[Gnso-sc-budget] Bullet point on the ICANN Academy

Stephanie Perrin stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca
Mon Mar 5 01:47:40 UTC 2018


Ditto.  Program needs to be evaluated.  I made a comment in the text.

Stephanie

On 2018-03-04 16:44, Martin Pablo Silva Valent wrote:
> I agree with Ayden, I’be been following this group ever since created, 
> it was meant to be a cross community silo breaker to put together all 
> academic/educational program in touch with each other. The goal still 
> remains useful, but every academy leader, weather ICANN staff lead or 
> universities or schools, were very protective and didn’t want to 
> engage in something that would open questions or open power struggles 
> among them. So it failed. Everyone said they wanted to cooperate, but 
> when that came to actually sharing a space most of them felt 
> threatened, specially because the leadership of the WG wasn’t really 
> MS, it was sort of one-sided. Not to say there were not neutral or 
> truthful, but others didn’t want to follow them.
>
> I think is ok here to say that this WG needs to either finish or 
> reborn to kick off, if any.
>
> Martin
>
>> On 2 Mar 2018, at 19:38, Ayden Férdeline <icann at FERDELINE.COM 
>> <mailto:icann at FERDELINE.COM>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> In relation to our bullet point on the ICANN Academy:
>>
>> /● The GNSO Council asks ICANN to re-evaluate the merits of the ICANN 
>> Academy programme and to consider whether or not the costs associated 
>> with this initiative are reasonable and appropriate for a non-profit 
>> organisation, along with whether the participant mix is sufficiently 
>> multistakeholder, cross community, and diverse.//
>> /
>>
>> We have received two comments:
>>
>> Heather Forrest: /"What direct link/relevance to policy development? 
>> Are we suggesting that just because it isn't a GNSO activity it 
>> should be canned/scrutinised?"/
>>
>> Donna Austin: /"Shouldn't we make the point that we want to see more 
>> of the recipients of this program coming forward in leadership roles 
>> for PDP WGs. Do we know the stats about who has participated and 
>> their contribution. I note that the current Council Chair speaks 
>> highly of this program. We also note above the importance of training 
>> leaders and that seems inconsistent with the comment here."/
>>
>> In light of this feedback, *please can you indicate which of these 
>> options you support: **
>> *
>> *
>> *
>> *1. Support including the bullet point as-is. **
>> *
>> *2. Support revising the bullet point - and please provide 
>> alternative text. **
>> *
>> *3. Prefer that this bullet point not be included in our comment. **
>> *
>> *4. Abstain. **
>> *
>> *
>> *
>> *Thank you. *
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Ayden
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