Dear Alan, many thanks for sharing this important analyses. 

As I am not attending Hyderabad meeting, due to a commitment made long ago to Council of Europe for the upcoming World Forum for Democracy, here are my few immediate reflections, in addition to the ones you have shared:

People engage/participate and get involved for a number of reasons:

-          Personal/professional ambitions and motivations/aspirations or a commitment to a certain agenda;

-          Organizational related objectives – promoting the institution one is part of, bringing the organization to a different development stage, among others;

-          Good knowledge of the issues being addressed and expertise that allows for a constructive engagement;

In line with the above, might be worth mapping and understanding what ‘brings’ ALSs and formal ALS representative to the ICANN ecosystem in the first place, what are the driving elements behind. 

On the other hand, we may also want to consider having some quantitative and qualitative indicators in place, that would allow measuring the engagement along with the quality of engagement and understand what is the kind of transformational changes that need to occur at the ALS, RALO, ALAC or ICANN level in order to deepen and broaden the engagement of ALSs in long run.

For this to happen, I envisage that a data collection mechanism might help track progress, and it can be also a scorecard with an operational layer (where data for specific indicators are collected), and a dashboard that allows to see in real time where things go into the ‘wrong’ direction and allow for a rapid response mechanism in place/or intervene and re-dress the situation before it is too late. 

Wishing you all a productive week ahead,

Veronica

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