[NCUC-DISCUSS] Diversity issues vs personal preferences

[Glenn McKnight]

Hi
As a followup to Stephanie's comment that the  ICANN organization should
reflect the composition of the Internet Community.  A  few years also a
number of us pushed to have ICANN do a survey on the Culture of
Accessibility.  The survey which we created was to measure how inclusive
the community of special needs.  It was interesting that  they responded
with mainly  " Don't know"  on questions on viritually all the questions.
Subsequent to the survey have have shelved it.    No real efforts for
engagement or interest.
I don't think ICANN is on the leading edge on human resource or contract
hiring.   It would be nice to see a complete profile.

 Also one should look and do some analysis on the fellowship programme.
 For  constructive feedback on the  1000 entries.
This tool was created by myself and Dev Anand Teelucksingh

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qKIDXTHNPKAXGwo2V36ZZSrml158j89w9k-mu3BpEno/edit#gid=0

G

Glenn McKnight
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On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 2:04 PM Stephanie Perrin <
stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:

> I do think that Thato has touched upon a problem that has not, to the best
> of my knowledge been discussed before, namely the accountability of the CEO
> and management team for staffing decisions.  Is there a policy that
> addresses diversity?  I doubt it, I am not even sure there is a policy or
> strategic priority that underpins the globalization of offices and remote
> participation of staff.  So diversity and multiculturalism may not be an
> expressed goal in ICANN hiring practices.  In my view it should; I regard
> the staff of ICANN.org much as I would a government organization, I expect
> it to explicitly attempt to mirror the community it serves.  Implicit in
> that is cultural diversity, not just regional presence.  However, there are
> many who measure ICANN as a high tech corporation, with different metrics.
>
> If you wish to register community distress at what the CEO actually said,
> my recommendation would be to channel it through the fellowship program
> (who invited him) and get multiple signatures from those who were there and
> actually heard him
>
> cheers Stephanie Perrin.
> On 2018-06-28 17:38, Bram Fudzulani wrote:
>
> The session was not recorded and I remember the CEO asking Siranush if we
> were being recorded to which she responded the session was not being
> recorded.
>
> Bram
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 28 Jun 2018, at 2:57 PM, Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Thato,
>
> Do you know if this session was recorded?
>
> Best wishes,
> Ayden Férdeline
>
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On 28 June 2018 1:35 PM, 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.
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>
>
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