<p dir="ltr">Thanks Grace. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Milton, Peter and Joao, please comment on this so that I can send it on time. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 26 Jan 2016 02:24, "Grace Githaiga" <<a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr">Hi Farzi<div>Great work. Do keep up the energy.</div><div><br></div><div>I thought there was already a policy on CROPP worked by Stephania? Anyway, I agree on prioritization and should add that if we have more candidates than the funds available, priority should go to those who have not benefited before. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.<br><br><div><hr>Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:56:51 +0100<br>From: <a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" target="_blank">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:ncuc-ec@lists.ncuc.org" target="_blank">ncuc-ec@lists.ncuc.org</a><br>Subject: [NCUC-EC] CROPP - requirement and announcement<br><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="Calibri">Dear EC members, </font></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Please read and comment, planning to send this tomorrow. </span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri">I have drafted the CROPP requirement and announcement for the NCUC members.</span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></div><div style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="Calibri">Please comment on </font></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri">1. Shall CROPP be allocated to conferences specific to Internet related issues or it can be anything as long as the proponents can justify that its work is related to NCUC mission.</span></div></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri">2. I think we should prioritize requests for </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">conferences and regions that have not been allocated CROPP so far.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Please state your objections if you disagree.</span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Calibri">3. Please add to eligibility criteria as you see appropriate . </font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Calibri"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></div></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Dear NCUC members</span></div></span><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></div><div><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri"><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/croppfy16/Community+Regional+Outreach+Pilot+Program+%28CROPP%29-FY16+Home" target="_blank">The Community Regional Outreach Pilot Program (CROPP)</a> allocates </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">each stakeholder group with</span><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">funds for</span><span style="font-family:Calibri"> five </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">travel </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">slots</span><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">to attend a meeting/event</span><span style="font-family:Calibri">. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">As the program names says, support is for outreach</span><span style="font-family:Calibri">. We have five slots for 2016; one has </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">already</span><span style="font-family:Calibri"> been allocated to an NCUC member to attend CPDP<a href="http://www.cpdpconferences.org/" target="_blank">http://www.cpdpconferences.org/</a> in Brussels. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri">At the moment we have four opportunities for funding to attend conferences/events and do NCUC outreach. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font color="#000000">You are invited to send us proposals to get funded to attend a conference that is related to Internet policy/governance and ICANN and civil society work, and give us a concrete action plan on how you will do outreach for NCUC. For example, this might be organizing a short 30 minute session at the conference or if possible a side event. The deadline is </font></span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Calibri">March 1. </span></font><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri">If the EC does not receive enough or satisfactory proposals the deadline will be extended. </span></div></div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Priority will go to regions that have not been allocated CROPP. Especially Africa, Asia-Pacific, South East Europe and Central Asia. However the main priority is the quality of the proposal and how you will carry out outreach. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></div><div style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri">The eligibility criteria: </span></div><div style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></div><div style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri">1. Concrete outreach plan with a targeted audience </span></div><div style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></div><div style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri">2. Conferences that are related to ICANN and NCUC mission - They do not have to be Internet related but can be related to for example transparency of corporations or bottom up policy making. The relation to ICANN and NCUC mission should be justified.</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></div></span><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px">Participants are required to write a blogpost on a relevant topic to NCUC and the conference or a report on how they carried out outreach and </span><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:16px">Participants are required to write a blogpost about the conference, and to report on their outreach, giving any leads to organizations and individuals who showed interest to join NCUC.</span></font></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Best </span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Farzaneh </div>
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