[council] Nominations to the ICANN Fellowship Selection Committee and Guidance on Outreach Goals

[Erika Mann]

Thank you Heather for finding a solution. No objection.

Kind regards,
Erika

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Heather Forrest <haforrestesq at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Many thanks, Rafik, for making sure that these issues around the
> Fellowship Program don't fall off our radar. Thanks also to Martin for
> volunteering.
>
> We need to appoint a GNSO (as opposed to GNSO Council) representative -
> which is not at all to say that a member of Council couldn't serve in this
> capacity, but merely that we need to ensure that the call for volunteers
> goes out to the entire GNSO community. The first step will be to develop
> and run the call for volunteers. I suggest after that we follow the process
> that we now have well established in instructing the Standing Selection
> Committee to review all applications received.
>
> The one difficulty we have is that we're a bit behind, and the deadline
> for notifying of our GNSO rep is Monday. We definitely can't get the call
> for volunteers out and applications done and reviewed by SSC in that time.
> Here's one option for a way forward - I'm happy to volunteer in my capacity
> as GNSO Chair to sit on the selection committee in the interim until the
> applications process has run its course (we'll get that underway
> immediately, depending on responses to this email).
>
> Please post your thoughts so that we can take appropriate action ASAP.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Heather
>
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 9:04 AM Martin Pablo Silva Valent <
> mpsilvavalent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I also volunteer for such small team and as a member to the selection
>> committee.
>>
>> Best,
>> Martín
>>
>> On 30 Aug 2018, at 19:54, Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> hi all,
>>
>> I am sending this note as ICANN org published an update on the fellowship
>> program
>> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-08-13-en, which is asking
>> SO/AC to:
>>
>>    1. Provide input for two-year outreach and promotion goals
>>    2. Nominate ICANN Fellowship Program Selection Committee Members for
>>    two-year terms
>>
>>
>> For the first item, the council can have a small team of volunteers to
>> work on giving guidance regarding the goals. I am happy to volunteer to
>> lead such an effort and looking forward to hearing of others want to join
>> in order to fill the form (attached). We can use this opportunity to set
>> goals for bringing specific needed expertise and skills as a diversity goal
>> for example for those to participate in PDP WGs.
>>
>> For the second item, as SO the GNSO should appoint a member to the
>> selection committee and we expressed previously the interest to be involved
>> in such a structure. Usually, we task the SSAC to conduct such process but
>> in this case, we got a time constraint here since the deadline is the 10th
>> September.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Rafik
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