Gisella Gruber-White:Welcome to the Finance and Budget Sub Committee call on Friday 20 January 2012
Gisella Gruber-White:and Welcome to the ICANN Finance team - thank you for joining us.
Rinalia Abdul Rahim:hi! the screen is a bit different.
Gisella Gruber-White:Yes, in order to show documents during the call
Rinalia Abdul Rahim:hello.
Rinalia Abdul Rahim:There seems to be a lag in showing the typed inputs for chat, Gisella. Is that just my connection?
Heidi Ullrich:Hi All, the passcode for this call is 1638
Rinalia Abdul Rahim:I actually cannot see any shared docs.
Ganesh Kumar:I am here
Dev Anand Teelucksingh:print landscape
Charles Mok:Siva are you still waiting for a dialout?
Sivasubramanian M:Charles, I am here, and on the phone as well
Sivasubramanian M:Thanks Gisella, I am on the dial out
Ganesh Kumar:I am here too
Gisella Gruber-White:Siva is on the call
Gisella Gruber-White:he is on mute
Gareth Shearman:I was suddenly dropped - back now
Gisella Gruber-White:Thank you Gareth - welcome
Dev Anand Teelucksingh:yes indeed
Charles Mok:Well said Cheryl!!
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:See what wer got in *again this year* from the RALO's is requests for GA's (incl capacity Building F2F Meetiungs when either ICANN Meetings are in Region OR where MAJOR Internet Meetings occur (e.g. an IGF or Regional IGF) as well as funding request for outreach activities (all promoting ICANN and new gTLDs etc., at the same time...
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:The 'ongoing budget re occurring from ICANN is inclusive aof our normal staff support and the attedance of the ALAC and cor budget actovities 8THE CURREN BLACK BOX BIT8 (and 2 RALO reps) at ICANN Meetings
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:GA's Regional Outreach and associated cpacity Bld is what the aRALOs need as 'routine' and planned for medium to loing term
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:these are core activities fro RALOs and yet are complementary ( in the outrach and co located opportunities in non ICANN meetings
Charles Mok:The problem is that the core activities are not enough for At Large to do a good job, or to accomplish my core goals.
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:the muscles on the skeleton (if you will allow me the metaphore
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:YES WE RECOGNISE this is in some way a cross over / opportunity with Global Partnerships work as well...
Dev Anand Teelucksingh:disconnected - dialling back in
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:All but 1 for AfRALO input into IGF (which is in APRegion this year) are of the INYERNAL to Region catagory
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:Online interaction
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:and some e
Cheryl Langdon-Orr: communication tools
Sivasubramanian M:Excellent idea from Fatima
Sivasubramanian M:The costs woudl relate to building a platform for e-training
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:This is an example where a RALO request shows clear benefoit to all At-Large Regions and beyind into other ICANN comstituencies and communities the Fellows would be a natural link here as they dive deeper into ICANN and there is use of course to even GAC and other participants... of such a resource build out ICANN wide
Sivasubramanian M:Once such a platform (it could be as simple as a moodel platform) and it could be useful for all ralos
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:16 'units' or sessions/ topics
Sivasubramanian M:there would be requirement of staff and volunteer requirement in course developments
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:Siva yes that is exactly what the request asks for
Sivasubramanian M:Yes Cheryl, it is a very good idea, but on the comment that there needs to be a cost esitmate
Sivasubramanian M:I am trying to identify cost components
Sivasubramanian M:one is the cost of the platform
Sivasubramanian M:and another is the cost of course development, sometimes it is internal staff and community member time, in some cases external help may be required to "design" the courses
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:Exactly what the request asks for Siva
Sivasubramanian M:and the third componet would be translation costs
Sivasubramanian M:Great idea Cheryl
Heidi Ullrich:Ganesh, your line has been muted
Heidi Ullrich:Ganesh, to unmute, dial *7
Ganesh Kumar:sorry
Heidi Ullrich:np
Sivasubramanian M:Ganesh's point on a baseline is quite valid
Tijani BEN JEMAA:Dropped
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:For example Xavier on this request the time energy resources some Policy staff need to do for 'regular' pre ICANNN Meeting Policy Updates but would be reused (or PRE Used) to creae 'course of Unit/Topic materials and logistics...
Sebastien:SO/AC additional requests placeholder envelope of $500k
Sebastien:Page 25
Sebastien:http://www.icann.org/en/planning/ops-budget-framework-fy2013-en.pdf
Cheryl Langdon-Orr: And for OUR OUtreach and InReach / Capacity Building are examoles of CORE requirements never being covered by CORE ICANN budgets
Sivasubramanian M:I have a pop us that says "private chat started, it is not visible" notify hsots
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:just means some people are IM with each other 1 t 1
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:ignore it
Heidi Ullrich:Tijani, Adigo is dialing you again.
Tijani BEN JEMAA:Thanks Heidi
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:the Future Years roadmap produced to asssit us in transitioning from this current "situation" refer to the Link Seb out in above...
Sivasubramanian M:What is rotuinely allotted to the advisory committees and constituencies (cost of staff support and cost of participation in icann meetings) ould be thought of as "fixed cost"
Gisella Gruber-White:Tijani is back
Sivasubramanian M:Over and above that, there is a variable cost, cost of "operations" at the RALO level, so the base line that Ganesh talked abotu could be though of as a baseliine for this 'variable"cost
Heidi Ullrich:There are core costs, Siva. These requests are for additional activities.
Sivasubramanian M:It does not exxactly fit into the classification, but for 'variable' cost, there requires to be a base line, a base figure
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:Yes we are ALL Cart before horse here we recognise that\
Sivasubramanian M:the zero base is not good for that
Cheryl Langdon-Orr: our Roadmap is of course a way of transitioning the horse in front of OUR At-Large cart ;-)
Sivasubramanian M:Just a thought
Sivasubramanian M:It is merely a way of thinking
Sivasubramanian M:leaving the adobe room, but on the call
Heidi Ullrich:Thanks, Matt!
Heidi Ullrich:This is the intital draft budget.
Matt Ashtiani:A copy of the current documet can be downloaded here - http://goo.gl/LU7gX
Cintra Sooknanan: I have to drop off this call... great to hear you Xavier and look forward to the response to the Costa Rica GA for LACRALO
Cintra Sooknanan:Bye everyone
Sebastien:Thanks
Dev Anand Teelucksingh:Thanks everyone, take care
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