Scheduling regular telephonic policy briefings on Policy for the At-Large Community
Dear ALAC and Secretariat members: Following up on an offer made by the Staff during the 1 November 2007 ALAC meeting in Los Angeles, and followup conversations with Cheryl, may I suggest that the staff of ICANN provide two briefings on policy issues at a standing time and date twice per month - one convenient to the eastern hemisphere, and the other convenient to the western hemisphere, approximately every two weeks. We would then facilitate callers to dial in to the briefing, or if they do not live in a country with a freephone number, the service could dial out to them. The calls would be recorded, so that those who could not participate 'live' would be able to listen to the recordings later. Setting a standing date and time may make it easier for the volunteer community to schedule time to participate sufficiently in advance to ensure good Q&A sessions so that recordings are of maximum use to other parties - even other ICANN communities. Might I suggest that with respect to the subjects of the call, these could be decided by a procedure where the ALAC Executive Committee proposes a list of subjects for the next four calls (two months' worth) to the public ALAC list on a no-objections basis after their next meeting (20th December). These calls would begin in the new year and proposing the subjects in good time like this would allow the Policy staff to schedule the right people to do the briefings with sufficient warning. I hope that this will meet with your favour. With the various working groups really getting underway, it seems that this may help to raise understanding of the issues and their complexity so that the At-Large community can provide the best advice possible on the subjects which concern you. I will separately liaise with my colleagues in the Policy department to see if some time / date combinations are most suitable to ensure over the course of time the best access to the widest number of potential briefers :) -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart@icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart@hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart@mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart
Great Idea! Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 dthompson@gov.nu.ca ________________________________ From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Nick Ashton-Hart Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 3:51 AM To: At-Large Worldwide Cc: policy@icann.org Subject: [At-Large] Scheduling regular telephonic policy briefings on Policyfor the At-Large Community Dear ALAC and Secretariat members: Following up on an offer made by the Staff during the 1 November 2007 ALAC meeting in Los Angeles, and followup conversations with Cheryl, may I suggest that the staff of ICANN provide two briefings on policy issues at a standing time and date twice per month - one convenient to the eastern hemisphere, and the other convenient to the western hemisphere, approximately every two weeks. We would then facilitate callers to dial in to the briefing, or if they do not live in a country with a freephone number, the service could dial out to them. The calls would be recorded, so that those who could not participate 'live' would be able to listen to the recordings later. Setting a standing date and time may make it easier for the volunteer community to schedule time to participate sufficiently in advance to ensure good Q&A sessions so that recordings are of maximum use to other parties - even other ICANN communities. Might I suggest that with respect to the subjects of the call, these could be decided by a procedure where the ALAC Executive Committee proposes a list of subjects for the next four calls (two months' worth) to the public ALAC list on a no-objections basis after their next meeting (20th December). These calls would begin in the new year and proposing the subjects in good time like this would allow the Policy staff to schedule the right people to do the briefings with sufficient warning. I hope that this will meet with your favour. With the various working groups really getting underway, it seems that this may help to raise understanding of the issues and their complexity so that the At-Large community can provide the best advice possible on the subjects which concern you. I will separately liaise with my colleagues in the Policy department to see if some time / date combinations are most suitable to ensure over the course of time the best access to the widest number of potential briefers :) -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart@icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart@hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart@mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart
Hello Nick, The plan to do regular policy briefings on issues determined by ALAC is a great idea and long overdue, but the delivery mechanism of the conference call is suitable for little more than a small clique. Given that the target audience is not just ALAC or ALS representatives, but indeed all ALS members and beyond, though, I would suggest that telephone conference calls are not the optimal medium for distribution. Personally, I find conference calls beyond 20 people unwieldy and inefficient; all it takes is one or two people to be on speakerphone for a call to be almost unlistenable. As we want a target participation in the hundreds if not thousands, forget telephone interactivity; it might as well be a recorded message. No matter when you schedule the calls they will be inconvenient to some significant proportion of the target audience, and then of course is the unavoidable issue of language diversity. I would suggest, in the early going, that we start with the written word -- clearly explained policy briefing available online, in multiple (_layman's_) language versions. This then gets augmented with an input mechanism to receive questions (email and/or web form); answers are collected and posted alongside the original core briefing documents. After all, ICANN is about the Internet, not the POTS(*) network. Large-scale interactive sessions can take place using mechanisms such as Internet Relay Chat, Skype or even MSN, in a manner that can keep communications channels "open" in every time zone while being infinitely more cost-effective (and of higher transmission quality) than conference calls. The first thing that came to mind during the mention of telephone calls was doing podcasts; this would indeed be exploiting technology worthy of our current century. However, before getting into that level of ambition I would prefer to concentrate on the quality of the content. Let's ensure that what is said in the briefings is suitably accessible by the public, not just we elite who are actively involved and closest to the source. I truly appreciate this initiative and want it to serve the purpose of At-Large; I would just ask that, from the outset, its aim in both content and delivery, meets the needs of the whole community we are charged to serve. A small shift in approach will lead to both wider reach AND cost savings. Evan Leibovitch Chair, NARALO (*) -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service
Excellent comments, Evan, If memory serves, though, I seem to remember Nick(?) mentioning to me that they tried something similar before but nobody showed up so we may not experience the problem of hundreds and thousands getting on the telephone conferences. That being said, that shows that there IS a problem with just doing telephone conferences. Everybody learns in different ways so I would lean more to having a two-pronged approach: the telephone conferences AND having the policy briefings on-line. That way people can pick the way they want learn things. The telephone conferences would go a long way to bringing us "regulars" up to speed so that we will be able to communicate on issues better. I know that this won't be reaching EVERYBODY but if even some of us become better educated, then we can help to point the general public to the appropriate sources of information. I don't see the telephone conferences as being a be-all-end-all but just a good start. Just my opinion and its good to see ICANN trying SOMETHING! D Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 dthompson@gov.nu.ca -----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Evan Leibovitch Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:35 AM To: Nick Ashton-Hart Cc: policy@icann.org; At-Large Worldwide Subject: Re: [At-Large] Scheduling regular telephonic policy briefings on Policy for the At-Large Community Hello Nick, The plan to do regular policy briefings on issues determined by ALAC is a great idea and long overdue, but the delivery mechanism of the conference call is suitable for little more than a small clique. Given that the target audience is not just ALAC or ALS representatives, but indeed all ALS members and beyond, though, I would suggest that telephone conference calls are not the optimal medium for distribution. Personally, I find conference calls beyond 20 people unwieldy and inefficient; all it takes is one or two people to be on speakerphone for a call to be almost unlistenable. As we want a target participation in the hundreds if not thousands, forget telephone interactivity; it might as well be a recorded message. No matter when you schedule the calls they will be inconvenient to some significant proportion of the target audience, and then of course is the unavoidable issue of language diversity. I would suggest, in the early going, that we start with the written word -- clearly explained policy briefing available online, in multiple (_layman's_) language versions. This then gets augmented with an input mechanism to receive questions (email and/or web form); answers are collected and posted alongside the original core briefing documents. After all, ICANN is about the Internet, not the POTS(*) network. Large-scale interactive sessions can take place using mechanisms such as Internet Relay Chat, Skype or even MSN, in a manner that can keep communications channels "open" in every time zone while being infinitely more cost-effective (and of higher transmission quality) than conference calls. The first thing that came to mind during the mention of telephone calls was doing podcasts; this would indeed be exploiting technology worthy of our current century. However, before getting into that level of ambition I would prefer to concentrate on the quality of the content. Let's ensure that what is said in the briefings is suitably accessible by the public, not just we elite who are actively involved and closest to the source. I truly appreciate this initiative and want it to serve the purpose of At-Large; I would just ask that, from the outset, its aim in both content and delivery, meets the needs of the whole community we are charged to serve. A small shift in approach will lead to both wider reach AND cost savings. Evan Leibovitch Chair, NARALO (*) -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service _______________________________________________ ALAC mailing list ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann .org At-Large Official Site: http://www.alac.icann.org ALAC Independent: http://www.icannalac.org
Hello all, I really appreciate Evan's comment but I think we should try Nick's idea combined with Darlene's because most of us really need to get more posted on all policy issues. Some of use may find it more convenient to have a time set up to participate to a "workshop" and be committed to it instead of having a choice of going online to read materials whenever appropriate. Fatimata On Dec 12, 2007 9:55 AM, Thompson, Darlene <DThompson@gov.nu.ca> wrote:
Excellent comments, Evan,
If memory serves, though, I seem to remember Nick(?) mentioning to me that they tried something similar before but nobody showed up so we may not experience the problem of hundreds and thousands getting on the telephone conferences.
That being said, that shows that there IS a problem with just doing telephone conferences. Everybody learns in different ways so I would lean more to having a two-pronged approach: the telephone conferences AND having the policy briefings on-line. That way people can pick the way they want learn things.
The telephone conferences would go a long way to bringing us "regulars" up to speed so that we will be able to communicate on issues better. I know that this won't be reaching EVERYBODY but if even some of us become better educated, then we can help to point the general public to the appropriate sources of information. I don't see the telephone conferences as being a be-all-end-all but just a good start.
Just my opinion and its good to see ICANN trying SOMETHING!
D
Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 dthompson@gov.nu.ca
-----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Evan Leibovitch Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:35 AM To: Nick Ashton-Hart Cc: policy@icann.org; At-Large Worldwide Subject: Re: [At-Large] Scheduling regular telephonic policy briefings on Policy for the At-Large Community
Hello Nick,
The plan to do regular policy briefings on issues determined by ALAC is a great idea and long overdue, but the delivery mechanism of the conference call is suitable for little more than a small clique. Given that the target audience is not just ALAC or ALS representatives, but indeed all ALS members and beyond, though, I would suggest that telephone conference calls are not the optimal medium for distribution.
Personally, I find conference calls beyond 20 people unwieldy and inefficient; all it takes is one or two people to be on speakerphone for a call to be almost unlistenable. As we want a target participation in the hundreds if not thousands, forget telephone interactivity; it might as well be a recorded message. No matter when you schedule the calls they will be inconvenient to some significant proportion of the target audience, and then of course is the unavoidable issue of language diversity.
I would suggest, in the early going, that we start with the written word -- clearly explained policy briefing available online, in multiple (_layman's_) language versions. This then gets augmented with an input mechanism to receive questions (email and/or web form); answers are collected and posted alongside the original core briefing documents.
After all, ICANN is about the Internet, not the POTS(*) network. Large-scale interactive sessions can take place using mechanisms such as Internet Relay Chat, Skype or even MSN, in a manner that can keep communications channels "open" in every time zone while being infinitely more cost-effective (and of higher transmission quality) than conference calls.
The first thing that came to mind during the mention of telephone calls was doing podcasts; this would indeed be exploiting technology worthy of our current century. However, before getting into that level of ambition I would prefer to concentrate on the quality of the content. Let's ensure that what is said in the briefings is suitably accessible by the public, not just we elite who are actively involved and closest to the source.
I truly appreciate this initiative and want it to serve the purpose of At-Large; I would just ask that, from the outset, its aim in both content and delivery, meets the needs of the whole community we are charged to serve. A small shift in approach will lead to both wider reach AND cost savings.
Evan Leibovitch Chair, NARALO
(*) -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service
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I certainly agree with Fatimata, and further contribute the suggestion that builds on discussion regarding outreach in LA, where radio or radio style / podcast materials were discussed... From our current regular briefings suggestion, we could aim to create something along thew lines of what has recently been done in the outreach to Internet Users in my own ccTLD http://www.letstalknet.com.au CLO From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Fatimata Seye Sylla Sent: Thursday, 13 December 2007 2:15 AM To: Thompson, Darlene Cc: policy@icann.org; At-Large Worldwide Subject: Re: [At-Large] Scheduling regular telephonic policy briefings on Policy for the At-Large Community Hello all, I really appreciate Evan's comment but I think we should try Nick's idea combined with Darlene's because most of us really need to get more posted on all policy issues. Some of use may find it more convenient to have a time set up to participate to a "workshop" and be committed to it instead of having a choice of going online to read materials whenever appropriate. Fatimata On Dec 12, 2007 9:55 AM, Thompson, Darlene <DThompson@gov.nu.ca> wrote: Excellent comments, Evan, If memory serves, though, I seem to remember Nick(?) mentioning to me that they tried something similar before but nobody showed up so we may not experience the problem of hundreds and thousands getting on the telephone conferences. That being said, that shows that there IS a problem with just doing telephone conferences. Everybody learns in different ways so I would lean more to having a two-pronged approach: the telephone conferences AND having the policy briefings on-line. That way people can pick the way they want learn things. The telephone conferences would go a long way to bringing us "regulars" up to speed so that we will be able to communicate on issues better. I know that this won't be reaching EVERYBODY but if even some of us become better educated, then we can help to point the general public to the appropriate sources of information. I don't see the telephone conferences as being a be-all-end-all but just a good start. Just my opinion and its good to see ICANN trying SOMETHING! D Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 dthompson@gov.nu.ca -----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org <mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org> ] On Behalf Of Evan Leibovitch Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:35 AM To: Nick Ashton-Hart Cc: policy@icann.org; At-Large Worldwide Subject: Re: [At-Large] Scheduling regular telephonic policy briefings on Policy for the At-Large Community Hello Nick, The plan to do regular policy briefings on issues determined by ALAC is a great idea and long overdue, but the delivery mechanism of the conference call is suitable for little more than a small clique. Given that the target audience is not just ALAC or ALS representatives, but indeed all ALS members and beyond, though, I would suggest that telephone conference calls are not the optimal medium for distribution. Personally, I find conference calls beyond 20 people unwieldy and inefficient; all it takes is one or two people to be on speakerphone for a call to be almost unlistenable. As we want a target participation in the hundreds if not thousands, forget telephone interactivity; it might as well be a recorded message. No matter when you schedule the calls they will be inconvenient to some significant proportion of the target audience, and then of course is the unavoidable issue of language diversity. I would suggest, in the early going, that we start with the written word -- clearly explained policy briefing available online, in multiple (_layman's_) language versions. This then gets augmented with an input mechanism to receive questions (email and/or web form); answers are collected and posted alongside the original core briefing documents. After all, ICANN is about the Internet, not the POTS(*) network. Large-scale interactive sessions can take place using mechanisms such as Internet Relay Chat, Skype or even MSN, in a manner that can keep communications channels "open" in every time zone while being infinitely more cost-effective (and of higher transmission quality) than conference calls. The first thing that came to mind during the mention of telephone calls was doing podcasts; this would indeed be exploiting technology worthy of our current century. However, before getting into that level of ambition I would prefer to concentrate on the quality of the content. Let's ensure that what is said in the briefings is suitably accessible by the public, not just we elite who are actively involved and closest to the source. I truly appreciate this initiative and want it to serve the purpose of At-Large; I would just ask that, from the outset, its aim in both content and delivery, meets the needs of the whole community we are charged to serve. A small shift in approach will lead to both wider reach AND cost savings. Evan Leibovitch Chair, NARALO (*) -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service _______________________________________________ ALAC mailing list ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann <http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.or g> .org At-Large Official Site: http://www.alac.icann.org ALAC Independent: http://www.icannalac.org _______________________________________________ ALAC mailing list ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org At-Large Official Site: http://www.alac.icann.org ALAC Independent: http://www.icannalac.org -- Fatimata Seye Sylla Presidente Bokk Jang Bokk Jeff Coordonnatrice ACSIS - Senegal BP : 22336 Dakar Senegal Tel : 221 33 864 4284 / 1301 552 8282 / 1 301 941 1288 email : fsylla@gmail.com fsylla@orange.sn
I'm glad to see the initiative but in my opinion it's always somewhat easier to talk or present on the phone rather than to commit something to the written page. The community has been crying out for short, written policy and background briefings for years. These very short papers should be written for the very large non-technical community of Internet users. I suggest that the written one to two-page background papers come online FIRST. In five or six languages. Then a follow-up telephone (or Skype, or?) conference is scheduled; the community can vote online (again in a multilingual vote) on which topics are of most interest. The vote can close a week (or x) before the event.
Just my opinion.
Jean Armour Polly Ex-interim ALAC NA
HI Nick Very cool. Can we have transcripts as well as recordings of the sessions for those who miss it (for any reason) posted? (As well as an archive for new ppl) Could be a jump start to the capacity building document repository! JAM From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Nick Ashton-Hart Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 04:51 To: At-Large Worldwide Cc: policy@icann.org Subject: [At-Large] Scheduling regular telephonic policy briefings on Policy for the At-Large Community Dear ALAC and Secretariat members: Following up on an offer made by the Staff during the 1 November 2007 ALAC meeting in Los Angeles, and followup conversations with Cheryl, may I suggest that the staff of ICANN provide two briefings on policy issues at a standing time and date twice per month - one convenient to the eastern hemisphere, and the other convenient to the western hemisphere, approximately every two weeks. We would then facilitate callers to dial in to the briefing, or if they do not live in a country with a freephone number, the service could dial out to them. The calls would be recorded, so that those who could not participate 'live' would be able to listen to the recordings later. Setting a standing date and time may make it easier for the volunteer community to schedule time to participate sufficiently in advance to ensure good Q&A sessions so that recordings are of maximum use to other parties - even other ICANN communities. Might I suggest that with respect to the subjects of the call, these could be decided by a procedure where the ALAC Executive Committee proposes a list of subjects for the next four calls (two months' worth) to the public ALAC list on a no-objections basis after their next meeting (20th December). These calls would begin in the new year and proposing the subjects in good time like this would allow the Policy staff to schedule the right people to do the briefings with sufficient warning. I hope that this will meet with your favour. With the various working groups really getting underway, it seems that this may help to raise understanding of the issues and their complexity so that the At-Large community can provide the best advice possible on the subjects which concern you. I will separately liaise with my colleagues in the Policy department to see if some time / date combinations are most suitable to ensure over the course of time the best access to the widest number of potential briefers :) -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart@icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart@hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart@mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart
Personally, I am not a big fan of conference call, in part English phone conversation is very energy consuming to concentrate, even for me who is relatively OK with working with English. It is VERY tiring after 20 minutes or 30. BUT, if some folks want, I will not object at all, provided taking othe excellent suggestions, too. 1) I like brief document - 1 or 2 pager, with links etc to details. posted on web with RSS feed. 2) tanscriptions, and links to audio archive AND, instead of making a standing attempt, it may be wise to test first for a few times, evaluate and improve the implementation step by step. This way, we can be pragmatic to see the effect and imrpove it to serve the audience, without making too much hypotherical argument before hand. I menn let's test it and see how it goes. izumi 2007/12/13, Jacqueline A. Morris <jam@jacquelinemorris.com>:
HI Nick
Very cool.
Can we have transcripts as well as recordings of the sessions for those who miss it (for any reason) posted? (As well as an archive for new ppl) Could be a jump start to the capacity building document repository!
JAM
From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Nick Ashton-Hart Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 04:51 To: At-Large Worldwide Cc: policy@icann.org Subject: [At-Large] Scheduling regular telephonic policy briefings on Policy for the At-Large Community
Dear ALAC and Secretariat members:
Following up on an offer made by the Staff during the 1 November 2007 ALAC meeting in Los Angeles, and followup conversations with Cheryl, may I suggest that the staff of ICANN provide two briefings on policy issues at a standing time and date twice per month - one convenient to the eastern hemisphere, and the other convenient to the western hemisphere, approximately every two weeks.
We would then facilitate callers to dial in to the briefing, or if they do not live in a country with a freephone number, the service could dial out to them. The calls would be recorded, so that those who could not participate 'live' would be able to listen to the recordings later. Setting a standing date and time may make it easier for the volunteer community to schedule time to participate sufficiently in advance to ensure good Q&A sessions so that recordings are of maximum use to other parties - even other ICANN communities.
Might I suggest that with respect to the subjects of the call, these could be decided by a procedure where the ALAC Executive Committee proposes a list of subjects for the next four calls (two months' worth) to the public ALAC list on a no-objections basis after their next meeting (20th December). These calls would begin in the new year and proposing the subjects in good time like this would allow the Policy staff to schedule the right people to do the briefings with sufficient warning.
I hope that this will meet with your favour. With the various working groups really getting underway, it seems that this may help to raise understanding of the issues and their complexity so that the At-Large community can provide the best advice possible on the subjects which concern you.
I will separately liaise with my colleagues in the Policy department to see if some time / date combinations are most suitable to ensure over the course of time the best access to the widest number of potential briefers :)
-- Regards,
Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large
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participants (8)
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Cheryl Langdon-Orr -
Evan Leibovitch -
Fatimata Seye Sylla -
Izumi AIZU -
Jacqueline A. Morris -
Jean Armour Polly -
Nick Ashton-Hart -
Thompson, Darlene