<div dir="ltr">Heya Farz, <div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for your email and attention to this issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Firstly, I must acknowledge that Maryam and ICANN staff's help were of huge help for this pas webinar - I have been truly overwhelmed with work and dealing with some health issues - and without them this webinar wouldnt have happened. But having said that, I agree that we need to rethink/discuss the format of such webinars. </div><div><br></div><div>I remember asking similar things about the resources to staff but maybe we can write a formal feedback about some of these issues in order to improve the ABR process for the next years. And I must also confess that this year's process left me a little undermotivated and that is I unilaterally opted for not submitting a proposal for the 21/22 FY.</div><div><br></div><div>The main points to me were - a. choice of the specialists/course facilitation - our facilitators were all ICANN staff, b. use of resources - I am not aware of how much was spent with this last webinar and if we have spent anything from the allocated amount; and c. conditions of approval: both NCSG and NCUC webinars have been approved under the condition that the resources should be used for CS at ICANN (including ALAC). --- Re. point 'c' - while I do not oppose us streamlining the resources and having material offered to a bigger part of the ICANN community, I believe that the ABR process is relevant for requesting initiatives to improve NCSGs work and sometimes the reminders about the broader scope might have gotten in the way. <br><br> I believe that any feedback we send to staff on this process might also be helpful to our future ABR applications.</div><div><br></div><div>Best, </div><div>B</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 9:52 AM farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">thanks for putting this together Bruna, and ICANN staff. It is a hard covid year and it is understandable that we might not want to spend resources on outside training and expertise. But how is this webinar a response to an “ABR”? I don’t think our request for additional budget was delivered. There was no additoonal budget allocated to us, it seems the current budget was used. All I am saying is that, it’s fine if ICANN doesn’t want to allocate additional budget. But perhaps we can just announce and accept that fact instead of saying we were allocated additional budget at zero cost! <br><br>On Tuesday, July 6, 2021, Brenda Brewer <<a href="mailto:brenda.brewer@icann.org" target="_blank">brenda.brewer@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in">Participants: Alperen Eken, Benjamin Akimoyeje, Bruna Martins dos Santos, Caleb Ogundele, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Farell Folly, Gloria Meneses, Grace Githaiga, GZ Kabir, Kristi Hoffmaster, Jacqueline Morris, Joan Katambi,
Judith Hellerstein, Ken Herman, Manju Chen, Nadira Al-Araj, Olga Kyryliuk, Poncelet Ileleji, Rafik Dammak, Raphael Beauregard-Lacroix, Raquel Renno, Shah Rahman, Shavkat Sabirov, Taiwo Peter Akinremi, Wisdom Donkor, Yusif Amadu<u></u><u></u></p>
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https://icann.zoom.us/rec/play/0QogfF63nwtrfqD4AYJb4X2CU_hUEtRuUC0pfJ4DU2CiZbIgnAojG2YXEBsRE33BJmLmscxY0p7ZE9aP.qIqfGQXVfnqA_erM</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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https://icann.zoom.us/rec/play/GUuHl7E4wWUg3SoH-WYq7wOhuo2Z2Vm_Lng9iLzgAgS56IBL298ERvw0_8MV0eNwFFW6iEl-njwhIP9k.zsnZXAfu-aY9nmEo</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><i>Bruna Martins dos Santos <br></i></b><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></div><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11px"></span></font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Advocacy Coordinator | <a href="https://www.dataprivacybr.org/en/" target="_blank">Data Privacy Brazil Research</a></font></span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Member | <a href="https://direitosnarede.org.br/" target="_blank">Coalizão Direitos na Rede</a> <br>Chair</font></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> | <a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/about/stakeholders-constituencies/ncsg" target="_blank">Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group at ICANN</a><br></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Co-Coordinator</font></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> | <a href="https://igcaucus.org/" target="_blank">Internet Governance Caucus </a><br></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></font></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="1" color="#000000"><font size="2">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/boomartins" target="_blank"><font color="#1155cc">@</font>boomartins</a> // </font></font></span><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36)">Skype: bruna.martinsantos</span></div></div><div><font size="1"><a href="mailto:bruna@dataprivacybr.org" target="_blank">bruna@dataprivacybr.org</a> and <a href="mailto:bruna.mrtns@gmail.com" target="_blank">bruna.mrtns@gmail.com</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>