[ALAC] ACTION/ALAC by Friday, 31 July 17 UTC: ALAC Statement on Enhancing the Effectiveness of ICANN’s Multistakeholder Model – Next Steps

Maureen Hilyard maureen.hilyard at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 18:52:13 UTC 2020


Hi Javier

I dont think your idea is off-the-wall at all. ICANN has already introduced
a mediator to work with conflict resolution in all sorts of situations. And
she is excellent to work with.

I think that for something like the EPDP and MSM which has got a multitude
of high level decision makers who believe that their views should take
priority over the views of other groups, then it probably does need a
different set of experts of the ilk you have mentioned who are skilled at
facilitating discussions at this level. Nothing wrong with adding that as a
recommendation into the mix.

M



On Thu, 30 Jul 2020, 5:38 am Javier Rua, <javrua at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hello to all. IMHO, an aspect that seems absent from this discussion is
> the possibility of professional facilitation in thorny issues, to the
> extent compatible with MSM.
>
> This idea might go a bit against the grain in terms of community
> self-governance which cannot be underestimated, but there are profesional
> entities out there that are experts in getting diverse and even enemy
> groups to sit down and negotiate (from peace / reconciliation agreements
> among guerrillas and states, to more run of the mill, less bellicose
> disagreements).  I’ve seen these entities in action (I remember one called
> REOS Partners
> https://reospartners.com/) and I believe these professional approaches
> could help a contentious working group be more purposeful, efficient and
> effective-Maybe pack months of work into a few days.
>
> If this notion  is seen completely out of the ICANN  MSM self-governance
> comfort zone, perhaps one of these professional organizations could help
> train ICANN community volunteer/leaders and perhaps also ICANN staff, on
> these communication and consensus building techniques. ICANN org would get
> great ‘bang for the buck’ in investments such as these, which would both
> enhance participation and speed-up processes in WGs & PDPs.
>
> Javier Rúa-Jovet
>
> +1-787-396-6511
> twitter: @javrua
> skype: javier.rua1
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/javrua
>
>
> On Jul 30, 2020, at 11:04 AM, Evin Erdogdu <evin.erdogdu at icann.org> wrote:
>
> 
>
> Dear ALAC Members,
>
>
> Please see the ALAC Statement on Enhancing the Effectiveness of ICANN’s
> Multistakeholder Model – Next Steps and provide comments, if any, by this *Friday,
> 31 July at 17:00 UTC:*
>
>
>
> *https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l8hAOyuL4XiTS-yzGbpgOk7pl4hSpH4yeMNxxiZEVwA/edit?usp=sharing
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l8hAOyuL4XiTS-yzGbpgOk7pl4hSpH4yeMNxxiZEVwA/edit?usp=sharing>
> *
>
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Evin Ashley Erdoğdu
>
> Policy Development Senior Coordinator
>
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>
>
>
>
>
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