[Capacity-Building-WG] Policy writing/ public comment course

Sun Apr 5 15:39:15 UTC 2020

Dear Abdulkarim, Maureen and all,

thank you for this thoughtful input. The ICANN Learn course is in the 
works. We're scheduled to have a call with our speakers this coming 
week. All of your thoughts and concerns will be shared. Jonathan is 
leading the work on CPWG policy development. I will be sure to share you 
thoughts with him and make sure they are well reflected in the course 
outline.

Thank you again,

Joanna

W dniu 07.04.2020 o 00:32, ABDULKARIM AYOPO OLOYEDE pisze:
> Dear Maureen,
> Thank you for this email. Only yesterday I was thinking of developing 
> such a course for some group of people AFRALO members who wanted 
> clarification on the At large public comment process. I think I now 
> understand where some of the confusions were coming from.
>
>  I think having such a module is important because it would help to 
> improve participation from a lot of those who don't currently 
> understand the process. Like you mentioned, when it comes to statement 
> writing I believe the process we use is open and transparent but I 
> must say it is quite complicated to understand especially for someone 
> who does not have the time to attend CPWG or does not understand what 
> CPWG does. Therefore I agree that an ICANN learn course on this is 
> important. I have to thank Jonathan for personally taking me through 
> the process a while ago as I must confess, It took me a while to 
> understand it too and if not for Jonathan I might still be struggling 
> it with. Having Jonathan to take everyone through it is impossible and 
> having such module in fine details would help.
>  I would be happy to take a lead/work with any other person in putting 
> together such a module as I believe it is very important.  I would 
> also take a look at what NCUC has done and see how it can be improved. 
> I would also discuss with Joanna and Alfredo in the next couple of 
> days on how to move this forward
>
> Thank you
>
> AK
>
>
>
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, 06:48 Maureen Hilyard, <maureen.hilyard at gmail.com 
> <mailto:maureen.hilyard at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear Team
>
>     Has anyone looked at the current ICANN Learn Policy writing course
>     which was developed by NCUC? It definitely highlighted an approach
>     that was quite different from our own. I was quite disappointed
>     because I don't think that it is useful in addressing the more
>     inclusive fact-gathering, consensus model of developing a
>     statement that we use in At-Large and particularly by the CPWG.
>     This process would be appropriate for a policy or a non-policy issue.
>
>     But there was a good section that explained the purpose of the
>     Public Comment.
>
>     From an At-Large point of view, I wondered if our CB team could
>     ensure that an At-Large "public comment" course might focus more
>     on the methodology that is used by the CPWG where much time is
>     spent on:
>
>     * participants from across the array of backgrounds within
>     At-Large offering their views after analysing the purpose of the
>     request and the resource material around the topic to sort out how
>     a particular policy is relevant to our section of ICANN - end-users
>
>     * herding the discussions in a way that gathers information while
>     at the same time tries to balance the various end-user
>     perspectives into a cohesive argument - this is an important task
>     requiring some major skills, for example:
>
>     1) great moderation skills which are demonstrated well by Jonathan
>     and Olivier  esp keeping participant contributions focused,
>     relevant and non-repetitive
>
>     2) seeking views from within the group from people who have the
>     appropriate level of knowledge and can articulate their views in
>     such a way that others can support or add further perspectives
>     which might capture a more directed approach to a statement that
>     fits the enduser point of view
>
>     3)  From among the many articulated views which have been captured
>     by an initial penholder or penholders, a small group may start
>     moulding the various perspectives  into a logical argument that
>     will form the basis of a consensus end-user viewpoint
>     4) The draft statement is then presented to the CPWG for further
>     discussion and fine-tuning, to create a final statement. Several
>     iterations of this process may be required before the statement is
>     complete.
>
>     * While developing the course it might be appropriate to offer
>     some examples of what each stage might entail, during the process
>     of information gathering, putting it into a presentation (or a
>     series of presentations) to collate all the different ideas and
>     perspectives, then finalising the statement. .
>
>     5) One constraint on this process is the restrictive timeframe
>     given by the requestors with regards to the time allowed for this
>     important discussion, especially if it is of greater importance to
>     the end-user community. This has required single topic sessions on
>     top of the already assigned weekly sessions. This is a big
>     commitment for volunteers.
>
>     6) ICANN staff complete the statement document in preparation for
>     its delivery to the requestors of the comments, before
>     ratification by the ALAC.
>
>     M
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Joanna Kulesza, PhD
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Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz
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