[NPOC-EC] Plan for capacity building

[Joan Kerr]

Hi David, All

There is support for this idea, please let's put this into action and
organize it, starting in Kobe.
Thanks,

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On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 2:22 PM David Cake <dave at davecake.net> wrote:

>         I’ve been working on a plan for capacity building for the NPOC
> policy committee.
>
>         I would like to propose a plan that rather than focus on specific
> skills, such as submitting comments, we focus on a specific policy issue
> for a few months, and revisiting it a few times over several meetings,
> including discussion at the start of the Kobe meeting, and then discussing
> what has happened around the issue again towards the end of the meeting. We
> can then look at the process of general analysis and advocacy, rather than
> specific sub-skills. At each of several successive meetings we can review
> how the policy process has gone, and then discuss how effective advocacy
> and policy work has taken.
>
>         The issue that I think would be appropriate is the Rights
> Protection Mechanism Review Working Group. This group is at an interesting
> point, it is working in sub-teams, and one of the sub-teams, the Trademark
> Data Review Sub-team, is co-chaired by Martin Silva Valent, who is of
> course both an active NPOC member and an NCSG Councillor. This gives us a
> valuable opportunity to have working group leadership explain the process
> to us, and Martin has indicated he would be enthusiastic. Unfortunately he
> will not be at the Kobe meeting, but we may also take advantage of that
> meeting to have NCSG (or other) colleagues explain some of the historical
> background and active issues.
>
>         I would like to hear PC feedback on this idea.
>
>         David
>
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