<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s been a week since my original message and I’ve only received one reply. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 21, 2015, at 1:26 PM, Grace Githaiga <<a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com" class="">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Dear Bill<div class="">For some reason I do not seem to have seen this message. My responses inline:<br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><hr id="stopSpelling" class="">Subject: Re: [NCUC-EC] EC Approval Processes<br class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" class="">william.drake@uzh.ch</a><br class="">Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 10:23:33 +0200<br class="">CC:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:Stefania.Milan@EUI.eu" class="">Stefania.Milan@EUI.eu</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com" class="">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a><br class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ncuc-ec@lists.ncuc.org" class="">ncuc-ec@lists.ncuc.org</a><br class=""><br class="">Hi<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ok let’s see if we can move this stuff along…various people are waiting on our decisions.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote class=""><div class="">On Aug 17, 2015, at 10:41 AM, William Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" class="">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. NomCom: 21 August decision notified</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>It seems that’s resolved, I’ll tell Joette. Alas for Dublin I’ll have three roles, NCUC, EURALO, and NomCom, and have to be there for 10 nights given their different schedules and have my stay split among different budget lines, but staff can figure it out.</div><div class=""> <font color="#2672ec" class="">OK</font></div><div class=""><blockquote class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="">2. Leadership Training @ Dublin: Applications due 21 Aug, decision must be notified to ICANN 31 Aug</div><div class="">*Two candidates, Remmy and Hanane <span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Boujemi.</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[My view: as outlined in her message I forwarded here on 5 Aug, Hanane is the Senior Manager of Hivos’ MENA region programme on Internet Governance. She has been involved with civil society for a long time and I think it would be great to get Hivos, a substantial player in that space, involved in NCUC. Right now the only connection is her personal membership. I’d like to see if we could entice them into an organizational membership. Given that nobody on the EC has expressed interest in the opportunity, unless there are stronger apps in the next few days I would support her doing the program. It would be good to hear other’s views.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>I sent Remmy’s bio statement before. This is Hanane <a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/people/hanane-boujemi" target="_blank" class="">http://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/people/hanane-boujemi</a>. Views, please.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#2672ec" class="">I will go with Hanane. And I like your idea of getting Hivos involved in NCUC. I hope we can move from the individual to the Organisation supporting NCUC.</font></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="">3. NCUC Travel Support to Dublin: Applications due 28 August.</div><div class="">*I’ve had one inquiry, but from a previous recipient, but not a formal app yet.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><font color="#2672ec" class="">Have we really announced that NCUC funding is available? Maybe that will bring in more applications. </font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We still have a week, hopefully some good apps come</div><blockquote class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">4. IGF: I’ve just heard from staff, they want names very soon, which makes sense as the Brazil travel will be complicated.</div><div class="">*As described in March, per the past few years we submitted one NCSG workshop and a couple NCUC, and all were highly rated and approved by the MAG and hence funded. Previously I traveled on NCSG slots but this time it will be Rafik, Robin and maybe an NPOC person. So I will travel this time on one of the two NCUC slots. That leaves one to fill. Normally we would use these to get people to the meeting who are involved in the NCUC panels I’ve organized unless they have other funding possibilities. We have Stefania and Jia He as rapporteurs/remote participation coordinator on the two sessions, so they’d be the first choices. I am trying to find out from Jia if she can get funded by the Chinese. Stefania it would be good to know your situation. </div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>Ok, so this is awkward. When we submitted the NCUC and NCSG budget proposals I was assuming that I would go on the NCUC slot within the NCSG allocation of 3 as I did the prior two years, leaving 2 slots for NCUC. But it turns out I’m not, so I have to take one, leaving just one to divide among two colleagues. For the Public Interest session <a href="http://intgovforum.org/cms/wks2015/index.php/proposal/view_public/52" target="_blank" class="">http://intgovforum.org/cms/wks2015/index.php/proposal/view_public/52</a> Stefania was to be the RM and Jia the Rapporteur, for the WGIG+10 session <a href="http://intgovforum.org/cms/wks2015/index.php/proposal/view_public/50" target="_blank" class="">http://intgovforum.org/cms/wks2015/index.php/proposal/view_public/50</a> I reversed the roles. (BTW Jia is also supposed to be part of Milton’s IANA workshop.) So I’d wanted us to support both, but it’s not an option. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are obvious arguments on both sides. Stefi is Team EC, but she’s also received travel support a number of times over the past couple years, including for last year’s IGF. Jia has done less with us so far but wants to get more involved, and has never received support. She also tells me she’s changing jobs and cannot receive support from her new organization. So I guess the question is should this be one of those situations like with the ICANN meetings where if all other things are equal we should operate on the basis of rotating opportunities and bringing in new blood, in this case from China?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stefi, I’d asked whether your grants or other sources could cover you…? Or what if we could give you $1,000 under the travel policy provision for ICANN-Related Meetings, could you make up the difference via other means? Jia could not…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Either way, staff are on my case to tell them who’s going, so please let’s figure this out.</div><div class=""><font color="#2672ec" class="">Ok. And yes it might also be good to support Jia. And true Stephania has benefited greatly from NCUC travel support. </font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A related question:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote class=""><div class="">On Aug 17, 2015, at 11:27 AM, William Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" class="">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>> wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote class=""><div class=""><div id="ecxdivtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div class="">Concerning Dublin: if and only if I am elected to the GNSO Council (there is still a week or so to submit nominations, so elections might turn out to be competitive), my understanding is that I would not need travel funding for Dublin. Am I correct, Bill?</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><span style="display: inline !important;" class="">I forgot you were doing this. Yes, you will get GNSO funding if elected, which I suspect will happen. So indeed, we may very well have an additional slot in any case. Peter and Joao are already supported, so that would leave Grace, if she’s interested...</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span style="display: inline !important;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="">Nominations for Council close on the 24th. If on Tuesday you are still unopposed we should notify ICANN that you travel to Dublin on a GNSO slot and release your slot. If that happens, Grace do you want to come or should we do something else?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#2672ec" class="">Thanks Bill. I would love to come but I am tied down. I have registered to attend the WSIS consultations on the 19th Oct. So yes please 'do the something' :)</font></div><div class="">Thanks</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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