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<br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-06-14 9:49 GMT+09:00 Ayden Férdeline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:icann@ferdeline.com" target="_blank">icann@ferdeline.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font>Hi Rafik,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>I want to engage with this document but I am not sure how I can do so. Is there a line-by-line breakdown of the budget? I've downloaded the FY17 Operating Plan & Budget, along with the supporting Excel worksheets, but it is hard to know what 'wins' we were allocated for the financial year ahead. Searching for keywords like 'NCUC' etc doesn't yield anything.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am not aware about more detailled document than what is available. as I said the budgeting is a kidn of new area and those familiar with finance and budgteing can definitely help to get mroe involved.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:normal"><table lang="container" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" valign="top" style="width:100%;margin-top:6px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="line-height:1.31;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div><font></font></div><div><font>I remember back in February that the EC requested translation support, capacity building training, and travel support to the IGF, among other things. Which of our budget requests were approved? What did the rest of the GNSO get? How can I find the budget requests which were sought by and approved for other SO/ACs?</font></div><div><font><br></font></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>here the wiki space for the special financial requests and the results from ICANN Finance team <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/projfinadhocws/FY17+Decisions" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/projfinadhocws/FY17+Decisions</a> . you can find details about the budget allocated to the community and all the requests. Only 1 budget request was approved. We can learn from this anyway. I did financial requests for NCSG before and it take time to get buy-in and approval for some activities.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:normal"><table lang="container" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" valign="top" style="width:100%;margin-top:6px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="line-height:1.31;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div><font></font></div><div><font>I appreciate you shared the links below to generate interest for FY18 and beyond, and the Strategic Plan which we should be intimately familiar with, but the title of the document has piqued my interest in what the NCUC has won in the shorter term. I am not an accountant and I cannot scrutinise the budget too carefully, but I can at least try to make sure that we in the community are all being allocated resources equitably.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would think that we should know first what we want to do and achieve in term of projects and support. Preparing the budget requests and work hard to get them would be the next step. We made several requests and even with the negative response, we are still following-up to see how we can get them in future. so the areas covered by NCUC requests are still in my to-do list and hopefully I can share some updates in coming months.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Rafik</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:normal"><table lang="container" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" valign="top" style="width:100%;margin-top:6px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="line-height:1.31;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div><font></font></div><div></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px"></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px"></div><div></div><div></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><font>I also observed the inconsistent application of the Geographic Regions Framework in these budget documents. As the Global Stakeholder Engagement team has grown in size, it would appear the world has been divided into ever more arbitrary regions, inconsistent with ICANN's own guidelines for doing this. To me, this is only more ammunition that ICANN's Geographic Regions Framework is not fit for purpose, but I digress... </font></div><div></div><div></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px"></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>Ayden</font></div><div><div><div>
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 5:07 AM, Rafik Dammak <span dir="ltr"> <a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a></span>
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<div dir="ltr"><div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">Hi everyone,</div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><br><p style="text-align:justify"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="text-align:justify">I am sharing here for information the ICANN’s Strategic Plan for the period 2016-2020 (document attached) and also the fiscal year 2017 operating plan and budget report (<a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2016-06-07-en" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2016-06-07-en</a>). they are dense and detailled but also critical about the activities and focus of ICANN in coming years.<u></u></p><p style="text-align:justify"><br></p><p style="text-align:justify">We should get involved more involved in those processes, for the fiscal year 2018 operating plan, and follow them more closely , with regard to the changes and exigeances due to the IANA stewardship transition.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><br></p><p style="text-align:justify">Best Regards,</p><p style="text-align:justify"><br></p><p style="text-align:justify">Rafik Dammak</p><p style="text-align:justify"><br></p><p style="text-align:justify">NCUC Chair</p><p style="text-align:justify"><u></u><br></p><p style="text-align:justify"><a href="http://ncuc.org" target="_blank">ncuc.org</a> & @ncuc & ncuc.chat</p></div></div><br></div>
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</div><div><br></div></div></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><div>Ayden Férdeline</div><div><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/Ayden+Férdeline+SOI" style="background-color:white" target="_blank">Statement of Interest</a></div></div><img align="left" width="0" height="0" style="border:0px;width:0px;min-height:0px" src="https://app.mixmax.com/api/track/v2/2mHtOmheacYyZrmMt/i02bj5SZulGblRmclZGQu5WYjlmI/i02bj5CbpFWbnB0ah1WbhRmLrlmZhJnI/Iyah1WbhREIrlmZhJlI?sc=false" alt="">
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