<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">It is truly sad that nobody considers the existing strategy of NARALO to actually perform its bylaw-mandated agenda, and perhaps enumerate the fields of policy and public-education expertise in which it wishes to exhibit leadership.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">This is not just an exercise in the theoretical: A US congressman has taken aim at ICANN based on a campaign of misinformation. That campaign seems to have no answer, according to the RALO in the appropriate region. NOTE: this congressman is still in power, and the newly elected US administration appears sympathetic to his views:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Meanwhile, a major rift between the GAC and GNSO threatens ICANN at the very core, and if it doesn't resolve well there will be nobody to care about -- let alone fund -- NARALO's little outreach efforts.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">WHAT LEADERSHIP IS NARALO EXHBITING TO ANSWER THIS? Or even to inform its ALSs on these issues? The events unfolding around us demand that this is not the time for more sustained navel gazing.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">A shopping list of disadvantaged groups to whom do outreach to is an absolute waste of effort and money if there is no clue what to do with all them once they are brought together. A case could easily be made that all this emphasis on outreach is a smokescreen to hide the utter vacuum of policy interest here.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">NARALO used to produce more policy inputs to ALAC than the other RALOs combined. And it didn't need a bloody strategic plan to do so.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Evan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 December 2016 at 22:44, 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I'm not sure what you mean by me being wrong in this case. We cannot make
them do something they decide not to do. But as I said and you are
saying, we should discuss it with them with the potential for changing
their minds.<br><br>
Alan<div><div class="h5"><br><br>
At 02/12/2016 04:29 PM, Judith Hellerstein wrote:<br><br>
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Yes Glenn and I have mentioned this several times and asked why we do not
have a plan and the answer we have gotten is that Global Stakeholder
Engagement doe snot think we need a plan. I tend to disagree.
Allan's response on the call when it was brought up was that NARALO can
not make GSE do something they are not interested in doing. I also
disagree with that statement . I think we should directly ask for a
North American Strategy document how does GSE plan on increasing
engagement in the Lower Income areas, in the vast student population,
with disadvantaged communities, with Indigenous communities, with people
with disabilities and special needs. I would like to have that
answer.<br><br>
These are just some of the things I would like to see in a
strategy<br><br>
Best,<br><br>
Judith<br><br>
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On 12/2/2016 4:23 PM, Eduardo Diaz wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" class="m_8898665046853240291cite">I was wondering the same thing.
In fact, have you heard anything from the ICANN NA VP ever?
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<dd>Hi Folks <br><br>
</dd><dd>On today's webinar on the CROPP program the various
RALO's mentioned that their regions have a Strategic plan.
They also said that these plans are alligned with the their
regions VP's plans ie. LAC and AFrican, Middle
East strategies. <br><br>
</dd><dd>We broached this with staff asking why North American has
opted not to have a North American plan. Staff to
followup<br><br>
</dd><dd>Currently we have a CROPP outreach and engagement strategy
for CROPP and if North America chooses to have a
plan we need to discuss this in detail. <br><br>
</dd><dd>Glenn McKnight<br>
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