[CCWG-ACCT] CCWG-Accountability-WS2-Diversity Request to continue Interpretation service

[Bernard Turcotte]

CCWG-Accountability-WS2-Diversity Request to continue Interpretation service



Plenary,

All, you will remember that the Diversity sub-group undertook a pilot
project of offering interpretation services on its calls for Spanish and
French until the end of June 2017 (end of FY17). After the pilot was
complete we agreed to evaluate the effectiveness of the service if there
was a request to continue into FY18.


The Diversity sub-group has made the request to the Co-Chairs to continue
the service until the end of August 2017 at which point they expect to have
their draft recommendations completed and ready to send to the plenary. If
approved by the plenary these would then go on to public consultation which
would imply the sub-group would be dormant for several months until the end
of the public consultation.


Given the interpretation service is not included in the FY18 budget, and
represents a 2,000$ expense ( 4 meetings @ an average cost of 500$ per
meeting) and that the next plenary meeting is scheduled for 30 August the
Co-Chairs felt it was best to ask the plenary to weigh in on this request
via the list.


Staff provided the following report in early July to the Diversity
sub-group on the requirements and usage of interpretation services for the
pilot:


*Live interpretation was provided in French and in Spanish during 8
Diversity subgroup calls between April 13th and June 15th2017.*

*Live interpretation requires the presence of 3 interpreters on the call,
plus one technical support staff, i.e. a total of 4 extra persons sitting
on the calls to support the interpretation service.*

*The French channel was used by 0 to 2 persons maximum per call (0.75 in
average).*

*The Spanish channel was used by 0 to 1 person maximum per call (0.625 in
average).*



*Detailed Statistics – Number of participants connected on each audio
channel (ES-Spanish, FR-French):*



*Live Interpretation*



*Date*

*ES*

*FR*

*Total # of Volunteer Attendees*

*4/13/2017*

*1*

*0*

*16*

*4/20/2017*

*1*

*0*

*14*

*4/26/2017*

*0*

*2*

*14*

*5/12/2017*

*1*

*1*

*19*

*5/18/2017*

*1*

*2*

*15*

*6/1/2017*

*1*

*1*

*9*

*6/8/2017*

*0*

*0*

*9*

*6/15/2017*

*0*

*0*

*8*

*Average*

*0.625*

*0.75*







It is important to note that this in no way affects the Captioning service
which is provided to all WS2 and WS2 sub-groups and that this service will
continue for all of WS2 as required.


As such, the Co-Chairs would appreciate the input of the Plenary
participants on if WS2 should continue funding this service for the
Diversity sub-group until the end of August 2017 as requested.


Should you wish to provide input on this please REPLY to this email so
staff can track responses to this request via the SUBJECT line.


Input on this topic will be accepted until Thursday 27 July 23:59UTC after
which staff will compile a summary of the inputs for the Co-Chairs.


Thanking you in advance.


Bernard Turcotte


ICANN Support Staff to the CCWG-Accountability-WS2


For the Co-Chairs
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