NCUC Organizational News 13.01.13

[Alex Gakuru]

Greetings,

Volunteer to serve on the Outreach/New Members Recruitment team.

Perhaps I should not enumerate who I am and what I do to spare you the warm
and fuzzy feeling bound to follow thereafter?

Thank you.

Alex
On Jan 13, 2013 7:29 PM, "William Drake" <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> One of the things I'd like to happen going forward is regular monthly
> reporting back to NCUC members by the EC on any noteworthy organizational
> and policy matters.  We don't have a mechanism in place yet to coordinate a
> collective effort on this, so I'll get it started with a few notes on
> recent developments.
>
>
> *1. New Executive Committee*
>
> On 3 December the 2012 election results were announced. Our new EC includes
>
> Chair:  Bill Drake  <william.drake at uzh.ch>
> Africa:  Wilson Abigaba  <wilson at isoc.ug>
> Asia/Australia/Pacific: Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net>
> Europe: Tapani Tarvainen  <ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info>
> Latin America/Caribbean: Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca>
> North America: Edward Morris <edward.morris at alumni.usc.edu>
>
> Since the 13th (post-WCIT) the EC has begun to get organized and by the
> end of January we should have more to report on various items.  In the
> meanwhile, members who want to know what's being discussed, provide input,
> offer to help with tasks and so on can always visit the EC list archive
> http://mailman.ctyme.com/pipermail/ec-ncuc/ and be in touch here or via
> the addresses above, as appropriate.
>
>
> *2.  Appointments to NCSG Committees*
>
> Due to the delayed election timing the new EC came in already behind
> schedule on some housekeeping items.  One of the first things we needed to
> get done was to fill these slots so NCSG internal and GNSO work could
> proceed without hiccups.  Accordingly, the EC has made the following
> appointments until the 2013 annual meeting:
>
> a.  NCSG EC https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-EC
>
>    - Rafik Dammak
>    - Milton Mueller [both continuing]
>
> b.  NCSG PC  https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-PC
>
>    - Mary Wong
>    - Avri Doria [replacing Brenden and Konstantinos]
>
> c.  NCSG FC  https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-FC
>
>
>    - Milton Mueller [continuing]
>
>
>
> *3.  Functional Work Teams*
>
> In my candidate statement
> https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1211&L=NCSG-DISCUSS&F=&S=&P=38527 I
> argued that it'd make sense to have
>
>
>    - A more active EC team in which each member has defined
>    responsibilities entailing at least one or two hours of individual work per
>    week beyond reading email.  I’d love it if EC members would each take the
>    lead on coordinating specific functional tasks and assemble work teams of
>    interested members to deal with items like:
>
> o   In-reach and engagement of existing members, updating of the
> membership list
>
> o   outreach to potential new members (it’d also be nice if each regional
> representative could bring on a few folks from their regions per year)
>
> o   e-platform improvement and updating
>
> o   external communications/publicity
>
> o   finance (dealing with the ICANN budget process, external fundraising
> for initiatives, etc.)
>
>
> Or something like this…to be discussed… This is the kind of functional
> division of labor I’ve seen work better in other civil
> society organizations and coalitions, including ones I’ve led, and some
> evolution in that direction could be helpful.  What plainly has not worked
> well is for everything to just default to one maxed out volunteer.
>
>
> Nobody has argued against this sort of approach and some folks on and off
> the EC have expressed interest in helping with particular tasks.  So now
> we'd like to begin to constitute teams/groups/whatever we want to call them
> on the five tasks above, plus one other I forgot to mention, the very
> overdue and urgent task of revising our Charter (ideally by the summer for
> a vote prior to the next EC vote).  Conversations have been underway in the
> EC and beyond to get some folks on board each to start, and so far there
> have been expressions of interest/willingness to be involved from the
> following folks (apologies to anyone I've forgotten, or conversely who's
> surprised to be listed based on prior conversations). Oh, and I should add
> that while from a coordination and info flow standpoint it'd usually be
> easiest if EC members were the coordinators, this doesn't rule out the
> possibility of experienced, plug n play non-EC people serving is these
> capacities, as is reflected below.
>
>
> * In-reach/member engagement*
>
>    - TBD  [Coordinator]
>    - Edward Morris
>    - Rafik Dammak
>    - Bill Drake
>
> *
> *
> *Outreach/new member recruitment*
>
>    - Edward Morris  [Coordinator]
>    - Bill Drake
>
> *
> *
> *E-platforms*
>
>    - Wilson Abigaba   [Coordinator]
>    - Edward Morris
>    - Tapani Tarvainen
>    - David Cake
>    - Brenden Kuerbis
>    - Bill Drake
>
> *
> *
> *Communications/PR*
>
>
>    - Mary Wong  [Coordinator]
>    - Bill Drake
>
>
> *
> *
> *Finance*
>
>    - Milton Mueller  [Coordinator]
>    - Brenden Kuerbis
>    - Maria Farrell
>    - Bill Drake
>
>
> *Charter Revision*
>
>
>    - Bill Drake  [Coordinator]
>    - Edward Morris
>
>
> Obviously, we need more EC and regular members to populate these groups,
> share the workload, and get things moving.  Pretty much any amount of time
> and energy beyond zero will make a difference and be much appreciated, so
> please consider getting involved.  Reply on list or privately, as you like.
>
>
> *4.  Web Spaces/E-Platforms*
>
> Once we have teams associated with each of these functions, we should put
> them on the web and set up communication channels for them to work.  This
> goes to some of the larger e-platform questions we've been contemplating in
> the EC.  Clearly, NCUC's public ning site needs some serious
> rethinking/refreshing and we may even want to consider moving to another
> platform down the line.  But in the meanwhile, I'd argue it would make
> sense to refresh the list of groups there http://ncuc.org/groups by a)
> creating spaces for the new teams and list the people associated with them;
> b) deciding whether the teams should work there or on listservs etc; and c)
> if possible, for institutional memory purposes, create a space on the site
> called Previous Groups and dump all the old ones there, rather than simply
> deleting them.
>
> Again, nothing we do now to get started locks us into a final decision
> about the website.  If all the web wizards decide a Ning is not the best
> for us and want to migrate to some other platform, we can deal with that
> then.  But for now let's get some web presence going so people know we're
> alive and they can join and participate.
>
> Just to repeat again in case any members are unaware, NCUC's web presence
> is rather spread around and in need of more consistency and maintenance,
> e.g.
>
> 1.  NCUC.org <http://ncuc.org/>  [the public face…unfortunately most
> content quite dated, especially member pages etc]
>
> 2.  NCUC @ GNSO's public pages
> http://gnso.icann.org/en/about/stakeholders-constituencies/ncsg/ncuc [in
> process of revision]
>
> 3.  NCUC @ Confluence
> https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8945848[Confluence is the ICANN provided workspace]
>
> A meta-question to consider is whether we want to continue to maintain both
>  NCUC.org <http://ncuc.org/> and Confluence with some bits of parallel
> content, redefine the division of labor between them etc…
>
>
> I think that's enough for one message…
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
>
> ***************************************************
> William J. Drake
> International Fellow & Lecturer
>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
>   www.williamdrake.org
> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
>   ICANN, www.ncuc.org
> william.drake at uzh.ch
> ****************************************************
>
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