[ALAC] ICANN meeting on Fridays

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

I am not sure where they are paid but is usually the practice globally that
if you are a Director, you receive what's called Director's fees or some
kind of emolument etc. I have not checked but you can go to the website
Fouad and look up the Financials and it is usually disclosed.

It is nothing "new" and my view is that any Director of any Board should be
paid/remunerated for work done in directing.

My comments were based on my assumption and happy to be corrected.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> ICANN Board Members are paid? Is this true?
>
> -- Foo?
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
> <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear Olivier,
> >
> > I am against the idea of merely providing written reports and shortening
> it
> > so. I will explain why. Board members are paid to do the work and should
> > not be seen to be shirking nor trying to cut a day, on the other hand the
> > ALAC are all committed volunteers who do work without receipt of payment.
> >
> > The Thursday Board meeting is merely "show" or keeping up with
> appearances
> > for an open and transparent environment. Secondly, even from Thursday
> > meeting dynamics, there is no exclusive ALAC time of interface with the
> > Board.
> >
> > The convergence of Board members face to face with all stakeholders is
> > something which we should optimise and maximise in terms of Board
> meetings
> > or ALAC reports to Board meetings. The real behind the scenes Board
> > meetings happens on Friday. Rather than asking why it is poorly attended,
> > one would think that it should really happen on Saturday or Sunday when
> > everyone is still there. Either way, ALAC Excom should at least be
> present
> > in the Board Meetings when ALAC chair presents the Report.
> >
> > Whilst, the ALAC Chair may be submitting monthly written reports to the
> > Board, it is not the same dynamics as being in the room together. The
> > Board, in my view should exercise leadership and be creative in how it
> > rearranges its program to ensure that attendance is strengthened rather
> > than wiping it out altogether.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Folks,
> >>
> >> there is currently some discussion amongst the Board and SO/ACs, about
> >> the Friday session at ICANN meetings.
> >> The sessions starts at 8:00 with Board Committee Report, then continuing
> >> with SO/AC Chair Reports and then the ICANN Board Meeting.
> >> Traditionally, this has been poorly attended and rather boring to sit
> >> through.
> >>
> >> There is discussion whether this could be replaced with written reports
> >> to be filed on the ICANN Web Site, thus shortening the ICANN week by one
> >> day. Any note of thanks would take place in the Thursday afternoon
> >> Public Forum & Wrap up.
> >>
> >> The response I have provided so far, is that whilst I am not against
> >> having our ALAC report published instead of spoken -- for those of you
> >> who have attended, I have kept my spoken report to less than 3 minutes
> >> but for some, the reporting is really tedious and long --, I am
> >> concerned that this would shorten an already packed week. In particular,
> >> the ALAC Executive Committee meets on Friday afternoon and this is the
> >> time when we have access to the CEO, COO, CFO etc. This is the time when
> >> we can really interchange with Senior ICANN staff. I am therefore
> >> concerned that ICANN not having a morning session on Fridays would mean
> >> our afternoon session would be scrapped too.
> >>
> >> Also, in San José, we also used the Friday morning for LACRALO capacity
> >> building, so this day was needed.
> >>
> >> I'd be interested in your point of view, so that I can relay it to the
> >> Board members who have asked me my point of view.
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >>
> >> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
> >> ALAC Chair
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
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> --
> Regards.
> --------------------------
> Fouad Bajwa
>



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