[At-Large] ICANN Funding Request FY22-05

Marita Moll mmoll at ca.inter.net
Wed May 12 23:19:02 UTC 2021


Ind. users might not distinguish the Internet from Facebook -- but they 
might relate to governance and the role they think they should play in 
the governance of the Internet. Could that be a starting point?

Marita

On 5/12/2021 3:46 PM, Jonathan Zuck wrote:
> Thanks Marita. At some point, down the road, we'll need help a survey 
> firm identify the "population," from which to draw a random sample to 
> survey. This will be guided by the kind of questions we want to ask so 
> THAT is the first task. What would we like to hear from individual 
> users on?
>
> Jonathan Zuck
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> *Subject:* Re: [At-Large] ICANN Funding Request FY22-05
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> The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)  which operates 
> the .ca domain name does occasional outreach exercises to calibrate 
> their community investment program. The link below goes to such a 
> recent survey which went out to  recipients of this grant. The 
> description of this survey group come pretty close to the end users we 
> are looking for. Maybe we could take some guidance from this:
>
> https://www.cira.ca/resources/state-internet/report/gap-between-us-perspectives-building-a-better-online-canada 
> <https://www.cira.ca/resources/state-internet/report/gap-between-us-perspectives-building-a-better-online-canada>
>
> In January and February 2018, CIRA reached out to organizations across 
> Canada through a survey, phone interviews and video interviews to help 
> identify key issues, needs and funding gaps with respect to internet 
> infrastructure, digital access, digital literacy and funding gaps. In 
> particular, CIRA sought out grassroots organizations and individuals 
> working in and around Canada’s internet, including not-for-profits, 
> charities, academics and small internet service providers. The survey 
> CIRA shared with organizations in Canada sought to learn more about 
> their perspectives, experiences and challenges. Follow-up interviews 
> were conducted with some participants.
>
> Marita
>
>
> On 5/12/2021 2:34 PM, Evan Leibovitch via At-Large wrote:
>>
>> I really, REALLY, encourage people to read the actual funding request 
>> before seeing the word "poll" and "At-Large" together and jumping to 
>> conclusions.
>>
>> The request is *NOT* for a survey of RALOs or ALSs or anyone else in 
>> the existing ICANN community. This request is for a form of R&D never 
>> before done by ALAC.
>>
>> It is explicitly designed to avoid the usual channels that have 
>> already been done, and to talk to the rest of the world outside the 
>> ICANN bubble -- the end-users that ALAC is bylaw-bound to speak for. 
>> We need to hear from people who have never even heard the terms 
>> "ICANN" or "DNS" or "Internet domain" -- let alone know what they are 
>> -- yet are deeply impacted by what goes on here. We don't need them 
>> to join an ALS or even care about ICANN, but we do need to know their 
>> opinions of how DNS policies and practises affect their use and trust 
>> of the Internet.
>>
>> The funding request identifies the flaws in surveys that have been 
>> done to date, and ideally would ask questions of random samples of 
>> people *everywhere*.
>>
>> In these cases the cost of the survey is very much determined by how 
>> spread it is. Given the amount of the funding at play we can't come 
>> close to "everywhere" so we need to work on what limited (but still 
>> random) scope will best provide useful analysis.
>>
>> If anyone here is aware of any studies such as Vanda suggests that 
>> could help this effort, now is the time to identify them.
>>
>> Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
>> @evanleibovitch / @el56
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 12 May 2021 at 12:49, Vanda Scartezini via At-Large 
>> <at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org 
>> <mailto:at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Thanking to Leon to embrace such effort, I am the one encouraging
>>     this survey in all regions, worldwide survey. The cost of survey
>>     is not how spread it is, regional or universal to collect the
>>     data, but to build the right questions, analyze the answers and
>>     then present the statistically relevant data with a large annex
>>     with the methodology used for such analysis.
>>
>>     And yes, depending on the data there are several studies we could
>>     use, or even just comparing with data we collect.
>>
>>     Ralos can be used to spread the survey inside their regions.
>>
>>     Hope we can do such survey.
>>
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>>     *Reply-To: *León Felipe Sánchez Ambía <leonfelipe at sanchez.mx
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>>     *Date: *Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 13:21
>>     *To: *Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org <mailto:evan at telly.org>>
>>     *Cc: *Greg Shatan <greg at isoc-ny.org <mailto:greg at isoc-ny.org>>,
>>     'At-Large Worldwide' <at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org
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>>     *Subject: *Re: [At-Large] ICANN Funding Request FY22-05
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>>     Thanks Evan. Just confirming that I am following the discussion
>>     and that the project will have my support. I will try to
>>     encourage other Board colleagues to do the same.
>>
>>     Kind regards,
>>
>>     León
>>
>>
>>
>>         El 11 may 2021, a las 10:05, Evan Leibovitch via At-Large
>>         <at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org
>>         <mailto:at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org>> escribió:
>>
>>             Does a global survey is more expensive in terms of
>>             bandwidth costs than a regional pilot?
>>
>>         Really?
>>
>>         Is "Does it cost more to do a global survey than a regional
>>         one?" a useful question?
>>
>>         I would especially like to hear from those who helped support
>>         Jonathan in identifying the problem and making the original
>>         request. Responding that we need to have a strategic approach
>>         to determining what we want to learn from this effort, and
>>         then conducting the research based on that strategy, is
>>         rather stating the obvious at this point.
>>
>>         The proposal is not final; it still needs to be approved by
>>         the Board. I encourage Leon and Avri to support, and even
>>         advocate this when it comes on their agenda. IMO this
>>         proposal is more than just a funded project; its approval
>>         would be an unprecedented level of confidence in At-Large's
>>         ability to engage in its own research, ask its own questions,
>>         and perform its own analysis. Personally I have always felt
>>         that this is the only form of "outreach" that actually helps
>>         ALAC to perform its bylaw mandate. If granted it will be
>>         vital to deliver something useful, even if limited in scope
>>         to accommodate the resources available.
>>
>>         To everyone who is interested in contributing meaningfully to
>>         this effort -- assuming it is approved -- please start giving
>>         some thought to the strategy of what we want from this. Once
>>         there is consensus on that I think the questions will flow
>>         naturally.
>>
>>         Also consider that, depending on what we want from this
>>         effort, some of the raw research may already exist and be
>>         available for purchase. We're not the only ones who want to
>>         know the utility, safety and reliability of methods of how
>>         the public finds content and services on the Internet.
>>
>>         - Evan
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