[NCUC-DISCUSS] ICANN Mentor Pilot Programme Application

Mon Feb 1 16:29:27 CET 2016

thanks Glen, these are great questions!
steph

On 2016-02-01 15:55, Glenn McKnight wrote:
> Observations
> ICANN has been operating a  Fellowship, NEXT GEN and now a pilot 
> Mentorship program and the numbers are reaching close to 1,000 and I 
> have created a spreadsheet of all of the participants in the fellowship
> The fellowship has incorporated  a sort of  mentorship in the 
>  evidence of  various repeat participants.  These participants are 
> functionaries in the process I assume similar to Mentors. In addition 
>  ALAC  at  ATLAS ll event a pilot program had a mentor/mentee program 
> as well
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> All of these efforts although  noble in intent have not been able to 
> generate community volunteers except for the occasional ambitious 
> individuals
>
> This new  mentorship iniatiative is similar to the model created for 
>  ARIN and other RIR which match an existing active advisor with an 
> incoming  mentee and they shadow this person
>
> Also we have  IETF and the ISOC Ambassors program.
>
> Benefits
> For all this  effort do we really know the benefits to the various 
> ICANN communities and the individuals?
> Have we done any pre and post surveys?
> Do we have motivational stories of inspiration?
>
> Not sure
> Glenn
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> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Stephanie Perrin 
> <stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca 
> <mailto:stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca>> wrote:
>
>     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
>
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>     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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