<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I would certainly agree that Maria Farrell would be terrific. I know Maria has done both policy and training work, and she knows ICANN and broader Internet governance very well indeed, and has a long history with NCUC and an even longer one with ICANN. I’m not sure if she is still in the training and policy business, but we can always ask. <div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Another small firm that I am familiar with is Policy Australia Ltd. <a href="http://policyaustralia.com.au/" class="">http://policyaustralia.com.au/</a>, especially Carolyn Dalton. They do not, as far as I am aware, have specific experience with ICANN, but they have worked on a really wide range of Internet policy issues otherwise, and are particularly good on working with broad policy coalitions. I’ve worked with them on intellectual property reform campaigns and related issues.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I agree that working with a CSO might be useful, and the issue of discussing grants as well as policy documents in worth considering. </div><div class="">Access Now and OpenTech would be good choices, APC might be another group worth talking to as I’m sure they have dealt with the issue of policy training themselves. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">David</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21 Aug 2017, at 11:01 am, Renata Aquino Ribeiro <<a href="mailto:raquino@gmail.com" class="">raquino@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hello<br class=""><br class="">Since the program really is about training in writing public comments<br class="">it would be good to get someone who had experience in that<br class=""><br class="">Maria Farrell sounds like a good idea since she is former NCUC and<br class="">ICANN policy staff<br class=""><a href="https://icannwiki.org/Maria_Farrell" class="">https://icannwiki.org/Maria_Farrell</a><br class=""><br class="">Alternatively choosing a CSO which provides grants on policy and<br class="">advocacy to do this training would be good too because it would also<br class="">help NCUC focus on its growth as organization too.<br class="">If so my suggestions would be OpenTech Fund or AccessNow.<br class=""><br class="">Maybe we can do both, get a CSO and a consultant who could pair up in<br class="">this project.<br class=""><br class="">Best,<br class=""><br class="">Renata<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 10:58 PM, farzaneh badii<br class=""><farzaneh.badii@gmail.com> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Dear All,<br class=""><br class="">As you know our additional budget request was approved for policy practicum<br class="">for NCUC for the amount of 20,000. I have copied and pasted the approval<br class="">text below.<br class=""><br class="">They did not allocate any travel slots to this, but we could use the NCUC<br class="">travel support for people to attend the policy practicum. The most important<br class="">question now is: since we want to hire a consultant to train our members how<br class="">to write public comments and get involved with working groups, which<br class="">organizations are good for this task? We need to provide some suggestions to<br class="">ICANN but we will not be the decision makers over who will be the<br class="">consultant. But if you know of good policy advocacy training firms, let me<br class="">know very soon.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">FY18-15- NCUC - Policy Practicum and Policy Advocacy Training<br class=""><br class="">Request for NCUC member training in policy writing skills for PDP<br class="">participation and contribution to ICANN public comment process.<br class=""><br class="">(Yes)(20,000)(Duncan Burns)<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">The ICANN Communications Team and the ICANN Learn Team will collaborate with<br class="">the Non Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) leadership to develop content<br class="">and to hold preparatory webinars as required leading up to a pilot<br class="">face-to-face training course at ICANN61 with an external consultant during<br class="">the regular public meeting schedule. The face-to-face training at ICANN61<br class="">will focus on skills development for policy writing. Additional resources<br class="">flexibility is not available in FY18 to support additional travelers for the<br class="">travel component of this request, but the NCUC is encouraged to identify<br class="">interested community members who will already be attending the ICANN61<br class="">meeting to sign up for the face-to-face component of this training effort.<br class="">On a pilot basis, additional webinars could be incorporated into this<br class="">program as a substitute for students who cannot participate in the<br class="">face-to-face training.<br class=""><br class="">Farzaneh<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">NCUC-EC mailing list<br class="">NCUC-EC@lists.ncuc.org<br class="">https://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-ec<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">NCUC-EC mailing list<br class="">NCUC-EC@lists.ncuc.org<br class="">https://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-ec<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>