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    <p>Tx for sharing, Michael. This sounds like an important place for
      NCUC to be in Abu Dhabi!</p>
    <p>Best, Kathy<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/23/2017 9:51 AM, Michael
      Karanicolas wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Hi all,
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        <div>Please see the attached mail, related to a session at ICANN
          60 on measures to enhance transparency, in particular through
          document management and steps to impact the accessibility of
          online materials. Oversight through this process is very
          important, especially if we want to see a system that suits
          the needs of researchers and advocates who are monitoring
          ICANN's work. </div>
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        <div>I am definitely planning to attend - I hope to see you
          there.</div>
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        <div>Michael</div>
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                style="font-size:11pt">Dear Community Leaders:</span></p>
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                style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span
                style="font-size:11pt">As you know, the Board recently
                approved the Information Transparency Initiative (ITI),
                which is a two-year project to rebuild the technical
                infrastructure of the way we manage ICANN’s information
                and content with a first-ever for ICANN dedicated
                document management system (DMS) to manage our
                information and a new content management system (CMS) to
                make that information available. We’ll use this new
                technical infrastructure to enforce governance of our
                content through consistent workflows and tagging, making
                use of a taxonomy we’re developing for the first time.
                One of the primary reasons we’re doing this is to help
                our stakeholders find the content they are looking for
                (which we know is a challenge on the current site), and
                to help us meet our accountability and transparency
                obligations. While our project goals are narrow
                (improving findability in all U.N. six languages,
                enforcing content governance, and rebuilding
                infrastructure), think of this work as foundational that
                will set the stage for the entire ICANN information
                ecosystem. To try to bring benefits to the community as
                soon as possible, the community-observable part of the
                project starts first with <a href="http://icann.org/"
                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">icann.org</a>, <a
                  href="http://meetings.icann.org/" target="_blank"
                  moz-do-not-send="true">meetings.icann<wbr>.org</a>,
                and 13 other external websites. Once this work is
                complete, this foundational technical infrastructure and
                system-wide governance and taxonomy, will serve our
                SO/AC and remaining sites.</span></p>
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                style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span
                style="font-size:11pt">If you have time in your ICANN60
                schedules, we encourage you to participate in <b><span
                    style="background:yellow">the Information
                    Transparency Initiative session </span></b><span
                  style="background:yellow">on:<b> Thursday 2 November,
                    1330-1400 in Hall 3.</b></span><b> </b>This session
                is intended to give our stakeholders an overview of the
                project, but it will primarily be focused on listening
                to stakeholder feedback and answering questions.</span></p>
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                style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span
                style="font-size:11pt">We need your feedback to get this
                right, but we know you may not have time to attend this
                ICANN60 session. Because of this, we’re looking to
                schedule individual telephone interviews with you after
                ICANN60. These interviews are intended to gather some
                initial thoughts, feedback, current pain points with the
                site, and ideally, what you think would help make the <a
                  href="http://icann.org/" target="_blank"
                  moz-do-not-send="true">icann.org</a> experience and
                ICANN’s content governance processes better. We’ll send
                out emails after ICANN60 to arrange a time that best
                works for your schedules.</span></p>
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                style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span
                style="font-size:11pt">We look forward to these initial
                conversations, and your ongoing support and input
                throughout this project, which is so crucial to the
                project successfully meeting its goals. </span></p>
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                style="font-size:11pt"> Best regards,</span></p>
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                style="font-size:11pt">ICANN’s ITI Team</span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span
                style="font-size:9pt">David A. Olive<br>
                Senior Vice President</span></p>
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                style="font-size:9pt">Policy Development Support</span><span
                style="font-size:9pt;font-family:PMingLiU,serif"><br>
              </span><span style="font-size:9pt">Internet Corporation
                for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)</span></p>
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