Intersessional, meeting with the CEO and Board

Wed Jan 10 08:11:21 EET 2018

Hi Arsène,

Could you please expand upon why you think the CEO is the appropriate audience for this question? I would like to understand. Thanks!

Best,

Ayden

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Intersessional, meeting with the CEO and Board
> Local Time: 10 January 2018 2:09 PM
> UTC Time: 10 January 2018 13:09
> From: arsenebaguma at GMAIL.COM
> To: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>
> Hi Ayden,
> My bad, I should have said FY19 instead. Thanks for pointint that out.
>
> My suggested conversation topic still stands though.
> Regards,
> Arsene
>
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> 2018-01-10 14:53 GMT+02:00 Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com>:
>
>> Hi Arsène,
>>
>> We will be working on the FY19 budget this year.
>>
>> But I think this is a conversation which we can take to either the NCSG Finance Committee or the GNSO Standing Committee on Budget and Operations.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Ayden
>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Re: Intersessional, meeting with the CEO and Board
>>> Local Time: 10 January 2018 10:59 AM
>>> UTC Time: 10 January 2018 09:59
>>> From: arsenebaguma at GMAIL.COM
>>> To: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>>>
>>> Hi Farzaneh,
>>>
>>> Thanks for this.
>>>
>>> For those who doesn’t know, the Intercessional is an annual planning meeting which will take place this year in Los Angeles from Feb 1-2 and where some of our leaders will be attending. Not sure yet whether remote participation will be available for the entire meeting.
>>>
>>> At the NCSG level, our Councilors and the Chair will be attending as well as representatives from our two constituencies. The list of attendees will be shared on this list soon.
>>>
>>> One of the issue that i would suggest we discuss with both the CEO and the Board is the issue with finances/income. As we have learnt and have mentioned in one of our recent comment, ICANN is not doing well with regards to its income and we suggested them to cut some of their expenses so that the community doesn’t end up paying the extra cost through mechanisms such as increasing fees.
>>>
>>> I would like to know what are their strategies to deal with this issue (especially because their FY18 budget will be out soon) and if they have taken into account our suggestions of some areas where they can cut costs. During this meeting we can make sure we know whether our voice is being heard or not.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Arsene
>>>
>>> -----------------
>>> Arsène Tungali,
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>>> Sent from my iPhone (excuse typos)
>>>
>>> On Jan 10, 2018, at 11:36 AM, Farell Folly <farellfolly at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Farzaneh,
>>>>
>>>> Will the discussions concern a specific topic or we can choose any?
>>>> My concern is the following :
>>>>
>>>> Even though there is actually a public comment going on the diversity report, I would like to hear the CEO's opinion about ICANN diversity as a whole. Is it diversity a priority for him? What part of his agenda this year will deal with diversity? The WS2 work is still ongoing and may take longer to finish and more to implement. Will ICANN simply wait untill the time comes or the CEO think there can be some exception (temporary solution) to fill the gap : especially where the ICANN diversity data report expressly noted that  among the 190 leaders of ICANN only 21 are African ( vs1.1 billion of inhabitants), 28 are from the LAC (650 millions) and Asia is comparatively the most underrepresented continent (taken #active internet users). RSSAC and SSAC have no African representative and RSSAC has no LAC member, 9 out of 12 are from North America.
>>>>
>>>> Le mer. 10 janv. 2018 à 03:14, farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> Dear NCSG members,
>>>>>
>>>>> As you know, we will have the intersessional meeting at the end of January. This meeting is a meeting of the Non-contracted party house, which simply means a meeting of Non Commercial Stakeholder Group and Commercial Stakeholder Group.
>>>>>
>>>>> I will share the agenda with you soon but there are two important segment of the meeting that we need your contribution:
>>>>>
>>>>> What should we discuss with the CEO?
>>>>>
>>>>> What should we discuss with the Board?
>>>>>
>>>>> Please provide your input by 15 January.
>>>>>
>>>>> Farzaneh
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards
>>>> @__f_f__
>>>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/farellf
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