[NA-Discuss] Consensus call: Global Indigenous Ambassador Program (GIAP)

Eduardo Diaz eduardodiazrivera at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 19:51:25 UTC 2018


You can read Matt Rantanen's speech given at the 2017 IGF in Geneva HERE
<https://peoplecentered.net/2018/01/26/importance-of-indigenous-inclusion-in-the-internet/>
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 3:19 PM Judith Hellerstein <judith at jhellerstein.com>
wrote:

> HI,
>
> I fully support Eduardo in these comments and think that it is an
> excellent idea for NARALO to submit separate comments directly in response
> to the current ICANN review of the fellowship program. It seems the more
> comments that are posted to this process the more weight that the
> organization gives to them. We saw that in the budget comments and thus I
> agree that besides the ALAC comments which those of us from NARALO have
> contributed, we should also submit our own comments to the Fellowship
> comment process.
>
> I actually started to promote this program last year prior to Rightscon.
> At Renata Aquino Ribeiro's suggestion Loris Taylor submitted it to the WSIS
> for a WSIS prize. We were nominated as a semi-finalist but we did not
> receive enough votes to make it to the final round.  Renata Aquino also as
> a IGF Mag Member pushed for the Mag to select our Past Ambassador Matt
> Rantanen to be the Civil Society speaker at the Closing of the IGF. This
> was the launch of our international campaign.  These three things taken
> together were our push in 2017-2018 for our program and it was really
> beginning to pick up traction and get noticed by other groups. It is a
> shame we could not continue and build on this momentum
>
> Best,
>
> Judith
>
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> On 7/23/2018 3:01 PM, Eduardo Diaz wrote:
>
> @All:
>
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> The ICANN Global Indigenous Ambassador Program (GIAP) did not get any
> money under the recently approved ICANN FY 2019-2020 budget which came into
> effect 1stof July 2018. As a result of this budget cut, the one year old
> IGIAP is currently defunct.
>
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> As some of you may know, NARALO was key in focusing efforts outside and
> within ICANN to outreach to underrepresented indigenous communities in
> our region. These efforts were initially focused to US and Canada. In July
> 14, 2017, ICANN announced
> <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2017-06-14-en> the creation and
> adoption of a formally structured program to outreach to these communities
> all over the world and named the program the “*Global Indigenous
> Ambassador Program” (GIAP). *During the last year we saw fellows
> participating in ICANN meetings from US, Canada, Columbia and Bolivia
> indigenous communities.
>
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> NARALO member Judith Hellerstein started to promote
> <https://rightscon2018.sched.com/judith4> the program at an international
> level during the RightsCon 2018 event with good results.
>
>
>
> Having said that, there is a community consultation process to review the
> current ICANN Fellowship Program (IFP) which is different in scope to the
> GIAP. The comment period will be open until July 27, 2018 (see HERE
> <https://www.icann.org/public-comments/fellowship-proposal-2018-06-11-en>).
> We have an opportunity to raise our voice and suggest ideas on how we can
> enhance the IFP with parts of the currently defunct GIAP.
>
>
>
> I proposed that NARALO puts forward the following comment directly into
> the IFP consultation process
> <https://www.icann.org/public-comments/fellowship-proposal-2018-06-11-en>:
>
>
>
> *“NARALO encourage the existing ICANN Fellowship Program (IFP) to actively
> outreach to global indigenous communities and designate two fellowships to
> these communities from their IFP total allocation until such time as the
> original Global Indigenous Ambassador Program (GIAP) program is reinstated.
> These communities exist throughout the world.  We believe that this abides
> to the wishes of ICANN to be inclusive and demonstrative that they include
> this sector of our society as part of the ICANN multi-stakeholder
> community.”*
>
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>
> I have received preliminary feedback about this proposal indicating that
> what is being asked is for a quota for two IFP slots. This might seem like
> such but it is not permanent since we are asking for these slots  *“… **until
> such time as the original Global Indigenous Ambassador Program (GIAP)
> program is reinstated“ *to address this issue.
>
> ALAC will be submitting, as part of a long list of suggestions
> <https://community.icann.org/display/alacpolicydev/At-Large+Workspace%3A+Draft+Proposal+of+the+New+Fellowship+Program+Approach?focusedCommentId=88574955#comment-88574955>,
> the following comment to the IFP:*“**There should be consideration
> given to applicants from global indigenous communities to apply as first
> time Fellows. Subsequently, they would have to meet the criteria for
> returning fellowships, along with other second/third-time Fellows.”*
>
>
> The comment that I am proposing supports and enhances the ALAC comment by
> suggesting *“…**to actively outreach to global indigenous communities,
> designate two fellowships to these communities from their IFP total
> allocation and until such time as the original Global Indigenous Ambassador
> Program (GIAP) program is reinstated. *After all, the GIAP was up and
> running for a year before it got trashed.
>
>
> Please let me know if you have any objections to my proposal. If I do not
> receive more than three objections, I will proceed to submit the comment as
> proposed. Otherwise, I will submit the comment directly from me as a member
> of NARALO.
>
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> This consensus call will be open until Thursday, October 26, 2018 @ UTC:
> 16:00.
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