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Dear Sarah,<br>
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thanks for your comments/questions. Please be so kind to find my
answers inline:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/11/2017 17:02, Sarah Kiden wrote:<br>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">The mentor starts
mentoring all 5 mentees through a set of calls throughout the
year, with the 5 mentees. The mentor travels to each of the
ICANN meetings in the year.<br>
With 3 ICANN meetings in a year, 2 mentees go to March
meeting. 2 mentees go to June meeting. 1 mentee goes to AGM in
November. Thus, all 5 mentees have had a chance to attend one
funded ICANN meeting. This means there is actually a shortfall
of only 2 travel slots, one at the March meeting and one at
the June meeting. As the focus for mentoring is about policy,
one slot for each of these two meetings could be a
discretionary slot current available for a policy person to
take part in the meeting.</div>
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<div dir="auto">This proposal sounds good to me. Just some
clarification. I’m not sure if I’m mixing up numbers. The
mentor travels to all the meetings but we have 2 mentees for the
March and June meetings. That makes it 3 travellers per meeting,
yet there is funding for 2. Is the discretionary slot easy to
justify? <br>
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We are short of 1 slot in two meetings: the one in March and the one
in June. The ALAC has some discretionary slots for policy people.
The ALAC could decide to allocate one of these slots per meeting to
a mentee focussing on policy.<br>
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This is just a simple proposal - Feedback/Comments welcome as
soon as possible! We need to have finalised a process by the
end of this week.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Has it been agreed that mentees are chosen at RALO
level? Otherwise, I am happy with this proposal as well. <br>
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I'll let the ALAC Chair summarise what's agreed. I think we have not
formally agreed anything yet, but need to focus on agreeing quickly.<br>
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<div dir="auto">Another question unrelated to travel slots. Is the
mentor: mentee ratio (1:5) good? Are 5 mentees not many for one
mentor? </div>
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There is no funding for more people at present. The alternative is
to have 1 mentor and 2 mentees per meeting, so they might be the
same or change at each meeting - but with 5 RALOs that really is
limiting - and some RALOs might therefore not benefit from this
program.<br>
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Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier<br>
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