[lac-discuss-en] ICANN Blog : Nick Ashton-Hart now Senior Director, Participation and Engagement

[Dev Anand Teelucksingh]

Congratulations, Nick!

Via 
http://blog.icann.org/2009/12/nick-ashton-hart-now-senior-director-participation-and-engagement/

"I’m pleased to announce the appointment of Nick Ashton-Hart Senior 
Director, Participation and Engagement. This position incorporates the 
duties of General Manager for Public Participation previously performed 
by Kieren McCarthy, with some fine-tuning of focus and effort.

ICANN views increasing participation across all stakeholder communities 
as a strategic priority. This means recruiting new participants in our 
work, and new communities of interests who are not presently involved, 
but it also to further empower existing volunteer communities so that 
all feel their time spent with ICANN is increasingly valuable and 
effective. ICANN’s participation mechanisms, from public comment 
processes to meetings to publications, should be world-class – and 
viewed as such by those who use them; Nick’s job is to ensure that we 
never accept “good enough” and always look to improve."