[ALAC] [ALAC-Announce] Fwd: Statement on changes to the Fellowship Program

[Alan Greenberg]

At 29/07/2016 06:36 AM, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
>Hello Alan,
>
>Oh so a statement of support was also going to be helpful, was 
>thinking it was if we had concerns. Thanks for the draft and  My +1 
>to the statement at it currently stand, if its not too late, you may 
>consider a few minor comments below:
>
>1. Can "They play an impactful role in their respective countries 
>to...." be updated to "They play an impactful role in their 
>respective countries and within ICANN to...." I think emphasizing 
>the impact of atlarge within ICANN is quite important. I have always 
>been of the opinion that atlarge defending the interest of end-users 
>within ICANN is of more importance than what they do outside of it. 
>Ofcourse not that, that is also not important.

In my mind, what we do inside of ICANN is why we are here! The rest 
should be a facilitater to make the internal effrots more effective 
and better reflect what users need.


>2. I suggest re-wording of the third paragraph to the following:
>"The ALAC recognizes that these changes may make the process of 
>selecting candidates more difficult, but believes ICANN is making a 
>wise choice in doing this and would ensure to maintain fairness and 
>balance in the selection process, especially towards improving 
>representation of under-served/under developed countries/territories 
>within ICANN processes "

I will make a change to this effect.


>Regards
>
>
>On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Alan Greenberg 
><<mailto:alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> wrote:
>
>To: ALAC <<mailto:alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
>From: Alan Greenberg 
><<mailto:alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
>Subject: Statement on changes to the Fellowship Program
>
>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>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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