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The GAC was assigned responsibility to address the issues themselves to remove their barriers to participation. However what was later identified following the review was that in order to be more successful in removing the barriers to successful participation required ICANN input. The barrier was in fact the lack of support from ICANN to produce introductory information about some of the complex issues they were that the GAC was being asked to comment on, in a format that was more easily digested by non-experts who did not completely understand the complexities of the issues as expressed by ICANN.  ICANN had passed their lack of understanding of often expert knowledge, as their problem. The ALAC and the GAC have since jointly raised this issue with the Board and are grateful for the support that the Board has demonstrated for this continuing concern. We would like some assurance that the Board will support our joint efforts to work with the Information Transparency Initiative in order to help to ensure Inclusive, Informed and Meaningful Participation at ICANN for both the ALAC and the GAC by further implementing what were the original recommendations of the ATRT2 but this time incorporating some further support from ICANN in order to more appropriately address a communication issue which is vital to the work of both our organisations and actually successfully complete that particular review item. 

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