Content Comparison

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• 22 Feb 2016:
  
  •  presented to the At-Large ALS Criteria and Expectations Taskforce, per recommendation of the At-Large Regional Secretariats Meeting 2016-02-18
• 09 Mar 2016: 
  
  •  Heidi Ullrich to check with ICANN Staff with regard to whether Adobe Connect rooms has built-in 'dial-out' capability to make calls at a low cost

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Notes: 

• 24 Nov 2015: 
  
  • NARALO is working on this Rec. NARALO did a survey with regard to ALS engagement, and NARALO leaders have reached out to ALSes to personally encourage their participation. 
  • RALO calls that conflict with regular work time of members is one of the factors of the lack of engagement. NARALO is in process reviewing timezone rotation options for its calls. 
  • The time conflict with work issue does not seem to apply to LACRALO. 
  • Voting is less a problem, but active participation is an issue. 
  • Since  November  we have  been  calling and emailing all the  NARALO ALS to participate 
  • Seven ALS  decided to become decertified
  • Planning to have interactive webinars for the NARALO webinar 
• 21 Jan 2016: (secretariat meeting) 
  
  • Inactive ALSes will likely be decertified in an automatic process 
  • In 2014, EURALO had to decertify 4 ALSes, meanwhile there are 3 candidates in the list and will likely be decertified in 2016 
  • NARALO is about to decertify 4 ALSes (they have explicitly stated that they'd like to be decertified); the other inactive ones have not yet responded 
• 18 Feb 2016 (secretariat meeting) 
  
  • The ALS Criteria and Expectations Taskforce will be reviewing those minimal participation requirements. The upcoming At-Large Review will also visit this issue and identify problems. 
• 09 Mar 2016 (secretariat meeting - ICANN55) 
  
  • The At-Large ALS Criteria and Expectations Taskforce has been looking into this issue 
  • NARALO leadership (Judith Hellerstein and Glenn McKnight) have been working diligently to engage their inactive ALSes through calls and emails, finding out who they are and what their interests are, and steering them in a direction of a Working Group. Their conversations are beyond the minimum participation requirements, which only concern with voting and attendance at the moment. The result has been positive, with 14 or 15 people on average per monthly NARALO call. 
  • Some ALSes that have not participated in any calls over the last year said they are no longer interested and asked for decertification. 7 NARALO ALSes are in the to-be-decertified list. Some other inactive ALSes would like to continue engaging in At-Large but do not really understand ways to get involved. NARALO Leadership is work with Silvia Vivanco to create special webinars to explain the process to these. 
  • One discovery of this process is that the contact person of an ALS has changed and the new one doesn’t get the information on how to engage, so they’re just like a new ALS. 
  • NARALO is also setting some minimum standards of participation. 
  • Timezone issue is a challenge for participation. 
  • If NARALO has reached out to ALSes and is able to actually bring some good results on this, it could be something other RALOs can do. But in some regions, high cost related to calls may be a barrier. RALO leaderships may need to get some funding for this, or advanced tools that can initiate 'dial-out' to reach ALSes. 
  • RALO has its own Adobe Connect room to make calls.