[ICANN Academy WG] Re : Feedback on Draft_Curriculum_Initial_Proposal_20120203.doc

Sat Feb 4 21:05:25 UTC 2012

The scope of the curriculum development at the moment is to develop
curriculum for the ICANN Academy which is 3 days for 15 ICANN officers to
be immersed into the operational system and structure of ICANN. There are
numerous possibilities of curriculum development but what we have to
consider are the priority topics that need to form the Curriculum.

I had raised the language issue in our preparatory discussions. Apparently
ICANN Bylaws state that officers must have a good command of the English
language and it is a prerequisite. My personal view is that this bylaw is
very limiting for an organisation that develops global policies and this
restriction is discriminatory of many whose first 4 languages are not
English.[This however is not for this discussion nor thread and are mere
comments]

On the other hand, in terms of development of curriculum for empowerment of
members of At Large community on issues, I think a combination of both web
based and face to face approach is important.

The web based platforms will give us the luxury of cost savings, learning
whereever you are as communications with the internet has redefined
concepts such as time and space. There are some existing podcasts already
available on the ICANN website and there is  alot of material on the
website that could be put together in some coherent form for "newbies" in a
structured fashion.

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Raquel Gatto <raquel.gatto at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I believe there is a great curriculum in progress!
>
> Unfortunately I could not attend the last call, so forgive me if I am
> raising some topics that have been already discussed.
>
> Regarding #6 - Core topics at Day 1, does "Internet Fundamentals" also
> means Internet Governance Ecossystem?
> I am aware that this is an ICANN focused group, but it would be good to
> have a short overview of all related governance mechanisms (and if
> possible, their interface with ICANN). For example, if you are talking
> about DNS, at some point you might need to mention IETF and RFCs and so the
> "student" that does not have a previous knowledge about those issues will
> get lost in content. It doesn't need to be a deep content approach, because
> each student can search for more info as they want.
>
> Multilinguism is always a recurrent issue, but I would go for an
> intermediate solution. Of course English is the working language inside
> ICANN community, but if the objective is to bring some knowledge for the
> students, we need to face those leaders that have basic English and allow
> them to find information in their own language. For a low cost solution
> that could be incorporated in the first ICANN Academy, we could try to
> inform whenever possible the documents and references that have more than
> one language. ICANN already have translators working on many documents and
> just telling the participants when and where they are available may give
> some confort for further reading and encourage them to express their own
> views. The evaluation form could also have a question about the language
> challenges (and try to measure the impact for non-native English speakers).
>
> Hope I am contributing for the document ellaboration.
>
> []s Raquel
>
>
>
> 2012/2/4 Yaovi Atohoun <yaovito at yahoo.fr>
>
>> Agree  and would suggest to include  "introduction to meeting tools  (telephone,
>> adobeconnect, ...)"   in this module
>>
>> Yaovi
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>> *De :* Natalia Enciso <natalia.enciso at gmail.com>
>> *À :* Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>;
>> at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org;
>> at-large-icann-academy-ad-hoc-wg at atlarge-lists.icann.org
>> *Envoyé le :* Samedi 4 février 2012 0h44
>> *Objet :* Re: [ICANN Academy WG] Feedback on
>> Draft_Curriculum_Initial_Proposal_20120203.doc
>>
>> Great work !
>>
>> I would add a module on remote participation, how to find info on icann
>> webpage, use the wiki and other useful tools.  Kind of encouraging active
>> participation post academy and meetings.
>>
>> Natalia Enciso
>>
>> Enviado desde mi dispositivo BlackBerry® proveído por Tigo.
>>
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