Council Member replacement

[Tomslin Samme-Nlar]

I absolutely agree with this thinking David.
We need more diversity at the bottom of the process and our best at the
top. If there were a good number at the bottom, we won't have a problem
finding strong candidates, meeting the diversity requirements we hope to
achieve.

Happy holidays!
Tomslin



On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 20:01, David Cake <dave at davecake.net> wrote:

> I think James is very astute on this point.
>
> We need people to be involved in PDPs and policy work that represent a
> really diverse geographical range, so we capture a really wide range of
> perspectives. All of the geographical divisions have a huge range of
> diversity within them - my own region, APAC, includes India, China,
> Malaysia, Indonesia, a wide range of pacific islands and more - as well as
> my own nation, Australia, and its close neighbour New Zealand. We could put
> up six councillors just from APAC and still represent a diverse range of
> viewpoints in other ways, or a balanced geographical representation and
> still have other big diversity issues. But the council just manages policy,
> and is a good job for people who already are experienced in policy and want
> to help manage the process.
>
> But council level is not right solution for regional diversity. Council
> mostly only deals with the policy process, not the policy detail, and it at
> the detail level that so many regional differences are important. We want
> six of our best, experienced, policy experts in council. We need
> representation from all regions in PDPs and policy work, and then it will
> be easy to have choose six that represent a broad range of regions. It is
> better to have a mild imbalance in regional representation (2 councillors
> is not enough to truly represent the diversity of ANY region, and geography
> is just a single diversity factor, we also want gender balance, a range of
> skills, a range of sectors, etc) than to have councillors without enough
> policy experience. But we really need diversity at the policy level, to
> make sure regional issues (like, eg, so many IDN issues, or national legal
> differences) are represented in the policy process.
>
> So, don’t apply for council just in the hopes of building regional
> diversity. Jump into the policy processes.
>
> David
>
>
> On 18 Dec 2019, at 12:02 am, James Gannon <lists at ICANN.GURU> wrote:
>
> more active members from the African region who are participating and
> contributing to PDPs and policy work in general.
>
>
>
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