[NCUC-DISCUSS] ICANN Information Transparency Initiative

[Ayden Férdeline]

Good points, Renata. And thank you for introducing this new acronym to me, the FAIR data principles. In my experience the ICANN website is not one where information is findable - let alone the other three letters...

—Ayden

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> Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] ICANN Information Transparency Initiative
> Local Time: 27 September 2017 4:22 PM
> UTC Time: 27 September 2017 15:22
> From: raquino at gmail.com
> To: Michael Karanicolas <mkaranicolas at gmail.com>
> NCUC-discuss <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org>
>
> Hi Michael
>
> I agree it"s good to see something moving forward.
>
> However, there"s a lot of jargon around transparency and open data
> which do not always translate into a collaborative process which takes
> into account these ideas themselves.
> There has been a lot o investment in announcements and information
> displays but where are the datasets? Is there an open contracting
> process involved for ICANN partners working in this initiative?
> How accountable this whole process is?
>
> If the aim is to find information in ICANN better, once more, which
> information is this process dealing with? The information may be
> public but is it free and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Inter-operable
> and Re-usable)?
>
> So even before, I guess, providing inputs, it"s easy to see we have
> more questions and answers.
>
> It"s fine to say transparency is being looked for but which are the
> steps there to achieve it?
>
> Best,
>
> Renata
>
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Michael Karanicolas
> <mkaranicolas at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for sharing, Renata. This touches on a really important area.
>> Information management and organization has been brought up a few
>> times at the WS2 Face to Face Plenaries, with Göran at one point
>> saying that resourcing this was a priority of his. Proper information
>> management is a pre-requisite to a healthy DIDP and disclosure system,
>> and as ICANN"s public information expands it"s increasingly important
>> to ensure that the information they put out is accessible and
>> delivered in a user-friendly way. I don"t know much about how
>> specifically this is being done, but at a glance it seems to hit some
>> of the right notes in terms of auditing and tagging content, and
>> creating a proper searchable taxonomy.
>>
>> In other words - very important initiative. Not sure about the
>> details, and I"d be very interested to learn more, but it"s good to
>> see something"s moving forward on this front.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro
>> <raquino at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This was tweeted as
>>>
>>> "To improve ICANN Findability"
>>>
>>> I did not find where one can contribute other than wait and see :)
>>>
>>> https://www.icann.org/news/blog/creating-content-governance-and-rebuilding-the-infrastructure-of-icann-s-public-sites
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