HI Glenn and others,
Thanks for this. We are not very inclusive at all and need to work much harder on this. This year, some fellows with disabilities had issues with the fellowship application and ICANN Learn program. It seems several of the mandatory videos are not accessible for persons with disabilities. This is really not good. While the Fellowship responded immediately, I am not sure a solution was ever found. Also, some fellows who are persons with disability may need to come to/attend ICANN with a guide or helper. Many groups do not allow that since it raises the cost of the person.
For the IGF, the Dynamic Coalition for accessibility and Disability on our application for our disability fellows program asks, the question. What accessibility requirements do you have, and we give the option to fund a guide for a person. In last year's fellowship it worked well and the person needing the guide was able to attend and contribute in other programs which do not offer this ability they feel they cannot partake in the program and that is really too bad.
It is not only important to have RTT at a meeting, what you need is human captioning at all workshops along with language interpretation. Also, all material needs to be accessible and many are not.
It would be great if the fellowship and next gen programs were more accessible and also even after ICANN Learn said the new courses were accessible, many are not. Just as ICANN has all of its websites tested for accessibility by an outside firm, ICANN Learn should also do that with all of it learning materials.
I definitely agree with you that we need to put much more thought
into how accessible and inclusive our programs, learning resources
and other items are. Just a few thoughts on this topic
Best,
Judith
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Hi AllThank you Fatimata to adding a concrete example on how women are discriminated due to their massive amount of extra work/family obligations.I like to also bring up another group that is invisible which is 15% of our population, its the Persons with Disabilities. I believe strongly that we should be proving the ways and means for these individuals have an opportunity to be involved. An interesting event yesterday held by CIRA on multistakeholderism failed to include Closed Captioning where they prided themselves on being inclusive. We need to rethink how inclusive we actually are.
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On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 13:12, Fatimata Seye Sylla <fsylla@gmail.com> wrote:
Echoing Vanda and Glen about the Atlarge volunteer model and women involvement. Mainly in developing countries and specially in Africa, it is difficult for a professional woman to find extra time to dedicate to ICANN with the necessary focus, no matter how interested she can be. Full time job at work and at home and volunteer !!!
Let’s think about how to improve the ICANN volunteer model to be more inclusive.
Fatimata
Sent from my iPhoneHi VandaI recall at the DNS Women meeting in KL that the you mentioned that few Young Women desired to become involved in DNS Women and ICANN as a whole. If you recall I did some research on the fellowship programme using the database created by Dev and myself and we found the majority of fellows are male. This is a serious problem given the fact an important entry point for ICANN new recruits can come from this program. After speaking to Egrys on this issue the issue was addressed in having gender parity. Alas, I don't think this has been achieved. The absence of real marketing outreach to Women in Engineering, IEEE etc to recruit women to apply we will end up with same problem. Again we will complain of the lack of participation and we fail to address the lack of proper marketing strategy. Recently I was on the ARIN fellowship selection committee and the quality of the candidates was superb and very few ' free trippers" perhaps we can learn from other organizations how to recruit
g
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On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 10:07, Vanda Scartezini via ALAC <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:
_______________________________________________Dear all
Thanks for these debates. I am quite interested in how to attract new members to At Large (ALAC) and especially young future leaders.
I believe, we, long-term members without business interests are continuing to attend ICANN because we like it, and we see we can add some, in our views, relevant value, no matter if technical, managerial, or social.
However, looking back, more and more we are now just a few of those financially disinterested people, compared with the large ICANN group with a financial interest in being part of ICANN - this financial interest can be any resource that pays your bills. Can be organizations with direct ICANN interest or can be government, for instance.
This is even more relevant for young new member starting or in the middle of their professional life.
Hence, we, with no financial interest I believe, are a group in extinction.
To have new members to actively participating in the At Large organization maybe it is time to start focusing on those areas where new members are employees of government or companies with financial interest but also nterested also in the social side, or even a R&D organizations in order to allow new members to At Large to see advantages to their engagement. At Large is the only group that still have some real volunteers. All other groups members have some financial interest allowing them to dedicate their time to work for ICANN.
ICANN needs to rethink its volunteer model.
New members that came with energy only will continue if they get any other financial support to dedicate time to At Large work.
I, member of those in extinction full volunteer, will continue to follow ICANN while I feel I can be useful, and I still recognize some personal value in my participation.
I do not expect NexGen to buy our model, and even only fewer fellows will do it without the support of its business interests.
I have no criticism of anyone with business interests, but we need to think about how the At Large equation will really survive in the next 5 or more years.
My two cents
Kisses to all
Vanda Scartezini
DNS WOMEN
Sao Paulo, Brazil
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