[NCUC-DISCUSS] ICANN FY15 Budget decisions of relevance to NCUC

[Milan, Stefania]

Well done, Bill and everyone else who put much efforts and many, many energies in making this possible!​

looking forward to contribute to transform the $$ in yet more exciting events and meetings..

Stefania



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Inviato: martedì 6 maggio 2014 13.48
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Hi

From:
http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-30apr14-en.htm

Approved Board Resolutions | Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board

30 April 2014

Resolved (2014.04.30.07), the Board approves committing funds during FY15
in the amount of up to $700,000 for the SO/AC additional budget requests
as indicated in the attached list

http://www.icann.org/en/about/financials/budget-requests-fy15-30apr14-en.pdf

We’ve done pretty well with budget requests for the next fiscal years.  Some highlights:

*Approval of the NCUC and NCSG requests for travel support for panelists at the IGF, subject to MAG approval of our workshop proposals at its 20-21 May meeting.  Staff have added new provisos to IGF requests: "Travelers must agree to produce a trip report on what the support made possible - i.e., other work, mtgs. Travelers will be expected to give some support time to ICANN while at the IGF meeting (e.g., booth attendance, etc.,).”  I’m fine with the former, the latter raises some questions.

*Approval of the NCSG-CSG request for another Noncontracted “House” meeting, based on our 2012 meeting.

*Further to another long-running but low-level conversation, provision of part time staff administrative support to NCSG.  "ICANN staff will provide part-time in-kind support on a pilot basis for administrative staff support resources to non-contracted GNSO communities (equivalent of approximately 12 hours a week of support). Funds will not be provided directly to the community. Support will be offered on a "functional" basis and managed by the ICANN staff (i.e., specific staff assigned to specific functions like elections, telephone support, etc.). Staff will coordinate specific points of contact for the community to ensure that requests for service are provided in a timely manner.”

*ICANN staff were pretty impressed with the positive response and big turn-out at our Singapore conference, and suggested to me at the time that well, if you guys can do this, maybe other parts of the community will want and be able to, too.  And so lo and behold, ICANN has set aside $33,300 for Pre-public Meeting Seminars (odd formulation there).  More interesting wording: "These types of efforts have proven to be quite useful and popular to the community in the past. One ‘conference' slot and room support available for an ICANN community to host a pre-Public Meeting policy conference before each ICANN Public Meeting in FY15. To be developed by ICANN staff based on previous NCUC (San Francisco and Singapore) model. To the extent demand exceeds supply, conference slots will be initially selected by lottery and rotated among community groups as appropriate.”  So yes, a conference is possible before each public meeting.  Whether covered travelers’ allocations would thereby be extended to allow arrival a day earlier to attend is not clear.  Also not clear is whether/how soon we could get something again via lottery/rotation—I suppose they’d like to give a chance to others first.  Perhaps NCSG should propose something?

*Extension for a year of the CROPP program for funding community representatives’ outreach attendance at meetings within their region.  We have yet to apply for any such support and should consider.

*Regularized funding now available for print publications, should we ever feel the urge.  Thus far we’ve only asked for and received money for printing of our brochure (English and Spanish) and Singapore conference program.  Issue papers etc. would be possible, if we could agree on doing such things.

All TBC...

Best,

Bill










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