News:
Nomination Period Extended: Multistakeholder Ethos Award 2016 - Closing on 17 March 2016
Timeline
Ethos Award 2016 Recipient to be awarded at ICANN 56, location TBD (27-30 June 2016)
Nomination Period: 10 December 2015 - 17 March 2016
Community Panelists to be appointed by SOs/ACs leaders by 11 January 2016
Overview & Background:
This award program seeks to recognize community members who have served in leadership roles in multiple ICANN working groups or committees and demonstrated collaboration with different supporting organizations and/or advisory committees.
ICANN hopes to acknowledge community participants who have (1) deeply invested in consensus-based solutions, (2) affirmed the importance of ICANN’s multistakeholder model for Internet governance, and (3) contributed in a substantive way to the higher interests of ICANN’s organization and its community.
Candidates for the award will demonstrate at least five years of participation in the ICANN community. A panel of community members is being convened to help review all nominations and determine the best candidates for the first awards. Recipients for this award will be evaluated by a community selection panel with four primary criteria in mind, using a point-based system:
- Demonstrated multistakeholder volunteer service via working groups or committees - Maximum of 10 points.
- Demonstrated spirit of collaboration through engagement with other community members with the aim of consensus building - Maximum of 10 points.
- Demonstrated facilitator of dialogue and open discussion in a fair, cordial and collegial manner - Maximum of 5 points.
- Demonstrated additional devotional factors exhibited by time spent supporting ICANN's multistakeholder model and its overall effectiveness - Maximum of 5 points.
Background:
ICANN’s distinctive multistakeholder model brings together community members with different backgrounds and interests to work towards a joint goal: to ensure the security and stability of the Internet’s unique identifier systems. Due to the presence of so many different opinions and interests within ICANN’s policy-making structure, courtesy and collaboration are key. The Multistakeholder Ethos Award recognizes those ICANN participants who have deeply invested in consensus-based solutions and in the importance of ICANN’s multistakeholder model to Internet governance.
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