[NCUC-DISCUSS] ICANN Mentor Pilot Programme Application

Tue Jan 26 09:00:59 CET 2016

Hello everyone,
I'm really excited to see that this programme is being piloted, and am very
grateful to ICANN’s Development and Public Responsibility Department for making
this opportunity available to our constituency. I agree with Edward in that this
programme needs to be a mutually beneficial arrangement for the mentor, mentee,
and the NCUC. How we go about achieving that balance — and measuring how
successful the programme is so we can justify either an expansion, continuation,
or, if so necessary, a cessation — is worth thinking about.
In reading through the applications sent to this public inbox from other members
of our constituency, I saw that many of us - and disclosure: myself included
here - applied to be paired with a mentor primarily because we want to be
helpful but don't yet know how we can best contribute to the great work that the
NCUC is doing.
To that effect, I know that I would have found it useful when I joined the NCUC
to have received a paragraph of information on what our current priorities or
projects were, and where there might have been an opportunity for me or someone
I know to join in. Or maybe we just need something as simple as a page on the NCUC Wiki with some suggestions on how new members could be useful?
I don't yet have the institutional knowledge to draft something like this
myself, but in all organisations, information can sometimes be a little
fragmented, so I'm sure many members of the NCUC community who are new or less
active would find it very useful to know how we could be of service. (I
appreciate that the NCSG does have such a page , so maybe we could consider including a link to this helpful resource in
future Welcome emails to new NCUC members?)
To extend upon what Farzaneh said, “there is a potential to have a group even
without funding [to] exchange knowledge with those who want to get more
involved”, I would like to add my strong support to this suggestion. If there
might be a way to informally pair mentors and mentees with one another (some
people may even decide to do this informally off-list), it may widen the reach
of this programme and allow more people to participate remotely. I would not
like to see this as a replacement for the great programme that the DPRD is
piloting, but as a little something on the side — minus, I would suggest, the
more stringent record keeping requirements imposed as part of the pilot
programme but maintaining the same level of respect for the mentor's time...
(I know that Stephanie mentioned the existence of a group Skype channel; while
this sounds like a wonderful resource, in my experience I have found one-on-one
mentoring to be more useful than one-to-many mentoring. But undoubtedly others
learn differently to me and may find the revitalisation of this resource to be
useful.)
I'm thinking, if we move forward with the funded mentor/mentee programme after
ICANN 55, might we be able to think strategically about what projects the NCUC
will be discussing at the coming meeting and try to pair mentors with mentees
with a stronger skillset in those areas where we need talent but perhaps where
the talent lacks knowledge of how the agenda is set and decisions are made
within the context of the NCSG/GSNO/NCUC? I see little point in us replicating
the Fellowship or NextGen programme — we need to take people who already have
enough theoretical knowledge of what ICANN is doing and bring them up to speed
quickly on what we are doing for our benefit.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Best wishes,
Ayden Férdeline
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:40 AM, Stephanie Perrin < stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca > wrote:
We did set up a skype channel a while ago, and several of us volunteered to
answer questions. It has fallen dead....still exists. Perhaps we should try
again to revitalize that?
cheers steph
PS I am always happy to mentor, although I am a newbie as well, only here 3
years. I have funding for the next 9 months so did not volunteer for this as it
is a pilot with Mentor funding as well.

On 2016-01-25 10:36, farzaneh badii wrote:
Hi Avri,
Thank you. that's a good recommendation and I will put that forward to the EC.
I also think that as we have received interests mostly from mentees, there is a
potential to have a group even without funding and exchange knowledge with those
who want to get more involved.
On 25 January 2016 at 16:16, Avri Doria < avri at acm.org > wrote:
Hi,

I thought this was a pilot?

Though if the pilot goes well, then trying to get something into the
budget for the future might be interesting. But would also be a
challenge given the huge fellowship program that already exist. Perhaps
something NCUC can raise funds for among registries, registrars and
resellers.

By the way, as a pilot, I hope we also add a requirement that both the
mentee and mentor write up reports at the end on what worked and what
didn't with recommendations for how a program might be structured.

avri

On 25-Jan-16 10:03, Stephanie Perrin wrote:
> Clearly, we are going to have a number of excellent candidates as
> mentees. Is there any possibility of springing more money from ICANN
> to go to the end users? There is a big budget now for outreach....
> cheers stephanie

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