[NCUC-DISCUSS] Diversity issues vs personal preferences

[thatomfikwe]

Hi Dorothy,
Thanks for thé detailed comment, personalisation of issues and authoritative engagements can sometimes brings unrest and limit engagement of community members.
Leadership which is more neutral & accomodative is suitable to a multi stakehokder enviroment as all communities and members who again all carry diverse views, might not see eye to eye.
Although nothing can be done, systens need to be put in place to prevent similar tendencies from taking place or maybe I do not understand because according my understanding, ICANN is a three tiered cooperation with nobody owning but elected, volunteering, appointed or assigned. 
If this matter was from a community member it would not be alarming as the case of the leadership of ICANN org, thanks once again was just raising a potential issue, thanks för all the comments.

Thato Mfikwe. 


Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.-------- Original message --------From: dorothy g <dgdorothydg at gmail.com> Date: 01/07/2018  06:04  (GMT+02:00) To: thatomfikwe <thatomfikwe at gmail.com> Cc: NCUC-discuss <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org> Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Diversity issues vs personal preferences 
Thanks Thato for sharing this.  Let us publish the statistics and track. While at one level I am shocked by the answer at another level it is just more of the same. Plus ça change plus c'est la même chose.Since the session was not recorded there are clear limitations on what can be done.  I guess the CEO's performance targets should be public as well even though the performance review itself would be subject to privacy norms.  There is nothing stopping us from setting our own performance metrics for the CEO and measuring his achievement against our own metrics.  What do we want from the ICANN CEO?At a human level maybe he was tired and he expressed himself poorly but the data will hold up the reasons why the question was raised in the first place.best
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 11:35 AM, thatomfikwe <thatomfikwe at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi members,
I am sharing this message as a concerned member of NCSG.
Today, 28 June 2018, ICANN 62 during the Fellowship seşsion we were  visited by the CEO of ICANN and after a lengthy discussion followed Q&A, a question was asked about diversity in appointment to ICANN org staff and the board since it seems like a certain type of people were preffered over other races.
The troubling response from the CEO was that his decisions were personal and he is not prepared to answer this and started swaying his response towards gender balance that exists with the board and ICANN org which was not the actual question.
Now this expérience makes one wonder how accountability is measured or evaluated within ICANN org as it seems like they do as they please. This response from the CEO left fellows disgrantled and I think this matter needs to be taken forward and escalated to the board and community before further damage is done. The response from the CEO was inconsiderate, not appropriate, unethical, unproffessional and was way out of line.
Comments are welcome on this matter as I believe that accountability needs to strengthen, thanks for taking time for reading.
From concerned Thato Mfikwe.


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