[social-media-wg] Leadership Change in the At-Large Social Media Working Group (SMWG)

[Raymond Mamattah]

Well noted, Maureen.

Regards, Raymond

On Thu, May 21, 2020, 5:05 PM Maureen Hilyard <maureen.hilyard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you for your suggestions Raymond. I think that the current covid
> situation has encouraged us to do something different.
>
> The Asia-Pacific is one of the also-rans when it comes to ICANN meetings,
> and this is our first opportunity since ICANN60  in Abu Dhabi (2017) to
> hold a meeting in our region.  It is unfortunate that in the circumstances
> it is a virtual meeting and that we wont get another opportunity until at
> least 2022, but we want to make the most of it.
>
> The rotating leadership gives more people a chance to test their
> leadership capacity and enables others in the wider community to see how
> people perform when they are given a real responsibility. The social media
> working group is an area where people can use their imagination to support
> the communication of what is important to At-Large and ICANN  and at the
> same time to be creative about how they do this including more diverse ways
> of including more about the region and its people and culture as well as
> the ICANN side of the working group's role.
>
> Your contributions will be of great assistance to them, especially in
> regards to promoting the meeting in the AFRALO region.
>
> Many thanks for your input
> Maureen
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 6:22 AM Raymond Mamattah <
> mamattah.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Maureen,
>>
>> Greetings from Accra, Ghana. Hope you are keeping well in the pandemic.
>>
>> I have some concerns with the email sent and I need some clarification.
>>
>> If I understand the email correctly, the regional chair will be chosen
>> from the region that is hosting the next ICANN. If so then it will mean in
>> a year there will be 3 different regional chairs, that's if the meetings
>> are not in the same region. In my view, having 3 different regional chairs
>> in a year will be too much of disruption.
>>
>> Secondly, as you are aware some regions, like Africa are not privileged
>> to be hosting ICANN meetings. For example, Mexico was supposed to host
>> ICANN67, they again are hosting ICANN70. Again it was recently announced
>> that they are hosting another meeting again. So my thought is if the chairs
>> are being rotated on who hosts the next ICANN meeting some regions will get
>> more chairs than the others. Africa specifically will be the looser.
>>
>> My suggestion is that, yes the regional chairs can be rotated but not
>> based on the next ICANN meeting hosting. Rather it should be well indicated
>> that each region becomes the chair irrespective of which region is hosting
>> the meeting. And being a chair should be for a year, rather than about 3
>> months, since we have 3 meetings in a year.
>>
>> Regards
>> Raymond Mamattah
>> At-Large Ambassador
>> Accra, Ghana.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 21, 2020, 3:11 PM ICANN At-Large Staff <
>> staff at atlarge.icann.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear SMWG Members,​
>>>
>>> I'm happy to announce significant changes in the leadership of the
>>> At-Large Social Media Working Group (SMWG). As you all know, over the past
>>> year John Laprise began to transition out of his role as SMWG Chair,
>>> and made a call for SMWG Regional Vice-Chairs to work with the SMWG Members
>>> and ALSes in their regions to promote the work of At-Large.
>>>
>>> Going forward, we will have a rotational, regional SMWG Chair, selected
>>> from the region of the upcoming ICANN Meeting. This will be helpful not
>>> only during the current pandemic with our virtual meetings, but also in our
>>> eventual face to face meetings going forward. To that end, *Shreedeep
>>> Rayamajhi*, APRALO Regional SMWG Vice Chair, *will now be our Regional
>>> SMWG Chair and lead efforts to promote and engage our community leading up
>>> to ICANN68 Virtual Policy Forum. *
>>>
>>> In addition, to work more closely with the Outreach & Engagement
>>> Subcommittee, the Regional SMWG Chair will have a standing item for updates
>>> from their region, as well as the general activity of the SMWG on the O&E
>>> SC agenda.
>>>
>>> Please all give Shreedeep a warm welcome and congratulations in his new
>>> role, and please join the next SMWG meeting on Thursday, 28 May at
>>> 14:30 UTC​ <https://community.icann.org/x/lwEdC>.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Maureen Hilyard, ALAC Chair
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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