[NCUC-DISCUSS] Updates on ICANN67
Marilia Maciel
mariliam at diplomacy.edu
Tue Mar 3 17:41:14 CET 2020
Hello everyone,
Long time :) I could not resist to jump in, since remote participation (RP)
is a very dear topic to me. This was actually how I started to be actively
involved in Internet Governance back in 2007. After the IGF that year,
myself and a bunch of other youth (hey Rafik! :) that had been supported to
attend the meeting found ourselves with no support to continue involved and
we decided to work on improving remote participation at the IGF. The
adoption of a new platform, a more consistent methodology and IGF hubs
followed this effort.
The sad Corona developments and the climate change crisis are creating a
new momentum in which enhanced RP has become a necessity. We need to 'save'
traveling for when traveling is strictly needed. A lot of improvements have
been achieved with RP in the last years. The whole experience was
disappointing and jittery back in 2007. Technology made large progress.
Methodology and know-how made some progress too. ICANN could provide a
remarkable testbed for the future of RP in this Corona and climate-aware
world. ICANN has three incredible assets: financial and technical
resources, and a pre-existing highly organised community.
- Does ICANN have a strategic plan for this first time ever all-online
meeting? Can we access it, comment on it, make suggestions?
- Does this strategy include technical elements as well as human
considerations? A flawless platform is not everything. People need to feel
engaged, motivated, immersed. These are human and psychological aspects.
- Does ICANN have a contact person responsible for this strategy?Someone
who's taking the lead? Could we contact this person to share our thoughts
and concerns?
- Can we expect that people will be given days-off from their jobs to
attend this online meeting? With the exception of the time needed to
actually travel, RP requires as much time and engagement as physical
meetings. If people are not allowed time off, their attention will
naturally be elsewhere. Perhaps our colleagues from other constituencies
will be exempted from work obligations to attend the online meeting, but
will NCSG members? Could ICANN help, for example, by providing a letter
that could be shared with the hierarchy in our jobs explaining why this
meeting will be online and that it will require as much dedication as a
physical meeting? Sometimes institutional backing helps.
- I agree it is difficult to expect that people will put alarms in the
middle of the night and wander alone like zombies in their homes following
an online meeting. Is there still a chance to organise local ICANN hubs
(they could be backed by local ISPs, ISOC chapters etc), in which people
gather together in a physical place to take part in ICANN? The advantage
would be to maintain at least the local networking element, to make the
experience a bit more convivial, etc.
- It is still expected that some people will only be partially available
during the day. Life kicks-in, there are kids to pick up and feed, for
example. How can NCSG organise preparatory thematic meetings to discuss
substance and positions in advance, so these people have the chance to
voice their opinions in a way that is duly summarised and conveyed by
NCSG's leadership during the meeting?
Time is very short, but just a few questions for reflection.
Looking forward to the experiment and to connecting with you.
Best,
Marilia
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 4:04 PM Bruna Martins dos Santos <
bruna.mrtns at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I dont know if we need a later-the-same-day-discussion and, as I pointed
> out in my previous email, what we are trying to address here is a problem
> we already face with the normal onsite meetings which is bridging our
> onsite participation with the one on remote.
>
> Schedule is out now <https://meetings.icann.org/en/remote67> and we have
> around 70 sessions, if im not forgetting any. But given that this time the
> meeting will be hosted roughly on 8 zoom rooms, with two of them only for
> either French or spanish speakers, to be used by GAC or ALAC. this adds a
> language barrier to our meetings or even some of the PDPs. Hence our idea
> of sharing information more actively on the list, but Im not too sure of
> what the model should really be.
>
> Best,
> B
>
> Le lun. 2 mars 2020 à 11:42, Niels ten Oever <lists at digitaldissidents.org>
> a écrit :
>
>> Hi Stephanie,
>>
>> It might be me but, why do we need a later-the-same-day discussion group?
>> Ppl can put their alarm clock and stay up, in the same way as they would
>> with 'normal' or 'normal-remote' participation? Otherwise we could perhaps
>> be a bit more verbose in the chatlog in our public channel so people can
>> read the chatlogs?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Niels
>>
>>
>> On 3/2/20 3:04 PM, Stephanie E Perrin wrote:
>> > Well that sounds like you are volunteering to help organize a
>> later-that-same-day discussion group, Niels! :-D
>> >
>> > I think we need to do something to engage folks who are outside the
>> time zones (09:00-17:00 EST or Cancun time) as otherwise, we are stuck
>> listening to Zoom tapes. The transcription on Zoom must be robotic, it is
>> really pretty bad, so we need to help folks understand what when on that
>> day IMO.
>> >
>> > Stephanie
>> >
>> > On 2020-03-02 6:41 a.m., Niels ten Oever wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I am actually very excited about the remote meeting, since the
>> existing practice of a traveling circus does not really seem the best way
>> to create an inclusive and sustainable environment. I'd much rather shift
>> my times at home than traveling all around the world to do the same.
>> >>
>> >> What are the current chat / discussion channels and platforms people
>> use to discuss and navigate the meeting?
>> >>
>> >> Best,
>> >>
>> >> Niels
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 3/2/20 6:07 AM, Bruna Martins dos Santos wrote:
>> >>> I totally agree that, at this point we are facing a first time
>> experiment and it may not be as problematic to collapse the NCSG, NCUC or
>> NPOC meetings. But if the COVID situation continues to spread, we will most
>> likely face another virtual meeting and maybe it would interesting for us
>> as a Constituency and Stakeholder group to reassess this experience and
>> check what worked or not. As well as how to ensure participation
>> considering thelimited resources for translation services <
>> https://www.icann.org/news/blog/language-services-at-icann67?fbclid=IwAR3YQXqWvnt4lH8UXSTwvPSMW4bUAZRkKnofdLM9Vz5mdIiyRQURK4GnssY#.Xlu8mylZ8M0.facebook>,
>> for an example.
>> >>>
>> >>> My decision on cancelling the NCUC meetings was due to the fact that
>> we have members in a lot of places and adding the weight of Constituency
>> Meetings to this first experience could make it a bit harder - due to the
>> different timezones. Therefore the idea of hosting a members call a few
>> weeks later for us to reassess icann67 seemed like a better idea.
>> >>>
>> >>> In some ways, this experience might indeed be positive. Generally
>> speaking, those of us attending meetings onsite tend to get really caught
>> up with the work and f2f interactions that finding easy and authentic ways
>> of reporting the meetings to remote participants is something long overdue.
>> As mentioned by @Stephanie Perrin <mailto:stephanie at digitaldiscretion.ca>,
>> maybe we can think of a way to help people who wont be able to be online
>> and participate at the meeting live - I would like to offer the Blog space
>> at ncuc.org <http://ncuc.org> for anyone willing to write short
>> summaries of the sessions.
>> >>>
>> >>> Best,
>> >>> Bruna Santos
>> >>> NCUC Chair
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Le sam. 29 févr. 2020 à 17:19, Mueller, Milton L <milton at gatech.edu
>> <mailto:milton at gatech.edu>> a écrit :
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks to Bruna for keeping us updated on what is going on with
>> the all-virtual meeting, I guess we can call it the Zoom meeting.
>> Appreciate the explanation, and agree with many of your criticisms. ____
>> >>>
>> >>> __ __
>> >>>
>> >>> But in one sense I think is fine to collapse the NCSG and NCUC
>> meetings. I would not call that an abandonment of the NCUC, let’s just call
>> it a merger. I hope you as well as NPOC can stick some of their own things
>> into the agenda. And it don’t hurt us to discuss those things together.
>> Everyone knows I don’t believe there should be separate constituencies
>> anyway, just the unified SG. So it might do us good to meet together. ____
>> >>>
>> >>> __ __
>> >>>
>> >>> In that sense I agree with Benjamin that we can make lemonade
>> out of this lemon and maybe make use of the opportunity to improve the
>> multistakeholder model ____
>> >>>
>> >>> __ __
>> >>>
>> >>> __ __
>> >>>
>> >>> Dr. Milton L Mueller____
>> >>>
>> >>> Georgia Institute of Technology____
>> >>>
>> >>> School of Public Policy____
>> >>>
>> >>> IGP_logo_gold block____
>> >>>
>> >>> __ __
>> >>>
>> >>> __ __
>> >>>
>> >>> __ __
>> >>>
>> >>> *From:*Ncuc-discuss <ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org
>> <mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org>> *On Behalf Of *Benjamin
>> Akinmoyeje
>> >>> *Sent:* Friday, February 28, 2020 10:00 PM
>> >>> *To:* Bruna Martins dos Santos <bruna.mrtns at gmail.com <mailto:
>> bruna.mrtns at gmail.com>>
>> >>> *Cc:* NCUC Discuss <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org <mailto:
>> ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org>>
>> >>> *Subject:* Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Updates on ICANN67____
>> >>>
>> >>> __ __
>> >>>
>> >>> 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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