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...<div>
<br></div><div>Louie, I assume you will be the point of contact here...</div><div><br></div><div> <br clear="all">Cheryl Langdon-Orr<br>(CLO)<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 June 2010 23:44, Louie Lee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:louie@equinix.com">louie@equinix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Dear Olga,<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Louie<br>
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________________________________________<br>
From: Olga Cavalli [<a href="mailto:olgacavalli@gmail.com">olgacavalli@gmail.com</a>]<br>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 9:25 AM<br>
To: Louie Lee<br>
Subject: Comments about fellowship program transparency<br>
<br>
Dear Louie,<br>
nice to see you today.<br>
I have just copy pasted below the comment I made in relation with the travel policy, that summarizes my concerns about the fellowship program.<br>
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.<br>
Also the selection process does not favor those countries far away from major cities where the meetings takes place.<br>
It could be good to know also how someone could be part of this selection committee, how are they selected, etc etc<br>
Looking forward for any feedback on this, I send you my best regards<br>
Olga<br>
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Comment<br>
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* To: travel-support-2011@xxxxxxxxx<br>
* Subject: Comment<br>
* From: Olga Cavalli <olgacavalli@xxxxxxxxx><br>
* Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:43:50 -0300<br>
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________________________________<br>
<br>
Hi,<br>
I make this comment in my personal capacity as a member of the ICANN<br>
community and it is not related in any way with my role of Vice Chair of the<br>
GNSO and in any way reflects any opinion from the GNSO council.<br>
<br>
<br>
About the Fellowship program:<br>
<br>
Fellowship Selection Committee - Transparency:<br>
<br>
For making the selection process more transparent, the names of the members<br>
of the independent selection committee should be available in the ICANN web<br>
<br>
page, including their background and statement of interest.<br>
It could be good to know how they are selected, if there is a regular call<br>
for applications, and how long they serve in their positions.<br>
<br>
Fellow´s Selection Process:<br>
<br>
<br>
The geographically weighted process sets aside candidates of locations that<br>
are geographically very far away from most of the main cities of the world,<br>
like for example the southern cone of South America (Argentina, Chile,<br>
<br>
Paraguay, Uruguay). Candidates from these countries have usually less<br>
chances of being selected than others.<br>
A different selection process should be developed in order to solve this<br>
geographic gap.<br>
<br>
Thanks for allowing me to send these comments.<br>
<br>
<br>
Olga Cavalli<br>
<br>
Other comments supporting this one can be found in:<br>
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<a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/travel-support-2011/" target="_blank">http://forum.icann.org/lists/travel-support-2011/</a><br>
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