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

[Maureen Hilyard]

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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