WECANN!

http://www.wecann.net/ralowiki this is the new wiki which should help us to work on the following project:

Help to strengthen Civil Rights and Consumer Protection in ICANN’s policies!

The question of how Internet Governance is shaped is one of the central sociopolitical tasks of the coming years. It will be a matter of how consumers and Internet users can become involved in the policy making of ICANN.

We are all aware of how sorry the tale of direct participation by Internet users in ICANN has been.

There is, nevertheless, a civil society element in ICANN, the At-large Advisory Committee (ALAC), composed to represent Internet users, five regions in world each providing 3 representatives. At this point these representatives are chosen by a nominating committee of ICANN and its board. However, the goal is to build structures to foster participation in the respective regions, and furthermore facilitate the direct election of regional ALAC representatives.

This year, a European Regional At-Large Organisation (EU-RALO) will be build to facilitate the broadest possible participation of European Internet users.

Current ICANN bylaws require organizational participants, who would like to build up a regional structure, to represent individual’s interests and concerns. These organizations - or groups of people working on internet users’ issues, which in ICANN’s terms are “At-Large Structures” (ALSes) - form the so called “Regional At-Large Organisation” (RALO).

To reach the status of what ICANN refers to as an “At-Large Structure” (ALS), has a few simple requisites and a questionnaire to be filled.

There are already some European organizations that have become ALSes (or just applied to, e.g. several member organisations of EDRI). However, yet they are not representative for the diversity of European Internet oriented Human rights and consumer protection organizations.

With a Regional At-Large Organisation, we want to work issue oriented and influence ICANN’s policies - with the profound knowledge of as many as possible European internet related consumer protection and civil rights organisations.

It would be helpful if you could use your individual and institutional contacts in north, south, west and east Europe to solicit for an inclusive civil society engagement and accrediting as At-large Structure.
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I just set up a WIKI to discuss the best possible structure for building up a European Regional At-Large Organisation (EU-RALO). Our aim is to give user’s interests a voice in ICANN and make an impact on its policies.

All people interested in promoting consumer and civil rights in ICANN’s policies and work are welcome to take part in this discussion.

Just go ahead and put up questions and proposals for a possible structure of the EU-RALO.

Der Beitrag wurde von Annette Mühlberg am Dienstag 28. Februar 2006 um 19:25 veröffentlicht und wurde unter Nicht kategorisiert, ALAC, At-Large Structures, Europa, ICANN, Strategie abgelegt und unter einer Creative Commons-Lizenz lizenziert. Du kannst die Kommentare zu diesen Eintrag durch den RSS 2.0 Feed verfolgen. Du kannst einen Kommentar schreiben, oder einen TrackBack auf deiner Seite einrichten.