[At-Large] On a "consumer" agenda for ICANN

Garth Graham garth.graham at telus.net
Thu Sep 15 00:38:00 UTC 2016


Just add that ALAC recognizes the support relationship among stewards and itself is reciprocal and interdependent, and you've got it. 

GG

> On Sep 14, 2016, at 4:14 PM, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your piece, Garth.
> 
> IMO the term end-user still needs to refer to the billions who are impacted by DNS policy even if they never contemplate buying a domain.
> 
> But it is your accurately-defined concept of "stewards" that need to be the interface between those billions and the multi-stakeholder model. Without using that terminology, the At-Large leadership -- backed up by the RALOs -- has been trying to serve exactly this purpose.
> 
> I have taken the conversations in this thread to heart and will be trying to put thoughts down in a coherent form. The conclusions I draw myself from this suggest that At-Large needs a massive re-think of how it treats outreach. Rather than brochures and CROPP and Fellows and endless (mostly futile) campaigns to get more outsiders to get involved, I think the stewards need to do more to directly address the needs of the billions. If we are doing our jobs at that -- trying to affect policy while facing inside ICANN, while creating plain-language education programs to explain those policies while facing outside -- the stewards will find us without much effort.
> 
> - Evan
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>> On 14 September 2016 at 22:24, Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Garth Graham <garth.graham at telus.net> wrote:
>>> In community networking, we call such people the stewards of the uses of ICTs for community development.  In fact, supporting just such people is the primary mission of many ALSs
>> 
>> ​Well said!  That has been my mission for ages.
>> 
>> -Carlton​
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