Description

In late 2019, the APRALO Leadership Team proposed the initiation of an APRALO Policy Platform for 2020. After reviewing input from RALO members to the proposal and in light of the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic, the Leadership Team considers this APRALO Policy Forum to be a modest but useful kickstart to facilitate and coordinate ICANN policy-related discussions at a regional level.

Purpose:

The APRALO Policy Forum aims to:

Aim 1: Encourage engagement of APRALO members on issues within ICANN's remit
Aim 2: Facilitate informed, inclusive regional position development on issues within ICANN's remit
Aim 3: Support APRALO Leadership's participation as a regional partner to the ALAC Policy Platform / the At-Large Consolidated Policy Working Group
Aim 4: Grow APRALO outreach opportunities within the AP region and with other RALOs and ICANN communities on ICANN policy issues
Aim 5: Provide suggestions on AP regional issues of interest which may fall within ICANN’s remit

How do we achieve these aims? By:

Informing the APRALO Community on ICANN policy issues.
Engaging the APRALO Community in At-Large discussions on ICANN policy issues
Consulting the APRALO Community to formulate input on ICANN policy issues.
Building the capacity of the APRALO Community to effectively participate on ICANN policy deliberations
Participating in inter-RALO discourse on ICANN policy issues
Creating intra-regional discourse & cooperation opportunities to advocate for individual end user interests

APRALO Priorities for 2023-2024

Area	1. Vis-à-vis ALAC/At-Large Community	2. Policy-related priorities	3. RALO Membership Retention & Engagement priorities	4. ICANN operating priorities – top 5 to monitor**	5. Consideration of additional, new topics ***
Priorities	1a-Continue to contribute towards policy position development 1b-Pay attention to ICANN governance matters 1c-Take greater cognizance of "global public interest" applicability	2a-Increase involvement in DNS Abuse mitigation 2b-Continue focusing on Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) 2c-Increase participation in promotion of Universal Acceptance (UA)	3a-Continue with capacity building / development 3b-Build on leadership development & mentorship 3c-Improve participation & engagement, institute activity metrics	4a-OI-4. Evolve & strengthen ICANN Community’s decision-making processes [p.28] 4b-OI-3. Evolve & strengthen the Multi-stakeholder Model (MSM) [p.23] 4c-OI-9. Evaluate, align & facilitate improved engagement in the Internet Ecosystem [p.44] 4d-OI-7. Promote the Universal Acceptance of domain names and email addresses [p.38] 4e-OI-10.Through targeted engagement, improve Govt and IGO engagement & participation [**p.47]	5a-Internet Fragmentation or “Splinternet” 5b-Aspects of the Next Round of New generic Top-Level Domains (New gTLDs)

* Per the 2022 Hot Topic Survey.
** For an explanation of the above priorities in area 4, please refer to: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/op-financial-plan-fy22-26-opplan-fy22-2021-en.pdf
*** Per the APF Town Hall Meetings of 10 Aug 2023

Membership:

Open to all APRALO members interested in ICANN policy-related discussions, by subscription to the mailing list. The membership list is published below.

Operation:

The work of the Policy Forum will be facilitated using a combination of the following resources:

This work space, as the central repository for the Forum
The apralo-policy@icann.org mailing list which will be moderated by members of the Leadership Team and supported by At-Large Staff.
Periodic team/small team project/planning calls
Event calls

The ICANN Expected Standards of Behaviour will apply.

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Discussions & Next Events

APRALO Policy Forum Planning Document 2024 (comment-only mode)

Current Activities

APRALO Register of Skills & Interests Pilot Cycle 1, 13 July - 13 September 2024

Immediate Past Activities

APRALO ICANN80 Readout, 27 June 2024

2024 Activities

Highlighted Activities

OPEN [27-Cycle1] APRALO Register of Skills & Interests Pilot Cycle 1 (Jul-Sep 2024)

Purpose: This is the pilot implementation of the project code-named "Project RoSI" aimed at producing a dynamic Register of Skills & Interests for APRALO. This pilot incorporates many of the project's 2021 goals and preliminary work (See: Infographic report Infographic report). This pilot is to open to all interested APRALO Community members who wish to indicate they have expertise and/or knowledge to share on or are interested to learn about selected topic and themes within ICANN's remit in line with the ALAC's and APRALO's priorities.

Status: Cycle 1 of the APRALO Register of Skills & Interests Pilot, is open for participation from 19 July - 13 September 2024. LINK TO PARTICIPATE

Target Aims: 1, 3, 4
Target Priorities: 3a, 3b, 3c, 4a-OI-4, 4b-OI-3

More info about RoSI: Project RoSI Workspace

PLANNING [29] APRALO Outreach & Engagement for the Next Round of New gTLDs and the Applicant Support Program in the Next Round

Background: ICANN org is seeking assistance and participation of the At-Large community to conduct outreach and engagement for the Next Round of New gTLDs in harnessing the extensive reach of each RALO. More details will be shared in due course.

Target Aims: 1, 4
Target Priorities: 2b, 3c, 5b

Dedicated Wiki: TBD

Others

Activity & Meeting Archives

APRALO Policy Forum Discussions Archive 2020-2024

Annual Reports

Contact

Staff Support Lead: Gisella Gruber

Mailing list: apralo-policy@icann.org

To subscribe to the APRALO Policy Forum mailing list (or read the archives / manage your subscription) please send a request to staff@atlarge.icann.org.

Members

Current membership of the APRALO Policy Forum comprises:

Name	Date Joined / (Resigned)	Subscribed to the Mailing list
1. Shah Zahidur Rahman (Chair, as of 15.08.2024)	04.01.2024
2. Justine Chew (Former Chair, RoSI Project Lead)	04.01.2024
3. Amrita Choudhury	04.01.2024
4. Cheryl Langdon-Orr	04.01.2024
5. Gopal Tadepalli	04.01.2024
6. K. Mohan Raidu	04.01.2024
7. Nitin Walia	04.01.2024
8. Nazmul Hasan Majumder	04.01.2024
9. Fouad Bajwa	04.01.2024
10. Vipul Gautam	04.01.2024
~~11. Houda Chihi~~ (non APRALO member)	~~04.01.2024~~
12. Udeep Baral	05.01.2024
13. Phyo Thiri	05.01.2024
14. Kong Diep	05.01.2024
15. Ashirwad Tripathy	06.01.2024
16. Nabeel Yasin	12.01.2024
17. Laxmi Prasad Yadav	12.01.2024
18. Maureen Hilyard	12.01.2024
19. Jasmine Ko	13.01.2024
20. Prateek Pathak	13.01.2024
21. Muhammad Umair Ali	14.01.2024
22. Iqra Ejaz Bhatti	14.01.2024
23. Ashrafur Rahman Piaus	14.01.2024
24. Priyatosh Jana	15.01.2024
25. Suhaidi Hassan	15.01.2024
26. Harisa Shahid	15.01.2024
27. Holly Raiche	15.01.2024
28. Fidya Shabrina	15.01.2024
29. Bibek Silwal	17.01.2024
30. Mabda Haerunnisa Fajrilla Sidiq	30.01.2024
31. Faheem Soomro	01.02.2024
32. Satish Babu	01.02.2024
33. Mohammad Abdul Haque Anu	08.02.2024
34. Shehab Karman	13.02.2024
35. Adarsh Bu	16.04.2024
36. Barkha Manral	24.04.2024
37. Mohammad Kawsar Uddin	25.04.2024
38. Charles Mok	26.04.2024
39. Juliana Harsianti	02.05.2024
40. Muhammad Shabbir	27.05.2024
41. Pranav Bhaskar Tiwari	31.05.2024

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