<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Phil Corwin just posted a lengthy discussion on the Brazil meeting and he mentions this study down toward the bottom of his piece. here’s a link to the whole article<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20140203_downsizing_sao_paulo/">http://www.circleid.com/posts/20140203_downsizing_sao_paulo/</a></div><div><br></div><div>and here’s the quote that caught my eye</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><p>The Singapore ICANN meeting occurs midway in that period, and is likely
to devote a considerable amount of time and attention to discussing Sao
Paulo, just as occurred in the final 2013 ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires —
although unresolved technical and policy issues related to the new gTLD
program, as well as forthcoming output from the five Presidential
Strategy Panels will also share the spotlight. The first of those Panel
reports "<a href="http://thegovlab.org/the-quest-for-a-21st-century-icann-a-blueprint/" target="_blank">The Quest for a 21st Century ICANN: A Blueprint</a>”, has just emerged from the <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/about/planning/strategic-engagement/multistakeholder-innovation">ICANN Strategy Panel on Multistakeholder Innovation</a>
and it proposes what may prove to be rather controversial changes in
the operation of ICANN's own multistakeholder process — including the
establishment of an Internet Governance Laboratory that "would function
as a Governance Experimentation Collaborative aka a Skunk Works among
all the Internet governance organizations", crowdsourcing each stage of
ICANN decision-making, and a recommendation that:
</p></div><div><blockquote><p><em>ICANN should therefore experiment with running
parallel processes for one year side by side with existing stakeholder
groups to prepare for their possible phase-out in some cases. For
instance, ICANN could pilot organizing participants topically rather
than by currently existing constituency groups (defined by interest).
Within such an experiment, the crowdsourcing practices described above
can be used as alternatives and complements to existing stakeholder
group practices.</em></p></blockquote></div><div><p>
Many ICANN constituencies were already concerned that the GNSO was being
made less relevant by top-down management decision-making (as evidenced
by the announcement of the Strategy Panels absent any prior discussion
with the community) and that GNSO review had been delayed, and may well
take strong exception to their replacement of their function, and their
value as recognized long-term interest groups, by temporary ad hoc issue
entities. </p></div></blockquote><div>
<div><div>On Feb 3, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Jonathan Robinson <<a href="mailto:jrobinson@afilias.info">jrobinson@afilias.info</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Personally, I can see no reason to use such words. That symbolic detail aside, this does throw up some critical points about how we engage with this work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I have a call planned this week to talk one-to-one with Beth Novek in order to give some feedback. I’ll obviously take into account any input from the Council.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In addition, the Council needs to think about any other feedback, responses or engagement with the work of this panel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jonathan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Gabriela Szlak [<a href="mailto:gabrielaszlak@gmail.com">mailto:gabrielaszlak@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> 03 February 2014 17:46<br><b>To:</b> Maria Farrell<br><b>Cc:</b> John Berard; Jonathan Robinson; <a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [council] About Designing a 21st Century ICANN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">... And bear in mind that the purpose - in their own words is- :<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:19.4pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:17.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#282828"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#282828;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:#F6F6F6">Proposing new models for broad, </span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#282828;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:yellow">inclusive engagement,</span><em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#282828;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:#F6F6F6"> consensus-based policymaking and institutional structures to support such enhanced functions; and</span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:19.4pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:17.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#282828"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#282828;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:#F6F6F6">Designing processes, tools and platforms that </span></em><em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#282828;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:yellow">enable a global ICANN community to engage</span></em><em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#282828;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:#F6F6F6"> in these new forms of participatory decision-making</span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#282828">Google translator cannot even translate those two words... it feels really strange to talk about global engagement and participatory processes only in English and in a an English that it seems also complex for english speakers to get...</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#282828">G.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all"><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003333;background:white">Gabriela Szlak </span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003333">Skype:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003333"> gabrielaszlak</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003333">Twitter: @</span></b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003333">GabiSzlak</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">La información contenida en este e-mail es confidencial. </span><o:p></o:p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The information in this e-mail is confidential.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">2014-02-03 Maria Farrell <<a href="mailto:maria.farrell@gmail.com" target="_blank">maria.farrell@gmail.com</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Goodness, I also nearly snorted my coffee but held it down long enough to look up 'scylla' and 'charybdis'. I was chagrinned to learn these new (to me) words were first used in the ICANN context by the beloved Norwegian Harald Alvestrand back in 2002, a few reform movements back. Who knew?<br><br>"The current ICANN has attempted to chart a course between the scylla of doing nothing and the charybdis of doing everything;" <br><a href="http://www.alvestrand.no/icann/icann_reform.html" target="_blank">http://www.alvestrand.no/icann/icann_reform.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 3 February 2014 17:23, <<a href="mailto:john@crediblecontext.com" target="_blank">john@crediblecontext.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Jonathan,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">My coffee came through my nose this morning when I read the blueprint from the multistakeholder strategy panel. But, while language like this: "engaging people in meaningful and productive conversations about how to redesign the way ICANN runs itself is difficult because the conversation gets caught, on the one hand, between the scylla of broad generalities and geopolitics without regard to the specifics of ICANN’s day-to-day work, and the charybdis of mind-numbing technical detail on the other" is a bit overblown, it also works as mis-direction. There is no argument but that generalities, geopolitics and technical detail are a part of ICANN's life, but I would argue with "broad" and "mind-numbing." That kind of language tips the player's hand.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br>Further, by pegging effectiveness to the use of expert networks and linking legitimacy to crowdsourcing at each stage of decision making may only hint at the future shape of ICANN but it is clear in its view that the current version is no longer appetizing. I will likely think hard about that as I pack for the trip to Singapore.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Berard<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #C2C2C2 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 2.0pt;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">--------- Original Message --------- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Subject: [council] FW: Stage 2 Begins: Designing a 21st Century ICANN<br>From: "Jonathan Robinson" <<a href="mailto:jrobinson@afilias.info" target="_blank">jrobinson@afilias.info</a>><br>Date: 2/3/14 1:12 am<br>To: <a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org" target="_blank">council@gnso.icann.org</a><br><br>Stage 2 Begins: Designing a 21st Century ICANN <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> The ICANN Strategy Panel on Multistakeholder Innovation & The GovLab [mailto:<a href="mailto:icannmsipanel@thegovlab.org" target="_blank">icannmsipanel@thegovlab.org</a>] <br><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Sent:</span></strong> 31 January 2014 19:01<br><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">To:</span></strong> <a href="mailto:jrobinson@afilias.info" target="_blank">jrobinson@afilias.info</a><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Subject:</span></strong> Stage 2 Begins: Designing a 21st Century ICANN</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;background:#6DC6DD;border-collapse:collapse;background-attachment:scroll;background-position-x:0%;background-position-y:0%"><tbody><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt"><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" style="width:450.0pt;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" style="width:450.0pt;background:white;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:6.75pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" style="width:450.0pt;background:white;border-collapse:collapse;background-attachment:scroll;background-position-x:0%;background-position-y:0%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0cm 6.75pt 0cm 6.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
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The Panel has been specifically charged by ICANN’s President and CEO with:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#606060">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#606060"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">Proposing new models for international engagement, consensus-driven policymaking and institutional structures to support such enhanced functions; and</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#606060">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#606060"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">Designing processes, tools and platforms that enable the global ICANN community to engage in these new forms of participatory decision-making.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div style="margin-left:11.25pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">To answer this charter, we launched a three-stage brainstorm initiative on November 19, 2013. We started with </span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">Stage 1: Idea Generation. </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">The Panel and GovLab launched an <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=49575264ee&e=32eced4cfd" target="_blank"><span style="color:#6DC6DD;font-weight:normal">engagement platform</span></a></span></strong> asking the global public to share their ideas for what techniques, strategies, tools and platforms ICANN could look to and learn from to help transform itself into an </span><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">effective, legitimate and evolving</span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060"> 21st century global organization. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060"><br><br></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">We now want to take these ideas closer to implementation during Stage 2. To do so, we’ve shared the <a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=b31cd77527&e=32eced4cfd" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#6DC6DD">draft proposal blueprint </span></strong></a>on the </span><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">GovLab Blog </span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">organizing all of our ideas into 16 concrete proposals for ICANN, which we are </span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">opening up to you for discussion. </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">We want your feedback, input, comments, questions, and suggestions on what we’ve collected. We’ve also published our first set of proposals, which include recommendations for ICANN to:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;margin-top:11.0pt;margin-bottom:11.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=c8d26b0537&e=32eced4cfd" target="_blank"><span style="color:#6DC6DD">Leverage expert networking</span></a>;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;margin-top:11.0pt;margin-bottom:11.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=78cb16e898&e=32eced4cfd" target="_blank"><span style="color:#6DC6DD">Use crowdsourcing during all phases of decisionmaking</span></a>; and</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;margin-top:11.0pt;margin-bottom:11.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=75796fa362&e=32eced4cfd" target="_blank"><span style="color:#6DC6DD">Crowdsource oversight and develop standards to measure success</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><div style="margin-top:11.0pt;margin-bottom:11.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:dimgray">Feel free to provide feedback or reactions using comments or the line-by-line annotation tools enabled on the blog.</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060"><br><br></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:dimgray">You can also see all of these materials aggregated on the GovLab's ICANN project page, online <a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=e606d3f2d6&e=32eced4cfd" target="_blank"><strong><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#6DC6DD">HERE</span></i></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.</span></strong></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">Help us spread the word!</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">Do you know any people or organizations who would be interested in these proposal topics? </span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">We’d love to get their feedback, too.</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060"> Consider doing any of the following:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#606060">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#606060"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">Forward this “Call To Action” to colleagues and organizations you know working in these areas who may have ideas or feedback to share on the blog.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#606060">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#606060"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">Share our proposal draft links (all accessible <a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=166e90c780&e=32eced4cfd" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#6DC6DD">here</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">)</span></strong>, as widely as possible within your networks (e.g., via mailing lists and listservs). Feel free to link to these posts or repost on your website edited to fit your needs!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#606060">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#606060"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">Use social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+ to spread the word about this initiative (use the <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">#WeCANN </span></strong>hashtag!).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#606060">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#606060"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">To inspire participation and learn how to contribute, watch and share a <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=adb2ce10df&e=32eced4cfd" target="_blank"><span style="color:#6DC6DD;font-weight:normal">video</span></a></span></strong> The GovLab made when we launched this brainstorm.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#606060">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#606060"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">Discuss the MSI Panel’s work and proposals in your own communities and share your comments and feedback with the us in the blog comments or at <a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=c78e16b652&e=32eced4cfd" target="_blank"><span style="color:#6DC6DD">icannmsipanel@thegovlab.org</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">Toward the end of February – we will move into the last stage of this brainstorm – </span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">Stage 3: Collaborative Drafting</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">. Using a <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=e89c0b7d3f&e=32eced4cfd" target="_blank"><span style="color:#6DC6DD;font-weight:normal">wiki</span></a></span></strong>, we will invite collaborative drafting on a first full draft of all proposals that the Panel will then submit to the ICANN CEO, Board and community. So stay tuned!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">For more information, visit The GovLab at <a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=6c7b575816&e=32eced4cfd" target="_blank"><span style="color:#6DC6DD">www.thegovlab.org</span></a>. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">Thanks and best,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060">The MSI Panel & The GovLab</span></em><o:p></o:p></p><h3><br> <o:p></o:p></h3></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" style="width:450.0pt;background:white;border-collapse:collapse;background-attachment:scroll;background-position-x:0%;background-position-y:0%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0cm 0cm 6.75pt 0cm"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="600" style="width:450.0pt;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:6.75pt 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:125%"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#666666"><br><a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=1a990feb5c&id=a862b42724&e=32eced4cfd&c=15654e31a5" target="_blank"><span style="color:#606060">unsubscribe from this list</span></a> <a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/profile?u=1a990feb5c&id=a862b42724&e=32eced4cfd" target="_blank"><span style="color:#606060">update subscription preferences</span></a> <br> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><img border="0" width="1" height="1" id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=1a990feb5c&id=15654e31a5&e=32eced4cfd"><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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