Recommendation for APRALO FY23-24 O&E strategic plan

1. Recommendation for APRALO FY23-24 O&E Strategic Plan
These are some of my observations. The major challenge that I see in context of ALSes and individual
member are :
1. There is no engagement opportunity for ALSes and other members, a lot of the times they
don't receive any information. I am an ALSes representative I don't receive any information in
context of ICANN activities or so. Either I have to subscribe the newsletter or there is very few
that comes through the official email address from the leadership team or staff
Communication that is created for the community needs to reach the members without any
restriction or endorsement
2. The bigger challenge in ALS is its structure which follows a hierarchy system. We do not have
access to their members from community or staff perspective so we have to inform them
(communication) and than the information flows below where a lot of the ALSes are only
active when there is free travel so we have to understand the dynamic that opportunity
motivates. We need to work on this creating better opportunity or dilute the ALSes system so
that the community has a direct access
3. Putting ALSes in spot, if we start putting the ALSes representative in the spot, highlighting their
work and challenges they will bring their people and start to open up. Recognition helps to
create better engagement as who would not share his or her achievement in social media
4. My personal experience in the icann75 Malaysia, we failed to address the ALSes. We could
have done an online remote meeting of these ALSes but we just had a presentation which a lot
of people didn't even filled. We have been missing out on these opportunities to engage ALSes
5. To understand ALSes we have to ask them their challenge and problems. Community leaders
who are active cannot be leading or lauding the issue. This is major challenge and the problem
is we have to identify the problem within the ALSes we cannot overpower the issues and
challenges
6. Local resources availability might help them do some engagement
Rayznews is an ALSes but we proved to be short of resources during our BOOT CAMP ICANN75.
We had more than 50 participants in application who registered from Asia and Africa. We had
to limit the session for half an hour due to lack of pro zoom account
https://www.rayznews.com/boot-camp-2/
7. The problem is not the challenge but a standard issues of what we are doing not listening and
communicating to the ALSes. Yesterday's APralo meeting we had only 24 participants out of
which there were 2-3 staff this is the reality and we have to face it like that
Our community is shrinking not because we are not trying or doing any effort but we are
overlooking the real problem and challenges

2. 8. Simplifying engagement, I have met and talked with ICANN fellows who have no idea about
what ICANN is doing. The whole ICANN community is complexed in terms of idealizing
technical so much that people have no idea about what ICANN does? Yes, I agree to the point
that we have resources with ICANN learn but a lot of the times it gets shadowed in view of lack
of proper marketing and communication. I will share with you one event where my interview
as a Social media working group vice chair of Atlarge was published in ICANN newsletter and I
got to know about it after a year. Even for a person like me who is engaged with has a problem
that just imagine of the newcomer
9. ICANN 74 Malaysia there was no strategic planning done with the community. When an event
is happening in the region why we do not involve ALSes ......