AFRALO Outreach Strategy FY 17 - Draft
- DANIEL NANGHAKA
- Tijani BEN JEMAA
Aim of the Strategy
The FY17 AFRALO strategy for Outreach and Engagement aims at:
Reaching out to African end users all over Africa to raise their awareness about the benefit of their involvement in ICANN activities
Promoting the ICANN multi-stakeholder model and its bottom-up decision making process
Explaining how an Internet organization / association may become an At-Large Structure
Strategy plan
To reach the aims of the strategy, AFRALO shall:
Participate in events across Africa and especially in countries without ALSes to:
make the adequate outreach to bring African Internet organizations into ICANN Arena and make them interested to become ALSes
make presentations about topics under discussion in ICANN to show how the African ICANN community participate effectively in the ICANN policy development
exhibit ICANN structure, information and activity and detail its working methods
Organize local events, in partnership with the local ALSes to enhance their engagement and broaden their radiance in their respective countries
Continue to identify university and academic institutions to organize fruitful discussions with students and teachers about Internet Governance to bring young people into ICANN
Outreach Events targeted
The outreach will target forums within the Africa Region to enhance AFRALO participation. The following non exhaustive list identifies some targeted events:
AFRINIC Meetings 2016 - Mauritius
Africa Internet Governance Forum 2016
Africa Internet Summit 2017