Re: [atlarge-discuss] WG-OUTREACH 003 - Update and Action List

["Ron Sherwood" <sherwood@islands.vi>]

Richard:

    I will be pleased to organize and manage a Caribbean@large outreach
program under your auspicious guidance.

Ron

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>
To: <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>; "Hans Klein"
<hans.klein@pubpolicy.gatech.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 6:16 AM
Subject: [atlarge-discuss] WG-OUTREACH 003 - Update and Action List


> Friends -
>
> This is a review of a number of possible actions which we should consider
on
> the Outreach front:
>
> Firstly, I'd like to clarify the membership of this Working Group and
extend
> an invitation to anyone else who would like to participate in it. Current
> WG-OUTREACH participants:
>
> Roberto Roggiero, Sotiris Sotiropoulos, Joey Borda, Judyth Mermelstein,
> Gabriel Pineiro, Jeff Williams, Ron Sherwood, Bruce Young, Erick Iriarte
> Ahon, YJ Park, Satyajit Gupta, Jefsey Morfin, Richard Henderson
>
> Action 1: Constructing a list of sympathetic organisations we could
contact
> with an invitation to individuals to join us. Typical example- Judyth
> mentioned the Women's Human Rights Net  http://www.whrnet.org . Another
> typical example of a useful interface which Elisabeth drew to our
attention
> can be found here: http://lists.kabissa.org/archives/pambazuka-news/ .
Danny
> also drew attention to CECUA at www.cecua.org . There are hundreds or
> thousands of these organisations, and we need someone to work on a list of
> them to contact. This task could also be devolved to various national
> representatives to identify groups which are specific to their own
locality.
>
> Action 2: Drafting an "Introductory Letter and Appeal to Join" to send to
> the orgs and groups listed above.
>
> Action 3: Contacting members from the members list and inviting them to
> nurture atlarge groups and recruitment in their specific countries. We
have
> the membership details (you can also find them at
www.theinternetchallenge)
> and I think it is time to contact them in over 70 specific countries and
see
> how much they really want to get involved. Ideally we want to identify at
> least one national co-ordinator in each country (like Gabriel Pineiro in
> Argentina). Where this fails, we look to a regional co-ordinator. In some
> cases we can even co-ordinate more locally than even national level - for
> example, Bruce has offered to take responsibility for the US Pacific North
> West.
>
> Action 4: Consideration of Jefsey's www.atlarge.org structure which would
be
> perfect to support a nation by nation approach like this. The notion of a
> bottom-up movement needs a bottom-up approach to website proliferation.
>
> Action 5: Press/Media release on the emergence of our organisation, its
> aims, and battle with Icann.
>
> Action 6: Constructing a list of press/media contacts to send the press
> release to, ideally preceded by personal e-mail or phone calls. This task
> can also be devolved to national levels. Judyth, I know, has a useful list
> of press contacts. I have a UK list.
>
> Action 7: Demonstration of Relevance - in the context of Hans appeal for
> articles, I suggest we post pages on our website which state (a) the
> historic background of the AtLarge (b) Icann's thwarting of the AtLarge
> movement and its present ploys (c) Articles written by panel members on
> relevant issues, as Hans has proposed. For myself, this is likely to be a
> demonstration of Icann's abandonment of ordinary users/consumers as
> demonstrated in the roll-out of the New TLDs. I think Judith Oppenheimer's
> masterly list of reasons for an organisation like ours (Aug 22) deserves a
> page of its own, under the title "Why participation is important". So does
> Bruce's CircleID article.
>
> Action 8: Would it be helpful to have our own List for Outreach-related
> mail? This has been raised before and I'd appreciate comments on this and
> help setting one up. Judyth drew attention to:
> http://cairns.altnews.com.au/lists/.I think, ideally, we avoid Yahoo lists
> etc. Does Hans have an overall strategy in mind for lists for WGs?
>
> Action 9: Considering the development of a Student movement for the
AtLarge,
> and how we can create an interface with Student organisations and groups
all
> over the world. Students are often at the forefront of activism and there
is
> already a student network set up and in existence all over the world, so
why
> not involve it? This is an area where an idealistic democratic
organisation
> like ours can make inroads that a 'corporate-supporting' ICANN could never
> hope to do... at least, if we set out our pitch in advance and demonstrate
> that Icann is part of "them" and "the problem". Is there someone who can
> gather together a list of Student and Academic contacts?
>
> Action 10: A letter specifically drafted with Students in mind, explaining
> their freedoms, their internet, and the threats posed by Icann and its USG
> overseers.
>
> Action 11: Translation into French and Spanish and German etc of key pages
> on our website, particularly recruitment pages and key information pages.
> Initially, identifying volunteers who would be prepared to do this, at
least
> in a limited capacity.
>
> Action 12: Bruce (on 21st August) kindly offered to take on the
> co-ordination role for this WG and I would gladly endorse him if others
are
> in agreement. Bruce has throughout taken a calm and conciliatory approach,
> and I think he would be well suited to the task. For my own part, I am
happy
> to continue as an active member of the WG, but I want the freedom to
diverge
> and explore other ways of developing the AtLarge if our mission here
becomes
> too narrow and Icann-centric : so I propose Bruce as co-ordinator of this
WG
> if he is willing to take this on.
>
> Action 13: Drafting an update or new version of our present "Regional"
> webpage.
>
> Action 14: (linked to other areas, not just Outreach) We said that we
would
> send out newsletters to the membership from time to time. At what period
of
> time? And can the Outreach WG have a section in these newsletters? Can we
> press the panel to determine the policy on newsletters to members, and to
> agree on a clear Outreach element in these letters, ideally drafted by
> someone in this Working Group? Your views?
>
> AOB?
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
>
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