[ICANN Academy WG] RES: Draft outline for a Pilot Leadership Training Programme in Toronto

Fri Aug 24 15:26:35 UTC 2012

I can make it on Friday. 

Remembering 12 years ago, of course a lot of things are better now and more
transparent to attendant, but I can thinking about some topics may be
helpful: 

·         volunteer time considerations, 

·         which are the official languages and in  which sessions during
ICANN meetings and calls we normally have interpretation facility and to
which languages,

·         which are the policies related to reimbursements for each
constituencies 

·         to whom shall be  addressed questions related to travel issues 

·         Conflict of Interest for each position

·         Liability for each position regarding California Law, and an alert
about what to look for in your own country.

I guess it is the main points people are always asking

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De: at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org
[mailto:at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] Em
nome de Filiz Yilmaz
Enviada em: sexta-feira, 24 de agosto de 2012 05:28
Para: at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg at icann.org
Assunto: Re: [ICANN Academy WG] Draft outline for a Pilot Leadership
Training Programme in Toronto

Hello,

Not only GNSO but Board members will also have scheduling issues on Saturday
as there may be various committee meetings that they may need to attend. 

So we have the following parameters: 

- Known potential conflicts for Saturday

- Putting the program on a day prior to Friday or Saturday is not preferred
because this will increase the total time of ICANN meeting for participants 

- Putting the program on a day prior to Friday or Saturday will also take us
above budget due to the accommodation costs

- Putting the program on the Friday after the ICANN meeting is not an option
either as various groups already arranged meetings among themselves: I
received already conflict reports about this after yesterday's mail. I will
appreciate those to confirm this for everyone's information on the list too.

Accordingly one way of dealing with this is:

1. The program is set as a 1-day orientation program taking place on the
Friday (12 October), which seems to be the only day for effective
participation

2. The topics to be visited during this day is prioritized; there is already
a draft curriculum, topics/sessions from there can be chosen as of the best
interest to new leaders of ICANN and a new 1-day curriculum can be crafted. 

We have various Community leaders in this group, which topics would be the
most interest to you if you could go back to your first few days of
leadership position? 

3. Participants as outlined in the draft receives the invitation and notices
to book their travels accordingly, leaving space to attend the orientation
program on Friday.

This is very important for everyone involved and their schedules as well as
for the work that will go into the logistics for making arrangements. 

Would these be agreeable as of a solution that could work for most? 

Kind regards,

---

Filiz Yilmaz

Sr Dir Participation and Engagement

ICANN

From: <Gomes>, Chuck <cgomes at verisign.com>
Date: Friday, 24 August 2012 00:29
To: Filiz Yilmaz <filiz.yilmaz at icann.org>,
"at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg at icann.org"
<at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg at icann.org>
Subject: RE: [ICANN Academy WG] Draft outline for a Pilot Leadership
Training Programme in Toronto

Anything done on Saturday will likely have little if any participation from
the GNSO and this should not come as a surprise.

Chuck

From: at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org
[mailto:at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On
Behalf Of Filiz Yilmaz
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 8:48 AM
To: at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg at icann.org
Subject: Re: [ICANN Academy WG] Draft outline for a Pilot Leadership
Training Programme in Toronto

William,

Thank you for your mail and thoughts. 

Regarding your points about conflicts, we are aware that there are other
meetings that are being scheduled on Friday and Saturday. 

This is inevitable unfortunately. We had to utilize the closest possible
days for the pilot too. This obviously helps optimizing the budget
available, allowing more participants' attendance,  as well as towards the
constant feedback that working time before the heavy ICANN meeting starts
should not be over-extended.   

You mentioned the sort of curriculum the WG developed prior, which I believe
is the one Sandra provided the link to in her mail and which I also attached
on this mail for quick reference. That curriculum was foreseeing a 3.5 day
training with:

Prior to ICANN Meeting:

Day 1+Day 2: Core topics spread in first 2 days. If you look at the attached
file, these topics are covered in the new curriculum too, but with less time
as we have only 2 days for the whole training, not 3.5 days. 

Day 3: Focus on current issues. New curriculum is covering this with 2
discussion sessions both on Day 1 and Day 2. 

After ICANN meeting: 

1/2 Day: Wrap Up at the end of the ICANN meeting for reflection and
clarification on specific topics. 

Again due to time constraints this does not seem to be feasible for most of
the Chairs but I think we can look into possibility of covering a short
gathering on Friday morning. However I seriously doubt that this will be
possible due to travel arrangements and scheduling of most participants. 

So the main differences I see between the two curriculums are the following:

1. The 1.5 hrs session that I volunteered to talk about "ICANN Engagement
Tools/Mechanisms'. (saturday 11:00-12:30). 

Sandra and I added this based on the feedback we received on this mailing
list, namely from Eduardo Diaz, dated 12 July 2012:

"We should include how the SOs, ACs, Board and staff work together in unison
to get things done in ICANN. What is the process flow between them.
Terminology such as PDPs, Frameworks of Interpretation, WGs, Study groups,
Council vs. Constituencies, etc. should be interpolated when explaining the
processes. Also, there should be something about how to use the wiki's and
how are they organized? "

I am happy not to talk about this and leave the time available to some other
topic that the WG thinks missing from the curriculum and should be covered
instead.

2. The other difference between the curriculums is probably the Leadership
Sessions (Saturday afternoon):

---

13:30-15:30: Leadership – Suggested Speaker: Elad Levinson

•               The power of facilitation and facilitative actions

•               ICANN responsibilities for members and chairs of meetings

•               Chairing meetings-the four keys of meeting leadership

•               Preparing to lead meetings-how to set it up for success

•               What is consensus? How to reach it?

•               Reaching and establishing consensus within groups-how
process enables agreements

15:45 -16:45 More on Leadership Responsibilities (I) – Suggested Speaker:
Elad Levinson

o               Examples of best practices when working with consensus and
leading in a multistakeholder environment

----

As this is a leadership training for the incoming leaders of ICANN and for
all the current ones at least for the pilot in Toronto, I think these
sessions make sense and well geared towards the target audience.
Consensus-building is a main leadership activity within ICANN and knowing
the best techniques of facilitation within a multistakeholder model to do so
surely will equip our leaders well in their tasks and responsibilities
within and across their group interactions. 

In fact again, these sessions are in essence in the previous curriculum too,
where the multi-stakeholder model: concepts and practice and how groups work
were noted  are also related to these sessions too. 

Also note that Elad provided a similar session back in Costa Rica where
Sandra noted it was well received and found very useful by their group at
the time. 

So we added these sessions to the curriculum. 

If you see specific sessions/topics that are missing in the new curriculum,
please let the WG know and if agreed, we can see if we can fit it in the
program, considering the suggested speaker's availability too, or we can try
to cover them under some other session by extending the scope of that
existing session. 

Kind regards

---

Filiz Yilmaz

Sr Dir Participation and Engagement

ICANN

From: William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>
Date: Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:48
To: Avri Doria <avri at acm.org>
Cc: "at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg at icann.org"
<at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg at icann.org>
Subject: Re: [ICANN Academy WG] Draft outline for a Pilot Leadership
Training Programme in Toronto

Well, I'll split the difference and say I share Avri's concerns but
congratulate you anyway for the hard work.

Now as to the concerns: There are lots of ways to do capacity building, but
crudely put there's a clear bifurcation between training people on how xyz
is done and training people to be able to not only do it, but think about
what it means, the costs/benefits, whether it could be done better, how it
relates to their own interests, etc.  By even cruder analogy, at home in
Geneva the WTO trains developing country delegates on how to implement
market opening agreements by devising complex national schedules of
commitments.  In contrast, UNCTAD (where my wife works) trains the same
people not only on scheduling commitments, but how to critically assess WTO
policies and procedures, identify when and where these may or may not match
their interests, how to think strategically about maneuvering in the space
to advance their objectives more effectively, etc.  In short, one build a
narrowly defined skill set, the other empowers people to be able to function
in the space knowing what's really going on.

Both dimensions are really important, but one doesn't sense the presence of
the latter in the configuration below.

Personally, if I was in the indicated target group of participants, I can't
imagine choosing to blow off NCUC's Friday workshop or the Saturday GNSO
Council meeting in order to watch staff run through power points on the
respective PDP processes followed by AC chairs on what they're into etc.
And an overview of ICANN meetings and between meetings for people who've
already been through multiple meetings
.?

The sort of curriculum the WG developed prior would have been a lot more
enticing.  

Is there any way to blend the different visions into a new and more
provocative synthesis?

Bill

On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:23 AM, Avri Doria wrote:

On 22 Aug 2012, at 15:22, sandra hoferichter wrote:

We are aware, that the discussion in the expanded WG is just about to start
and this outline will not cover all the needs and ideas, however this pilot
project should be see as a first step to build on an inclusive capacity
building programme within ICANN. The WG is should review the pilot project
critically and develop strategies and recommendations for future projects.
To get a feedback from the participants this WG is asked to develop a
survey, to be filled in by every participant in this programme.

I cannot see this plan as the pilot for any sort of education.  To me it
seems like the normal indoctrination given by ICANN: 

" 

  everything is good ICANN, 

  we have no challenges at ICANN, and 

  there isn't an outside world ICANN needs to concern itself with

"

I am afraid that I cannot congratulate you on this plan.  

I understand that this program is the ICANN program and as such, it was it
is. 

But please lets not consider it any sort of pilot for a volunteer designed
educational program.

avri

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