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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body 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 Mikey and others who have contributed to this thread.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I doubt anyone would take issue with increased and broader based participation. Nor some blue skies thinking as to how to achieve that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I really like some of your concepts around different levels of participation, use of mentoring etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The challenge (I think) we have here is that the blue skies thinking is taking place with no apparent reference to the GNSO including current purpose, function and mechanics.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This operation in isolation (top-down?) is one significant concern.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></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'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><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"'> Mike O'Connor [mailto:mike@haven2.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 04 February 2014 02:56<br><b>To:</b> Council<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [council] About Designing a 21st Century ICANN<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>hi Klaus,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>i too have been pushing a notion that we need to broaden the base of participation. for those of you who’ve already seen this picture, my apologies. but this is something i really want to work on, so i’m constantly banging the drum. the picture has now evolved into blog post form and i’ll paste the whole shebang in here. i think that this is mostly human work — not tech-tools work. the problem that you bring in is the one of scale — how to reach all those people, organizations, businesses, leaders across the whole world. i don’t know the answer to that one. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>here’s the post.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>mikey<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.haven2.com/index.php/archives/icann-participants">http://www.haven2.com/index.php/archives/icann-participants</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><h2>ICANN participants<o:p></o:p></h2><div><p>I do these scratch-pad posts for really narrow audiences, the rest of you will find them a bit bewildering. Sorry about that. This one is aimed at the GNSO Council, as we ponder the question "how do we increase the pool of PDP working-group volunteers?"<o:p></o:p></p><p>Broadening the bottom of the bottom-up process is a critical need at ICANN right now. But at least in the part of ICANN where I live (GNSO policy-making working groups) the conversations that take place are very nuanced and do require a good deal of background and experience before a person is going to be an effective contributor to the conversation.<o:p></o:p></p><p>So I think that we/ICANN need to develop a clearer understanding of the many different roles that people play as they progress toward becoming an effective participant in the process. And then put the resources and process in place to encourage them along the way. This is my current picture...<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.haven2.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Slide1.jpg"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=650 height=487 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://www.haven2.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Slide1-650x487.jpg" alt=Slide1></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><h3>Roles<o:p></o:p></h3><p>Here's a starter-kit list of roles that people play. I'm putting them in pairs because nobody can do this by themselves -- we all need the help of others as we progress. I've also built a little drawing which puts these in a never ending circle because we're always turning back into newcomers as we explore another facet of the organization. I decided to beat the term "translation" to death in these descriptions. I think ICANN needs to "translate" what it does for a wide range of audiences to make it easier for them to participate.<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong>Newcomer <-> Recruiter</strong><o:p></o:p></p><p>A newcomer is likely to be just as bewildered by that experience as most of the rest of us have been. They need a "recruiter" greet them, welcome them into the flow, translate what's going on into terms they can understand, find out what their interests and goals are and get them introduced to a few "guides" who can take them to the next step.<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong>Explorer <-> Guide</strong><o:p></o:p></p><p>As the newcomer finds their place, they will want to explore information and conversations that are relevant to their interests and they need a "guide" to call on to translate their questions into pointers toward information or people that they're trying to find.<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong>Student <-> Teacher</strong><o:p></o:p></p><p>As the person progresses they need a positive, low-risk way to learn the skills and knowledge they need in order to be able to contribute. And, like any student, they need a teacher or two. I've always thought that we are missing a huge opportunity in the GNSO Constituencies by not consciously using the process of preparing public comments as a place for less experienced members to develop their policy-making skills in a more intimate, less risky environment than a full-blown working-group. I'd love to see newer members of Constituencies consciously brought into progressively richer roles in the teams that write public comments for Constituencies.<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong>Researcher <-> Expert</strong><o:p></o:p></p><p>Another person who needs a very specific kind of partner is a person who comes to ICANN to research -- either to find an answer to a policy-related question, find the best way to handle a problem or complaint that they have with a provider, or to discover whether there is data within the ICANN community that can help with formal academic research. Again, here is a person with fairly clear questions who needs help sifting and sorting through all the information that's available here -- another form of translation, this time provided by a librarian or an "expert" in my taxonomy. This person may not want to build new skills, they're just here for answers. But filling that "expert" role could be a great opportunity for somebody who's already here.<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong>Teammate <-> Coach</strong><o:p></o:p></p><p>A person who is experiencing a policy-making drafting-team (e.g. within a constituency) or working group for the first few times has a <strong>lot</strong> of things to learn, and many of those things aren't obvious right at the start. And this person may not feel comfortable asking questions of the whole group for a wide variety of reasons. They would benefit from a "coach" -- a person who makes it clear that they are available to answer *any* question, no matter how small. This person is translating a sometimes-mysterious team process for a teammate who is learning the ropes.<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong>Leader <-> Mentor</strong><o:p></o:p></p><p>As our person progresses, they eventually take up a leadership role, and once again could use the help of others to navigate new duties -- yet another form of translation, this time delivered by a mentor who helps the emerging leader be effective in their chosen role.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Information<o:p></o:p></h3><p>I also think there are all kinds of information assets that participants use and access in different ways depending on what their role is at the moment. Another kind of translation! <img border=0 id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://www.haven2.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)">Here's another starter-kit list:<o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Organizational structures<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Documents<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Transcripts<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Email archives<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Models<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Processes<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Tools and techniques<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Outreach materials<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p>I think there's a gigantic opportunity to make this "career progression" and "information discovery" easier and more available to people wanting to participate at the bottom of the bottom-up process. I'm not sure that there's much need for new technology to do all this -- my thoughts run more toward setting goals, rewarding people who help, etc. But a dab of cool tech here and there might help...<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Feb 3, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Klaus Stoll <<a href="mailto:kdrstoll@gmail.com">kdrstoll@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Dear Friends<br><br>Greetings. I have now read the report twice and I think this report merits an extended reply by the GNSO.<br><br>I will refrain from derisory comments about the report as far as a I can, only one, the first page looks like IG buzzword bingo on steroids and like steroids it replaces substance with short term illusions!<br><br>A good example is the first buzzword "crowdsource". Crowdsource is a good thing, but as it is used in the report it is just a distraction the real problem. The problem of IG in general and of ICANN in particular is not a lack of participation, it is not even a question of language and acronyms<span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>. The uncomfortable fact remains true that Cyberspace</span> <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>today resembles a country where 1% of the population governs 99% of the population and 98% of these don’t even know that the 1% exist! This represents a real legitimacy problem for all current IG processes. Crowd sourcing is only real and legitimate if it is based on knowledge that is available to everybody in appropriate forms. Everybody needs to be able to be in the crowd and not just a self-elected elite. “The report says: (page4), “For an institution to merit the peoples trust, it first has to trust its people”. The people we are talking about here is the global Internet user community, all of them. Trust can only come when all the people know their rights and responsibilities. In the case of IG the responsibility to inform all is not simply discharged by awareness campaigns and nice pictures, but by demonstrating the relevance of IG to every level of its user community. People engage with things only if they are relevant to them, awareness is a result of relevance, empowerment and trust are the result of trusting the internet users in understanding the true significance and deep relevance of IG in all our lives. (Mikey, here is I think also part of the answer to your question regarding getting people involved into the Wgs, its not the language, its not the time, its that we have to find a way to make the WG topics relevant to a large number of people. This will not happen if we wait that people come to us, we need to get out to them). IG institutions can only be legitimate and successful if they put the awareness building and empowerment at the center of their thinking and doing. All governance structures for Cyberspace need to be user, not expert group centric.</span> Accountability can only come from the awareness of all what IG is accountable for. Transparency in contracts and processes only makes sense when all understand what the contracts are about. Innovation has to come from informed participation based on relevance not engineered organizational processes.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>I am surprised by the liberal recommendation by the report of on-line tools that are only available to an elite and not the average online user in a developing country. Like the whole report, these recommendations reflect a first world centered view on IG and technology. <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Are other councilors also disturbed by the liberal use in the report of the “ICANN should...” phrase followed even sometimes by a time line and the clear indication that the expectation is on speedy implementation without much discussion and control? Maybe the authors of the report should be the first who take their own recommendations serious:”In the future, we need to eschew the kind of self-serious pomposity that gets in the way of change and embrace humility and fallibility as touchstones to progress”. Wise words, well spoken, unfortunately completely ignored in the very same report.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Happy to work with fellow councilors on a more detailed reply.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Yours<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Klaus<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br>On 2/3/2014 7:24 PM, Jonathan Robinson wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks All,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jonathan</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></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</span><o:p></o:p></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- :</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:19.4pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:17.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>ˇ<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><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:19.4pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:17.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>ˇ<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><o:p></o:p></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><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><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><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><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><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><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><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></p></div><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></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></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><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-position-x:0%;background-position-y:0%;background-attachment:scroll'><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'><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'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.75pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td></tr></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-position-x:0%;background-position-y:0%;background-attachment:scroll'><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'><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'><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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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=564 src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/1a990feb5c/images/logo_icann_ideascale_3_.png" align=left v:shapes="_x0000_s1026"><![endif]><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></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-position-x:0%;background-position-y:0%;background-attachment:scroll'><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'><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'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.75pt 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt'><h1><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Hello!</span><o:p></o:p></h1><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'>By engaging the stakeholders of the Internet (this really includes everyone!), the ICANN Strategy Panel on Multistakeholder Innovation (<a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=9e2fe95b04&e=32eced4cfd" target="_blank"><span style='color:#6DC6DD'>the MSI Panel</span></a>) and The Governance Lab @ NYU (<a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=d1a6e896d6&e=32eced4cfd" target="_blank"><span style='color:#6DC6DD'>The GovLab</span></a>) are working to develop a set of concrete proposals for designing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) – the public interest organization responsible for coordinating the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) – for the 21st Century.</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'>We’re writing to request your participation in this important initiative and to help us spread the word!</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'>Today launches </span><strong><i><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>Stage 2 </span></i></strong><em><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>–</span></em><strong><i><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'> Proposal Development </span></i></strong><em><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>–</span></em><strong><i><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'> </span></i></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>of our online engagement effort aimed at getting </span><strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>your</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'> input into the Panel’s work in order to bring our ideas for evolving ICANN from principle to practice. 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'>ˇ</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'>ˇ</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:l2 level1 lfo6'><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:l2 level1 lfo6'><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:l2 level1 lfo6'><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'>ˇ</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'>ˇ</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'>ˇ</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'>ˇ</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'>ˇ</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></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></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-position-x:0%;background-position-y:0%;background-attachment:scroll'><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'><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'><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></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></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_i1027" 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></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>PHONE: 651-647-6109, FAX: 866-280-2356, WEB: <a href="http://www.haven2.com">www.haven2.com</a>, HANDLE: OConnorStP (ID for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)</span> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>