ICANN MEETING NO. 38 | 20-25 JUNE 2010

ALSes Survey AnalysisPrelimenary results

ALSes SurveyJune 2010

13 of 22 African ALSes participated in this survey

59% of the total number

AFRALO1- Participation in the SurveyALSes

SurveyJune 2010

2- Website

Less than 62% provided a website address

More than 38% don’t have a web page

AFRALO3- Level of RepresentationALSes

SurveyJune 2010

Most of the African ALSes are represented at a National level

The regional level was understood as “regional inside the country” because of the logic order, and also because no international level was included in the choices.

the following representations should be included in the future :

Local

NationalRegionalInternational

State

Most of the AFRALO ALSes use mainly the mailing lists

2/3 use Skype

38% use Facebook

1/3 use Twitter

1/3 use Blogs

More than half of them use other communication means such as telephone and fax.

AFRALO5 - Communication toolsALSes

SurveyJune 2010

Almost all hold regular meetings with their members

AFRALO6 - Regular meetings

with members?ALSes SurveyJune 2010

Most of the ALSes meet every 2 to 3 months

AFRALO6a - Periodicity of the meetings

ALSes SurveyJune 2010

85% face to face meeting

38% Web conference

31% Teleconference

38% other

AFRALO6b - Type of meetings

ALSes SurveyJune 2010

62% French

31% English

31% Arabic

AFRALO7 - Working LanguagesALSes

SurveyJune 2010

77% new gTLDs

69% IPV4 / IPV6

54% IDN

Security, stability & resiliency

Engagement & outreach

23% Whois

23% Other

AFRALO8b - Interest in Issues

ALSes SurveyJune 2010

77% Either depending on topic and required commitement

15% Standing WG meeting regularly

No interest in the ad hoc WG

AFRALO9 – Preferred WG activity

ALSes SurveyJune 2010

46% Well integrated

15% very well integrated

15% Not integrated at all

8% poorly integrated

AFRALO11 – At-Large integrated in ICANN policy structure

ALSes SurveyJune 2010

AFRALO12 - ALS integrated in ALAC/ RALO policy structure

ALSes SurveyJune 2010

31% Very well integrated

23% Well integrated

23% Very poorly integrated

15% poorly integrated

69% Policy documents are too technical and require long time to read

54% Other time commitments

54% Connectivity

38% No Knowledgeable members

15% Issues not relevant to the ALS

15% Other

AFRALO13 - Limitations to ALS participation

ALSes SurveyJune 2010

Rec 4 about ALS education and engagement is seen as the most important one to increase the ALS participation (62%).

Followed by Rec 9 concerning translation and interpretation processes (54%)

Rec 2, 7 and 12 were also select by 1/3 of the ALSes as the most important for their participation

AFRALO14a – To increase the ALS

participation in ICANN

ALSes SurveyJune 2010

AFRALO14b – The ALS wants to help ALAC in implementing

ALSes SurveyJune 2010

54% of our ALSes want to help ALAC in implementing Rec 4 about ALS education and engagement.

While only 23% like to help in implementing Rec 12 concerning input from consumer representatives

15% prefer Rec 5, 6 and/or 8.

AFRALOQuick snapshotALSes

SurveyJune 2010

The participation rate for the African region is quite good (almost 60%)

Only 62% gave a secondary contact of ALS representative

More than 38% didn’t give a website address, which is a very bad index for a representative of the Internet users.

Some of our ALSes still use the fax as a communication tools, but the most in use is the mailing list

Most of our ALSes are using French (62%), the English users and the Arabic users represent each 31% only of the whole number.

we can notice that IDN is an interesting issue for the African ALSes, but not the at the first level because there is not a big interest in using the African local languages in the top level domains.

Most of the ALSes feel that the excessively technical nature and the lenth of the policy documents represent the most limitation for their participation

ICANN MEETING NO. 38 | 20-25 JUNE 2010

Thank you

ICANN MEETING No. 38 | 20-25 June 2010

ALSes SurveyJune 2010