[ALAC] SHORT Consensus Call: Fellowship Selection Criteria

Tue Sep 11 09:00:31 UTC 2018

I agree with Tijani's comments but with caveats on 2 points:

Age: Am fine with the lower band limit since there is nextgen hence younger
ones should use that but I personally don't see a need for upper band limit.

Skills: I agree with the comments but I think experience in ICANN processes
should still be maintained for B meeting. I do think that having 2 sets of
requirement for the meetings will be better. One that is less strong on
ICANN participation for meetings A and C and then another for meetings B
which is more focused on prior participation/understanding of ICANN
processes

Regards
Sent from my mobile
Kindly excuse brevity and typos

On Fri, 7 Sep 2018, 12:08 Tijani BEN JEMAA, <tijani.benjemaa at topnet.tn>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to thank the outreach and engagement sub-committee for
> providing this good draft.
> Nevertheless, I have concerns in the following categories of diversity:
> Region, Age, Skills and other diversity category:
>
>    - *Region:* As it is written here, we may have the whole selected
>    fellows from the global north (people with sufficient wealth to come to
>    ICANN meetings on their own expenses). My proposal is « Underserved regions
>    and global underserved communities ».
>    - *Age:* I agree with Sarah and Ricardo that limiting the age to 40
>    years is to avoid. I propose in stead « 24 - 55 years)
>    - *Skills:* Someone skilled in ICANN policy development with ability
>    to analyse data from an Internet end user perspective, as well as knowledge
>    and technical experience of/with the Internet eco-system won’t have any
>    need to be fellow. He/she is already expert. The original objective of the
>    fellowship program is to bring people who need the fellowship to be able to
>    attend an ICANN meeting, and the whole fellowship program for fellows
>    during the meeting is more or less capacity building. So experts wouldn’t
>    need the program and doesn’t give ICANN any added value. I propose: «
>    sufficient educational background to understand the ICANN environment, good
>    understanding of the English language, Interest in Internet in general,
>    Interest in participating in the ICANN work ».
>    - *Other diversity category:* Civil Society, Internet end-users,
>    global indigenous people are kind of stakeholders. They should be placed in
>    the section « Stakeholders groups and constituencies. I don’t think we
>    should target persons because they are victims of harassment or conflicts.
>    Exclusion and extreme poverty fall under the region category when it is
>    defined as « Underserved regions and global underserved communities ».
>
>
> As a general remark, I don’t think we were asked to give our own interest
> only. I think we should give the best target for the whole ICANN.
>
>
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> Le 7 sept. 2018 à 08:01, Ricardo Holmquist <rihogris at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Hi,
> same question of Sarah. I was one of the fellows over 40 years, as well as
> Alfredo Calderon, and several others.
>
> IMHO, people over this range of age have more time to engage in this kind
> of tasks, unless they are also engaged in any part of the community as
> workers. I mean, if you work for a RIR, any Internet association, a
> University Professor, a Govermental employee in a Internet Governance
> office, a Law firm interested in IP, or a Registry or Registrar, part of
> your job will be ICANN. Your boss will now who is ICANN, and most times
> will be happy you are there.
>
> If you are a volunteer in ISOC  or at any other Internet related
> association, or an Individual member, you should have a regular job. Under
> 40 years you are in your most productive time, usually with kids in their
> scholar process. Taking 7-10 days to assist to a meeting, and if engaged,
> time to do so, doesn´t sound feasible.
>
> For the At-Large community, most of its dedicated members came from the
> second, not from the first. You can check ALAC, very few exceptions are
> under 40. This age top, will affect us mostly.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Ricardo Holmquist
>
> 2018-09-07 6:25 GMT+02:00 Sarah Kiden <skiden at gmail.com>:
>
>> Thank you Alan for sending this document.
>>
>> I have a question regarding the age that has specified in the attached
>> document. The fellowship requirement is for applicants to be above 21 years
>> of age but there is no maximum age mentioned. Is there a reason why this
>> document states 24 - 40 years?
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Sarah
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 00:01 Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Along with the need to select a Fellowship Selection Committee Member
>>> representing the ALAC, we have been asked to make suggestions on the
>>> criteria for selection and places to publicize the program.
>>>
>>> The SC on Outreach and Engagement was given the task of working on the
>>> latter document. the result (with a minor change to include regional IGF
>>> meetings) is attached.
>>>
>>> *With this message, I am initiating a SHORT Consensus Call of the ALAC *to
>>> ratify the criteria document.
>>>
>>> This Consensus Call will end at 23:59 UTC on Sunday, 9 September 2018.
>>>
>>> If there are any questions of comments, please direct them to either
>>> this list or to me directly.
>>>
>>> Although messages indicating support are welcome, they are not
>>> necessary. This Consensus Call will be deemed to have succeeded in the
>>> absence of significant opposition (greater than 20% as specified by ALAC
>>> RoP 12.3.3.1).
>>>
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