[ALAC] Policy and Implementation WG meeting - 25th September 2013

Alan Greenberg alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca
Mon Oct 7 05:58:20 UTC 2013


This is a report commissioned by the ATRT2. I was the one who 
proposed this study, and it was the one (from a bunch of other 
proposals) that was ultimately selected. That report is a draft, but 
the final will likely be similar, but with additional data added.

It does have some problems (in my opinion), so interpreting the 
results will need to be done carefully. Foremost among the issues is 
that although they are certainly correct as to the minimal 
participation from some regions and from those who do not speak 
English relatively fluently, they did no base studies on the GNSO 
population from whom WG participants are largely drawn. My gut 
feeling (also without any proof) is that what they are seeing is a 
close-up view of the general ICANN problem that we work in English 
and draw a lot of our workers from businesses that can afford to 
contribute some of their staff to be "volunteers".

But Holly is quite right in that it does make interesting reading. 
Finding solutinos to the problems identified will be challenging. 
Hopefully the ATRT will offer some first steps in our recommendations.

Alan

At 07/10/2013 12:51 AM, Holly Raiche wrote:
>Hi Everyone
>
>This is from a member of the Policy and Implementation WG - with a 
>link to a report I was unaware of.  But it is spot on.  It looks at 
>the whole consultation processes - and what is wrong, viz, people's 
>lack of time, English as the language, meeting times that favour the 
>US/Europe, etc, etc. It makes good (if depressing) reading, with 
>some suggestions on what should happen
>
>Holly




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