[NCUC-DISCUSS] Updates on ICANN67
Stephanie E Perrin
stephanie at digitaldiscretion.ca
Sat Feb 29 16:22:53 CET 2020
Apologies for cross posting, but I wanted to chime in on this discussion
which Bruna has kicked off. I absolutely agree with Bruna's first
assessment at the bottom of this post. I think cancelling will (already
is) proving to be the correct decision, and we will have to, as Ben
says, make lemonade out of this one. It will take a lot of sugar and
hard work!
Staff have worked very hard to pull together the agenda, but this
meeting will be a pale shadow of a regular public meeting, with so few
sessions, restricted hours, and limited technical capability. All three
of us, Bruna, Joan and I, have lobbied for french capability, and Maryam
(bless her, she has been working tirelessly on our behalf) tried to at
least get it for the NCSG main session, but we are unable to do so.
ALAC and GAC always have french translation so they are getting it....I
think if there is enough interest, we should be setting up for this. We
have a large number of members from the francophonie, especially in
Africa, who are not going to get the most out of this meeting as it is,
hampered as they will be with the limitations of zoom, the reality that
they will not be able to listen live in many cases because of the time
zones, and of course the bandwidth issues.....ICANN meetings are never
best when you are restricted to a phone.
In terms of time zones, we are really stuck in the Asia Pacific region,
as the UTC-5 will be the middle of the night. Many (most) of our
volunteers have day jobs, they cannot just flip night and day for the
week and stay online. Suggestions as to how we can make this more
meaningful or helpful for those members, eg by having a discussion of
the days events and highlights for those who missed it, might at least
help with engagement and inclusivity.
We are trying our best to maintain sessions that are of interest to you,
please keep the suggestions coming. There is a strong possibility that
Kuala Lumpur may also be cancelled, in my opinion, and I do not want
that meeting to be as limited as this one, so lets try to think of some
new ways to engage and work together without a face to face meeting.
Kind regards,
Stephanie Perrin
NCSG Chair
On 2020-02-28 9:59 p.m., Benjamin Akinmoyeje wrote:
> Dear Chair,
> Thank you for the update. It is indeed a challenge, just like every
> experiment is. Change is always constant, also in the face of the
> health challenges, the world faces at this present time.
> Maybe we can make some lemonade out of this lemon without hurting the
> MS model and rather improve it.
>
> Kind regards,
> Benjamin
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 6:59 PM Bruna Martins dos Santos
> <bruna.mrtns at gmail.com <mailto:bruna.mrtns at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> We just got off another planning call, and with some new updates:
>
> 1. Number of sessions has been cut down from over 300 sessions to
> less than 75 - all in UTC-5.
>
> 2. Upon request ICANN can provide zoom rooms with live translation
> to both French and Spanish. But we need to gather within our
> constituency whether there will be interest for any of the
> channels just so ICANN can set up one for NCSG or if we could just
> join the ones being facilitated to ALAC and GAC.
>
> Please let me or @Maryam Bakoshi
> <mailto:maryam.bakoshi at icann.org> know if you would like to attend
> the meeting from either one of the channels - Spanish or French ones.
>
> Best regards,
> Bruna Santos
>
>
> Le ven. 28 févr. 2020 à 12:23, Bruna Martins dos Santos
> <bruna.mrtns at gmail.com <mailto:bruna.mrtns at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>
> Dear NCUC,
>
> I just wanted to write you a short update on the upcoming
> ICANN virtual meeting. As you're all aware, recently ICANN
> decided to no longer host an onsite meeting and gave their
> staff and the Community Leaders the - impossible - challenge
> of organizing in two weeks an virtual meeting that should
> attempt at reproducing what would've been the schedule of
> ICANN67.
>
> On that note some important things:
> (a) NCUC will no longer host any sessions during this virtual
> meeting. On the interest of time and already foreseeing some
> difficulties our members might have in following this meeting,
> we will host our Members and EC session at a later date.
> (b) ICANN67 Schedule will be shorter. Comm leaders were asked
> to only keep strictly necessary sessions and the consensus
> around the group was to keep mostly PDPs, Review Teams or any
> other Cross-community work we deemed necessary.
> (c) Timezone will be Cancun TImezone - UTC -5 - and the
> meeting will run for shorter hours than normal, from 9h00 to
> 17h00.
> (d) Live Translation Services will only be provided for
> English to Spanish + some live transcripts that could be
> translated. We understand that decision should be slightly
> exclusionary for other communities such as the Francophone
> community and maybe we could think of ways of having our
> french speakers writing up summaries of the sessions to be
> shared on the list.
>
> With regards to the final schedule I believe ICANN should be
> able to provide us a new one by the beginning of next week.
>
> Last but not least, I would like to highlight how problematic
> this experiment has been. Of course it is a first time for
> ICANN and for us volunteers, but the decision of adapting the
> entire schedule in two weeks is ambitious to say the least. I
> also fear that this experiment ends up harming the MS model we
> have built ICANN around, whether virtual or onsite, a lot of
> the communities interactions are being sacrificed on behalf of
> this first experiment and I just hope we get to have an onsite
> Kuala Lumpur meeting as well as a broader community
> discussions about this first virtual meeting.
>
> While I highly appreciate all the efforts being made by David
> Olive, Tanzanica, the meetings team and Maryam in making sure
> our priority meetings do make it to the schedule, (personal
> thought) I would've wished for ICANN to just call this meeting
> of or even postpone it for us to have a bit more time in
> discussing with our constituents what the priorities should be
> and how to better adjust the schedule.
>
> I will keep you all posted when there are more updates on the
> virtual meeting.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> --
> */Bruna Martins dos Santos /*
>
> Skype ID: bruna.martinsantos
> @boomartins
>
>
>
> --
> */Bruna Martins dos Santos /*
>
> Skype ID: bruna.martinsantos
> @boomartins
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