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

Thu May 21 21:15:07 UTC 2020

Hi Caleb, I did send it to the WG list.  Im happy for Raymond to share my
response with you if you didnt get it. I think it raises some of your
concerns.

Thanks
Maureen

On Thu, 21 May 2020, 10:52 am Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele, <
muyiwacaleb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Maureen,
> I have not seen you answer the important questions raised Raymond..
> I'd rather suggest that the regional Vice Chairs have internal democracy
> to rotate leadership amongst themselves to forestall a region having edge
> over others due to hosting rights.
>
> The Tenure rotation SOP should determine by these set of leaders.
>
> Congratulations to Shreepeed. Go to see an ICANN fellow taking up this
> leadership task.
>
> Caleb Ogundele
>
> Caleb Ogundele
>
> ________________
>
> Sent with thumbs from a small screen mobile device.
>
> Pelase exsuce typos adn errosr.
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2020, 6:15 PM Raymond Mamattah <mamattah.raymond at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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