[NCUC-DISCUSS] ICANN Mentor Pilot Programme Application

[Stephanie Perrin]

I agree with your concerns and suggestions.  I have attended several 
meetings of the ICANN academy but almost never hear anything between 
sessions...possibly my fault, but I thought I had signed up on all 
relevant lists.  Anyway I would like to know how this program meshes 
with the academy efforts, as well.
cheers Stephanie

On 2016-02-01 9:53, Rafik Dammak wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> thanks for your interests for this program and feedback.
>
> While the mentorship program is good idea in principle, I have some 
> reservations on how this program is designed and controlled  by ICANN 
> staff. the requirements put some burden on the mentor-mentee and try 
> to formalize several aspects of what should be mainly a trusted 
> relationship between 2 persons.
>
> I do think that mentorship should be flexible and it is up to the 
> mentor-mentee to agree in the rules and expectations. on other hand, I 
> agree with with Avri about the expectation of providing report and 
> lesson learned to share best practices with others in NCUC. For info, 
> we were informed and got the request to give names quite late. it was 
> even late  with regard to the timeline setup by DPRD. I asked for some 
> clarification, more details about the program and that we should get 
> involved to give feedback. it is a pilot project for Marrakech meeting 
> and we will see how it will evolves. to be followed closely. My 
> understanding is that the program is not aimed to replace or to 
> compete with the existing fellowship and nextgen program but is 
> supposedly aimed toward ICANN constituencies.
>
> I support that we explore the idea suggested by Avri to have our own 
> independant mentorship program for NCUC and see how we can fund and 
> setup it. Such internal program is definitely not aimed to replace the 
> pilot project but complement it. it can be part of a capacity building 
> efforts for membership to expand our pool of volunteers. As reminder 
> we have also the NCUC Membership Affairs Team which we are trying to 
> reactivate and investigate how we can engage our members better.
>
> I would like also to clarify some points:
> - Regarding the information about policy work, we are trying to do 
> most of the work at NCSG level and we can still discuss that at NCUC 
> level. most of the policy work is done by NCUC members e.g. public 
> comments, participating in working groups etc. so the challenge is to 
> avoid duplication. for example, we can make statement to support NCSG 
> comments and put additional point of views in some cases
> - the welcoming message from NCSG includes a lot of information (I 
> drafted that message when I was NCSG chair ;)) . This mentioned page 
> <https://links.mixmax.com/b/BOOJTNsRwguFW8xMT?rn=&re=IyZy9mLjV3Yu5yc0NXasB0czV3YzlGZtMWdj5mI> (which 
> is included in the welcoming message) was drafted by me and used 
> extensively existing pages made by Avri. one of the projects we have 
> in NCUC is to create a NCUC newcomer handbook following the example of 
> IETF Tao <https://www.ietf.org/tao.html>. please stay tuned for this 
> one. There are also several scattered GNSO material and links e.g 
> http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/pdp-updates that we will try to 
> compile in single place. anyway point taken about adding more info to 
> the NCUC welcoming message.
> - we got the mentorship skype channel setup. maybe we can to explore 
> other channels such whatsapp etc while being mindful about the level 
> of efforts and adoption by members. I acknowledge that the learning 
> curve can take some time but I think that we learn by practicing and 
> asking questions.  We will try to facilitate and be a broker for 
> matching mentor-mentee pair and see how it will works.
> For those interested, I am reiterating my offer of informal chat or 
> skype discussion to give more information and respond to your 
> questions, also happy to do mentorship too.
>
> hope that helps.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Rafik
>
>
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