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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:
- 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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