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Roadmap for an EU-Regional At-Large Organisation (EURALO) as planned by the At-Large Advisory Committee of ICANN.
Retrospect:
* European Preparatory Meeting (28th of May 2006 in Frankfurt)
- Defining key issues for RALO bylaws to work on
- Decision: EURALO shall have two sorts of memberships: organisational and individual
- Drafting a EU-RALO Roadmap 2006/7
* Online working phase:
- Working on […]

The spirit of Frankfurt:
EURALO-pioneers gathered to strengthen the bottom up structure of ICANN
Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 28.05.06: At the first Preperatory Meeting for a European Regional At-Large Organisation (EURALO) which took place in Frankfurt at Sunday about 20 civil society representatives from Belgium, Luxembourg, Finland, Germany, Italy and Switzerland assembled, committed to start the pioneerwork of an […]

As the management of the website offered by ICANN to the At-Large Advisory (ALAC) was really a hassle, ALAC opened its own new website. Check it out and take part in the discussion fora.

In a nightmare vision worthy of a collapsing Tower of Babel, Gervase Markham, who works for the Mozilla Foundation, suggests that the internet might soon fracture into several pieces.
Check:
Times Online, Focus: China

China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) as the registry of .CN ccTLD has issued a statement on recent report that China had created its own Top Level Domains, and might be planning to break away from ICANN and the DNS.
In a statement issued on Friday, CNNIC points out that the report is inaccurate and “the […]

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 […]

Geneva. Today the Consultations on the Convening of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) started, which is going to take place in Greece, the 24th to the 26th October 2006. This meeting is result of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), where Internet Governance was identified as one of THE important issues of information […]

Dearest comrades and companions,
dear Sir or Madam,
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 […]

Nach jahrelanger Ruhephase wird nun holter die polter von ein paar europäischen ICANN-Aktivisten der Versuch unternommen, eine Europäische Regional At-Large Organisation aufzubauen.
Das wünschenswerte Ziel wäre, Verbraucherrechte zu stärken und europäischen Internetnutzern mehr direkte Partizipation an ICANN policies zu ermöglichen. Davon ist der vorliegende Vorschlag meines ALAC-Kollegen Vittorio Bertola für eine europäische RALO allerdings noch […]

Heute ging es los mit dem europäischen Treffen der sogenannten At-Large Structures (ALS vgl. frühere Beiträge). Zentrale Frage ist, wie können wir am besten die Interessen der „Endnutzer“, der Bürgerinnen und Bürger vertreten? Ist die von den ICANN-Bylaws definierte Struktur der regionalen “Enduser”-Vertretungen sinnvoll, deren Aufgabe es in Zukunft sein soll, die Mitglieder von […]