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2025-10-02 APRALO Policy Forum Fireside Chat: Let’s Talk About Participating in ICANN Working Groups

2025-10-02 APRALO Policy Forum Fireside Chat: Let’s Talk About Participating in ICANN Working Groups

Date: Thursday, 02 October 2025

Time: 06:00 - 07:15 UTC (for the time in various time zones click here)

Zoom Registration Link:  https://icann.zoom.us/meeting/register/zSgmfwyhSemz2GbuDPg-Bw

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Zoom Recording: EN

Chat:

Participants: Pavel Farhan, Amrita Choudhury, Maureen Hilyard, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Justine Chew, Abdullah Qamar, Aris Ignacio, Barkha Manral, Bikram Shrestha, Bukola Oronti, Charbel Chbeir, Charles Mok, Claire Craig, Cyrill France, Dale Buttfield, Einas Al Shaikh, Faheem Soomro, Frank Anati, Glen de Saint Gery, Gopal Tadepalli, Harsha Wijayawardhana, Kasun Tharaka Wickramasuriya, Kennedy Wabuge, Maciek Piasecki, Mawuko Kudzo Kpatah, Menuka Kasun Chathuranga, Mohammad Kawsar Uddin, Muriel Alapini, Nabeel Yasin, Rafi Uddin, Sameer Gahlot, Shah Zahidur Rahman, Jasmine Ko, Mayssam Sabra, Unggul Sagena, Mohammad Abdul Haque Anu, Azeem Sajjad, Nadira AlAraj, Enerst Mafuta Katoka

Apologies: Judith Hellerstein

Staff: Gisella Gruber, Samiran Gupta, Yeşim Sağlam

Call Management: Yeşim Sağlam

You are invited to participate in the sixth APRALO Policy Forum Fireside Chat: “Let’s Talk About Participating in ICANN Working Groups” on 2 October 2025 at 06:00 UTC for 75 minutes, where Pavel Farhan will be chatting with Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Justine Chew, Maureen Hilyard and Amrita Choudhury about their experiences participating in various ICANN working groups.

 

If you have ever wondered what it means to participate in an ICANN working group, or have questions about how to do so, either directly or indirectly, then this fireside chat is for you!

Our panelists are 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. Among others, they will address:-

  • Differences between working groups initiated by different chartering groups; 

  • Various working group processes, mechanisms or tools for encouraging discussion and consensus-building for generating recommendations; 

  • How to engage the At-Large community for input into working group deliberations;

  • Expected time commitments as an At-Large/ALAC representative or individual participant; and

  • Your questions.
     

Don't forget to pre-register your participation! And if you have any, please let us have your questions on this topic by posting them as comments to this wiki page below; or if you prefer, submit them by emailing staff at staff@atlarge.icann.org

Agenda 

  1. Staff introduction - Staff (2 mins)

  2. Welcome and introduction - Pavel Farhan (1 mins)

  3. Panelist sharings (20 mins) 

    1. Cheryl Langdon-Orr (5 mins) 

      1. Third Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT3)

      2. Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process (SubPro PDP) 

    2. Justine Chew (5 mins)

      1. Internationalized Domain Names Expedited Policy Development Process (IDNs EPDP)

      2. Subsequent Procedures Implementation Review Team (SubPro IRT) 

    3. Maureen Hilyard (5 mins)

      1. Cross Community Working Group on Auction Proceeds (CCWG-AP)

      2. GNSO Guidance Process on Applicant Support (ASP GGP) 

    4. Amrita Choudhury (5 mins)

      1. Continuous Improvement Program Community Consultation Group (CIP-CCG)

      2. ICANN WSIS+20 Discussion Group 

  4. Let’s chat! (40 mins)

  5. Poll (10 mins)

  6. Wrap up (2 mins)

Guest Speakers & Moderator Profiles

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Cheryl Langdon-Orr has been involved with ICANN since its earliest days and has served in a number of capacities in several parts of our Multistakeholder Community over this time including several Leadership roles, she has committed many many hours to the Policy Development Processes in ICANN's Support Organisations and has worked within and has contributed to the development of all of the 'styles' of policy process used within the GNSO including of course the current PDP 3.0.  For more information  on her ICANN specific activities please see her wiki home page < cheryl.langdon-orr/ >

 

Justine Chew is Chair of the APRALO Policy Forum. She is also the ALAC Member re-selected by the ICANN Nominating Committee to represent the AAPAC Region for 2023-2025, a role which she first held in 2019-2021, and was named as ALAC Vice-Chair for 2023-2025. Since 2021, Justine has served as the ALAC Liaison to the GNSO, where she provides input of the ALAC and At-Large in matters of interest overseen by the GNSO Council.  She served as the At-Large liaison on Subsequent Procedures in 2018-2021, and as Vice-Chair of the Internationalized Domain Names Expedited Policy Development Process (IDNs EPDP) during Phase 1 of that EPDP in 2021-2023.

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Maureen Hilyard was first appointed to the ALAC by APRALO members in 2013. She was also assigned as the ALAC Liaison to the ccNSO until 2017 when she became the ALAC Vice Chair. She was the Chair from 2018 to 2022 (mostly during the pandemic), and ended 10 years on the ALAC as VC to Jonathan Zuck. She is now a Director on the Internet Society Board and the DotAsia Board. Currently she is the Chair of the APRIGF Fellowship Committee and has been on the APRIGF MSG since 2012. She was encouraged to become a member of the Pacific Islands Chapter of ISOC by Vint Cerf at a PacINET meeting in Samoa in 2006. She was the Chair of PICISOC 2011-2016. She co-founded the Dynamic Coalition of Small Island Developing States in the Internet Economy in 2018. In between, she has participated in several At-Large and cross-community working groups on a variety of topics, but also led the implementation of the last At-Large Review and reorganised the structure of At-Large.

Amrita Choudhury is the Chair of APRALO.  She is an active participant in national and global digital policy and internet governance discussions. She serves as the Director of CCAOI, Internet Governance Forum Support Association (IGFSA) Chair, Chair of the Asia Pacific Regional IGF (AprIGF), and President of Internet Society India Delhi Chapter. Amrita co-founded the India School on Internet Governance (inSIG) and is a Coordination Committee member of India IGF (IIGF).

Amrita advises youth initiatives such as Youth IGF India. She has in the past served as a United Nations IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (UN IGF MAG) Member for 3 terms. For more details on Amrita, please visit: https://in.linkedin.com/in/amrita-choudhury-b0865511/

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Pavel Farhan is a doctoral candidate in Internet of Things (IoT) Systems Engineering at AIT, Thailand, and has been involved in ICANN since ICANN68 as a NextGen. As an At-Large member, he aims to contribute through APRALO, promoting inclusive internet access for minority groups and meaningful youth participation in multistakeholder governance.

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