[AT-Review] Comments about fellowship program transparency

Louie Lee louie at equinix.com
Sun Jun 20 13:44:03 UTC 2010


Dear Olga,

It was very nice to see you as well.  And thank you very much for your written comments.  I am cc'ing the Review Team via the mailing list to input your comments also into the public record.

The ATRT Chair has made a commitment to establish some way for receiving public comments, and I would personally work to have that be available by the time our of our Interaction with Community session happening Monday afternoon.

Louie

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From: Olga Cavalli [olgacavalli at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 9:25 AM
To: Louie Lee
Subject: Comments about fellowship program transparency

Dear Louie,
nice to see you today.
I have just copy pasted below the comment I made in relation with the travel policy, that summarizes my concerns about the fellowship program.
The real lack of transparency comes, in my modest opinion, in that the names of the selection committee are not know, neither their statements of interest.
Also the selection process does not favor those countries far away from major cities where the meetings takes place.
It could be good to know also how someone could be part of this selection committee, how are they selected, etc etc
Looking forward for any feedback on this, I send you my best regards
Olga



Comment

 *   To: travel-support-2011 at xxxxxxxxx
 *   Subject: Comment
 *   From: Olga Cavalli <olgacavalli at xxxxxxxxx>
 *   Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:43:50 -0300

________________________________

Hi,
I make this comment in my personal capacity as a member of the ICANN
community and it is not related in any way with my role of Vice Chair of the
GNSO and in any way reflects any opinion from the GNSO council.


About the Fellowship program:

Fellowship Selection Committee - Transparency:

For making the selection process more transparent, the names of the members
of the independent selection committee should be available in the ICANN web

page, including their background and statement of interest.
It could be good to know how they are selected, if there is a regular call
for applications, and how long they serve in their positions.

Fellow´s Selection Process:


The geographically weighted process sets aside  candidates of locations that
are geographically very far away from most of the main cities of the world,
like for example the southern cone of South America (Argentina, Chile,

Paraguay, Uruguay). Candidates from these countries have usually less
chances of being selected than others.
A different selection process should be developed in order to solve this
geographic gap.

Thanks for allowing me to send these comments.


Olga Cavalli

Other comments supporting this one can be found in:

http://forum.icann.org/lists/travel-support-2011/






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