[Capacity-Building-WG] Policy writing/ public comment course
Joanna Kulesza
joannakulesza at gmail.com
Sun Apr 5 15:39:15 UTC 2020
Dear Abdulkarim, Maureen and all,
thank you for this thoughtful input. The ICANN Learn course is in the
works. We're scheduled to have a call with our speakers this coming
week. All of your thoughts and concerns will be shared. Jonathan is
leading the work on CPWG policy development. I will be sure to share you
thoughts with him and make sure they are well reflected in the course
outline.
Thank you again,
Joanna
W dniu 07.04.2020 o 00:32, ABDULKARIM AYOPO OLOYEDE pisze:
> Dear Maureen,
> Thank you for this email. Only yesterday I was thinking of developing
> such a course for some group of people AFRALO members who wanted
> clarification on the At large public comment process. I think I now
> understand where some of the confusions were coming from.
>
> I think having such a module is important because it would help to
> improve participation from a lot of those who don't currently
> understand the process. Like you mentioned, when it comes to statement
> writing I believe the process we use is open and transparent but I
> must say it is quite complicated to understand especially for someone
> who does not have the time to attend CPWG or does not understand what
> CPWG does. Therefore I agree that an ICANN learn course on this is
> important. I have to thank Jonathan for personally taking me through
> the process a while ago as I must confess, It took me a while to
> understand it too and if not for Jonathan I might still be struggling
> it with. Having Jonathan to take everyone through it is impossible and
> having such module in fine details would help.
> I would be happy to take a lead/work with any other person in putting
> together such a module as I believe it is very important. I would
> also take a look at what NCUC has done and see how it can be improved.
> I would also discuss with Joanna and Alfredo in the next couple of
> days on how to move this forward
>
> Thank you
>
> AK
>
>
>
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, 06:48 Maureen Hilyard, <maureen.hilyard at gmail.com
> <mailto:maureen.hilyard at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Dear Team
>
> Has anyone looked at the current ICANN Learn Policy writing course
> which was developed by NCUC? It definitely highlighted an approach
> that was quite different from our own. I was quite disappointed
> because I don't think that it is useful in addressing the more
> inclusive fact-gathering, consensus model of developing a
> statement that we use in At-Large and particularly by the CPWG.
> This process would be appropriate for a policy or a non-policy issue.
>
> But there was a good section that explained the purpose of the
> Public Comment.
>
> From an At-Large point of view, I wondered if our CB team could
> ensure that an At-Large "public comment" course might focus more
> on the methodology that is used by the CPWG where much time is
> spent on:
>
> * participants from across the array of backgrounds within
> At-Large offering their views after analysing the purpose of the
> request and the resource material around the topic to sort out how
> a particular policy is relevant to our section of ICANN - end-users
>
> * herding the discussions in a way that gathers information while
> at the same time tries to balance the various end-user
> perspectives into a cohesive argument - this is an important task
> requiring some major skills, for example:
>
> 1) great moderation skills which are demonstrated well by Jonathan
> and Olivier esp keeping participant contributions focused,
> relevant and non-repetitive
>
> 2) seeking views from within the group from people who have the
> appropriate level of knowledge and can articulate their views in
> such a way that others can support or add further perspectives
> which might capture a more directed approach to a statement that
> fits the enduser point of view
>
> 3) From among the many articulated views which have been captured
> by an initial penholder or penholders, a small group may start
> moulding the various perspectives into a logical argument that
> will form the basis of a consensus end-user viewpoint
> 4) The draft statement is then presented to the CPWG for further
> discussion and fine-tuning, to create a final statement. Several
> iterations of this process may be required before the statement is
> complete.
>
> * While developing the course it might be appropriate to offer
> some examples of what each stage might entail, during the process
> of information gathering, putting it into a presentation (or a
> series of presentations) to collate all the different ideas and
> perspectives, then finalising the statement. .
>
> 5) One constraint on this process is the restrictive timeframe
> given by the requestors with regards to the time allowed for this
> important discussion, especially if it is of greater importance to
> the end-user community. This has required single topic sessions on
> top of the already assigned weekly sessions. This is a big
> commitment for volunteers.
>
> 6) ICANN staff complete the statement document in preparation for
> its delivery to the requestors of the comments, before
> ratification by the ALAC.
>
> M
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Joanna Kulesza, PhD
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Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz
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