ICANN is planning to implement a plan to facilitate greater civil society and non-commercial engagement within ICANN.
The Internal Organization Team includes GSE and At-Large staff.
NEW: A community call on "Civil Society Engagement Approach: Call to discuss Implementation" is scheduled for 14:00 TC on16 December 2015. Details have been sent to ALAC-Announce and RALO mailing lists.
Please note the updated Civil Society and Non-Commercial Engagement in FY16 @ Updated document now open for additional comments through 13 December 2015.
A first draft Civil Society Engagement Overview and Forward Planner is posted here.
Comments are encouraged by 30 September 2015. Please use the comments function on this workspace.
10 Comments
Heidi Ullrich
On behalf of Cheryl Langdon-Orr, I am submitting the APrIGF event taking place in July 2016 to the Civil Society Engagement plan list of regional events for consideration of collaboration.
Wolf Ludwig
Such a plan to "facilitate greater CS engagement within ICANN" as well as close coordination with regional GSEs (and At-Large Staff) is appreciated from the European / EURALO side. This should be part of EURALO's Outreach strategy for 2016 to be discussed and approved at the upcoming Dublin meeting. There are a lot of synergies that can be used and better operationalized in the region!
Glenn McKnight
Today's RALO Secretariat call time
At-Large ICANN Civil Society Engagement in Fiscal Year 2016 - facilitate greater civil society engagement within ICANN. Reference: Staff created the wiki : CROSS - RALO Internet Governance Events Workspace and requested input and updates, with little success- 10 mins- Heidi Ullrich
Comment
We have submitted to Heidi and Joe an extensive event calendar with input from Garth, Judith, Alfredo and Eduardo and myself Our recommendations have been ignored since the document circulated for tomorrow's webinar
The PDF above doesn't permit us entering the additional events. Uploading the events as a word document to this page.
Glenn
Dev Anand Teelucksingh
Whilst its good to see this type of Civil Society Engagement and Capacity Building which I suspect are in line with many regional Strategies, one key concern for At-Large is the lack of sustained regular coordination between At-Large and GSE.
Too many times in the past, At-large members discover by accident about an nearby IG/ICT event GSE is participating in that would have benefited with an At-Large presence to work with and assist the GSE in doing outreach. We recognize that sometimes GSE find themselves attending an event "at the last minute" and are also aware that not all of the GSE travels may not want to be publicised depending on the stakeholders being met.
Nevertheless, more sustained, regular communication between At-Large and GSE would minimize such lost opportunities. Some suggestions:
Glenn McKnight
I agree with Dev. I have entered all the events as discussed on this calendar
Glenn McKnight
This task should have been properly communicated to the Outreach and Engagement Sub-Committee since we started the calls in early August. NARALO didn't have a meeting in July and it wasn't a topic for the NARALO August call.
The first time I heard about this call for comments from a ATLAS ll cal and We immediately stated a separate event calendar since the one above is a PDF and not editable
As Dev has mentioned we need better communication on the shared calendars Dev is suggesting Teamup http://www.teamup.com/help/getting-started-tutorial.html. He will provide detailed costing per month
Glenn McKnight
Comments on ICANN Civil Society Engagement FY 16
The non profit sector is over 1.2 million organizations in the US and over 300,000 non profits in Canada. The civil society is a very broad category. They represent one of the biggest economic sectors. 10 times larger than the auto industry. The attached pictures was taken at NTEN 2015 during a session on BLACKBAUD
This picture is a cross section of the non profit sector based upon interest. Treating the Civil Society as a homogeneous group is a mistake, equally an error focusing only on academics.
The fundraising information is important since are very active with Online fundraising
FULL SIZE VERSIONS of pics on my flickr site https://www.flickr.com/photos/glennmcknight/albums/72157650746651019
The document ignores the tactics that are criteria for engagement. his stats is important since according to the PEW INTERNET REPORT it reported that Black an Hispanics place a heavy onus on using mobile to access Internet information
See stats on Non Profits an Mobile
Perhaps tactics need more discussion.
Glenn McKnight
Checked the document and the suggestions were not added
Glenn McKnight
Slide here requested the shared calendar
Glenn McKnight
Attending the 16NTC in San Jose since Tuesday night.
Sad to say that this conference has 'jumped the shark' with the quality of the sessions diminished and connections to valid civil society organizations clearly was lacking. The one session scheduled for Wed afternoon on Accessibility was cancelled by a vendor no show and they substituted it with a Branding session. Participation with a number of Birds of Feather sessions as usual is good. I think ICANN needs a 'civil society' talking piece and short video to speak directly to the interested groups
Glenn