[ALAC] IMPORTANT: PAPER ON OFFICE OF DIVERSITY PUBLIC COMMENTS

Wed Feb 14 00:42:12 UTC 2018

Hi Alan

I will repeat a message I sent to an internal group as my only comment on
the matter.

I am not in favour of a formal office for diversity.

In the multi-stakeholder bottom-up organisation that ICANN is supposed to
be, diversity should be one of the underpinning features of its corporate
culture. It shouldn't have to be defined and detailed. It should be
characterised by the inclusive nature of its policies and practices. I
agree with you in that we don't need more bureaucracy, we just need ICANN
org to actively and constructively work with the rich diversity of the
membership groups of ICANN so that we can together successfully achieve our
mission.  Dealing with any diversity issues can be given to the Ombudsman
and his/her team.

Maureen

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
wrote:

> I would like to call your attention to this paper that was just circulated
> by the CCWG-Accountability WS2 on Diversity.
>
> The ALAC was silent on the question of an Office of Diversity (OOD) that
> was mentioned in the draft recommendations (see
> https://community.icann.org/x/Z5tEB)
>
> As important as diversity is, I find it troublesome that ICANN might be
> dedicating more bureaucracy to it. As I noted in my recent comments on the
> Specific Reviews Operating Standards ( https://mm.icann.org/
> pipermail/comments-reviews-standards-17oct17/2018q1/000008.html ), I find
> that for the best of reasons, ICANN is building more and more complex
> process, rules and bureaucracy. At a time when it is clear we are going to
> have increasing budget constraint, this must be controlled. If we consider
> issues such as this as sacred , then we will see more and more other more
> discretionary budgets cut (and I am predicting that if we don't change our
> philosophy, budget issues will get MUCH worse).
>
> According to the original recommendations document (
> https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ccwg-acct-
> ws2-draft-recs-diversity-26oct17-en.pdf ): The role of this office would
> be to independently support, record and keep track of issues including
> complaints from the community on diversity issues within the organization.
>
> I presume that by "organization" the document means all of ICANN (ICANN
> Organization as the staff are now known, the volunteer community and the
> Board). For ICANN Organization, I see this as falling directly under Human
> Resources and the Complaints Officer. For the volunteer part of ICANN, and
> the Board, I think it quite reasonable to keep records but that does not
> warrant a staffed office. Selection of volunteers is not done centrally,
> and complaints presumably should go to the Ombudsman.
>
> Should the ALAC issue a further statement on this?  And if so, what are
> your views?
>
> Alan
>
>
> From: Bernard Turcotte <turcotte.bernard at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:28:23 -0500
> To: ws2-diversity <ws2-diversity at icann.org>
> Subject: [Ws2-diversity] CCWG-Accountability-WS2-Diversity - PAPER ON
> OFFICE OF DIVERSITY PUBLIC COMMENTS
>
> All,
>
> As promised at the last meeting of the diversity sub-group please find
> below and attached the document prepared by Fiona and Rafik on this topic.
>
> Bernard Turcotte
> ICANN Staff Support to the CCWG-Accountability-WS2
>
> For Fiona and Rafik.
>
>
> *DIVERISTY SUB-GROUP *
>
>
>
>
>
> *PAPER ON OFFICE OF DIVERSITY PUBLIC COMMENTS *
>
>
>
>
> *Preamble: *
>
>
> The Diversity sub-group presented a report for public comments that
> presented diversity at ICANN identified by a number of elements by which
> diversity may be characterized, measured and reported. The report was
> informed by feedback from ICANN Supporting Organization(SO)/Advisory
> Committee (AC)/groups through a Diversity Questionnaire. In the report the
> Sub-group proposes a number of recommendations by which ICANN may define,
> measure, report, support and promote diversity. It also indicated that
> there was a lack of consensus on the establishment on an office of
> diversity and sought to receive public comments on the position of the
> office of diversity.
>
>
>
>
> *Summary of Responses from Public Comments: *
>
>
>    - Total of 15 comments
>
>
>
>
>    - 6 had no comments on an office of diversity
>       - 3 supported an office of diversity or a panel
>       - 3 supported an office of diversity
>       - 3 rejected the notion of an office of diversity.
>
>
>
>
>    - Breakdown by major categories
>
>
>
>
>    - 7 SO/ACs/Board (those which will have to approve the WS2 final
>       report):
>
>
>
>
>    - 4 had no comments
>          - 3 Rejected the notion of an office of diversity
>
>
>
>
>    - 2 Governments:
>
>
>
>
>    - 1 had no comments on an office of diversity
>          - 1 supported an office of diversity
>
>
>
>
>    - 6 Individuals/Associations:
>
>
>
>
>    - 1 had no comments on an office of diversity
>          - 3 supported an office of diversity or a panel
>          - 2 supported an office of diversity
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Summary of Positions relating to the OOD from Public Comments: *
>
>
> 1.      Establishment of an office of diversity or a panel similar to what
> is proposed in the Ombuds recommendations.
>
> 2.      Establishment of an office of diversity
>
> 3.      Rejection of an office of diversity in favour of staff performing
> this work.
>
>
>
>
> *Required Actions: *
> The Sub-group on diversity does not have one solid position from the
> public comments but has instead received a number of options that need to
> be discussed further and weighed in order to determine how oversight of
> diversity can be pursued.
>
>
>
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