APRALO Policy Forum Archive

Purpose: For participants to learn about the ICANN Global Public Interest Framework (GPIF) which is a set of guidelines developed to help the ICANN community understand how ICANN Board decisions relate to the global public interest. It was designed to facilitate a bottom-up, multistakeholder approach to identifying the public interest in decisions, but not to change how those decisions are made. The framework underwent a pilot program - completed in October 2023 - and now offers a toolkit - the GPIF Checklist - for community groups to use voluntarily (see: ICANN wiki).

Status: Completed.

Target Aims: 1, 2, 3, 4
Target Priorities: 1a, 1b, 1c, 3a, 3c, 4a-OI-4, 4b-OI-3

Event Wiki:  APF Webinar on ICANN Global Public Interest Framework

Zoom Recording: EN

Post-Event Report: EN

Background:  Panelists will discuss their respective key takeaways from ICANN84 and participants are welcomed to join in the conversation aimed at identifying where and how end-users may play a role in any next steps to each of those takeaways. 

Moderator:
Maureen Hilyard, APRALO ALS Representative, based in Cook Islands

Panelists:
Aftab Siddiqui, APRALO ALAC Member, based in Australia
Manju Chen, Former GNSO Councilor, based in Taiwan
Jordan Carter, ccNSO Council Vice-Chair, based in Australia
Samiran Gupta, ICANN VP, Stakeholder Engagement and MD, GSE APAC based in India
Ankita Rathi, ICANN84 Fellow, based in India

Target Aims: 1, 4
Target Priorities: 4b-OI-3, 4e-OI-10

Event Wiki:  APRALO ICANN84 Readout

Zoom Recording: EN

Purpose: For participants to chat with seasoned APRALO community members who have participated in cross-community working groups, community coordinating groups, Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Policy Development Process (PDP) working groups, review teams or implementation review teams over recent years.

Status: Completed.

Target Aims: 1, 2, 3, 4
Target Priorities: 1a, 1b, 1c, 3a, 3c, 4a-OI-4, 4b-OI-3

Event Wiki:  APF Fireside Chat #6 on ICANN WGs

Zoom Recording: EN

Post-Event Report: EN

Purpose: For participants to gain an understanding of the processes and tools utilized by the shepherds of the two small teams of volunteers, to solicit input, build consensus position(s) from such input, and eventually, in producing their consensus-based APRALO statements.

Status: Completed.

Target Aims: 1, 2, 3, 4
Target Priorities: 1a, 1b, 3a, 3c, 4a-OI-4, 4b-OI-3

Event Wiki:  APF Webinar on Statement Development

Zoom Recording: EN

Post-Event Report: EN

Purpose: A new APRALO community service introduced in August 2025, aimed at keeping the community apprised of issues/topics of importance to the At-Large and/or APRALO community in a manner that is issue/topic-focused, informative yet lightweight, while encouraging community interest and discourse in such issues/topics.  The APRALO Leadership Team assumes the role of ?editor-in-chief?, providing suggestions and guidance to contributing writers.

Status: Active; contributions welcomed from APRALO community members.

Target Aims: 1, 2, 3, 4
Target Priorities: 1a, 1b, 3a, 3c, 4a-OI-4, 4b-OI-3

More info: APRALO Bytes Wiki Page

Background:  Panelists will discuss their respective key takeaways from ICANN82 and participants are welcomed to join in the conversation aimed at identifying where and how end-users may play a role in any next steps to each of those takeaways. 

Moderator:
Cheryl Langdon-Orr, At-Large Leader, based in Australia

Panelists:
Satish Babu, APRALO, based in India
Einas Al Shaikh, ICANN82 Fellow, based in Oman
Jennifer Chung, GNSO Councillor, Registry Stakeholder Group, based in Hong Kong
Annaliese Williams, ccNSO, based in Australia
Yien Chyn Tan, APAC-GSE based in Singapore

Target Aims: 1, 4
Target Priorities: 4b-OI-3, 4e-OI-10

Event Wiki:  APRALO ICANN82 Readout

Zoom Recording: EN

COMPLETED [27-Cycle2] APRALO Register of Skills & Interests Pilot Cycle 2 (Nov 2024-Jan 2025, extended to Feb 2025)

Purpose: This is the second cycle of 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 2 of the APRALO Register of Skills & Interests Pilot is now closed. It was open for participation from 4 November 2024 to 31 January 2025 28 February 2025. 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