[AT-Review] Comments about fellowship program transparency

[Olga Cavalli]

Thanks so much Cheryl.
I do appreciate this.
Regards
Olga

2010/6/21 Cheryl Langdon-Orr <langdonorr at gmail.com>

> As I am currently presenting in my role as ALAC Chair to the fellowship,
> and am so being made aware of a number of established and being released
> changes (including full transparency of who the selectors are etc.,) already
> planned  I will ask Janice / Mandy to prepare for the ATRT a briefing on
> these initiatives running  now and what their plans are for the near and
> medium term future...
>
> Louie, I assume you will be the point of contact here...
>
>
> Cheryl Langdon-Orr
> (CLO)
>
>
>
> On 20 June 2010 23:44, Louie Lee <louie at equinix.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> 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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