[Poll] Reminder topics of interest for the ICANN Board-NCSG session in Buenos Aires

[Rafik Dammak]

Dear Arthur,

Thanks for your message and comments.

At NCSG, we have several challenges : participating in ongoing policy
process in working groups , getting members engaged and informed, making
public comments and statements . All these are basically  done by
volunteers on their free time, dedicated and commiting it for NCSG.

I acknowledge that the learning curve takes time , by following discussion
in mailing list , reading the documents and blog posts shared, but also
asking other members who are actively involved.

As newcomer toolkit, there are the pages in our wiki and shared in
welcoming message. Are they enough?no. Do they need more work? Yes. But
this means in many times, the same volunteers to work on them. I made that
task in my to-do list for some time now and I have to find spare time to
complete it. That is my personal commitment.


We are trying several way to get people involved like having one-topic
webinars to introduce specific policy, explain it and responding to
questions. Still it is not enough. There is homework to be done by members
like reading the shared material etc . We will see if there are other
approaches we may follow.

David and Daniell can explain how they made their report as part of the
organization they belong too. We don't have unfortunately the same
resources and as I said we are doing work based on volunteers.

The current discussions are quite recent because the iana stewardship
transition and we all are learning in the process.

I am taking notes of your comments and we will do our best more that we did
before.

Best,

Rafik
On May 14, 2015 6:26 PM, "Arthur Gwagwa" <arthurgwagwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Rafik
>
> As a new member, I have been finding some of the discussions quite
> bewildering and technical. It looks like I jumped into a discussion that
> has been going on for years, and therefore I am still trying to get the
> head and the tail of it. The paper written by David and Danielle has helped
> me grasp a few basics of what is happening and may be able to participate
> meaningfully in future. Perhaps in future, new members need more support,
> especially provision of  a basic online resource kit.
>
> Best.
>
> On 7 May 2015 at 14:08, Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> please suggest 2 or 3 topics we should discuss with ICANN board during
>> our joint-session in ICANN meeting.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Rafik
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com>
>> Date: 2015-04-27 20:10 GMT+09:00
>> Subject: [Poll] topics of interest for the ICANN Board-NCSG session in
>> Buenos Aires
>> To: "NCSG-DISCUSS at listserv.syr.edu" <NCSG-DISCUSS at listserv.syr.edu>
>>
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> earlier that usual, we should find out the topics we would like to
>> discuss with ICANN board in Buenos Aires meeting. we will try first to get
>> several suggestions, then later we can narrow them to 3 topics for example.
>> we have deadline for *15th May.*
>>
>> this will allow more time for us and the board itself to prepare for the
>> session. The ICANN board chair sent also a letter with suggestion for new
>> format for that session, but also for a Board - Stakeholders Groups plenary
>> session with agreed topics. please find more details in the attached
>> document. I do think that is good step to improve the dialogue between the
>> community and the board
>>
>> so feel free to propose topics and please add 1 or 2 lines to explain
>> what you think we should discuss on those issues.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Rafik
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Arthur Ernest Gwagwa
> Legal Counsel, The Chambers
> 11th Floor Old Mutual Centre
> Harare, Zimbabwe
>
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