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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: 
  • The At-Large Capacity Building Working Group has organized a series of webinars, and one of the webinars is ; there will be an upcoming webinar 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 
  • Atgroups. Some of the webinar materials will be incorporated to ICANN Learn courses. At-Large Beginner's Guides also 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, B Meeting will have a significant engagement element; Meeting B component. Hence, it will be a good opportunity to target end users to understand the policy development process and help them involve understand and get involved in the processICANN policy activities. 
  • End-users' participation in policy development The problem with participation is a complicated issue. Certain ALS has ALSes have 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 basic requirements and standards for ALS certificationcertifying ALSes. ALS Expectations and Criteria Working Group Criteria and Expectations Taskforce has discussed this issue, but ultimately RALOs need to work with ALAC on those requirements. the ALAC to address this issue. As RALOs have the closest contacts with ALSes, they need to play a big part in ALS engagement, for recruiting new members and finding new talents in the ALSes that have the interest and time to take part in policy development. 
  • The usual Usual suspects have been doing all the policy work, and also once they move on, At-Large will loose policy experts who moved on to other engagements. Mentorship in those topics. Hence, mentoring & 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 discontinuedconducive to train newbies and sustain the knowledge and talents. 
  • There are seem to be two types of mentoring programsprogram that took place in At-Large: 1) intensive (e.g. Gunela has Astbrink has been involved in that; it was specifically designed for ATLAS II, but it is unlikely to continue), 2) general. There has been some mentoring program established also seem to be mentoring programs in other places in ICANN. What you are mentoring for The purpose and subject of mentoring needs to be clarified (e.g. mentoring for engagement and mentoring for leadership would be very different). Mentoring program also needs to be an ongoing effort. 
  • Part Within the At-Large ALS Criteria and Expectations Taskforce, DT-A has been working on on-boarding programs to help newly joined ALSes and individual members participate in policy development activities using appropriate tools. Part of the DT-A work is to figure out ways to engage the ALSes and individual those members early on 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. 
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  • An 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 of the mentors, as it requires tremendous time commitments. If a mentoring program is going to take place, it needs to be followed through. Mentees also 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. 
  • to continue engaging with ICANN (after the completion of the mentoring program). CROPP is important for regional outreach