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

Maureen Hilyard maureen.hilyard at gmail.com
Sun Apr 5 15:45:12 UTC 2020


Thank you Joanna. Happy to leave it in the CBWG teams capable hands.

M

On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, 5:39 am Joanna Kulesza, <joannakulesza at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
> 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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