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hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>sharing here communication from Janice about 2 things: the mentorship program, now called onboard program and the review of fellowship program.</div><div>the message is little bit confusing , at least for me and I would advice you to read it carefully and check the attachments. I need some feedback here.</div><div><br></div><div>for the onboard program, I am kind of concerned that is supposed to support community but we are not really involved on its design. for fellowship review, we may think what kind inputs we can provide here</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Rafik<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><br><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Lucida Grande"><font size="3">Interrupting your regularly scheduled countdown to an ICANN Meeting to share some </font><font>information</font><font size="3"> about 2 initiatives that are happening through the facilitation of ICANN’s Development and Public Responsibility Department (DPRD), both of which I hope will have positive impacts on your community in the near future.</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font size="3" face="Lucida Grande"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">These initiatives were shared in concept form during ICANN54 and ICANN55 via my manager Nora Absuitta’s DPRD update to the community. Both are being worked on with the support of ICANN Policy and Global Stakeholder Engagement Teams, using their knowledge of what is happening within each region and community.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font size="3" face="Lucida Grande"><br></font></p><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px"><i><font color="#0000ff">Before going into these 2 Items, I do want to make sure that everyone knows that for this particular ICANN Meeting, only Alumni of previous Fellowships were eligible to apply…helping to support the idea of this Policy Forum being about serious minded community members digging in for 4 days…and these individuals had to show themselves as either fully engaged members of one of our community groups, a relatively newly minted member ready for the next step of engagement OR someone highly recommended due to their regional participation in ICANN activities or global Internet work. Attached is the list of those selected, their sector of interest and community that they are engaged in if applicable.</font></i></div><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">First Initiative is the <b>Community Onboarding Pilot Program</b> – which in its inception was called Community Mentor Pilot Program. This pilot is a by-product of the Stakeholder Journey Initiative that Chris Mondini has been spearheading for almost 2 years now, which in part has been hitting the challenges of volunteer burnout and succession planning along with other topics related to volunteerism at ICANN. The focus of this Pilot Program is how to onboard new members effectively and retain them to create the next wave of ICANN volunteers. This Pilot's end goal is to create for each community an ongoing program of onboarding, that can fit into each community’s processes, with a built-in set of tools and information that are easy to access and use for both those facilitating and those receiving the information. <i>Only for this calendar year are we tying the Pilot program to the ICANN Meetings and including some travel support as needed, as it seemed the best way to kick start this was to work around and at the ICANN Meetings to benefit from Face-to Face time.</i></div><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px">This effort began by working with members of ICANN’s Policy staff to select members of almost every ICANN community, both experienced and “new-ish but ready”, to fill the roles of Mentors and Mentees going into ICANN55, through the Meeting and provide follow up after on what worked, didn’t work, ideas of next steps and any other comments that could help start to form the basis for a <strike>Mentor</strike> Onboarding Program. In part, we followed the tenants of the Fellowship Coaching Program, where experienced Fellows take 1-3 new Fellows under their wing prior to each Meeting to get them better prepared for the experience…and work wth them throughout the Meeting and beyond. We did try to engage all ICANN communities but didn’t succeed in bringing everyone onboard the concept for a variety of reasons. We are continually working to have representative from each community engage with us in this work.</div><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The members of the Pilot Program from Marrakech and I have had discussions via email and Skype since then after I received post meeting reports and began incorporating their comments to lay a base for what’s ahead on this journey. Most all of the members found value in what was started and wanted to continue to work on this Program. In Helsinki, the plan is to meet for a couple of hours with the participants to hash out key elements…and determine best next steps. </div><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Attached is both an outline of where we are with the Pilot Program and the worksheet with names of Mentors and Mentees from ICANN56 and going to ICANN57 (working all this time together, not just at the Meeting). You will see that for ICANN56 we don’t have ccNSO, Registry, RSSAC or SSAC but there is commitment to the concept and work ongoing. <b>ccNSO</b>: Alejandra Barrel and Miguel Estrada did produce a draft proposal for ccNSO Onboarding; Alejandra is funded by ccNSO to Helsinki (and her Mentee is moving to the GAC), so she and I are meeting at ICANN56 to move this proposal further ahead with support from ICANN staff. <b>Registry: </b>Reg Levy supported this effort leading up to Marrakech; Cherie, Reg and I will meet in Helsinki to see how we can compliment the great work already done by Cherie with ideas from this Pilot. <b>RSSAC </b>team had a good experience; the Mentee Naveed Rais (RSSAC Caucus) will work with me in Helsinki as he is Fellow funded. <b>SSAC </b>was the most difficult as it is such a unique community; Julie and I will find time in Helsinki to talk next steps as she is in agreement that an Onboarding program would be of benefit.</div><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I will commit to providing further updates down the road and please do contact me offlist for any other information or questions. If there are comments that would benefit this entire audience, I will share back my responses to all.</div><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Lucida Grande">T</font><font size="3" face="Lucida Grande" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px">he second Initiative is the <b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px">Fellowship Program Review</b>. This review was meant to be held in the Fellowship Program’s 10th year, 2017, however there have been so many challenges around the concept of applicant eligibility </font><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px">in the past 12-18 months - </span><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande'">many countries (</span><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande'">Argentina, Venezuela, Hungary, Russia, Chile, Uruguay)</span><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande'"> falling off the World Bank list which is the means testing currently used, that </span><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px">we determined the time was now to take a look at all components of this successful Program to see where there </span><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px">may be other opportunities for improvements related to the needs of today’s evolved ICANN community..which has changed tremendously since the Program began in 2007.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font size="3" face="Lucida Grande"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font size="3"><font face="Lucida Grande,sans-serif" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande'">This review started up just before Marrakech. We are studying other non-profits, universities and entities in regard to similar </font><font face="Lucida Grande">types</font><font face="Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><font face="Lucida Grande"> of grant or fellowship programs and intend </font></font></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:10.5pt">to have this Program Review, with analysis and suggestions for alternative methods of means testing, out for Public Comment by end of June/beginning of July, in time for revised Eligibility Guidelines to be applied to the ICANN58 application.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:10.5pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Again, any other </font><font face="Lucida Grande">questions</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3"> on this – I will be happy to answer and again, suggest OFFLIST so that everyone’s already full mailboxes are not overflowing with “nice”, “horrible”, “I propose we”</font><font face="Lucida Grande">…but I will be transparent in any responses that affect all if that situation arises. I look forward to seeing comments once this is out officially in our Public Comment Process.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Lucida Grande"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Lucida Grande">I will hopefully see all of you in Helsinki, where I would be happy to talk on either of these Initiatives or other DPRD programs.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Lucida Grande"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Lucida Grande">Wishing you all a restful weekend,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Lucida Grande">Janice</font></p></div><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt"><br></p></div><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Lucida Grande"> </font></span></p></div><div style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt"><br></p></div></div><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:'Lucida Grande',sans-serif"><div><div></div></div></div></div></span></span></div>
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