[Ws2-diversity] Fwd: Working WS2- Diversity Report

[Renata Aquino Ribeiro]

Hi everyone

Following from the last comments on the drafting team a few points on the
report


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From: Renata Aquino Ribeiro <raquino at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: Working WS2- Diversity Report
To: Fiona Asonga <fasonga at kixp.or.ke>
Cc: Julie Hammer <julie.hammer at bigpond.com>, Rafik Dammak <
rafik.dammak at gmail.com>, RAHMOUNI Dalila <dalila.rahmouni at diplomatie.gouv.fr>,
opomulero at akinbo.ng, Kimberly Anastácio <anastaciokimberly at gmail.com>


Hi Julie and everyone

I've added all Julie's comments on the doc

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l2cGcx8nNvYSg_
ZMUVnoC2t0VKb4ATQVTXxcxYILrXc/edit

Except for comment 5.

My observations:

Comment 1:  "... I would also suggest adding the words “relevant to their
role” after “diversity” in Recommendation 4."

I've replied on the doc

"the problem is that when you add "relevance", you open the door for folks
to just say there is no element of diversity relevant, so how to solve
that?"

And I'll add an example:

Gender balance is deemed not relevant in exchange for an alleged
"expertise" in many events. Only when a general calculation of the male
presence on panels for instance versus the female presence and the high
number of absent "experts" female is shown, then gender balance is deemed
lacking.

About comment 5 - self identification as minority group

I did not express myself very happily on this but I will insist this is an
important (and new) idea.
There are diversity elements we didn't cover and which are incredibly
complicated - race, for instance, already mentioned in other context
They may not be identified as diversity elements in themselves but as group
identity
So leaving the possibility someone can self identify which minority group
they are a part of, and maybe even pointing out how that represents a
barrier, there could be some strong indication on how the work in diversity
could evolve.

An example of wording and place:

9. Self-identification as group - Upon self-declaration in the data
collection process, a conformation of groups or self-identified minorities,
disadvantaged populations or stigmatized groups can be described and
pathways to foster inclusion can be drawn upon this identification for
recommentations to act on a process to ensure diversity as a long term
process.

Again, this is quite new and I'm hoping to address very recent situations
like the inclusion of native American/ indigenous activists, black coders
(there is a group of black coders which participated in an outreach event
recently of an ICANN SG), and any sort of other group which will not come
forward by their element of diversity itself but may be self-identified as
community. This would cover a major gap in the document.

Best,

Renata
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