[Ws2-diversity] FEEDBACK on DIVERSITY FROM CCWG-A WS2 F2F MEETING AT ICANN58

Mon Mar 13 21:10:51 UTC 2017

Dear Colleagues

Thanks for sharing and consolidating these questions. Unfortunately I
wasn't able to attend the meeting nor participate remotely as I'm on
maternity leave.

Will the questionnaire be shared for all participants / members of SOs/ACs/
groups or is it expected that one representative from each SO/AC/Group to
fill in? If the latter is the case I would suggest this is revised in order
to receive as much feedback as possible, even if there is contradictory
input from one same group.

I have a comment related with the format of the questionnaire: I would
suggest that the 6 dimensions identified at the beginning (A-G) be included
again in the text of questions 1, 3 and 4 in order to aid respondents as
well as to elicit specific actions for each of these dimensions. I would
 also leave an open text box at the end of these as well in order to
receive additional feedback in these questions.

Best,
Carolina Aguerre

2017-03-12 7:10 GMT-03:00 Fiona Asonga <fasonga at kixp.or.ke>:

> Dear All
>
> Thanks Julie for the summary
>
> The adjusted questions as per the discussion at the plenary summarised by
> Julie in earlier email is as follows:
>
> *************************
> The  CCWG Work Stream 2 Diversity Sub-Group has identified the following
> elements of diversity as potentially relevant to ICANN SO/AC/groups:
>
> A.      Geographic/regional representation
> B.      Language
> C.      Gender
> D.      Age
> E.      Physical dis-ability
> F.      Diverse Skills
> G.      Stakeholder group or constituency
>
> 1. What relative importance does your SO/AC/group give to these six
> dimensions of diversity?
>
> 2. What, if any, additional dimensions of diversity are important to your
> SO/AC/group?
>
> 3. How, if at all, does your SO/AC/group measure and track diversity
> issues related to its work?
>
> 4. How, if at all, does your SO/AC/group seek to promote diversity in its
> membership, its active participation, and its leadership?
>
> 5. What, if any, educational and informational initiatives does your
> SO/AC/group pursue to promote diversity awareness?
>
> 6. What, if any, formal or informal practices or written or unwritten
> policies are pursued in your SO/AC/group to promote diversity?
>
> *****************************
>
> We would appreciate if the WS2 Diversity group members can provide their
> feedback on the questions.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Fiona Asonga
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julie Hammer" <julie.hammer at bigpond.com>
> To: ws2-diversity at icann.org
> Cc: "ACCT-Staff" <acct-staff at icann.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2017 6:12:16 AM
> Subject: [Ws2-diversity] FEEDBACK on DIVERSITY FROM CCWG-A WS2 F2F
> MEETING      AT ICANN58
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> In the interests of updating our Diversity Questionnaire as soon as
> possible, I have been through the recording of the session on Friday 10th
> March and made the following notes.  Please let me know if you do not think
> I have accurately captured the feedback provided during the Plenary.
>
> 1. The introduction to the Questionnaire should make it more explicit that
> the list of Diversity elements stated is not exhaustive.
>
> 2. The term “SO/AC/group” should be clarified and it should be stated more
> specifically who are the target groups for this Questionnaire.
>
> 3.  In the list of diversity elements, “Skills” should remain but should
> be listed as “Diversity of Skills” to avoid confusion.
>
> 4. In the list of diversity elements, “Physical Ability” is ambiguous and
> should be listed as “Disability”.
>
> 5. In Q4, the concept of being "proportionally represented within your
> SO/AC/group and its leadership” is neither clear nor necessarily useful.
> “Members" of a group/constituency may or may not participate, and of those
> who do participate, it is the ones who are actively engaged that are most
> likely to be those who are appointed to leadership positions. This question
> could create a great deal of confusion.
>
> 6. Q1-3 are asking for current information about diversity; Q4-6 are more
> aspirational.  They are asking about ways to promote diversity.  The
> questions should be amended as follows:
>
> -  Q4 should focus on asking about ways to promote diversity in membership
> and leadership
> -  Q5 should ask about educational or informational initiative to promote
> diversity awareness
> -  Q6 should focus on asking about policies/practices which promote
> diversity
>
> I would also like to add one further suggestion of my own.  In our
> original list of questions, we had one which asked "Does your SO/AC/group
> have any formal policies and procedures relating to diversity?  If so,
> please provide details of these.” as well as "Does your SO/AC/group have
> any informal practices relating to diversity?  If so, please provide
> details of these.”  We seem to have retained the latter question but not
> the former.  I do think it would be useful to ask about both formal and
> informal, but I am conscious that we don’t want to increase the number of
> questions so I have merged both of these aspects in the new Q6.
>
> Taking the above feedback into account, I have attempted to incorporate
> all these points into an updated Questionnaire which is attached for your
> review.  I realise that the Diversity Sub-Group has not necessarily
> collectively agreed with all these recommendations, but if any of the
> suggestions we received are not agreed, then we can change the
> Questionnaire accordingly.   I have not used “track changes” as I felt the
> list above adequately details the changes that have been made.
>
> Cheers,  Julie
>
>
>
>
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