[At-Large] [ALAC] Idea for an alternative to the EMM proposed in the At-Large Review

[Eduardo Diaz]

I lik ethe idea but need more thinking in its implementation.

For one, by-laws (or something similar) are needed, specially when it come
to vote for the regional representatives. We need to think if organization
can become members of these chapters an so on. There could  be one chapter
per country with one vote per country in the region. Still you need to
manage all the chapters in the region. Just thinking out loud.

-ed

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:52 AM Maureen Hilyard <maureen.hilyard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I like your idea of ICANN chapters within a country or perhaps a subregion
> of a large country.
>
> As an ex-Pres of our Rotary Chapter, I find the Rotary concept
> interesting, but it does set a model that would encourage a wider
> opportunity for outreach as well as education and training, and policy
> input at a country level.. and all organised by the members.  Rotary is
> also self-funding but with the opportunity to get funding from the parent
> body for special projects.
>
> But it would also mobilise large groups of individual members who at least
> have a lot of things in common already as a starting point - language and
> culture,socio-politics, shared internet environment, etc
>
> Sounds a little like the Internet Society of China model with everyone in
> one country under one umbrella.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:04 AM, Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Here's an idea for an alternative proposal for At-Large to the EMM model
> proposed in the At-Large Review
>
> My thoughts - The proposed EMM has flaws. Some immediate ones :
>
> - it destroys the community and with that, the consensus building of
> community with replacement
> of individuals with even less ties to the public community. Such
> individuals will promote and collude with other individuals to keep
> themselves in the loop. Also, with many of the policy discussions in GNSO
> being English, this permanently eliminates persons from developing/emerging
> economies from non-English from ever participating.
> - given that any individual could already participate in GNSO, we would be
> no different from such random individuals
> - it removes the mandate on oversight and accountability on ICANN
> activities from end user interests
> - a thousand individuals in one large country will override 10 individuals
> from a small country  so there will be less diversity in the EMM model only
> from those countries with large number of  individuals.
> - Nomcom appointees to ALAC new to ICANN will serve as Liasions to other
> groups is not sensible
>
> There are many more problems but I want to focus on a IMO a better
> At-Large model than the EMM one:
>
> - ICANN establishes At-Large Chapters in each country similiar in concept
> to Rotary or ISOC chapters.
> - each chapter is open to anyone interested in ICANN from the interests of
> end users.
> - ICANN can set guidelines for each chapter - some examples: must do
> certain level of outreach, have term limits, have a public F2F awareness
> meeting to recruit new persons. ICANN would need to provide some funding to
> make this happen but this would be small and the chapters can account to
> ICANN for expenses.
> - ICANN can provide the tools (mailing lists, conference tools) to
> facilitate online discussions.
> - Because there is a consistent brand - At-Large Chapter in the country,
> marketing/promoting is
> greatly simplified and easier to explain.
> - Given that such chapters are virtual, it makes chapters easy to
> establish with only a few individuals from a country without the challenges
> of having formal organisations with bylaws and pay taxes.
>
> So an At-Large chapter ends up being a virtual ALS in each country in the
> ALAC/RALO/ALS model.
>
> The RALOs will consist of the chapters from each country in the region
> with each chapter electing two persons to coordinate the RALO work. The
> RALO will be better positioned to better fulfil its MOUs with ICANN and the
> RALO and ALAC would not have to bother with analysing whether an
> organisation meets the criteria of an ALS.
>
> The At-Large chapters will be better able to network with At-Large
> chapters in other countries and build consensus on policy issues and help
> promote and grow the At-Large Community.
>
>
> ---
> Dev Anand
>
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