[NCUC-DISCUSS] ICANN 60 Session on Transparency

[Kathy Kleiman]

Tx for sharing, Michael. This sounds like an important place for NCUC to 
be in Abu Dhabi!

Best, Kathy


On 10/23/2017 9:51 AM, Michael Karanicolas wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please see the attached mail, related to a session at ICANN 60 on 
> measures to enhance transparency, in particular through document 
> management and steps to impact the accessibility of online materials. 
> Oversight through this process is very important, especially if we 
> want to see a system that suits the needs of researchers and advocates 
> who are monitoring ICANN's work.
>
> I am definitely planning to attend - I hope to see you there.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
> Dear Community Leaders:
>
> As you know, the Board recently approved the Information Transparency 
> Initiative (ITI), which is a two-year project to rebuild the technical 
> infrastructure of the way we manage ICANN’s information and content 
> with a first-ever for ICANN dedicated document management system (DMS) 
> to manage our information and a new content management system (CMS) to 
> make that information available. We’ll use this new technical 
> infrastructure to enforce governance of our content through consistent 
> workflows and tagging, making use of a taxonomy we’re developing for 
> the first time. One of the primary reasons we’re doing this is to help 
> our stakeholders find the content they are looking for (which we know 
> is a challenge on the current site), and to help us meet our 
> accountability and transparency obligations. While our project goals 
> are narrow (improving findability in all U.N. six languages, enforcing 
> content governance, and rebuilding infrastructure), think of this work 
> as foundational that will set the stage for the entire ICANN 
> information ecosystem. To try to bring benefits to the community as 
> soon as possible, the community-observable part of the project starts 
> first with icann.org <http://icann.org/>, meetings.icann.org 
> <http://meetings.icann.org/>, and 13 other external websites. Once 
> this work is complete, this foundational technical infrastructure and 
> system-wide governance and taxonomy, will serve our SO/AC and 
> remaining sites.
>
> If you have time in your ICANN60 schedules, we encourage you to 
> participate in *the Information Transparency Initiative session 
> *on:* Thursday 2 November, 1330-1400 in Hall 3.***This session is 
> intended to give our stakeholders an overview of the project, but it 
> will primarily be focused on listening to stakeholder feedback and 
> answering questions.
>
> We need your feedback to get this right, but we know you may not have 
> time to attend this ICANN60 session. Because of this, we’re looking to 
> schedule individual telephone interviews with you after ICANN60. These 
> interviews are intended to gather some initial thoughts, feedback, 
> current pain points with the site, and ideally, what you think would 
> help make the icann.org <http://icann.org/> experience and ICANN’s 
> content governance processes better. We’ll send out emails after 
> ICANN60 to arrange a time that best works for your schedules.
>
> We look forward to these initial conversations, and your ongoing 
> support and input throughout this project, which is so crucial to the 
> project successfully meeting its goals.
>
>  Best regards,
>
> ICANN’s ITI Team
>
> David A. Olive
> Senior Vice President
>
> Policy Development Support
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>
>
>
>
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