Zoom Chat: 2023-02-15 AFRALO General Assembly

00:21:02    Heidi Ullrich - ICANN Org: Hello/Bonjour!
00:21:36    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong: Hello Heidi and all
00:23:34    Heidi Ullrich - ICANN Org: The GA will be held on the sidelines of the African Engagement Forum in July.
00:24:18    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: MEMBERSHIP Table on the wiki page
00:24:22    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AFRALO/pages/104629113/AFRALO+General+Assembly+2023
00:26:06    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: Logistics
00:26:16    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: Could be a good place to speak re dates/venue etc
00:26:45    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong: Reacted to "Could be a good plac…" with 
00:27:01    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: AFRALO to hold their hybrid General Assembly (GA) on 24-25 July 2023 on the sidelines of the ICANN-hosted African Engagement Forum (AEF) scheduled for 25-26 July 2023 in Accra, Ghana.
00:27:20    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: The AFRALO GA meetings will be over 1 ½ days followed immediately by a ½ day participation in the AEF.
00:27:52    Heidi Ullrich - ICANN Org: Perhaps under timeline
00:28:28    Yaovi Atohoun - ICANN Org: OK
00:29:14    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: Committee members are : Bukola (Social media Chair)
Seun Ojedeji (AFRALO's Chair)
Aziz Hilali (AFRALO Vice Chair)
Abdeljalil Bachar Bong (AFRALO Secretariat) 
Raymond Mamattah (ALAC member)
Bram Fudzulani
00:30:53    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: WIKI edited added Bran as O/E chair
00:33:41    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong: Yes  agree
00:34:23    Raymond Mamattah: I agree with the core group to start with. When we know what others have to do we can bring them in.
00:39:30    Heidi Ullrich - ICANN Org: AFRALO currently has 68 ALSes!
00:40:17    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: Other RALOs have experienced a similar effect, in part due to the pandemic
00:40:52    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong: Thanks for stats , and we have some pending member .
00:40:53    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: The theme for LACRALO GA is " Re-connect, Re-evolve, and Re-impulse"
00:40:57    Yaovi Atohoun - ICANN Org: COVID did probably have impact on the activities !!!
00:41:00    Heidi Ullrich - ICANN Org: @Seun, did you say that only current ALSes in AFRALO will be eligible to participate and/or travel?
00:41:28    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: The theme of the NARALO GA was " Empowerment, Encouragement, Engagement:
00:42:30    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: In LACRALO they had a survey asking members several questions
00:42:33    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong: We have also pending members
00:43:24    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong: Replying to "COVID did probably h…"
Yes agree
00:47:35    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong: https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AFRALO/pages/104633977/AFRALO+General+Assembly+Agenda+at+ICANN+59
00:47:54    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong: Passed GA dedicated page
00:48:01    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: Ai: Aziz to share ideas of what worked and what did not work from the 2017 GA
00:48:24    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: Thank you Abdel
00:48:53    Raymond Mamattah: I suggest we do it here
00:49:37    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong: Replying to "Thank you Abdel"
Thanks Silvia
00:49:48    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: The theme of the NARALO GA was " Empowerment, Encouragement, Engagement:
00:50:04    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: The theme for LACRALO GA is " Re-connect, Re-evolve, and Re-impulse"
00:50:27    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong: Replying to "The theme of the NAR…"
Great theme we can inspire from our collègue NARALO
00:51:08    Raymond Mamattah: We can start the team and the objectives here
00:51:20    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong: Reacted to "The theme for LACRAL…" with 
00:51:25    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong: Reacted to "We can start the tea…" with 
00:51:58    Bukola Oronti: Better we start with a working theme and based on inputs from members we can edit or just go with the initial theme
00:53:25    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong: Reacted to "Better we start with…" with 
00:55:27    Heidi Ullrich - ICANN Org: This GA will be a hybrid meeting, as well.
00:55:33    Heidi Ullrich - ICANN Org: So people can participate remotely.
00:56:25    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: AI: Committee members to suggest GA themes for the AFRALO GA
00:57:07    Bukola Oronti: Can we also put a timeline to the theme submission and how to submit?
00:57:52    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: AI: Seun to create a google doc to share ideas of themes and objectives of the GA
00:58:14    Heidi Ullrich - ICANN Org: AFRALO to hold their hybrid General Assembly (GA) on 24-25 July 2023 on the sidelines of the ICANN-hosted African Engagement Forum (AEF) scheduled for 25-26 July 2023 in Accra, Ghana.
01:00:49    Heidi Ullrich - ICANN Org: 23 July - Arrival and Welcome Reception
01:01:25    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: Arrival would be the evening of the 23 - usually welcome reception that evening
01:01:32    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: 2 working lunches
01:01:41    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: 1 networking reception
01:01:49    Raymond Mamattah: I have been wondering if it will be too much cost if the participants can wait to fully participate in the AEF?
01:01:51    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: 1 farewell dinner
01:01:58    Seun S. Ojedeji: Right thats important
01:02:27    Heidi Ullrich - ICANN Org: 24 July - Day 1 with a Working Lunch Networking reception and a dinner.
01:02:51    Heidi Ullrich - ICANN Org: 25 July - 1/2 day GA with a lunch and then move to the AEF.
01:02:58    Bukola Oronti: Replying to "I have been wonderin..." 

 I think we can encourage this too unless the GSE team do not want that.
01:03:03    Heidi Ullrich - ICANN Org: 26 July - Departure
01:04:25    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: Individuals- the RALOs designate 1 individual to represent them all
01:04:48    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong: Reacted to "Individuals- the RAL…" with 
01:08:51    Heidi Ullrich - ICANN Org: Please note that not all ALS reps may wish to travel.
01:13:39    Raymond Mamattah: Before I forget, I think we need to get all the organizing committee members on site.
01:13:48    Bukola Oronti: I would be glad to do it
01:14:15    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: We need to have a hard stop in  2 mins
01:14:44    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: AI: Bukkie to work with staff to prepare a draft survey to be reviewed at the next meeting
01:15:20    Heidi Ullrich - ICANN Org: Yes, the GAs are a good time to get update the ALS database.
01:15:34    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong: Reacted to "Yes, the GAs are a g…" with 
01:15:49    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: They Surrey can be used to ask " are you the primary /secondary rep of the ALS - so the database will be validated
01:17:11    Heidi Ullrich - ICANN Org: T-shirts and baseball caps, powerbanks and pens.
01:17:12    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: AI: CR to check on the promotional items available
01:17:16    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong: Orange color
01:17:24    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong:  : ) 
01:18:09    Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong: We can put on agenda of our AfrlaoICANN an item about our GA to collect orientations of members
01:19:35    Heidi Ullrich - ICANN Org: Next call - 22 Feb;
01:19:50    Heidi Ullrich - ICANN Org: Agenda: Review of Themes, Survey review; confirm timeline
01:19:53    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: AI: Skype group to be created
01:20:08    Silvia Vivanco - ICANN Org: AI: Claudia to set up a call for next Wednesday 22