[Ws2-diversity] Draft 01 Diversity Report

[Malcolm Hutty]

On 15/02/2017 14:19, Mathieu Weill wrote:
> I did post a comment on the Gdoc, about the following sentence :
> 
> “While acknowledging the importance of diversity in the accountability
> mechanisms, members of WS2 have expressed their view that diversity
> requirement should not prevail over skills or experience requirements.”
> 
>  
> 
> Lousewies was supporting the formulation, and I understand where she’s
> coming from on that, but I personally have an issue with it : it implies
> that there is a mutually exclusive choice to be made between skills on
> the one side, diversity on the other. I do not share this view. I
> contend that increased diversity would actually expand the diversity of
> skills within ICANN.
>
> What do other group members think about it ?

I suggest we keep the existing text, but add the following on the end of it:

"Ensuring that ICANN is open to diverse participation will tend to
broaden the range of skills and experience available, but rigid
application of diversity requirements for selection could in some cases
have the opposite effect, and this should be avoided."


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