening by the Beijing Meeting that we intend to share and
showcase. We will also be presenting a physical copy of the report to
the Chair and CEO of ICANN if present during the APRALO showcase to
show that we are contributing to global policy development in the
field of ICTs and Internet.

This small presentation could be one of the highlights because I can
seek permission from the UN to show and tell the report in 5-10
minutes and it lists my name for substantive inputs to the report.

So Sala, instead of telling ALSes WHAT TO DO we should help them share
what they WANT to show. My ALS will be bringing a physical global
contribution to ICT policy development. That will be our contribution
from Pakistan. Similarly we should ask everyone across the ALS network
that you can show what you want. We will help you show'n'tell etc.

Best

Fouad

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Edmon and All,
>
> Some thoughts to add to Edmon/Hong and Maureen's ideas:
>
> *Part 1*
>
>    - Verify contact details of all ALSes;
>    - Have an APRALO  meeting with Heads of all ALSes; [conference call]
>    - Talk to the ALSes and find out what are two most important things for
>    them;
>    - Create long term development strategy for APRALO and launch it at the
>    Showcase;
>    - Identify representative from each ALS to liaise between APRALO and ALS
>    on planning matters;
>    - Pre-warn the ALSes of dates so they can make arrangements and book
>    flights in advance;
>
> *Part 2*
>
>    - We need to preserve the diversity in APRALO and emphasize the
>    diversity, that is Arab/Asia/Australasia/Pacific components;
>    - Use the preparation time as a chance to build relationships with the
>    ALSes;
>
>
>    - Create booths around to showcase the different ALSes - allocate spaces
>    where they can set up displays etc;
>    - Each ALS can have a 2 min video loop;
>    - Create and identify youth within all the ALSes and identify means of
>    organising a Youth Forum for seamless immersion of youth;
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Hong Xue <hongxueipr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, all very good ideas. I can organize the Beijing local ALSes'
>> participation in the showcase if needed.
>>
>> In addition, may I suggest to have a Youth Forum for young people from
>> all ALSes.
>>
>> Hong
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Edmon Chung <edmon at isoc.hk> wrote:
>> > Hi Everyone,
>> >
>> > Prompted by a short chat with Rinalia and following from our discussion
>> in Toronto... would like to get the discussion about what we should do in
>> Beijing started.
>> >
>> > 1. Special Showcase Event
>> > As brought up in Toronto, and with Hong Xue's help, we would like to
>> explore the possibility of having the APRALO showcase event together with
>> the Welcome Reception (on the Monday late afternoon/early evening).  I can
>> probably suggest for DotAsia to help with some sponsorship for this as well
>> :-)
>> >
>> > This will not only ensure more participation and reduce conflict in
>> schedules, but also allow us to make the whole event more exciting.  We
>> also discussed the interest to avoid boring speeches, so we should discuss
>> how perhaps we can "showcase" the work of different ALSes and also of
>> APRALO during the event. Perhaps we can produce a short video (just to get
>> the ideas started)...
>> >
>> >
>> > 2. Leveraging Fellowship program
>> > Instead of daily early morning "capacity building" sessions, we can
>> leverage the fellowship program and send all ALS representatives
>> (especially those who have not participated at ICANN as much) to the
>> fellowship sessions (which are held early morning).
>> >
>> >
>> > 3. Multi-stakeholder Policy discussions/roundtables
>> > With the "capacity building" sessions taken care of by the fellowship
>> program, the idea is to hold more intensive policy discussion sessions.
>>  With the benefit of having all the ALSes from AP there the idea is to
>> further take the opportunity to invite other stakeholders, including
>> government representatives, registries (applicants), registrars,
>> intellectual property rights experts, ISPs and other NGOs in the region to
>> join in a multi-stakeholder dialogue with a goal towards potentially
>> producing a sort of communique at the end of the meeting to establish some
>> views on various policies and issues.
>> >
>> >
>> > 4. APRALO Pin / Badge Decoration / ...
>> > We also talked about producing a pin or badge decoration or something
>> that can be worn (name tag strap?) by  APRALO...
>> >
>> >
>> > Of course before all of these, we need to figure out the type of budget
>> that we have, and potential additional sponsorship we can raise...
>> >
>> > Edmon
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>>
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