[NCUC-EC] Article 19 and institutional membership

[William Drake]

On Feb 11, 2014, at 7:05 AM, Milan, Stefania <Stefania.Milan at EUI.eu> wrote:

> Dear all
> Following a meeting with one of the consultants (who is working on a paper on ICANN reform), Article 19 (http://www.article19.org) is interested in joining the NCUC as institutional member. 
> I have directed them to the appropriate form. Is there anything more I should be aware of? 

This is fantastic news Stefi, well done!  They’re a big catch.   As far as getting them into the tent, no, they fill out the form and it goes from there.  The real problem is that we do not have anyone to coordinate the Membership Affairs team, so even when solid new members join, like the IFLA, we don’t have anyone to do real follow up inreach and make them feel at home, see how they can get engaged, etc.  So they end up paper members on a listserv.  I can’t do everything, I’m already way past any rational time allocation with NCUC work (especially due to Singpore stuff) and that together with the other ICANN commitments and the rest has got me chained to a screen 12 hours a day every day.  So I need some help from somewhere…

I had a gent named Kris Seeburn contact me out of the blue two weeks ago and say he’d be willing to do the Membership team.  I’d never heard of him, he’s not spoken on the members list, but he sent his CV, teaches at the University of Technology, Mauritius, ISOC member. Seems a nice and smart guy, precisely the sort of member someone should be in reaching to to get him engaged, but whether he’s well positioned to lead that task himself given lack of historical involvement I don’t know.  I replied that normally the idea of the teams was that they’d be coordinated by members of the EC and comprise both EC members and regular members in order to create a bridge between the two and broaden engagement in the performance of key intraorganizational tasks.  As EC members, the coordinators would be able to regularly report to the EC and ensure coordination; plus any significant ‘decisions’ should be done by the EC since they are the elected representatives.  But as that’s not happening, maybe we should try a regular member, in which case I suppose I should do an open call for expressions of interest so nobody feels like this was handled in an insider sort of way.  He was ok with that.

So: last call.  Nobody on the EC can take this on?  I should write to members and ask for EOIs?

> 
> On a somewhat related note: I will do a internet governance overview/presentation in occasion of the TechnoActivism Monday here in Amsterdam, next Monday. Any material I can rely upon? This is a rather technical community made of hackers and tech-minded people, who are not necessarily acquainted with any of these processes. 

Wow that’s a big ask….it really depends what you want to focus on, IG’s a large landscape…?

Best

Bill

> Any suggestion is very welcome.
> 
> Best, Stefania
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  Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
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Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, 
  ICANN, www.ncuc.org
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