Overview
The APAC Regional Plan FY21-25 is an implementation plan of proposed regional activities with outcomes aligned to the objectives and goals of ICANN’s five-year Strategic Plan (which will take effect on 1 July 2020). As a continuation from the last APAC Space session on 28 April 2020, this webinar discussed the second half of the draft Regional Plan to gather input and feedback from the APAC community. The session covered the following Strategic Objectives which the Regional Plan aims to contribute to:
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Other than at APAC Space, anyone with comments on the Regional Plan can submit them directly on the Plan’s Community Wiki page. As a guide, feedback examples are found in a blog post by Jia-Rong Low (ICANN).
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While APAC participation had increased significantly overall, a key remaining challenge was having participation from the business community and registries/registrars in ICANN PDPs. These communities were more focused on their own businesses than the overall health of the DNS. Jia-Rong shared that the last APAC Space session touched on this area, which included the forming of a network with these stakeholder groups. By keeping them informed, they could contribute more actively when required, such as through public comments.
Jaewon Son raised that APIGA (Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy) alumni might benefit from a platform/program to allow them to keep up with various Internet governance issues and events. Jia-Rong acknowledged there was no such platform so far, largely because each Internet governance platform (i.e. ICANN, IETF, RIRs, IGF etc.) worked within its own remit. As such, ICANN would not be able to establish a platform beyond what its remit allowed. A good place for alumni to start, however, could be existing platforms such as Youth4IG, and the Fellows.Asia Facebook group.
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