Independent Examiner’s Final Recommendation | ALAC should arrange for the designation of one of its support staff as a part-time Web Community Manager who will be responsible, inter alia, for coordinating outreach via social media (Rec 8). These responsibilities could be allocated to an existing member of staff. |
Issue Identified | Need for increased At-Large Community awareness and staff training regarding the use of social media. |
Does ALAC Support Recommendation? | The ALAC supports the intent of this recommendation |
If Not, Please Provide Reasoning. | Not Applicable |
If ALAC Does Not Support Recommendation, Does It Suggest an Alternative Recommendation? If so, please provide a suggested alternative Recommendation. | Not Applicable |
Prioritization | Low Priority |
At-Large Comments | It is the understanding of the ALAC that this is a function already allocated to At-Large support staff, albeit perhaps with a different title. The ALAC supports the designation on At-Large support staff to help enhance its use of Social Media. It is unclear to the ALAC why the term "Web Community Manager" is used or the relevance of the title. It is also unclear exactly how this recommendation differs from Recommendation 8. |
Possible Dependencies | The ALAC does note that assignment of staff is not a function that its volunteer community has any control over. It is beyond the scope of the At-Large volunteer community to take such action. |
Who Will Implement? | ICANN management |
Resource Requirements | ICANN Staff designated as a part-time Web Community Manager |
Budget Effects impact? | |
Implementation Timeline | |
Proposed Implementation Steps |
AT-LARGE GATEWAY
At-Large Regional Policy Engagement Program (ARPEP)
At-Large Review Implementation Plan Development
8 Comments
Alan Greenberg
My thoughts
Status:Accept in principle
Comment: It is the understanding of the ALAC that this is a function already allocated to At-Large support staff, albeit perhaps with a different title. The ALAC supports the designation on At-Large support staff to help enhance its use of Social Media. The ALAC does note that assignment of staff is not a function that its volunteer community has any control over.
Glenn McKnight
Status Accept
Comment
The curating of stories and shared in multiple languages of our achievements is critical and staff would be helpful but only working with volunteers to generate the local stories
Ariel Liang
ALAC comment in the ALAC Statement on the At-Large Review Draft Report
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The ALAC supports the intent of this recommendation. We note however, that it is beyond the scope of the At-Large volunteer community to take such action.
Holly Raiche
Adding to Alan's comment: help not just with social media, but with our website. The updating of the site is really critical if ALAC is to be able to participate in ICANN - thinkparticularly about how really useful our new policy page is, or thecalendar - things that make it so much easier.
Alfredo Calderon
Social Media / Website Manager with a clear scope of duties needs to be in place. Each RALO would need to identify an individual to handle these duties. It is starting to look like a position/full-time.
Ariel Liang
John Laprise's comments regarding 'At-Large Comments':
The Social Media Working Group has discovered, in consultation with ICANN staff, that ICANN has neither clear policy nor guidance on social media usage. ICANN has at least intellectual property interests at stake. We require guidelines from ICANN to establish handles, editorial policy, content, etc.
Vanda Scartezini
accepted, Social Media is playing an important role in the society nowadays and we are part of it, but the recommendation suggested we interfere into ICANN staff administration and allocation of HR and this is not for us to define.
We have support from staff to manage social media, but as Ariel stated we required guidelines from ICANN and it is under its role to define this.
priority - since social media is implemented and ICANN shall define staff role and parameters to do so, for me this is already in implementation phase.
Baudouin Schombe
Accepted. It is very important to note that social media plays a crucial role in the transmission of information in real time. They allow the public from all horizons to be informed of the discussions, exchanges in progress during the session (s). An interactive channel of remote participation in order to contribute or give an opinion on the theme or themes on the agenda.
For a proper coordination of this platform, it is desirable that it should be provided by the ICANN staff in collaboration with the RALOs taking into account the linguistic diversity.