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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><<a href="mailto:npoc-discuss-bounces@icann.org">npoc-discuss-bounces@icann.org</a>> on behalf of "Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G." <<a href="mailto:crg@isoc-cr.org">crg@isoc-cr.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 15:58<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Klaus Stoll <<a href="mailto:kdrstoll@gmail.com">kdrstoll@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>NPOC Discuss <<a href="mailto:npoc-discuss@icann.org">npoc-discuss@icann.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Npoc-discuss] Self Nomination NPOC Chair Klaus Stoll<br>
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<div>Excellent news Klaus. How de we make sure your candidacy is in the page </div>
<div>for the elections?</div>
<div><a href="http://npoc.org/index.php?p=npoc2016elections">http://npoc.org/index.php?p=npoc2016elections</a></div>
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<div>Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez</div>
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<div>Skype: carlos.raulg</div>
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<div>On 28 Apr 2016, at 8:17, Klaus Stoll wrote:</div>
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<div>*Dear NPOC Members*</div>
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<div>*After careful deliberations, I have decided to put myself forward as </div>
<div>a candidate for NPOC Chair in the forthcoming election. *</div>
<div>*In order to become an effective representation of not-for-profit </div>
<div>operational concerns NPOC needs to undergo some basic changes. As many </div>
<div>of you know me and my track record, I will not try to impress you with </div>
<div>a list of activities and titles. Please see below a short statement </div>
<div>why I think you should vote for me, and a more detailed statement of </div>
<div>my position on “**Awareness and Capacity Building for Broader and </div>
<div>Deeper Engagement in ICANN Policy”. *</div>
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<div>*If you have questions or issues you would like to raise please </div>
<div>contact me at <a href="mailto:*_*kdrstoll@gmail.com*">*_*kdrstoll@gmail.com*</a> <<a href="mailto:kdrstoll@gmail.com>_*or">mailto:kdrstoll@gmail.com>_*or</a>
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<div>reach me directly via Skype for a chat [my Skype ID is: </div>
<div>klauschasquinet . I will also organize an online question and answer </div>
<div>session once the election has started. I am always available for </div>
<div>public */*npoc-discuss*/*online discussions with other candidates and </div>
<div>the NPOC membership.*</div>
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<div>*For formality: I, Klaus Stoll, declare that:*</div>
<div>*I am an active member of NPOC, and that if elected, I consent to </div>
<div>serve.*</div>
<div>*I do not have any pecuniary or conflict of interest with ICANN*</div>
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<div>Yours*</div>
<div>*Klaus*</div>
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<div>*Vote For Me, if …*</div>
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<div>… you think that in NPOC needs to focus on *enabling its members to </div>
<div>participate more in ICANN's policy making processes**!*</div>
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<div>… you think that in NPOC the *operational concerns, needs and </div>
<div>interests of the**members should take priority* before everything </div>
<div>else!</div>
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<div>… you believe that NPOC membership should be an*ongoing win/win </div>
<div>situation* for all concerned and not just a volunteer duty!</div>
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<div>… you want *regular information and communication exchanges* between </div>
<div>the NPOC leadership and NPOC members!</div>
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<div>… NPOC should have *agreed short and long term plans of action* that </div>
<div>are based on membership input and needs.</div>
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<div>… you believe that there are *many levels of how Not-for-Profit </div>
<div>organizations can and should engage* in Internet Governance, with </div>
<div>engagement depending an organization’s needs and abilities!</div>
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<div>… you want *NPOCs membership to increase significantly* in order to </div>
<div>strengthen NPOC’s not-for-profit voice in Internet Governance!</div>
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<div>… you want NPOC's ongoing *engagement in awareness and capacity </div>
<div>building programs!*</div>
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<div>… you want all NPOC *funding to be fully transparent and accounted* </div>
<div>for!</div>
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<div>... you want NPOC to actively fund raise in order to *increases the </div>
<div>participation of NPOC members in Internet Governance processes and </div>
<div>events!*</div>
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<div>*Don't Vote for Me, if you want Nothing to Change!*</div>
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<div>*Awareness and Capacity Building for Broader and Deeper Engagement in </div>
<div>ICANN Policy and for a Secure and Stable DNS*</div>
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<div>*1. ICANN's need for broad Stakeholder engagement*</div>
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<div>We are all citizens within the Internet’s ecosystem, as we conduct </div>
<div>our daily routines with a growing dependence on the policies that </div>
<div>govern the stability and security of the domain name system (DNS) that </div>
<div>lies at the root of the Internet. For ICANN, the organization </div>
<div>operating the DNS, the multistakeholder model of governance is central </div>
<div>to policies for the stability and security of the global Internet. For </div>
<div>ICANN’s governance to be robust and defensible, it needs broad and </div>
<div>deep stakeholder engagement within its "bottom-up, consensus-driven, </div>
<div>multistakeholder model" of Internet governance.</div>
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<div>*2. The vast majority of Internet Citizens are not engaged </div>
<div>stakeholders *</div>
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<div>Given the financial Interests of ICANN contracted parties stakeholders </div>
<div>and non-contracted business interests, it comes as no surprise that </div>
<div>they are heavily and deeply represented as stakeholders in ICANN’s </div>
<div>policy making and governance processes. It also comes as no surprise </div>
<div>that the vast majority of Internet ecosystem citizens, the Internet </div>
<div>users, are not present as engaged stakeholders within the ICANN </div>
<div>community. Most individual citizens and groups are focused on how they </div>
<div>may use the Internet as a tool, and do not focus on the Internet and </div>
<div>its governance /per se/unless current Internet policy impacts them </div>
<div>directly. ICANN is in a situation where it professes participation by </div>
<div>citizens in a multistakeholder model of engagement, but where 99% </div>
<div>(literally all) of those “/citizens/” don’t even know that this </div>
<div>governance process exists.</div>
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<div>/*3.*///*The dangers of under- and miss- representation*</div>
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<div>If ICANN cannot find ways to enable wider and deeper participation in </div>
<div>ICANN, this will threaten the very legitimacy of ICANN’s </div>
<div>multistakeholder governance model. The main dangers are </div>
<div>under-representation and miss-representation:</div>
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<div>/*Under-representation*/: Stakeholder group interests are not factored </div>
<div>into governance and policy making, at all levels, and disproportionate </div>
<div>weight is exercised by those with a voice and who have direct </div>
<div>pecuniary interests. Gross under representation of stakeholders leaves </div>
<div>ICANN’s governance and policy processes open to criticism that it is </div>
<div>an inadequate multistakeholder process, and a process subject to </div>
<div>“capture” by narrow commercial interests.</div>
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<div>/*Miss-representation*/: A thin representation of the large majority </div>
<div>gives disproportionate weight to the voice and positions of the few </div>
<div>who are engaged in the multistakeholder process, and who claim to </div>
<div>represent the vast number of unaware and unengaged citizens of the </div>
<div>Internet ecosystem.</div>
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<div>*4. Existing barriers and challenges to broad stakeholder engagement*</div>
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<div>ICANN is not unaware of the challenge. It is devoting considerable </div>
<div>resources to outreach efforts but such efforts have been greeted with </div>
<div>limited success. This limited success has to do with a fundamental </div>
<div>misunderstanding of context and the nature of the challenges faced </div>
<div>both by ICANN and by those underrepresented stakeholder groups. The </div>
<div>main barriers and challenges are:</div>
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<div>*a. */*ICANN centricity and Relevance:*/**A review of outreach efforts </div>
<div>on ICANN’s website shows that ICANN’s awareness and capacity </div>
<div>building is focused on promoting and explaining ICANN as an </div>
<div>organization. As well intended as these efforts are, they are having </div>
<div>minimal impact on engaging a wider range of DNS users and Internet </div>
<div>ecosystem stakeholders. A basic disconnect exists because these </div>
<div>efforts are designed to promote ICANN to organizations, but they do so </div>
<div>without making engagement relevant to the mission, vision, and needs </div>
<div>of the targeted stakeholders.</div>
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<div>*b) */*Staff centered strategy:*/A current handicap for ICANN outreach </div>
<div>and awareness building is the idea that it should be mainly executed </div>
<div>and guided by ICANN staff. Not only is this contrary to ICANN’s </div>
<div>bottom up process of governance and engagement, it limits the ability </div>
<div>of efforts to understand governance issues from the stakeholder’s </div>
<div>perspective.</div>
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<div>*c) */*Materials and language*/*:*Being staff centric, ICANN’s </div>
<div>outreach strategy devotes considerable effort to the production of </div>
<div>documents and educational materials. Much of that material reads </div>
<div>mainly as navigational tools for understanding ICANN. The material can </div>
<div>be dense, in the jargon of ICANN, inappropriate to the remits of </div>
<div>stakeholders, and frequently stands apart from already available in </div>
<div>more suitable materials and efforts from elsewhere.</div>
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<div>*d) */*Understanding volunteers realities and needs:*/The large </div>
<div>majority of Internet governance volunteers, be they individuals or as </div>
<div>representatives for not-for-profit, civil society and community </div>
<div>organizations, participation in Internet governance as volunteers </div>
<div>whose time and effort are over and above, or apart from, their jobs </div>
<div>and primary activities. In contrast, contracted parties and much of </div>
<div>the non-contracted business community engage in ICANN’s policy </div>
<div>development and processes as part of their job or, in the case of </div>
<div>those such as lawyers and academics, as part of building career </div>
<div>capital. The time and effort required for engagement, over and above </div>
<div>their other duties, effectively excludes broader and deeper engagement </div>
<div>by individuals and not-for-profit, civil society and community </div>
<div>organizations. They simply do not have the resources and cannot </div>
<div>provide the necessary time, unless engagement is seen as a win-win </div>
<div>engagement connected to their realities and needs.</div>
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<div>*5. Overcoming barriers*</div>
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<div>How can we begin to overcome the barriers and challenges? On the one </div>
<div>hand ICANN needs to reflect on how to make its processes more readily </div>
<div>“/*digestible*/” for easier engagement. On the other hand it needs </div>
<div>to reflect on how to make volunteer engagement easier. It needs to </div>
<div>explore ways to facilitate the ease and effectiveness of volunteer </div>
<div>effort in its governance processes, and it needs to do so in </div>
<div>consultation with the relevant constituencies, and not by focusing on </div>
<div>top down outreach processes.</div>
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<div>*a. */*Reversing Roles between ICANN staff and Constituency </div>
<div>Organizations: */The first step would be a reversal of roles between </div>
<div>ICANN staff and ICANN’s constituency organizations. A communications </div>
<div>strategy for outreach and engagement needs to start from ICANN’s </div>
<div>supporting organizations (SOs) and advisory committees (ACs) in </div>
<div>collaboration with the stakeholder constituency groups. ICANN staff </div>
<div>should assist SOs, ACs, etc., to build strategy on a constituency </div>
<div>understanding of context, and with the engagement of local expertise.</div>
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<div>*b) */*Relevance through win/win Strategies: */The starting point of </div>
<div>all engagement has to be what is “/*in it*/” for everybody. Where </div>
<div>is the win-win for both ICANN and the not-for-profit, civil society, </div>
<div>community organization constituencies. Part of this will involve </div>
<div>greater engagement within ICANN governance processes. Part of this </div>
<div>will be greater involvement in the DNS system, as domain name holders </div>
<div>and website owners. Part of this will be greater stakeholder </div>
<div>involvement in the broader Internet issues as stakeholders and </div>
<div>citizens of the Internet ecosystem. All of this can only be achieved </div>
<div>by greater collaboration and clearer mutually agreed upon deliverable </div>
<div>goals. In order to make ICANN relevant and for outreach to succeed, </div>
<div>there has to be a “win” for them to become engaged in policy and </div>
<div>governance as citizens of the Internet ecosystem.</div>
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<div>*c) */*Making the DNS the focus: */Strategic engagement efforts should </div>
<div>not start with a focus on the inner workings of ICANN, its multi </div>
<div>stakeholder model or its policy development processes. Efforts can </div>
<div>start by stressing the advantages of a secure, stable and reliable </div>
<div>DNS, and the principles of a free and open internet, but they must </div>
<div>also incorporate Internet Ecosystem issues that actually confront </div>
<div>not-for-profit, civil society and community groups, or interest and </div>
<div>attention will be lost. The task of outreach, with the goals of </div>
<div>awareness and engagement, is to build an understanding of where, </div>
<div>within the policy processes of the Internet, specific individual and </div>
<div>organizational self-interests are on the policy agenda*. *This does </div>
<div>not draw ICANN beyond its own remit, but it does assist the </div>
<div>stakeholder community in its understanding of where Internet </div>
<div>governance processes intersect with its own remit, and where to go, </div>
<div>within ICANN or elsewhere, to pursue engagement around its Internet </div>
<div>governance concerns.</div>
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<div>*6. Moving Forward: A Communications Plan focused on Process and </div>
<div>Outcomes*</div>
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<div>What is needed is a communications plan that is focused on appropriate </div>
<div>process engagement and outcomes. A plan with content and processes </div>
<div>should be developed by the SOs and ACs closest to the target </div>
<div>communities, and prepared with the support of ICANN staff. Both design </div>
<div>and delivery would involve collaboration with organizations within the </div>
<div>target communities. Part of the strategy behind a successful </div>
<div>communications plan would include adequate funding and resource </div>
<div>commitments jointly raised between ICANN, its SOs and ACs, and </div>
<div>collaborating partners.</div>
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<div>*7. Summary*</div>
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<div>How does ICANN achieve broader and deeper engagement in DNS governance </div>
<div>without going beyond its remit to help stakeholders become more </div>
<div>engaged as citizens of the overall Internet ecosystem?The short answer </div>
<div>is a greater collaboration with stakeholders in outreach planning and </div>
<div>efforts that is sensitive to the context in which individual users, </div>
<div>not-for-profit, civil society and community groups operate, and an </div>
<div>outreach that has targeted win-win outcomes from engagement.</div>
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