Regional At-Large Organizations (RALOs)

African Regional At-Large Organization

Engaging Africa 4D

AFRALO is the home of the individual Internet user community for the African region. It provides news, key resources and interactive information sharing tools for individuals and enduser groups in the African region who are interested in ICANN and in shaping the future of the Internet.

AFRALO aims to:

• Strengthen users’ participation in ICANN decision-making structures
• Help ensure that its members will actively encourage more direct participation by end users
• Build Internet policy making capacity in the region
• Reach out to Internet users on the issues in the scope of ICANN
• Represent users’ interests and defining public interest aspects of Internet governance with specific focus on the areas of privacy, transparency, and accountability
• Strengthen consumer protection in ICANN policies
• Identify social impacts of technical infrastructure design
• Take cultural diversity into account when formulating technical standards (e.g. IDN implementation)

AFRALO currently consist of 76 ALSes located in 33 countries and territories, as well as 30 Individual Members and 3 Observers.

To learn more about the ongoing work of AFRALO, you are welcome to check out its confluence wiki workspace: community.icann.org/display/AFRALO.