ALAC Timeline

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 at:03/01/1999 shift:($dx,-35) text:The Membership Advisory Committee (MAC) was formed in Singapore during the first ICANN Public Meeting.
 at:05/01/1999 shift:($dx,-10) text:The Membership Advisory Committee met during the second ICANN Public Meeting in Berlin. It recommended a selection ~of the At-Large voting directors via global elections in the year 2000, starting initially with an election for one director from each~ of the five ICANN geographic regions. ~
 at:11/01/1999 shift:($dx,-5) text:The Markle Foundation committed to support the launch of the ICANN At-Large Membership program.~
 at:02/01/2000  text:ICANN launched a membership website for individual Internet users. Over 158,000 applications were received~
 at:09/08/2000 shift:($dx,-10) text:At The deadline for activation, more than 76,000 members of the At-Large electorate were listed.~
 at:10/01/2000 text:Election via online ballots was organized with the assistance of a Membership Implementation Task Force (MITF). ~
 at:11/01/2000 shift:($dx,10) text:Five new directors began their terms on the ICANN Board at the first Annual General Meeting in Los Angeles ~
 at:02/01/2002 shift:($dx,-20)text:President’s Report outlines extensive reforms. The report calls for Participation in Councils by Self-Organized ~Forums (Individuals and/or Entities with Common Interests), including potentially an At Large organization for individuals.~
 at:08/01/2002  shift:($dx,-10) text: the At-Large Advisory Committee Assistance Group made a proposal for a 15-person ALAC, which the ICANN Board ~approved with new bylaws in October 2002. This new model was created in order to provide a way for active individual Internet users ~from around the world to participate in ICANN. ~
 at:10/31/2002 shift:($dx,15) text:The ICANN Board adopted new bylaws that established the ALAC and authorized its Regional At-Large Organizations. ~These bylaws called for the ALAC to eventually consist of ten members selected by Regional At-Large Organizations, supplemented by five~ members selected by the ICANN Nominating Committee. ~
 at:03/01/2003 shift:($dx,20) text:The ICANN Board appointed 15 members to form the Interim ALAC, with a plan to transition this to an ALAC composed~ of members selected from five geographically-based Regional At-Large Organizations (RALOs) and the Nominating Committee. ~
 at:12/01/2003 shift:($dx,25) text:The first set of six organizations in three geographic regions were certified as At-Large Structures, including ~Societa Internet, Arab Knowledge Management Society, Alfa-Redi, Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft, Internet Society ~Luxembourg in Europe, and Internet Society Bulgaria 
 at:06/01/2007 text:The Interim ALAC became the ALAC, with the last RALO-appointed ALAC Members beginning their terms.~
 at:05/01/2008 text:the first organizational review begins~
 at:03/01/2009 text:93 leaders from 102 certified At-Large Structures convened for the first At-Large Summit (ATLAS I) during ICANN34 ~in Mexico City.
 at:06/01/2009 text:The first Organizational Review ends ~
 at:10/01/2010 text:The new bylaws allowed the At-Large community to select a voting member of the ICANN Board. ~
 at:06/01/2014 text:136 members representing the more than 160 At-Large Structures convened for the second At-Large Summit during~ICANN50 in London.
 at:05/01/2016 text:the second organizational review begins~
 at:05/01/2017 text:The second Organizational Review ends~
 at:11/01/2019 shift:($dx,25) text:60 At-Large Ambassadors from 200 At-Large Structures and 80 individual RALO members convened at ATLAS III during ICANN 66 in Montreal

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At-Large Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN related to the interests of individual Internet users (ICANN Bylaws). Not to be confused with the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group.

Regional At-Large Organization