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If you are a person or belong to an organisation group that follows, cares and is enthusiastic about Internet Governance issues (such as Digital Divide, Net Neutrality, Privacy , and Security) as they affect end users, then your place is within the At Large Community. At. Examples of groups include professional societies; academic and research organizations; community networking groups; consumer advocacy groups; Internet Society chapters; Computer user organizations and Internet civil society groups.
The At-Large Community represents the interest of Internet end users in ICANN activites as they relate to the domain name system (DNS). These include policies that
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By being a part of the At-Large Community, you can help shape these policies being developed by ICANN's multistakeholder community that affect current and future Internet users. By
By being in the "room" where these policies are being formulated and discussed, you can make your voice heard as to how these policies impact Internet end users.
There are no application or membership fees to be part of the global volunteer At-Large community.
You can become a member of this vibrant community that helps shape the internet's future with opportunities to collaborate regularly online through virtual working group and sub committee meetings. Face to face meetings are convened three times a year across the five regions of Africa,Europe, Latin America and Caribbean, Asia and Australasia and North America.
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Civil Society
There are lots of opportunities within the At Large for the Civil Society and more information can be found here.
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