Additional Budget Requests: What activities do we want ICANN to fund

[Farell Folly]

 I Agree with Ayden's comments, especially regarding external consulting.
We'll learn best practices or improve our knowledge of.


Le sam. 9 déc. 2017 à 02:45, Stephanie Perrin <
stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca> a écrit :

> I agree with Ayden, and in particular I would identify research and
> preparing briefing papers in order to bring our new people up to speed, as
> key activities we could use help on.  Some of us are happy to mentor, but
> the folks who want mentoring need materials to read, questions and answers,
> prior to discussing issues with potential mentors.  We can't just throw
> them at the ICANN PDP websites and wikis, it is overwhelming to scan
> through the amount of material and resource documents one has to read.
> That kind of help from a research firm would be useful, and I agree with
> Ayden that we may want to hire a different kind of resource than the one
> the RySG is using, which should be permissible.  Although, there are
> certainly firms like that who work with NGOS of all kinds.
>
> Stephanie Perrin
>
> On 2017-12-08 20:14, Ayden Férdeline wrote:
>
> Farzaneh, thanks-
>
> I have two suggestions.
>
> 1) As the NCSG and its constituencies scale and mature, we may want to
> become more independent than we are today from ICANN. Is it possible to
> request a budget for professional services so that we can receive advice on
> whether becoming our own legal entity is a possibility - and desirable?
>
> 2) Another suggestion - and one which I appreciate will not have support
> from all our members - is to explore the possibility of hiring external
> consultants to aid us in our policy work. Other ICANN communities receive
> support from WBC Global in writing first drafts of their public comments. I
> am aware that the Business Constituency, Intellectual Property
> Constituency, Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers
> Constituency, and the Registries Stakeholder Group accept this assistance.
> They receive support from WBC advisers for up to 20 public comments per
> year. We refuse this assistance and I continue to maintain that this is a
> mistake. According to a document
> <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-fy18-budget-08mar17/attachments/20170330/8e8238e7/RySGcommentonDocumentDevelopmentandDraftingProgram-0001.pdf>
> that I found on the ICANN website from the RySG:
>
> *"Our Document Development and Drafting Research Assistant, Wim Degezelle,
> made a significant contribution in his role of drafting comments to complex
> public comments. His ability to research a topic, communicate with those in
> the RySG who may have some more in-depth knowledge of the issues/topics at
> hand, and then prepare and present salient observations and suggested
> comments has been of incredible benefit to the RySG. Wim’s role facilitated
> participation by RySG members who don’t use English as their first
> language, and better enabled engagement by smaller (or new) registry
> operators who have limited bandwidth, resources and/or knowledge that
> restrict their participation in issues that may have a direct impact on
> their operations. In fact, we saw a notable increase in participation by
> volunteers to partner (or even take a lead role) in developing and/or
> contributing to critical issues requiring formal comments by the RySG."*
>
> When communities with more resources than us are accepting assistance in
> drafting their comments, and we do not (for a number of very valid
> reasons), I worry that we exacerbate our disadvantages.
>
> I understand that one of the concerns regarding WBC Global was that they
> describe themselves as a "Leading international trade government relations
> consulting firm serving multinational clients ... offer[ing] public policy,
> political and strategic business advice to Fortune 500 and other
> companies". There are concerns, rightfully so, that they may not be best
> positioned to write comments through a civil society lens. But can we
> instead request our own budget, and work with ICANN [I am not entirely
> familiar with their procurement processes] to choose our own consulting
> firm? We're swamped. We need help.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Ayden Férdeline
> linkedin.com/in/ferdeline <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Additional Budget Requests: What activities do we want ICANN to
> fund
> Local Time: 7 December 2017 3:52 PM
> UTC Time: 7 December 2017 15:52
> From: farzaneh.badii at GMAIL.COM
> To: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>
> We can submit additional budget requests to ICANN to fund certain
> activities. This year we got our NCSG policy course approved. What do you
> think the need of our stakeholder group is for next year? What should ICANN
> fund for us?
>
> Please send your ideas my way, and remember that there are many
> restrictions to the sort of funding we get. For example, we probably won't
> be able to get funding to support travelers for ICANN meetings we could try
> but it might be turned down.  Here is the link to additional budget request
> announcement: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2017-12-05-en
>
> Note that we will discuss the ideas with NCSG Executive Committee, select
> some, develop them and submit the requests on behalf of NCSG. I advise
> against submitting additional funding request on your own.
>
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> Best
>
> Farzaneh
>
>
>
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