<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,102)">Dear Alan, many thanks for sharing this important analyses. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,102)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,102)">As I am not attending Hyderabad meeting, due to a commitment made long ago to Council of Europe for the upcoming World Forum for Democracy, here are my few immediate reflections, in addition to the ones you have shared:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,102)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,102)"><p class="MsoNormal">People engage/participate and get involved for a number of
reasons:<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"times new roman"">
</span>Personal/professional ambitions and
motivations/aspirations or a commitment to a certain agenda; <span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"times new roman"">
</span>Organizational related objectives – promoting the
institution one is part of, bringing the organization to a different
development stage, among others;<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"times new roman"">
</span>Good knowledge of the issues being addressed and
expertise that allows for a constructive engagement;<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In line with the above, might be worth mapping and understanding
what ‘brings’ ALSs and formal ALS representative to the ICANN ecosystem in the first place,
what are the driving elements behind. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">On the other hand, we may also want to
consider having some quantitative and qualitative indicators in place, that
would allow measuring the engagement along with the quality of engagement and understand
what is the kind of transformational changes that need to occur at the ALS,
RALO, ALAC or ICANN level in order to deepen and broaden the engagement of ALSs
in long run. <span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For this to happen, I envisage that a data collection mechanism might help
track progress, and it can be also a scorecard with an operational layer (where
data for specific indicators are collected), and a dashboard that allows to see
in real time where things go into the ‘wrong’ direction and allow for a rapid
response mechanism in place/or intervene and re-dress the situation before it
is too late. <span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Wishing you all a productive week ahead,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Veronica</p><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">-- </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"></p><div class="gmail_signature" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,102)"><i><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Veronica Cretu </font></i></b><div><font color="#000066" face="verdana, sans-serif"><b><i><br></i></b></font></div><div><font size="1" face="georgia, serif" color="#20124d"><b><i>MA in Contemporary Diplomacy</i></b></font></div><div><font size="1" face="georgia, serif" color="#20124d"><b><i>Governance Reforms Scorecard Initiative Coordinator with World Bank Moldova</i></b></font></div><div><font size="1" face="georgia, serif" color="#20124d"><b><i>President, Open Government Institute </i></b><b><i>- <u><a href="http://opengov.si.md/" target="_blank">http://opengov.si.md/</a></u></i></b><br></font><div><div><b style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:georgia,serif"><i><font size="1"><font color="#20124d">Email: <a href="mailto:veronicacretu@gmail.com" target="_blank">veronicacretu@gmail.com</a> </font></font></i></b><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><b><i><font size="1"><font color="#20124d">Skype: veronicacretu </font></font></i></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><b><i><font size="1"><font color="#20124d">Phone: 373 067435000</font></font></i></b></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,102)"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Alan Greenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca" target="_blank">alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Over the last months I have done a lot of thinking and talking about how to make ALSes effective - specifically to set reasonable expectations that will allow At-Large and its ALSes to be critical and useful parts of the ICANN ecosystem.<br>
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Please find attached an analysis of where I think we are today, why we are here, and how we should move forward.<br>
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I believe that we need a realistic plan and we should not just wait for the independent review to tell us what to do.<span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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