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1. APRALO in 2015 in numbers - During 2015 APRALO initiated and conducted several activities. Here are some numbers to highlight what has been accomplished during 2015:

   a) APRALO Showcase was conducted during ICANN 52 in Singapore meeting on 11th of February 2015 with the support of regional partners (DotAsia, APNIC and APTLD) and APRALO ALSs. The program and materials of the showcase are available here: APRALO Outreach Event Workspace

   b) 6 new ALSs joined during 2015 year, thus the total number of ALSs in APRALO by the end of December is 42. You can view the list of all ALSs here: APRALO ALSes & Independent Members.

   c) Leveraging APAC for Capacity & Capability Building - 5 webinars were conducted within the framework of APRALO-APAC HUB. To view all webinars, records and transcrips, please, visit here: 2015 APRALO Capacity Building Webinar Series

   d) Community driven localized materials has been prepared in 5 languages: Korean, Hindi, Chinese, Bahasa Indonesia, Cantonese / Traditional Chinese - all materials in local languages can be found here: KISA-ICANN Language Localisation Pilot Project

   e) APRALO Strategy was developed and activities implemented within the framework by different ALSs supporting APAC outreach to raise awareness & increase stakeholder participation. The approved strategy for FY16 can be viewed here: APRALO Outreach Strategic Plan

   f) APRALO Outreach Calendar had been created to highlight the events on regional and national levels. All activities can be viewed here: http://teamup.com/ks8f4dd46342679eea/

   h) APRALO Rules of Procedures is in the process of finalization to increase the opportunity for individual members. The draft ROP can be viewed here: APRALO Rules of Procedures Review - Individual Membership

   i) Two CROPP requests had been submitted and approved. All 5 slots had been used. The CROPP submissions can be viewed here: APRALO Trip Proposal 1 and APRALO Trip Proposal 2

   j) Two e-books had been created, which can be viewed here: https://apralo2015.wordpress.com/at-large-webinar-ebooks/

   k) Input for At-Large new website was provided and the full information about APRALO and other RALOs activities can now be viewed at: https://newatlarge.icann.org/

    

2. APRALO Members participation at IGF 2015 - As reported in previous months, two members of APRALO Leadership Team, Siranush Vardanyan (Chair) and Satish Babu (Vice-Chair) participated in the IGF 2015 in Joao Pessoa, Brasil on November 9-13 through FY16 budget request approved by ICANN Board. The participation report is submitted and can be viewed here:

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    APRALO CROPP request for APRICOT 2016 - During November-December APRALO LT worked on the CROPP request for participation at APRICOT 2016 in February in New Zealand. The request had been approved on December 7, 2015 and the approved request is submitted and can be viewed here:  APRALO Trip Proposal 2. APRALO team will start working on logistics during December-January period. APRALO will conduct separate outreach workshop during APTLD Conference on February 18, 2016, as well as participate in different activities within the framework of APRICOT 2016.

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   HAPPY NEW YEAR. Seasonal Greetings on behalf of APRALO Leadership team and looking forward working with you in 2016

November 2015 Report

1. APRALO Members participation at IGF 2015 - Two members of APRALO Leadership Team, Siranush Vardanyan (Chair) and Satish Babu (Vice-Chair) participated in the IGF 2015 in Joao Pessoa, Brasil on November 9-13 through FY16 budget request approved by ICANN Board. The participation report is in the process of finalization and will be posted soon. 

    

2. The At-Large Beta Website - During November APRALO monthly call the new At-Large Beta website was presented. The link to the website is available here: https://newatlarge.icann.org/. APRALO LT worked closely with At-Large staff to provide feedback and additional documents to be posted in APRALO space. The call for comment is open also to all AP ALSs to be posted at wiki space here: Provide Your Feedback on the Beta At-Large Website. 

   
   

3. At-Large Webinar E-Books project - The At-Large Capacity Building Working Group has been holding capacity building and update webinars for a  number of years and these are currently stored with the ICANN Community Website as recordings and transcripts. We have now moved to transforming this information into eBooks so that the same information can be accessed by anyone interested in how ICANN works and to encourage more IT-interested persons to join an At-Large Structure and participate in ICANN decision-making about the internet. Maureen Hilyard from APRALO LT team and Glenn Mcknight from NARALO prepared two e-books, which are available here for download: https://apralo2015.wordpress.com/at-large-webinar-ebooks/. 

   eBook #1: “At-Large Working Groups” which was presented by Heidi Ullrich, Senior Director for At-Large, is the first of this series.  The online version and the pdf version

   

   Heidi Ullrich At-Large Working Groups

    

    

   eBook #2: The second part to the Working Groups programme was a session on “Cross Community Working Groups (CWGs)” presented by Marika Konings, GNSO Director of Policy Development. The online version and the pdf version

    

   

    This is the call to all APRALO members to comment and provide their feedback on these e-books and what other types of e-books they would be interested to see. Please, send your comments to Maureen Hilyard at maureen.hilyard@gmail.com

   
   

4. APRALO - APAC HUB webinar - On November 24, 2015 the next webinar was organized for APRALO members on "Missed the ICANN54 Dublin Meeting? IANA Stewardship Transition and Enhancing ICANN Accountability Updates". This is the fifth webinar organized within APRALO - APAC Hub partnership during 2015, which is the last for this year. All Webinar records, transcript are available here: Missed the ICANN54 Dublin Meeting? IANA Stewardship Transition and Enhancing ICANN Accountability Updates Webinar 2015-11-24. The invited speakers were: Cheryl Langdon- Orr (APRALO member), and Jia-Rong Low - Sr Director, GSE Asia

    

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1. APRALO Individual Membership - During APRALO monthly meeting took place at ICANN 54, in Dublin, the issue of individual membership had been discussed. The new ROP is in the process of preparation. APRALO Rules of Procedures Review 2015 - Individual membershipMembership wiki space is created for comments. In the wiki space the information about how other RALOs are dealing with the same issue is posted as well. The space is open for all members of APRALO to comment.

   
   

2. NomCom appointee for ALAC - Kaili Kan, (you can read about him here: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/nomcom-bios-2015-09-25-en#kaili-kan), a new NomCom appointee for ALAC from Asia Pacific region, was introduced to APRALO members. 

   
   

3. APRALO promotional video - APRALO Leadership team prepared a new outreach video (courtesy for making the video Glenn McKnight), which can be viewed here: 

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4. APRALO Outreach Strategy - During October monthly meeting APRALO outrach strategy for FY16 was discussed with the representatives of ICANN GSE staff from Asia Pacific, Yu-Chuang Kuek, VP and Managing Director, APAC, who provided updates on current APAC Hub-APRALO coorperation, effectiveness of webinars and future plans, updates from India were also presented. Zheng Song, Head of China also provided updates from the region. APRALO strategy is available here: APRALO strategy FY2016.docx. This is a living document and can be updated/added during the course of the year. 

   
   

5. FY17 financial requests discussions - APRALO leadership team started the discussions of requests to be submitted for FY17. During FY17 there will be one meeting in AP region and the request for holding GA will be submitted. Several other requests, including the participation at the next IGF 2016 are in the process of discussion. The deadlines for submission the financial requests to ICANN will be in Feb-March.

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1. APRALO Outreach strategy - APRALO Strategy had been approved during ALAC Outreach and Engagement Sub Committee on August 3, 2015. RALOs' strategy wiki space is here: APRALO Outreach Strategic Plan.The APRALO strategy is available here: APRALO strategy FY2016.docx. This is a living document and can be updated/added during the course of the year. 

2. At-Large Captioning Pilot to create criteria 2015-08-19 - APRALO joined the new initiative on captioning pilot project. The pilot phase approved by ICANN board is October-December 2015. The initiative is led by NARALO and APRALO and AFRALO are involved in pilot phase. Currently the criteria for the pilot phase are being discussed. It was suggested that one of the webinars within the framework of APRALO-APAC HUB partnership to be implemented in November or December 2015 will be captioned. Staff with work with APAC HUB to conduct test prior to the webinar for captioning possibilities
   
   
3. CCWG on Enhancing ICANN Accountability - During the August call CCWD Accountability 2nd draft presentation was conducted for AP community - the presentation slides are available here: XPL_CCWG Proposal_Visual Summary_FINAL.pdf
   
   
4. New ALS Welcome Webinars - On August 12 the webinar for newly joined ALSs had been conducted. APRALO has 4 new ALSs joined recently. The presentations conducted by ALAC Chair and new ALSs, as well as recording and transcript of the meeting are available here: Formal webinar for new ALSes with RALO leaders and the ALAC Chair 2015-08-12. APRALO presentation, conducted by APRALO Vice Chair Ali AlMeshal is available here: APRALO presentation.ppt

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1. APRALO Outreach strategy - APRALO Leadership team started to work on the new outreach strategy for FY16 after ICANN 53. The new strategy includes several activities planned within APRALO during FY16. APRALO welcomes the opportunities that CROPP funding allows to expand the understanding of and participation in ICANN activities by Internet users in the Asia and Pacific region. Specifically, through CROPP funding, as well as finding from additional, regional funding bodies, APRALO members will be able to participate in regional events and explain ICANN’s structure and activities, and how Internet organizations’ can participate in the development of ICANN policies and activities. As well as APRALO appreciate the partnership with APNIC and APTLD and several local opportunities for the implementation of FY16 strategy. The strategy received positive feedback from the APRALO members in Outreach Sub Committee, as well as from regional VP and stuff. The strategy is available here: APRALO strategy FY2016.docx. 

2. Individual membership in APRALO - APRALO LT started the discussions related accreditation/admission procedures for Individual members. The best practices used in EURALO and NARALO are the basis for further discussions. The topic also will be discussed during July-September period to have the planned approach to be presented at ICANN 54. The wiki space will be created and the small Task Force team will be established to continue the discussions, started during ICANN 53. The direct link to the wiki space is here: https://community.icann.org/display/APRALO/APRALO+Rules+of+Procedures+Review+2015-+Individual+membership. We encourage APRALO ALSs to provide comments/suggestions on this topic.

3. APRALO - ICANN APAC HUB PILOT FRAMEWORK - Within the framework for this cooperation APRALO and the ICANN APAC Hub are organizing a webinar “Basic DNS and DNS Ecosystem Webinar", taking place on 30 July 2015 at 05:00 UTC. 
   Invited Speaker is Steve Sheng - Director, SSAC & RSSAC Advisory Development Support, Policy Development. The draft agenda (to be updated) and call details are available at: https://community.icann.org/x/W4BCAw. ADIGO dial-in numbers: https://adigo.com/icann/. Adobe Connect (with two-way audio in English): http://icann.adobeconnect.com/apralo. If you require a dial-out please contact At-Large staff at staff@atlarge.icann.org with your preferred number.
    

June 2015 Report

1. APRALO - ICANN APAC HUB PILOT FRAMEWORK - During June monthly meeting, which took place during ICANN 53 meeting, Yu-Chuang Kuek, VP and Managing Director - APAC HUB, provided updates on the implemented activities and the works related to the upcoming webinar to be organized in July (topic is New gTLD program). 

2. One of the main issues discussed during the monthly meeting was how to encourage the current ALSs for broader participation in ICANN and APRALO activities. During previous months APRALO leadership team conducted a survey and based on the survey results several activities now are in place to provide relevant information to ALS representatives, especially the newcomers. 

3. During the June monthly meeting APRALO invited as a quest speaker Patrik Fältström, Chair of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee, ICANN, to provide the information about DNSSEC, current development and challenges. 
4. APRALO Outreach strategy - APRALO Leadership team started to work on the new outreach strategy for FY16, which is a new requirement for CROPP program. The strategy will be presented to CROPP in July before submission to any CROPP application for funding. 
5. 2015 APRALO Selections and Appointments - As a result of consensus call it was officially announced that Maureen Hilyard as ALAC member from APRALO, Satish Babu as APRALO Vice Chair and Pavan Budhani as secretariat will continue to serve another term. The details and the results are provided in the link.
   
   

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     4. APRALO Delegate for NomCom election is in the process. APRALO has two candidates - Gunela Astbrink from Australia and Amir Qayuum from Pakistan. In May APRALO held an official voting process. 

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1.  APRALO - ICANN APAC HUB PILOT FRAMEWORK - Within the framework of APRALO collaboration with APAC Hub the series of webinars for APRALO members started with the first webinar, conducted on April 9, 2015. The topic was What are IDNs and what does it mean to you. The agenda of the webinar is posted in March report space. Transcription of the first webinar is available at: IDNs Webinar 2015-04-09. 

   All recording and transcripts of webinars will be provided after each webinar. At-Large staff will work on this in collaboration with APAC hub and ICANN's translation-request teams.

   During the period starting from April 2015 till December 2015 one webinar per month will be organized: The topics of the planned webinars are posted at 2015 APRALO Capacity Building Webinar Series, under Focus Ares 2: Leveraging APAC for Capacity & Capacity Building

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For your reference and for those who were unable to attend, the webinar recording, audio recording, transcription and presentation slides are available at the following link: https://community.icann.org/x/FyEnAw  

Questions or comments can be sent to ICANN At-Large Staff at staff@atlarge.icann.org and we would appreciate your feedback via a simple online survey (click here)  to help us better plan for the future webinars. 

We would also like to have your feedback/suggestions on what other topics you would like us to cover for our future Webinars. If you have any suggestions, please write to us at staff@atlarge.icann.org 

In addition, this page is the one-stop-shop for all APrALO-APAC Hub Capacity Building Webinar Series:  https://community.icann.org/x/NA8nAw. Please bookmark this page to follow the development of future webinars and gain Access to their recordings, transcription and presentation slides.

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3. APRALO Outreach Strategy

APRALO Outreach Strategy For the coming 12 months, APRALO will divide the Asia Pacific region into 5 main parts. East, West, North, South and Australasia. One representative, either from an ALS or an APRALO executive will take the lead for each region with Pavan, our Secretariat taking the lead on the overall flow of the project. The project will involve looking at the number of countries we have in each region and how many ALS’es there are in that region. Then we will start the outreach in the various regions with the help of current ALS’es and other organizations using our contacts. These could be ISOC Chapters, Universities and so on. Our overall goal is to make sure APRALO has a well balanced representation and we cover every part of the region.

March 2015 Report

1.  APRALO - ICANN APAC HUB PILOT FRAMEWORK - Within the framework of APRALO collaboration with APAC Hub the series of webinars for APRALO members will be organized. The first webinar will be organized on 9 April 2015. Time: 11:00 – 12:00 Singapore Time / 03:00 – 04:00 UTC 

   Topic: What are IDNs and what does it mean to you? In collaboration with the APRALO Capacity Building Webinar Series
   
   Agenda: Do you know that characters used in top-level domains (TLDs) extend beyond ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) including other scripts such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Japanese and others? To determine valid TLD labels in these scripts and their variants, however, community input is very important. Join us to find out more about IDNs at our webinar session and learn how you can play a part! The proposed agenda is as follows:
   
   -      Introduction to Mr. Sarmad Hussain, IDN Program Senior Manager at ICANN
   -      What are Internationalized Domain Names?
   -      What does it mean to you?
   -      IDN Work at ICANN
   -      Sharing by APRALO representative: IDN from the Label Generation Ruleset (LGR) panel perspective (TBC)
   -      Why and how you can be involved
   -      Q&A

   * Kindly note that Universal Acceptance of IDNs will not be a focus topic at this introductory presentation.
   Questions:  Please submit questions in advance to help us better tailor the webinar to the needs of the APAC region. Send your questions and RSVP to apachub@icann.org by 3 April. We look forward to your active participation. 
   

   Feel free to share with your friends and colleagues in your community as well. 
   Adobe Connect: https://icann.adobeconnect.com/apacmtgrm 

2. APRALO Professional Expertise Survey - This survey is get to know more about our AT-Large Structures (ALSes) and their members. We realise that there is a lot of untapped potential among our ALS members and we need to find out more about you and how you might be able to more appropriately contribute to the work we do in APRALO and in ALAC. With ICANN becoming more focused on its ACCOUNTABILITY, there is an expectation that each of its sections will look at how well it is contributing to the work of the wider ICANN community. Therefore, measuring and metrics are becoming the norm and our members must be seen to be playing their part within the system in order to retain their membership. The objective of the Survey is also to determine the areas of professional expertise of RALO members as required by ATLAS II Recommendation 28: " The ALAC should work with all RALOs and ALSes to map the current expertise and interests in their membership, to identify Subject Matter Experts and facilitate policy communication". - https://community.icann.org/display/als2/Post-ATLAS+II+Activities+Workspace

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