<div dir="ltr">Dear Ariel <div>I would also like to join the GNSO Council's Communications Small Team if the window is still open.</div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font><b>Wisdom Donkor</b> </font><font size="1">(CASP+,  CISM, CEH </font><span style="font-size:x-small">Certified,</span><span style="font-size:x-small">)</span></div><div style="font-size:small"><font size="1">President & CEO</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font size="1">Africa Open Data and Internet Research Foundation (AODIRF) | Africa Geospatial Data and Internet Conference (AGDIC)</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font size="1">P.O. Box CT 2439, Cantonments, Accra | <a href="http://www.aodirf.org" target="_blank">www.aodirf.org</a>  / <a href="http://www.afrigeocon.org" target="_blank">www.</a><a href="http://agdic.info" target="_blank">agdic.info</a> </font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font size="1">Tel: +233 20 812 8851</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font size="1">Skype: wisdom_dk | Facebook: kwasi wisdom |  Twitter: @wisdom_dk </font></div><div><div style="font-size:small"><font size="1">_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</font></div><div><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">ICANN GNSO Council Member |</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> ICANN</span> transfer policy review working group Member  | <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Council Committee for Overseeing and Implementing Continuous</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> Improvement (CCOICI)</span> | UN IGF MAG Member | IGF Support Fund Association Executive Committee Member, World Bank Independent Consultant | AU AFIGF Member |  Ghana OGP Advisory Committee member | GSS SDGs Advisory Committee Member</font></div><div><font size="1">____________________________________________________________________________________________</font></div></div><div><font size="1">Specialization:</font></div><div><font size="1">E-government Network Infrastructure and E-application, Internet Governance,  Open Data policies platforms & Community Development, Cyber Security, Geospatial Technologies, Open Source Technologies, Domain Name Systems, Human Resource Planning and Development, Software Engineering, Event Planning & Management, <br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 1:38 PM Antonia Chu via council <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="line-height:1.7;font-family:calibri;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="clear:both">Hi Ariel and all<br></div><div style="clear:both">Just want to confirm that I'd like to join the small team. I did complete the google sign-up form last week but not sure it was submitted successfully due to network interruption. If it failed just let me know if it's too late to respond by now. Thank you!</div><div style="clear:both"><br></div><div id="m_-8243504680079475449mailbox-conversation"><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:14px">Kindly yours,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:calibri;font-size:14px">Antonia Chu</span></div><div style="clear:both"><br></div><div style="clear:both"><br></div><blockquote style="margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="clear:both">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="clear:both">From:Ariel Liang via council <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org" target="_blank">council@gnso.icann.org</a>></div><div style="clear:both">Send Time:2023年4月28日(星期五) 02:54</div><div style="clear:both"><a href="mailto:To%3Acouncil@gnso.icann.org" target="_blank">To:council@gnso.icann.org</a> <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org" target="_blank">council@gnso.icann.org</a>></div><div style="clear:both">Subject:[council] REMINDER - Call for Volunteers: GNSO Council Communications Small Team</div><div style="clear:both"><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear All, </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This is a reminder for the Call for Volunteers for the GNSO Council Communications Small Team. If you are interested in joining this group, please respond to this message by EOB tomorrow (Friday, 28 April).
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thank you,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ariel</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1px solid rgb(181,196,223);padding:4px 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:16px;color:black">From: </span><span style="font-size:16px;color:black">council <<a href="mailto:council-bounces@gnso.icann.org" target="_blank">council-bounces@gnso.icann.org</a>> on behalf of Ariel Liang via council <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org" target="_blank">council@gnso.icann.org</a>><br><b>Reply-To: </b>Ariel Liang <<a href="mailto:ariel.liang@icann.org" target="_blank">ariel.liang@icann.org</a>><br><b>Date: </b>Friday, April 21, 2023 at 12:31 PM<br><b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org" target="_blank">council@gnso.icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org" target="_blank">council@gnso.icann.org</a>><br><b>Subject: </b>[council] Call for Volunteers: GNSO Council Communications Small Team</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">(message sent on behalf of the GNSO Council Leadership) 
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear Councilors, </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This is a call for volunteers for the GNSO Council Communications Small Team tasked with developing a
<b>GNSO Council strategic communications plan</b>. If you are interested in joining this effort, please respond to this message by
<u style="font-weight:bold">EOB Friday, 28 April</u>. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Please see background below. More details about the assignment are included in the Assignment Form attached.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">--</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Background</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">During the GNSO Council Strategic Planning Session that was held from 14-16 December 2022, the GNSO Council identified the need to enhance its communication efforts to broadcast its work and efforts to a broader audience, as well as to
 counterbalance negative stories and misinformation about GNSO policy work that seemed to have gained prominence on social media and industry blogs. Those negative stories often provide a one-sided, and sometimes misleading, view of events.
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">As a result, this GNSO Council small team is formed to develop a strategic communications plan to proactively promote policy and other GNSO Council priorities.
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In addition, the GNSO Council submitted an Additional Budget Request (ABR) for FY2024, which intends to secure a commitment from ICANN org to provide the necessary support on an ongoing basis to implement the communications plan.
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">While the GNSO Council anticipates that the support needed may be provided in-house within ICANN org, it does not preclude the need for external expertise / dedicated communications support to develop and publish communications products
 outside of ICANN’s channels, such as the industry press and beyond.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">--</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Best Regards,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ariel </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Ariel Xinyue Liang</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Policy Sr. Specialist</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:14.7px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p></div></blockquote><div style="line-height:20px;clear:both"><br></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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