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I agree with your concerns and suggestions. I have attended several
meetings of the ICANN academy but almost never hear anything between
sessions...possibly my fault, but I thought I had signed up on all
relevant lists. Anyway I would like to know how this program meshes
with the academy efforts, as well.<br>
cheers Stephanie<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-02-01 9:53, Rafik Dammak wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,
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<div>thanks for your interests for this program and feedback.</div>
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<div>While the mentorship program is good idea in principle, I
have some reservations on how this program is designed and
controlled by ICANN staff. the requirements put some burden
on the mentor-mentee and try to formalize several aspects of
what should be mainly a trusted relationship between 2
persons. </div>
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<div>I do think that mentorship should be flexible and it is up
to the mentor-mentee to agree in the rules and expectations.
on other hand, I agree with with Avri about the expectation of
providing report and lesson learned to share best practices
with others in NCUC. For info, we were informed and got the
request to give names quite late. it was even late with
regard to the timeline setup by DPRD. I asked for some
clarification, more details about the program and that we
should get involved to give feedback. it is a pilot project
for Marrakech meeting and we will see how it will evolves. to
be followed closely. My understanding is that the program is
not aimed to replace or to compete with the existing
fellowship and nextgen program but is supposedly aimed toward
ICANN constituencies.</div>
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<div>I support that we explore the idea suggested by Avri to
have our own independant mentorship program for NCUC and see
how we can fund and setup it. Such internal program is
definitely not aimed to replace the pilot project but
complement it. it can be part of a capacity building efforts
for membership to expand our pool of volunteers. As reminder
we have also the NCUC Membership Affairs Team which we are
trying to reactivate and investigate how we can engage our
members better.</div>
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<div>I would like also to clarify some points:</div>
<div>- Regarding the information about policy work, we are
trying to do most of the work at NCSG level and we can still
discuss that at NCUC level. most of the policy work is done by
NCUC members e.g. public comments, participating in working
groups etc. so the challenge is to avoid duplication. for
example, we can make statement to support NCSG comments and
put additional point of views in some cases</div>
<div>- the welcoming message from NCSG includes a lot of
information (I drafted that message when I was NCSG chair ;))
. This mentioned <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://links.mixmax.com/b/BOOJTNsRwguFW8xMT?rn=&re=IyZy9mLjV3Yu5yc0NXasB0czV3YzlGZtMWdj5mI"
style="line-height:17.03px" target="_blank">page</a> (which
is included in the welcoming message) was drafted by me and
used extensively existing pages made by Avri. one of the
projects we have in NCUC is to create a NCUC newcomer handbook
following the example of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.ietf.org/tao.html">IETF Tao</a>. please
stay tuned for this one. There are also several scattered GNSO
material and links e.g <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/pdp-updates"
target="_blank">http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/pdp-updates</a>
that we will try to compile in single place. anyway point
taken about adding more info to the NCUC welcoming message.</div>
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- we got the mentorship skype channel setup. maybe we can to
explore other channels such whatsapp etc while being mindful
about the level of efforts and adoption by members. I
acknowledge that the learning curve can take some time but I
think that we learn by practicing and asking questions. We
will try to facilitate and be a broker for matching
mentor-mentee pair and see how it will works.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">For those interested, I am reiterating
my offer of informal chat or skype discussion to give more
information and respond to your questions, also happy to do
mentorship too. </div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">hope that helps.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Best Regards,</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Rafik</div>
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