NCSG Travel Policy Lacks Inclusivity Please

[farzaneh badii]

Remmy,

For three years  being in leadership positions at ICANN, out of 9 ICANN
meetings I attended only 3. I was an executive committee member an ncuc
chair and ncsg chair. I was effective and carried out my tasks well and did
more than many of those who actually attended meetings. Even more than some
of the previous chairs. I raised overall up to 88000 usd for ncuc and ncsg
from Icann for policy writing and capacity building. I managed an outreach
of 7000 usd which Icann paid as a crop event again from behind my desk at 3
am in the morning sometimes. My decision as ncsg chair not to seek re
election is of course because of not being able to travel but that is
totally different. When you are at the helm of a group unfortunately
because of this "leadership" culture of ICANN and hierarchy NCSG will
sometimes be without representative which is not in its interest. But when
you are with a committee in more of an executive function,  You don't have
to attend ICANN meetings to do your job. If you get the opportunity to go
then great. But you don't have to.

I think all ncsg members should know that travel slots don't bring equality
in participation. Participation brings participation and inclusiveness.
Hard work brings results. The result of participation can be travel slots.
It should not be vice versa.

On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 4:09 PM Remmy Nweke <remmyn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the response Farzaneh,
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> I think it would amount to not wanting to make Finance Committee improve
> on its working processes and mandate to sound it off as mere “protecting
> the interest of members or wanting to score travel slot” which I think
> negates the purpose of the Finance Committee or probably why it has been in
> comatose lately.
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> For your information, the role and mandate of Finance Committee as
> contained in the NCSG Charter Section 2.6 is very clear and is not limited
> to the following:
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> Develop and deploy a fund raising plan for the NCSG;
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> Work with the ICANN’s staff to determine levels of support available to
> the NCSG;
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> Work with ICANN finance officers to insure the NCSG and its Constituencies
> receive fair and equivalent financial support from ICANN;
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> Accounting for any funds received by the NCSG from any source. This
> accounting will include the following:
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> All funds raised by voluntary membership fees or otherwise must be held in
> a separate NCSG account.
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> Proper controls must be implemented.
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> Regarding Expenditures, FC is to among others see that:
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> Financial reports must be prepared annually and be made public.
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> Provide internal conflict resolution process regarding funds.
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> Provide the oversight of the Treasurer function.
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> Fulfill any other accounting, auditing or other prescribed financial
> requirements as set by the ICANN Board of Directors for organizations
> within the ICANN structure.
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> For now, the present crop of FC are not people who are merely seeking
> exposure, but want to contribute its quota, and thus find it unhealthy that
> Finance Committee is being relegated.
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> Looking at most of the responsibilities of the Finance Committee, its
> stakeholders  and possible time for most of its functions and oversights
> must be dealt with within the ICANN stakeholdes meeting for proper
> engagement.
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> Finally, its in the best interest of *NCSG-EC* that the Finance Committee
> work and works well, so as to pave way for more accountability and
> transparency in our process and overtly more funding for our stakeholders.
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> We cannot be demanding accountability and transparency from other
> stakeholders and tactically frustrate the efforts of Finance Committee
> thereby making the committee look as irredeemables.
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> Remmy
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Farzaneh
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