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

Sat Mar 18 04:11:51 UTC 2017

Hello,

I do think it will be good to produce the questionnaire in various ICANN
languages. I also think the recipient could go beyond ICANN SO/AC.

Thanks

On 17 Mar 2017 10:46, "Julie Hammer" <julie.hammer at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Good Morning All,
>
> I participated on Wednesday 15th on a panel in At-Large which was giving
> an update to an “end user” audience on selected CCWG-A topics.  I was
> speaking on our work in the Diversity Sub-Team. I just wanted to mention
> that, during question time, a couple of good points were raised:
>
> - Will we be publishing the questionnaire in more than one language?
> - Will we seek responses to the questionnaire from individuals or groups
> other than the formal ICANN groups (SO/AC/Board/Nomcom/etc)?  eg groups
> which may represent a specific interest or affiliation
>
> I think both are valid points, and suspect that the translation into
> languages other than English may already be planned.  The second point
> about responses from individuals and other groups is worthwhile
> incorporating into our draft questionnaire.  I will send some proposed
> wording to Fiona and Rafik for consideration.
>
> Cheers,  Julie
>
> On 12 Mar 2017, at 8:10 PM, Fiona Asonga <fasonga at kixp.or.ke> wrote:
>
> 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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