[NCUC-DISCUSS] Staff Proposed Administrative Support

[William Drake]

Hi

On Sep 28, 2013, at 7:22 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> In the bad old days, I used to very much against getting help form ICANN staff on such things.
> 
> These days, the policy team has shown, what I consider to be an amazing ability to serve in a neutral and supportive manner.
> 
> These is so much information etc to be organized and published on the web, things to be scheduled, meetings to be arranged etc. that 13 hours a month - ie. 2-4 hours a week could be very helpful all around.

Yes indeed, I'd certainly welcome a bandwidth reallocation.  But to be clear, that 13 was a hypothetical I suggested in response to the notion of NCSG/NPOC/ NCUC sharing, who knows what we might actually get in the end.
> 
> 
> And I would be cautious before holding up the CSISAC model as of secretariat as a successful one.  

I only noted that in OECD CS selects and manages its own secretariat person.

> This is a full time jobber who can't keep the web site updated.
> 
> I suggest we get in line with our begging bowls and long faces.

Hopefully it'd be a less Dickensian experience, let's see if and when we get there.

Cheers

Bill
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 28 Sep 2013, at 11:19, William Drake wrote:
> 
>> Another staff initiative of interest.  We should think about what we might want out of this if it proceeds.
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>>> From: William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Staff Proposed Administrative Support
>>> Date: September 8, 2013 12:27:17 PM GMT+02:00
>>> To: EC NCUC <ncuc-ec at lists.ncuc.org>
>>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> Further to my conversation with Rob: staff is contemplating a pilot program to help constituencies and SGs manage their operations by performing some administrative functions.  We talked about this a little at the NCPH meeting in LA in January.  Lots of constituencies, especially IPC and BC, and calling on ICANN to help them with secretariat support.  What's currently being discussed is a configuration like ICANN hires a dedicated staffer to support a SG and its component parts, so for ex NCSG, NPOC, and NCUC each get say 13 hours a month of help.  
>>> 
>>> Of course, I said that we'd prefer to select and manage the person ourselves; I mentioned the OECD CSISAC example.  He said sorry but the people will have to be ICANN staffers on the payroll, they can't provide funds for independents, but certainly the person would have to have our approval, ongoing trust and task management to be effective.
>>> 
>>> Additional scenario: As we've been allocated funds for printing but it's unclear whether volunteer members will have the bandwidth to ensure the on time publication of professional looking issue briefs etc. per meeting, he said it's conceivable we could select a staffer with some substantive expertise (could even be a current NCSG member) who'd play the coordinating role to make sure the outputs are actually output.   We'd still have to write the content, but formatting it, dealing with the publications office, etc. could be given to such a person.
>>> 
>>> Time line on this is unclear, somewhere after BA it becomes more of an issue.  In the meanwhile, we are asked to consider and specify precisely what sorts of tasks we might like a staffer to perform for us.  So please let's keep that item on our agendas as well and exchange ideas going forward.
>>> 
>>> And yes of course, with regard to this and the regional outreach support, there's the issue of does this make community members dependent on and subservient to staff, are we all reduced to pigs fighting for the troth etc.   We can revisit this issue as we go...
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> Bill
>>> 
>>> 
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>>>  University of Zurich, Switzerland
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