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

[Darlene Thompson]

Major CONGRATULATIONS, Marita!

That is a very responsible job and hard to get.  I can't imagine anyone who
would do a better job!

Kudos!!!

Darlene


On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 10:18 AM, Marita Moll <mmoll at ca.inter.net> wrote:

> 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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