<div dir="auto">+1<div dir="auto">Warm regards</div><div dir="auto">Olévié</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Le sam. 8 août 2020 à 02:04, Tomslin Samme-Nlar <<a href="mailto:mesumbeslin@gmail.com">mesumbeslin@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Thank you Sam. Well summarised. </div><div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">Like you mentioned in your summary, we must continue to work on improving the Troika. Taking into consideration all the good points that have been raised during the life of your post and discussion.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Cheers,<br>Tomslin<br> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri., 7 Aug. 2020, 00:29 Sam Lanfranco, <<a href="mailto:lanfran@yorku.ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">lanfran@yorku.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">
<p class="MsoNormal">NCSG, NCUC & NPOC Colleagues,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would like to express my thanks for the discussion that
followed my deliberately provocative posting on possible futures for those of
us working in the troika. This is my summary statement for now. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The discussion was rich and insightful with some deep-felt positions
agreeing that we could restructure to do better. Collectively we are
administratively top heavy. We are persistently short of volunteers to cover our
role in the core work of ICANN (policy development, document review, etc.). Our
recruitment of active and engaged membership has been wanting.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Given the size of the global civil society and non-profit
sectors our recruitment efforts, independently and working with ICANN, have
been of weak success. This is as serious an issue at two levels. One is the
shortage of engaged members for the core work of ICANN. The other is the weight
of our voice within ICANN.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In this discussion one colleague said that NPOC is the “Voice
of the non-profit sector”. No. NPOC cannot claim that any more than NCUC can
claim that it is the voice of non-commercial users. <span> </span>We are hearty bands of volunteers who, to the
best of our ability, voice the concerns of non-commercial users and the
non-profit sector. We have no formal accountability and base our efforts on our
best intentions. For example, my NPOC position comes from the Canadian Society
for International Health (CSIH) NPOC membership. CSIH was once concerned about
abuse around health gTLDs. They are no longer concerned, I am no longer
formally accountable, and I should shift to individual NCSG membership. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ICANN needs us as a legitimate part of its multistakeholder
model. While we are representatives FROM our constituencies, without formal
accountability we are not representatives OF our constituencies. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The good work of those who volunteer for policy development,
elected positions, and other ICANN tasks bolster mainly individual reputations
and standings within ICANN. The weight of the troika’s voice within ICANN, as
the troika, rests on the breadth and depth of our membership, and we are weak
there. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would hope that as part of our work agenda for 2020-2021
we have an ongoing discussion and look at structural changes that increase member
engagement in ICANN work, reduce troika administrative work, and enhance the
attractiveness of membership from our global constituencies. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lastly, I would like to than Milton and others for correcting
me when I got parts of the early organizational history wrong. <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sam Lanfranco<br></p>
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