[Capacity-Building-WG] Capacity Building WG session with Nora Abusitta

[Chaitanya Dhareshwar]

Given the circumstances, I will abstain from the meeting.

-C


On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Maureen,
>
> This is not an attempt to be unfair and are instructions from staff.  If
> it were open to all those in our Working Group, other constituencies would
> have cried foul at not being involved. This is merely an informal call with
> Nora.
>
> Traditionally, the invitation was sent to me but I thought that it would
> be good to have someone from the Online Team. Attending this call is not a
> "right" but a privilege. Nora will be presenting numerous times to the At
> Large Team as well as other constituencies, so we will all get to meet and
> talk to her.
>
> The decision to keep this call "small" is Staff's decision and nothing to
> do with the steering committee's decision. Whomever you select from amongst
> you to attend this call, should be sure that they will attend this informal
> call and report back to the Group both on the wiki and the mailing list.
>
> The group can trust that anything that Nora is planning will of course
> take into consideration that which the constituencies think should be
> considered which is why Inwould encourage the Online Group and other grouos
> at this stage to get to work on your wiki space etc.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Sala
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jul 1, 2013, at 3:19 PM, "Maureen Hilyard" <hilyard at oyster.net.ck>
> wrote:
>
> Hi  Gisella****
>
> ** **
>
> I believe that only *one* representative from the Capacity Building
> Online Education group has been invited to attend the meeting with Nora
> Abusitta.****
>
> ** **
>
> Personally I think this is unfair. We are all interested in attending, and
> have indicated our interest. I will not be attending the Durban meeting so
> I won’t have another chance to hear her personally and to ask her any
> questions directly before Durban – and I’d like to hear what Nora’s role is
> and what she is planning. ****
>
> ** **
>
> At the same time, I don’t think that it should just be one person
> attending. We all opted to be a part of this group and should hear the same
> message. If any of the group are going to Durban, then they can take any
> queries from the rest of the team along with them, and then feed back to
> us.. It would be good to be able to work WITH Nora on this.. because we are
> at a bit of a stand-still at the moment. ****
>
> ** **
>
> I am expressing my own personal view on what I feel is an attempt to block
> participation. It is not normal ICANN practice. I am sure that others will
> also have a view on this.  I will add this note to the wiki.****
>
> ** **
>
> M****
>
>
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