[ALAC] Statement on changes to the Fellowship Program
Alan Greenberg
alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca
Thu Jul 28 22:03:56 UTC 2016
As discussed during the ALAC call earlier this week, there is a
Public Comment just about to close on changes to the ICANN Fellowship Program.
Some people in At-Large have been (rightfully) VERY vocal about
perceived problems in the Fellowship program, specifically:
- people from some countries (such as Argentina) have recently become
ineligible to participate in the Fellowship Program because the
country has had its status upgraded in the World Bank list of
development status (based on income);
- some people, particularly from some island territories were not eligible.
In both cases, the status of the overall economy might not have met
the criteria, but that did not alter the perception that the people
were not well represented in ICANN.
The proposed changes to the Fellowship Program address these problems and more.
Unfortunately, no one chose to volunteer to draft a brief statement
of support for the changes.
At the ALAC Leadership Team meeting yesterday, it was decided that
the Fellowship Program is sufficiently important to At-Large, the
people we represent, and to ICANN in general that we MUST submit
something. Accordingly, I drafted a set of notes which Ariel Liang
ably transformed into a statement to be submitted.
The statement can be found at https://community.icann.org/x/LiOOAw.
The deadline for submission is tomorrow, Friday, 29 July at 23:59
UTC. I will conduct a Consensus Call for formally ratify the
statement next week, but if anyone has any concern with the
statement, please bring that concern to my attention immediately.
Alan
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