[Alac-sc-outreach] The new ICANN's Fellows and Nextgen video is great except.....

Niran Beharry nbeharrytt at gmail.com
Mon May 1 23:49:24 UTC 2017


+1 Dev i think the at-large and alac should get recognized as a part of the
community

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 7:47 PM, Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Its more than just poor  product placement. It reduces the  fellows and
> netgen into small uniform animated characters  vs the use of actual
> pictures. Tons of  good quality pictures exist demonstrating diversity and
> equity across the globe.
> It fails also to acknowledge the use of subtitles which all  US 501C are
> obligated to use.
>
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> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 6:50 PM, Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> A new ICANN video titled "NextGen & Fellows Video" promoting how one
>> can get involved in ICANN via the Nextgen and Fellows program. It also
>> tries to explain what is the DNS and ICANN in a simple way.
>>
>> https://youtu.be/nrV_ZkDEfIQ
>>
>> I think its a good video.
>>
>> HOWEVER,
>>
>> At the 36 second mark where the voiceover mentions the volunteer
>> community, all of the ACs and SOs are listed to the left side of the
>> spinning globe in a fashion like
>>
>> ICANN | <acronym of AC or SO>
>> <name of AC and SO>
>>
>> EXCEPT
>>
>> for ICANN At-Large - the At-Large logo is displayed. (screenshot attached)
>>
>> The result:
>>
>> 1) Because ICANN At-Large is treated differently, we appear invisible
>> and not part of the community - because the target audience is not
>> aware of the At-Large logo, I suspect many will not see At-Large at
>> all and treat the logo as some sort of arbitrary graphic floating
>> around.
>>
>> 2) The completely different styling makes us be seen as outside the
>> legitimate multi-stakeholder community.
>>
>> We should have been treated and displayed equally as the other ACs and
>> SOs.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dev Anand
>>
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