[NCUC-DISCUSS] ICANN Mentor Pilot Programme Application

Tue Jan 26 10:17:40 CET 2016

Dear all,

I fully support Edward's point about producing someone who is actively
engaged in NCUC processes and ready to jump head-first into the work needed
to be done.

On a different note, I couldn't agree more with Ayden's points. As a new
NCUC member myself (as well as a relatively newcomer to the IG community as
a whole), I'm trying to get my head around everything. I've not been a
fellow yet and, truthfully, the DNS and other ICANN-specific aspects of the
Internet are not something I am very familiar with. Having a more detailed
resources explaining how to get involved or learn more can definitely be
advantageous to spurring involvement of new members.

With that said, I can absolutely affirm that having am ISOC-appointed
mentor at the IGF last year (my first IGF as well) was invaluable to my
experience, and helped me understand both the micro and macro processes
that were happening. While this may seem self-evident to anyone who has
been involved in this work for some time, it's not only intimidating for
newcomers but utterly overwhelming.

I look forward to seeing how this idea progresses!

Best,
-Michael
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Ayden Fabien Férdeline <
ayden at ferdeline.com> wrote:

> 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
> <https://links.mixmax.com/b/Y7fjWW3wCc0aZSUTh?rn=&re=IyZy9mLjV3Yu5yc0NXasB0czV3YzlGZtMWdj5mI>
> 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
> <https://links.mixmax.com/b/BOOJTNsRwguFW8xMT?rn=&re=IyZy9mLjV3Yu5yc0NXasB0czV3YzlGZtMWdj5mI>,
> 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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