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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	Technology Taskforce Social Media

Actions:

24 Sep 2015:
- Social Media WG assignees of this Rec to do the reporting

Notes:

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
24 Sep 2015:
- 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.

Input from Technology Taskforce:

At-Large Workshop on “TOR and alternative naming mechanisms to the DNS” held at ICANN Singapore 2014 https://community.icann.org/x/7CPRAg

TTF has looked at Group Chat services (https://community.icann.org/x/Hr3hAg) such as Slack, HipChat and Hall.

At-Large Social Media WG is researching alternative social media platforms where traditional ones are blocked.

While the TTF considered listing several platforms/services that allow access to blocked services, it was felt that even listing such services could be construed as endorsing breaking of national laws, irrespective of whether we (global At-Large) think such laws/restrictions are unjust.