[ALAC] [At-Large] [Registrants-rights] That Revised PICDRP

[Fouad Bajwa]

Just an observer comment, someone mentioned crowd source, that is actually your strategic advantage as Carlton has rightly put, crowd sourcing and going inward to outward is from various different angles. In the ICANN community world, CircleID, various domain news sites, even the bbc matter to create that noise that matters. 

One thing I've always felt over the years is ALAC could have had was a Policy Communication Dissemination WG that could focus on creating inward outward and outward inward crowd-sourced campaigns to let the ICANN community and rest of the possibly interested news and media world know that what the users voice and soul thinks. This is ALACs version of a user intellect and intelligence team, with non-alac but ralo members, not,concerned with managing RALOs and alac but rather making it more strategic.

Such would only make ALAC's presence and existence more strong beyond its present remit. In the 'other' real world public policy world, we have extensive strategizing and dissemination of something called communicating policy and we go about using it to counter lobby groups, policy forums, creating diplomatic noise before all the G 8s,77s etc happen, creating public opinion. It helps us take our public policy issues beyond personal interest issues turning them into everyone's problem. I thought we could learn from GAC and the corporate lobbyists, they both come out of the traditional public policy space but are redefined in their roles in society and economy to have different titles and roles in the governance universe, and are sometimes strategic in new ways.

The closest advice I have ever read is sometimes in Rinalia's comments, she has policy experience beyond the remit of ICANN from the 'real policy world interactions' and maybe she might help ALAC understand what I am trying to get at here. 

Communicating policy is both about being experienced and strategic and knowing how to communication with the public beyond using traditional mediums. If the challenge is that one exists in the closed universe of various policy and governance activities but is unable to successfully communicate all the work and concerns creates a thought provoking problem, there are other challenges to this environment but what if there was a lobbyist style policy communication group in ALAC, then, I'd be really scared of you in other parts of ICANN because the more noisy you are, the more my ICANN is in trouble. Strengthening institutes isn't a bad idea even if it happens in ALAC alone.

By the way, this is a non-geek way of communication that I refer to. Countries use it to convince their citizens that their good ol tax money is being used to kick the right bums, do we think those citizens are down right dumb, no, it's that group of intelligentsia that coaxes them to believe so and does it with a lot of noise, I hope you understand my undertones, think and act in a more strategic manner will help reduce your frustrations.

Best Regards
Fouad Bajwa

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On Oct 6, 2013, at 3:30 AM, Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Jean-Jacques Subrenat <jjs at fastmail.fm>wrote:
> 
>> In the case under consideration, we may wish to consider combining several
>> approaches:
>> - seek to create an issue-based (and therefore temporary) alliance with
>> any segment of ICANN willing to defend the same idea (in this case, GAC +
>> non-commercial + ccNSO?);
>> - a letter to the Board Chair, not just setting out the problem, but
>> suggesting corrective measures. Ideally, such a letter would be signed by
>> the Chairs of the temporary alliance.
>> - Going public in ICANN (Public Forum, roundtable if available) and
>> outside (CircleID and other sites).
>> 
> 
> Here's some sage advice.  We ramp up and attack from many angles.
> 
> +1
> 
> -Carlton
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