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

[Satish Babu]

I'd also like to leave the opportunity to someone else.



satish

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Chaitanya Dhareshwar
<chaitanyabd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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