[APAC-Discuss] METRICS

[Winthrop Yu]

   Thank you for the reminders, Maureen.

   On this bit --

 > 3. Do ALAC members participate on working groups? We have lots of members
 > who volunteer for a working group, and never turn up for meetings to do the
 > work. Its the same people every time doing the work .

   I'd tried to find people here (even outside ISOC-PH) who could actively and 
constructively participate in the various WGs.  Unfortunately, no takers so far, 
and i really don't like the idea of simply "tapping" someone who may not be as 
committed to the work or drop the ball.  For myself, i'm already committed to 
policy issues on the local front and cannot honestly make any further 
commitments until ... oh, after December 2014? :)

   Apologies for not having attended the last APRALO call, i noticed it only 
after the meeting had taken place (buried in email backlog), but will, of 
course, make future APRALO calls.

Best,

WYn



On 11/24/2013 12:52 PM, Maureen Hilyard wrote:
> APRALO colleagues
>
> As Siranush had informed you already, I am on a working group (headed by
> Cheryl Langdon-Orr)  that is looking at measuring the performance of ALAC
> members (as expected in the ALAC Rules of Procedure). We are later to be
> looking at ALSes and RALOs.
>
> It is an extremely difficult thing to do when:
> * the people in these positions are volunteers who have offered to do this
> work out of the goodness of their hearts - how do you measure their
> contribution to a task that has been set?
> * the Board and Management are becoming more vocal about getting value for
> money spent within the system - it costs a lot of money to bring the
> committees of the ICANN system together for each meeting. three times a
> year. They rightfully  want to know that they are getting their money's
> worth.
> * it is very difficult to ascertain what METRICS are appropriate to measure
> each particular type of performance (attendance? contribution? value of
> contribution? others?)
>
> As ALSes you elect your APRALO representatives on the ALAC (me and Holly)
> and although Raf has been appointed to the ALAC as and APRALO NOMCOM
> candidate - the expectations should be the same.
>
> Therefore I'd really like to hear not only about WHAT performance criteria
> should be evaluated but also HOW it might be appropriately measured. I
> would like to use the advice of the ALSes to put together an evaluative
> process which could help us evaluate all the groups we have been tasked to
> evaluate.
>
> This is what we are looking at, at the moment:
>
> 1. Do ALAC members attend all the meetings they should?  Some attend the
> face to face meetings, but not the online meetings. ICANN is not looking at
> these candidates very favourably.
>
> 2. Do ALAC members who attend the meetings actually contribute anything to
> the meetings? Some attend meetings but they don't say anything - what value
> do they give? Some log into teleconference meetings, but because they don't
> contribute anything, it is difficult to know whether they actually
> listening?)
>
> 3. Do ALAC members participate on working groups? We have lots of members
> who volunteer for a working group, and never turn up for meetings to do the
> work. Its the same people every time doing the work .
>
> There may be other questions you may want to ask. Please do...
>
> Very importantly, HOW can we more effectively evaluate performance - what
> do you use in your workplace?
>
> Let me know.. I'd love to hear from you.
>
> Maureen
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