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

[Alan Greenberg]

The EPDP did use facilitators. They were David 
Plumb and Gina Bartlett from CBI.

Alan

At 2020-07-30 03:19 PM, Javier Rua wrote:

>Thx Maureen.  I know that there’s good 
>experience in mediation.  But I would go deeper: 
>What if at the start of a WG or WT we kind of 
>knew would be contentious ICANN professionally 
>kicked it off with a 1 or 2 day in person 
>stakeholders workshop, parsing out issues, 
>sides, sensitivities and looking for potential 
>solutions since day one?  Lots of time and money and distress would be saved!
>
>Thx again Maureen & Marita earlier for these replies today!
>
>On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 2:52 PM Maureen Hilyard 
><<mailto:maureen.hilyard at gmail.com>maureen.hilyard at gmail.com> wrote:
>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, 
><<mailto:javrua at gmail.com>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/>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>https://www.linkedin.com/in/javrua
>
>
>>On Jul 30, 2020, at 11:04 AM, Evin Erdogdu 
>><<mailto:evin.erdogdu at icann.org>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 ErdoÄŸdu
>>
>>Policy Development Senior Coordinator
>>
>>Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>>
>>
>>
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