Capacity Building Working Group 18th July, 2013

Table of Contents

• Overview of At Large– Recent Statistics– Geographical Overview– ALS Penetration Rate– Language Variation across ALSes

• Geographic Classifications– Competing categorizations– Competing classifications

• Survey• Post Durban 2013

ALS Growth Rate

ALS Penetration Rate RALO No. of

ALSesCountries w/ ALS

Countries w/ ccNSO

Total Countries

Penetration Rate

AP 31 17 40 74 23%

AF 25 16 29 54 30%

LAC 42 16 24 33 48%

NA 26 3 4 8 38%

EU 33 16 36 79 20%

ccNSO Penetration Data

ICANN Region Countries Has ccNSO

AF 54 29

AP 74 40

EUR 79 36

LAC 33 24

NA 8 4

Grand Total: 248 133

Language VariationsLanguage Number of Countries

Armenian 1

Bulgarian 2

Catalan 1

Dutch 1

Dutch/French 1

English 35

Finnish 1

French 11

French/German 2

French/German/Italian 1

German 11

Greek 1

Italian 2

Nepali 1

Romanian 1

Slovene 1

Spanish 10

Ukrainian/Russian 2

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Grand Total 155

Geographic ClassificationsAfrica (ICANN) has only 54 countries/regions as against Africa (UN) consisting of 57

Asia/Pacific (ICANN) has 74 countries/regions as against Asia (UN) consisting of 50

Europe (ICANN) has 79 countries/regions as against Europe (UN) consisting of 52

North America (ICANN) has only 8 countries/regions as against Americas (UN) consisting of 51

Latin America and Caribbean (ICANN) has only 33 countries/regions – UN clubs this in with NA in “Americas”

Oceania (UN) classification does not exist in ICANN and identifies 25 countries

Competing classifications

Ascension IslandAntarcticaBouvet IslandBritish Indian Ocean TerritoryFrench Southern Territories

Important Territories where UN region does not match with ICANN region

Sub Groups

• Online• Face to Face• Content• Social Media• Survey

What We Need to Do?

• Launch Survey, post Durban– Host Call with RALOs and ALSes– Introduce the Survey

• Accelerate work in sub- working Group, tasks handed in Beijing to be completed by 15th August, 2013

• Attend to pending Action Items • Fresh Timelines for new tasks will be

given post Durban

Thank you