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Action: 

• 16 Sep 2015: 
  • ALAC to speak to Nora Abusitta on the Mentoring program in Dublin, specifically about this recommendation 
  • Gunela Astbrink is encouraged to participate in that meeting and speak about her experience 

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Notes: 

• 16 Sep 2015: 
  • Capacity Building has a series of webinars, and one of the webinars is on policy making in GNSO and At-Large working groups 
  • ICANN Learn has courses that will link to the capacity building webinars 
  • Community/Staff create ICANN Learn courses 
  • At-Large Beginner's Guides have information about policy making information as well 
  • There has been progress within the DT-A in the ALS Expectations & Criteria WG, which is looking into on-boarding efforts to help newly joined ALSes participate in policy development and use relevant tools to do so. 
  • New meeting strategy, Meeting B, will have a significant engagement element; Meeting B will be a good opportunity target end users to understand the policy development process and help them involve in the process.
  • The problem with participation is a complicated issue. Certain ALS has no idea how to participate at all. Some ALSes don't even know what ICANN is and what ICANN does. There needs to be some requirements and standards for ALS certification. ALS Expectations and Criteria Working Group has discussed this issue, but ultimately RALOs need to work with ALAC on those requirements. 
  • Usual suspects have been doing all the policy work, and also loose policy experts who moved on to other engagements. 
  • Mentorship & buddy system would be a good opportunity to attract new blood and train new talents. It was implemented during ATLAS II, but it seems to have been discontinued. 
  • There are two types of mentoring programs: 1) intensive (e.g. Gunela has been involved in that) 2) general. There has been some mentoring program established in other places in ICANN. What you are mentoring for needs to be clarified (mentoring for engagement and leadership would be different). Mentoring program needs to be an ongoing effort. 
  • Part of the DT-A work is to engage the ALSes and individual members early and formalize the mentoring efforts. There would be a commitment and conversation about mentoring. 
  • The program that Gunela took part in was related to ATLAS II, and it may not continue. Gunela has some understanding about ICANN processes in mentoring. 
  • The ICANN wide mentoring program would be a better way to go, and there is progress on that. Nora Abusitta would be able to speak about it. The need for ongoing mentoring efforts is really necessary, otherwise we will loose new blood. It is also necessary to have recognition to the mentors, as it requires tremendous time commitments. If a mentoring program is going to take place, it needs to be followed through. Mentees need to be supported somehow. 
  • For ALS engagements, RALOs play a big part in it, for recruiting new talents and finding new members in the ALSes that have the interest and time to engage deeply in policy issues. 
  • CROPP is important for regional outreach