[Advisors] Repres. TC at the At Large Advisory Council (ICANN)

[Marita Moll]

Hello advisors. This is to let you know that, much to my surprise, I 
have been elected as the North American Regional At-Large Organization's 
(NARALO) representative to ICANN's  At Large Advisory Council. This is a 
2 year position.

There are currently 23 at large structures (ALS) under the NARALO banner 
-- 10 Canadian. Each ALS has a representative at NARALO and I am the 
current rep. for TC. TC was one of the founding members of NARALO and 
both Gareth and Darlene were very active in former years, TC is well 
known and respected in these circles.

Here is some information about the role of ALAC in the ICANN structure:

Representing the At-Large Community, the ALAC is the primary 
organizational home in ICANN for individual Internet users. Under the 
ICANN Bylaws, the roles of the ALAC are to:

  * Consider and provide advice on the activities of ICANN as they
    relate to the interests of individual Internet users. This includes
    policies created through SOs, as well as ICANN operations and many
    other issues for which community input and advice is appropriate;
  * Play an important part in ICANN’s accountability mechanisms;
  * Coordinate some of ICANN’s outreach and engagement efforts to
    individual Internet users.

The range of individual Internet users, whose interests that the ALAC 
represents, is quite broad. They include registrants (people who hold 
domain names), consumers, and the billions of average web users and 
visitors.

While ICANN is a technical organization with a focused mandate, its 
bottom-up, consensus-driven, multistakeholder model gives the ALAC a 
unique position to play -- average users that don’t have vested business 
interests, political interests, or even technical backgrounds can also 
have a voice to influence the evolution of the critical logistical 
infrastructure layer of the Internet. Such position is rare to find in 
other international organizations in the world.

For more info please see: https://atlarge.icann.org/

Marita


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