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<div><div class="ecxWordSection1"><div style="border:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:8.0pt 8.0pt 8.0pt 8.0pt"><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear BC members</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In our Secretariat's absence, I am forwarding the News Alert announcing the ICANN survey regarding ICANN's Globalization Survey.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I am asked as a Chair of the BC to encourage you to take the survey. </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This is an ICANN survey. I did take the survey, so that I can advise you of the time commitment, which is at least 20 min. It was not pre-reviewed with the leadership of the organization. It allows you to 'skip' certain questions. Should you need more information on a particular topic, you might decide to skip questions. or show that in the optional open comment box. </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal">If you want to discuss the overall purpose of the survey, feel free to contact me. However, each individual respondent is asked to respond as an individual, so I will not be discussing responses. Merely trying to help to understand the purpose of the survey. </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><br></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal">Marilyn Cade, BC Chair</p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="text-decoration: none; "><a href="http://www.icann.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><img border="0" id="ecx_x0000_i1025" src="http://www.icann.org/images/gradlogo_bow.jpg" alt="ICANN"></a></span></span></p><h2><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">News Alert</span></h2><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-21mar12-en.htm" target="_blank">http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-21mar12-en.htm</a></span></p><div style=""><div class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></span></div></div><h2 style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Improving Global Engagement: ICANN Globalization Survey</span></h2><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">21 March 2012</span></p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ICANN published today a <a href="http://questionpro.com/t/AHB7OZM7Lx" target="_blank">survey</a> to solicit community input on improving its effectiveness as a global organization. ICANN has community participants and leaders from all regions of the world, and is seeking ways to make enhancements to its performance as a global organization.</span><BR><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The feedback collected from the survey will help inform ICANN's strategy for improving its global engagement. By identifying the activities that are most important toward fully reflecting the global nature of ICANN's mission, it will also help to establish priorities for next steps.</span><BR><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The survey is available in all of the UN languages, and feedback is encouraged from stakeholders in all regions.</span><BR><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Take the survey: <a href="http://questionpro.com/t/AHB7OZM7Lx" target="_blank">http://questionpro.com/t/AHB7OZM7Lx</a></span><BR><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The survey is designed to:</span><BR><ol start="1" type="1"><li class="ecxMsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Help ICANN understand its relative strengths and challenges as a global participant;</span></li><li class="ecxMsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Evaluate ICANNs major organizational functions/processes and the extent to which they can be leveraged to improve ICANNs effectiveness and reputation globally; and</span></li><li class="ecxMsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Assist ICANN in prioritizing initiatives that will improve its effectiveness as a global organization.</span></li></ol><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The survey results will be shared with the ICANN community, and additional opportunities will be made available to comment before any actions are formalized and implemented.</span><BR><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The survey is open until 22 April 2012.</span><BR><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Questions may be sent to <a href="mailto:participation@icann.org">participation@icann.org</a>.</span><BR></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Glen de Saint Géry</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">GNSO Secretariat</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org"><span style="color:windowtext">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</span></a></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://gnso.icann.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">http://gnso.icann.org</span></a></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><img border="0" width="1" height="1" id="ecx_x0000_i1028" src="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/track.php?msgid=877663&act=FHKW&r=11034500&c=165637"></span></p></div></div> </div></body>
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