| No. | Recommendation | Recipient | Thematic Group Source | Assignees | Status |
| 17 | ICANN needs to be sensitive to the fact that social media are blocked in certain countries and, in conjunction with technical bodies, promote credible alternatives | ICANN GSE Staff; ICANN CIIO | TG2 |
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Actions:
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- Social Media WG assignees of this Rec to do the reporting
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Notes:
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Input from Social Media Working Group:
- Review the social media platforms blocked in certain countries/regions (e.g.http://citizenlab.org/) & alternative platforms local to those countries/regions
- Assignees (Beran Dondeh Gillen, Bukola Fawole, Murray McKercher, Glenn McKnight) to research alternative social media platforms in countries that block Facebook, Twitter, and/or YouTube & report back to the group via mailing list and future WG call
- Assignees to to contact the citizen lab and find out previous research on this subject
- Glenn McKnight to follow up with the other assignees on this Rec
- Ariel Liang & Murray McKercherto explore ICANN's Wechat account
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- ICANN has launched Wechat and YouKu accounts to reach audience in mainland China
- Slack can separate conversations based on topics via hashtags and do search of the messages globally. Slack is a good alternative tool for internal communications of the community, especially At-Large. Skype has various challenges, as it can easily loose chat history. Slack has a great mechanism for retaining chat history. It also has various add-ons/integration with other tools.
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Input from Technology Taskforce:
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