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2023 AFRALO General Assembly Action Items

2023 AFRALO General Assembly Action Items

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Last updated: Mar 02, 2025 by Aleksey KhapchenkoVersion comment

2023-08-10 AFRALO General Assembly Organizing COmmittee call 

  • @Silvia Vivanco to update OC on status of Action Items next week via email.
  • Draft rapporteur reports: OC to review/finalise especially when not written in native language (check the English). Once completed, staff (?) to transfer Google doc into PDF.
  • Draft AFRALO GA Report: OC to provide final input/edits by Monday 14 August.
  • @Silvia Vivanco@Heidi Ullrich to contribute to the report by Monday 14 August

AFRALO GA Survey:

  • @Seun Ojedeji to update survey with an additional field: Participation: in person or remote
  • Once approved, survey to be sent to AF GA mailing list for onsite participants
  • @At-Large Staff to collect list of remote participants from zoom to complete survey
    • Survey completion day TBC (5 working days?)
  • @Gisella Gruber to provide the French translation of the survey

*Note* - survey only to be sent once cleared by legal.

No further calls required at this stage.


2023-08-03 AFRALO General Assembly Organizing Committee Call

  • Members of the AFRALO GA OC to review and comment on the draft AFRALO GA Summary Report. 
  • Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong , the AFRALO Secretary, to finalize the AFRALO GA Summary Report by 14 August.
  •  Bram Fudzulani to incorporate the At-Large Campaign in the AFRALO FY24 Outreach and Engagement Plan
  • Heidi Ullrich to update the notes on the At-Large Campaign in the AFRALO GA notes.
  • seun.ojedeji  to reach out to dave.kissoondoyal re status of AFRNIC statement and to confirm he has followed up with Afrinic staff. 
  • Heidi Ullrich to send the AFRINIC statement to Legal asking for an expedited response. 
  • Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong to reach out to the Rapporteurs to complete their reports. 
  • Feedback: 
    • Organization was of high standard
    • Stipends to be received prior to departure for the GA. 
    • Request GA participants to be able to stay for the entire ICANN meeting or other event if future GAs are held in conjunction with another meeting. 
    • Extend GA to three days
    • To allow more members to showcase their activities and to lead sessions.
  • remmy.nweke to include issue of translation of newsletter on next newsletter meeting. 
  • seun.ojedeji to create a post GA survey form by 8 August and share with the OC. 
  • Claudia Ruiz to schedule an AFRALO GA OC Debrief call next Thursday, 10 August at 18:00 UTC to review reports, etc. 

2023-06-07 AFRALO General Assembly Organizing Committee call 

2023-27-06 AFRALO General Assembly Organizing Committee call


2023-25-05 AFRALO General Assembly Organizing Committee call

2023-04-05 AFRALO General Assembly Organizing Committee call 

  • AFRALO leaders  seun.ojedeji , Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong and aziz.hilali will coordinate the review of the Operating principles.
  • Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong  will send the names of some travelers to update the list to Claudia Ruiz.  Claudia Ruiz will update the GA travelers list, line 6 (someone else was nominated).
  •  The title “Generating a strong and sustained AFRALO voice within ICANN” was agreed by the OC.
  •  The OC agreed to organize pre-GA events such as Webinars. OC will coordinate the Webinars with staff.
  • seun.ojedeji will add Alan Barrett to the Agenda as guest speaker.
  • The OC agreed to have a FINAL version of the GA Agenda by the end of May.
  •  At-Large staff will add numbers the AFRALO GA document.
  •  Silvia Vivanco will send the draft AFRALO GA call for comments to the OC for review.
  • The OC will send the document to the entire membership for comments from Monday May 8- 19.


2023 - 04-20 AFRALO General Assembly Organizing Committee call 

  • Once the Program is final and speakers are set,  Staff to send invitations to all the sessions of the GA.
  • Gisella Gruber to check with interpreters if there can be 2 hrs sessions and break requirements for interpreters
  • seun.ojedeji to check on the document wiki page with AFRALO performance metrics
  • aziz.hilali and Seun  will look at the Program adding timings with the goal to finalize it until April 27 
  • Michelle DeSmyter  to set up the next call for April 27th.

2023-03-30 AFRALO General Assembly Organizing Committee Call

  •  seun.ojedeji noted that any last travelers need to be completed tomorrow. 
  • seun.ojedeji noted that all members of the AFRALO GA OC members, ALAC members and the NomCom Delegates should get travel slots if they are not current ALS representatives.
  • seun.ojedeji, aziz.hilali and bukola.fawole and raymondselorm.mamattah are the members of the AFRALO GA Program Committee. aziz.hilali will be the lead of the Program Committee. 
  • The AFRALO GA OC to determine if other GA committees are required. 
  • Claudia Ruiz to submit the final travel list to Travel Support on Friday, 31 March. 
  • Claudia Ruiz to note OC members early arrival (arrival early on the 23rd of July) and later departures (departure on 27 July)
  • Heidi Ullrich to send the final AFRALO GA travel list and the Action Items to the AFRALO GA members. 
  • Claudia Ruiz to create a mailing list for the AFRALO GA Travelers with the suggested name of "AFRALOGA2023". Claudia Ruiz to confirm name of the mailing list on the AFRALO GA Skype chat.
  • Michelle DeSmyter to schedule the next AFRALO GA call on 13 April at 18:00 UTC.

AFRALO GA Organizing Committee call 

  • The GA  Objectives and themes doc: 1-4 items have been confirmed
  • Claudia Ruiz to add the following questions to the AFRALO General Assembly survey 
    - have you already attended a GA?
    - There should include a question on potential mentors and mentees
  • Silvia Vivanco  to share the previous GAs held by AFRALO in the past (location and dates)
  • Michelle DeSmyter to schedule the next meeting for Thursday, 30 March, 18 UTC

2023- 02- 23 AFRALO GA Organizing Committee call 

  • Michelle DeSmyter to set up the next call for Thursday, 02 March 18:00 UTC with FR interpretation
  • seun.ojedeji and all members of the OC to review the survey and made edits directly into it adding FR version
  •  seun.ojedeji  and OC to focus the Agenda of the next call on finalizing and approving the survey. Target to send survey is March 10 to be open till March 20.
  • seun.ojedeji and OC to determine what subcommittees are needed. 
  • seun.ojedeji and all to continue working on the theme and objectives of the GA.


2023-02-15 AFRALO GA Organizing Committee Call