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The Asia Pacific Internet Leadership Program (APILP) is a capacity building program, driven by the Asia Pacific community, that seeks to develop the Asia Pacific region’s Internet governance leaders of tomorrow. This program is run by the APILP working group and is designed to help professionals and interested parties from the Asia Pacific region better understand the global and regional Internet Governance issues and processes. At the same time, the program allows access to comprehensive and structured knowledge on the various aspects of the Internet.

 The APILP working group is comprised of volunteers from various communities in the Asia Pacific region. We can be reached at apilp_discuss@apilp.asia.

The key discussions and milestone of the APILP working group is documented below.

Open Invitation to Working Group for Asia Pacific Internet Leadership Program (APILP) during ICANN49 (March 22, 2014)

At the sidelines of the ICANN49 meeting, members of the APAC community discussed the direction and objectives of Asia Pacific Internet Leadership Program (APILP). The salient points of discussion are captured below.

Approach

• Draw up terms of reference, target audience (young professionals) objectives, end goal for the APIL
• Determine the gap, areas of research that is missing
• Work on 3-5 year plan, meanwhile continue programs that are in the pipeline
• Form a working group to look into the details
• Consider having community support to gain legitimacy

Curriculum/Direction

• Consider including into mainstream curriculum and/or having diploma on specific topics such as TCP/IP, ccTLD management
• Consider including non-technical aspects, such as internet governance, policy making and socio-economic implications.
• Build repository/database of all available courses and capacity building programs in the region (ICANN is developing an "ICANN Learn" one-stop-shop online platform, we could see if we can build on this)

Funding and support

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attached.

Attachment: Open Invitation to Working Group for Asia Pacific Internet Leadership Program (22 March 2014).docx

Call for Action (5 May 2014)

As a follow up to the meeting, a draft terms of reference (TOR) document is attached for discussion. Comments from all are welcome. (Please send in your comments to apilp_discuss@apilp.asia and copy kelvin.wong@icann.org by 6 June 2014. If you wish to be a part of this working group, please also send your request to the same email addresses).

Attachment: Draft TOR for Working Group on APILP v2.docx

Comment window closed (6 June 2014)

Thanks all for the comments at the apilp_discuss@apilp.asia discussion list.  The draft version of the TOR document at the close of the comment window is attached below. We will discuss the next steps for this in further detail.

Attachment: Draft TOR for Working Group on APIGLP v4.1.docx

1st APILP Working Group Coordination Call (13 June 2014)

a) Agenda for call

• Nomination of Chair and Vice Chair: At the APILP Open Working Group discussion during ICANN49 Singapore in March 2014, we asked for volunteers to be part of this Working Group (WG).  You are included in this group as you have indicated your interest to be part of the WG - thanks for this.  We are inviting nomination of Chair and Vice Chair to this APILP-WG.
• On APILP discussion during APrIGF Delhi (Aug): There were some suggestions for APrIGF in Delhi, Aug, in relation to APILP, including a presentation of the APILP workshop proposal. We hope to seek comments to the two proposals (a) and (b) below. 

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The first APILP Working group call was set up to discuss the way forward such as the nomination of Chair and Vice Chair, presentation of the APILP initiative, and to do an actual first run of the APILP during Delhi APrIGF (Aug

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• Others: Other suggestions, if any, are welcome too.

b) Notes for Call

Attendees:

Cheryl Langdon Orr, ISOC AU
Duncan Macintosh, APNIC
Hong Xue, Beijing Normal University
Kelvin Wong, ICANN
Kuek Yu Chuang, ICANN
Low Jiarong, ICANN
Yannis Li, DotAsia

1) Nomination of Chair and Vice Chair

• Process of nomination and election of Chair and Vice Chair for the APILP to follow the following election process:
  • Having a nomination period (21 days), during which members are allowed to put forward the names.
  • Self nomination allowed. If nominating a 2nd person, to allow 7-10 days within the nomination period, for nominated party to accept the nomination
• APILP TOR should consequently include the terms of reference for the Chair and Vice Chair too, such as:
  • Period of term: (Proposed) 2 years
  • Number of terms allowed: (Proposed) 2
• Cheryl agreed to help guide the nomination/election process of the Chair/Vice Chair for APILP
• There was a suggestion to have an interim Chair/Vice Chair to help lead discussions, before the Chair/Vice Chair are elected/take office. There was also a suggestion that ICANN as secretariat could help in the interim.

2) On APILP proposals

• Discussion on the specifics of the proposal will continue when the Chair/Vice Chair is selected. APrIGF secretariat (Yannis) updated the meeting that the APrIGF pre-event proposal (1 day workshop as proposed Ang Peng Hwa) was accepted by APrIGF MSG. She also reminded the meeting that Xue Hong has previously helped to include APILP as an agenda in APrIGF in Delhi, the proposals and suggestions on the details for APILP could be discussed. 90 mins is scheduled for this.
• For the proposal, there was also a suggestion to proactively look into the mode of learning, including having hybrid modes of remote participation and e-learning etc, to complement more traditional face-to-face sessions.

3) Follow up for APILP-WG

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The notes for this call is attached.

Attachment: Notes for 1st APILP Call (13 June 2014).docx

Nomination period for Chair and Vice Chair (From 16 June, Mon to 6 July, Sun)

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APILP Pilot Session in Delhi (Floor Discussion)

Finalization of the Terms of Reference for the APILP (3 September 2014)

Final round of comments were received from the community on the Terms of Reference (ToR) for the APILP working group, taking into account the learning points from the pilot run of the APILP program held during the Delhi APrIGF on Aug 2014.  Thanks for the comments.

The finalized ToR, including the next steps for the APILP working group, is attached.

Attachment: TOR for Working Group on APILP.pdf