<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dear All,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As you know our additional budget request was approved for policy practicum for NCUC for the amount of 20,000. I have copied and pasted the approval text below. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">They did not allocate any travel slots to this, but we could use the NCUC travel support for people to attend the policy practicum. The most important question now is: since we want to hire a consultant to train our members how to write public comments and get involved with working groups, which organizations are good for this task? We need to provide some suggestions to ICANN but we will not be the decision makers over who will be the consultant. But if you know of good policy advocacy training firms, let me know very soon. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:black">FY18-15-</span></b><span style="font-family:Cambria"> </span><b><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:black">NCUC - Policy Practicum and Policy Advocacy Training<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-family:Cambria">Request for NCUC member training in policy writing skills for PDP participation and contribution to ICANN public comment process.<span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Cambria">(Yes)(20,000)(Duncan Burns)<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:black">The ICANN Communications Team and the ICANN Learn Team will collaborate with the Non Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) leadership to develop content and to hold preparatory webinars as required leading up to a pilot face-to-face training course at ICANN61 with an external consultant during the regular public meeting schedule. The face-to-face training at ICANN61 will focus on skills development for policy writing. Additional resources flexibility is not available in FY18 to support additional travelers for the travel component of this request, but the NCUC is encouraged to identify interested community members who will already be attending the ICANN61 meeting to sign up for the face-to-face component of this training effort. On a pilot basis, additional webinars could be incorporated into this program as a substitute for students who cannot participate in the face-to-face training.<span></span></span></p>
</div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div>
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