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[edit] ALAC's Communication needs
ALAC needs to use the technology of the Internet to engage in two-way conversations with individual Internet users and the ICANN structure.
- Communication among committee members
- Communication with individual internet users
- Communication with at-large organizations (whether formal At-Large Structures or not)
- Communication with ALS and proto-RALOs
- Communication with ICANN Board, other ICANN entities
- Communication with "public": non-profit and non-governmental groups who have similar interests - eg civil society and human rights, consumer right organizations
- Communication with media,and perhaps government people
Can existing tools be made to serve these ends better?
[edit] ALAC's communication tools
(updating in ALAC's June 25 workshop)
Web:
- independent ALAC webpage, http://www.icannalac.org/ (RSS-enabled)
- ICANN ALAC webpage, http://alac.icann.org/
- Action item (nominated by Bruce) - let's keep this updated rather than saying it's out of date.
- Annette: best way to keep it updated is to link out to the updated icannalac.org
- Action item (nominated by Bruce) - let's keep this updated rather than saying it's out of date.
- RSS syndication
- RSS of LatinAmerican project: Erick and website team to resolve technical issues
Wiki: use [[category: ALAC]] (see ALAC_Communication#Categories) to collect pages
Periodic newsletters
Email lists:
- alac@icann.org : publicly archived list for ALAC members
- by default, everything is on the public list. Only what has a good reason is moved to private.
- alac-admin@icann.org : private list for administrative details
- what others exist? (requested clarification from ICANN staff) what others should exist?
- alac-forum@icann.org (? posts from forums?) posts to <http://forum.icann.org/alac-forum/> and I don't believe anyone is responsible for reading. Even with spam filters apparently in place, at least half of it is junk. Wendy recommends removing that forum and directing communication to the forums on icannalac.org.
- als@alac.icann.org, where ALS applicants are told to send their applications, is forwarded to alac-admin@icann.org
- checking with ICANN staff to fix the distribution
- als-discuss@icann.org appears to contain one email for each ALS (several of them no longer good addresses), but no ALAC members except those who also represent ALSs. It seems not to have been updated to include addresses of new European ALSs.
- Wendy suggests add ALAC members to als-discuss list. motion seconded and approved.
- How to discuss things with the ALSs?
- wiki, icannalac.org website forums, email list
- suggestion that if it's not in email, it doesn't get read
How to discuss things with ALS applicants. Hong suggests monthly update to applicants.
- Could this be a better newsletter? --Jacqueline
Teleconferences (should we use Skype instead? how can we make it easier for _all_ members to participate?)
IRC or Instant Messenger chat
- Erick suggests collecting list of IDs so members can IM or Skype one another.
- Bruce offers to compile a list if we all send him our info
Consensus polling
Formal research (surveys or polls)
- Wolfgang suggest starting with overview of existing research surveys, exploring possible cooperation.
- Europe: Europe Barometer, under the EC.
- US: Pew Internet & American life
- Latin America: OSILAC eclac
- Erick suggests cctlds as outreach to users
- Alan suggests ISOC
We can't reach "the world" -- can we gather interesting information from segments of the world
- people who are reluctant to participate
- people who are unable to participate because of filtering, censorship (Siavash)
- one possibility, talk to academics who are somewhat immune to censorship: e.g. technology programs at a region/language-group's colleges and universities
- Non-commercial / at-large interchange important (Norbert Klein)
- Norbert suggests a "civil society cluster" within ICANN for regular communication, develop a common voice
- Izumi suggest cross-linking with Non-Commercial Constituency's website
- Action item: suggest links to shared-interest organizations on the alacicann website. (Don't have to be ones where we share 100% interest)
- Alan Levin, need to give the average Internet user an incentive to participate (selfish reasons). For South Africa, if ICANN needs a project, .za users need funding to do policy work or design projects. Needs to see that participation is being taken notice of.
- Organization should be issue-oriented, to get people involved.
- Working groups can develop points, then present to full group for approval
- develop working methods on a case-by-case basis
- Problem with the proliferation of structures. Additional structures can lead to less effective communication.
[edit] RALO
- Alan: what's the justification for regional organization here? All of the discussion here has been global discussion.
