This space is created to participants of Mentoring Program as Mentees can publish their own reports on their attendance.

 

Report  by  Glenn McKnight, Mentor

I had the  good fortune to  be one of the mentors  for three  brilliant and active  ALS members from NARALO.   My mentees were  Judith Hellerstein,  Konstantin Kalaitzidis and  Scott Sullivan

We  contacted each  other  weeks before  London in joint  Skype  calls   to discuss  their  individual  issues and concerns, plan for specific  meetings and address any travel issues.   I highly recommend  that  mentors and mentees  make an effort  to do the same  and learn to get to know each other  prior to the face to face.    I was surprised to learn at our  London meeting  that  a number of mentors  didn't  meet each other  prior to the meeting.    Perhaps  we needed to faciliate  a  formal   get together  on the  first day of  Atlas on the Saturday  so that  shy mentees can  do the  speed dating  thing.

My other observation about the mentorship program was the  high level of  diversity of the  needs and wants   of the individuals.  As a mentor  I think we need feedback/ranking on the  accessibility/helpfullness/resourcefulness  etc  so  we know  who actually did their job or not

 

Report  by  Eduardo Díaz, Mentor

I had five people assigned to me. One, Anthony Niiganii, I mentored during a previous ICANN meeting and by this meeting he was well acquainted with ICANN. In any case, I made myself available to help with any question which I did at various times. Garth Bruen and  Monique Chartran were very knowledgeable about ICANN  and did not require  mentoring at all.  Yubelkys Ramos was very new to ICANN and I did mentor her almost all the time.  As a result, I believe she was able to understand some of the ICANN intricacies and was able to do lots of networking with people from other regions.  I was not able to meet with Robert Castonguay.

For future efforts similar to this, I recommend doing a couple of conference calls between mentors/mentees to get more acquainted before getting to the meeting.  Also, I will not include people with lots of knowledge about ICANN in the list of mentees. It does not make sense. 

 

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  1. Mohamed EL Bashir - Mentoring Report

    Before traveling to ICANN London meeting, i have contacted my group and has set up a skype group to communicate with them.

     

  2. My two disciples had extensive experience in ICANN. Anyway we made contact before London, and we solve a serious problem of visa. In this case it was also useful to solve other problems with the per diem of one of them.