[council] Motion on Transparency of Council Meetings

[Mike Rodenbaugh]

I second the motion.  I had raised this issue a couple ICANN meetings ago,
and still believe it is a great idea.

Mike Rodenbaugh
RODENBAUGH LAW
tel/fax:  +1 (415) 738-8087
http://rodenbaugh.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org] On
Behalf Of William Drake
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 2:03 AM
To: GNSO Council List
Subject: [council] Motion on Transparency of Council Meetings


Hello,

In light of the bit of conversation over the past couple days concerning the
relationship between Council members and their SGs, the ATRT process and our
pending meeting with them, and internal discussions in NCSG, I hear by make
the following motion.




MOTION ON ENHANCING THE TRANSPARENCY OF GNSO COUNCIL MEETINGS

WHEREAS the Affirmation of Commitments mandates that ICANN processes be made
as transparent as possible;

WHEREAS the GNSO Council seeks to promote broad community awareness of and
engagement in GNSO activities;

WHEREAS the GNSO Council is a management team whose elected members
represent their respective Stakeholder Groups in a manner determined by
those Stakeholder Groups;

WHEREAS this representation function would be enhanced if Stakeholder Group
members were able to listen in real time to Council meetings; and

WHEREAS it would be impractical to open the GNSO Council meeting
teleconference facility to Stakeholder Group members;

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT:

RESOLVED that beginning in July 2010, all GNSO Council teleconference
meetings will be audiocast (in addition to being recorded) so that members
of the community can listen in real time.






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William J. Drake
Senior Associate
Centre for International Governance
Graduate Institute of International and
 Development Studies
Geneva, Switzerland
william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch
www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html
www.linkedin.com/in/williamjdrake
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