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• Employees being unwilling for fear of retribution to use the current hotline to report problems
• Serious accusation of improprieties that have never been made nor vetted and acted upon.
• A continuing culture of fear in several departments at ICANN.

Draft recommendation

• ICANN must arrange for a professional review of its whistleblower policy to insure that the ICANN program meets the highest standards as established by tbd
  • The results of this report to be made public

• Improvement to be made to employee whistle-blowing process to meet the best
world standards
• practices for transparency. 
• Special attention to be paid to employee protection
and elimination of the culture of fear
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• Processes for ICANN employee transparency and whistleblowing to be made public

• ICANN must arrange for an annual professional audit of its whistleblower policy to insure that the ICANN program meets the global best practices as established by:
  
  • UN Government Accountability Project
    
  • UN policy

• Information on whistleblower program to be include in anual Transparency report (Recommendation 35), including:
  
  • Results of annual whistleblower audit
  • Basic Metrics including Transparency report needs to include a section on Employee whistle-blowing activity including metrics on:
    
    • Reports submitted
    • Reports verified as contaiing issues requiring action
    • Reports that resulted in change to ICANN practices
• This report should be created under the supervision of  the ICANN Ombudsman.
  
  • This would require a change to By-laws on the Ombudsman scope

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Public Comment on Draft Recommendations

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