Thanks for your piece, Garth. IMO the term end-user still needs to refer to the billions who are impacted by DNS policy even if they never contemplate buying a domain. But it is your accurately-defined concept of "stewards" that need to be the interface between those billions and the multi-stakeholder model. Without using that terminology, the At-Large leadership -- backed up by the RALOs -- has been trying to serve exactly this purpose. I have taken the conversations in this thread to heart and will be trying to put thoughts down in a coherent form. The conclusions I draw myself from this suggest that At-Large needs a massive re-think of how it treats outreach. Rather than brochures and CROPP and Fellows and endless (mostly futile) campaigns to get more outsiders to get involved, I think the stewards need to do more to directly address the needs of the billions. If we are doing our jobs at that -- trying to affect policy while facing inside ICANN, while creating plain-language education programs to explain those policies while facing outside -- the stewards will find us without much effort. - Evan On 14 September 2016 at 22:24, Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Garth Graham <garth.graham@telus.net> wrote:
In community networking, we call such people the stewards of the uses of ICTs for community development. In fact, supporting just such people is the primary mission of many ALSs
Well said! That has been my mission for ages.
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