On 3 Jan 2018, at 11:48 AM, Lawrence OlaWale-Roberts <icann@microboss.org> wrote:

Thank you for your response Jimson,

When ICANN org sets out a new program that draws on its budget, it is held

accountable by the community. It is for this reason that a call was issued

by ICANN as there have been accusations to the fact that nominations were

not transparent nor reflected the desire of the community.

ICANN's call made it clear they were going to accept nominations only from

SO's and AC's so the onus was on the BC to make a call internally, if it

wasn't going to consult with those of us on the program to guide the

process.

As one of the 3 BC participants on this program, these expectations are

clear about the program:

1, That the Onboarding program is designed to help with volunteer burnout

and cause new members of the community to contribute to a process where

more volunteers can be absorbed into the different ICANN constituencies.

2, It is to Help design ways by which new members of the constituencies

interested in leadership could be developed into such role; hence the

mentoring track which required that the role on the program should revolve

as that was the only way old members would give space for new members,

allowing for more new members to be onboarded.

3, That constituencies leverage on resources available to it to make paths

to membership and growth within our constituencies known and easier for

onboarding of new volunteers.

While ICANN has played its role by initiating this call, how has the BC

played its own role in the selection process. By default the mentorship

role was to be a selection between myself and Omar?

I am challenging BC's Excomms decision for the following reasons;

1, BC's nomination does not conform with the expectation of the Onboarding

program of evolving and supporting new members into leadership. Veterans

who have played such key roles should test the output of their mentorship

by stepping back to allow new volunteers step in.

2, The BC should deviate from appearing as one constituency that could

prove right the issues the onboarding program was created to address

within ICANN in the first place.

3, There is a dire need for a balance in Diversity

The BC has a pool of great talents that could mentor newcomers in our

constituency, and their work within the BC should be acknowledged. We may

want to even consider floating our own mentorship program or redesigning

the concept of our leadership program to inculcate mentorship, but i urge

that the excomm revisit its nominations in order to prove its trust in the

capability of new members and help keep this within the BC.

Lawrence.

On Wed, January 3, 2018 9:13 am, Jimson Olufuye wrote:

Dear Lawrence,

Thank you for your mail.

Of the 2 nominees for the role of a mentor, it was Excomm's consensus

decision that given Marilyn's long standing commitment and success in

members' recruitment and mentoring that she was endorsed to continue in

the role as a mentor on the ICANN Community Onboarding Pilot programme.

There was no consideration for any exception as the unanimous decision

was based on ICANN guideline available here. Part of it is quoted below:

Interested Supporting Organizations (SOs) and Advisory Committees (ACs) -

or their relevant stakeholder groups (SGs) - should nominate two

representatives: one individual shall serve in the role of mentor and the

other in the role of mentee. The program defines a mentor as an

experienced member of the community best suited to share knowledge of and

experience in ICANN. A mentee is defined as a relatively new member of

the community who has demonstrated both the potential and desire to

actively engage and participate in ICANN's advice and policymaking

activities." Thank you for your continuous interest in serving the BC.

Regards,

Jimson Olufuye

Vice-Chair, Finance & Operations

--------- Original Message --------- Subject: [Bc-outreach] Excomm

Justification Requested on ICANN Community Onboarding Pilot

From: "Lawrence OlaWale-Roberts" <icann@microboss.org>

Date: 1/1/18 6:37 pm

To: Bc-excomm@icann.org

Cc: "BC Private" <bc-private@icann.org>, bc-outreach@icann.org

Dear Ex-Comm,

Compliments of the season and I pray the new year ushers in all the

goodness our heart desires.

On the last BC call held on the 14th of December 2017, Ex-comm's decision

on the BC nominees to the ICANN Community Onboarding Program was

announced. It is my belief that Excomm arrived at its decision with an

exception applied for its choice of who plays the choice of Mentor for

the program.

The Onboarding program for which myself and Omar were mentees and Marylin

our mentor was designed to help produce materials that could help new

volunteers easily integrate into our constituency and document same on

mediums such as ICAAN Learn, asides working with our outreach committee

to attract more volunteers into the BC. More on the program can be found

here; https://community.icann.org/m/mobile.action#page/64082880

Before FY17, the program administrators who are ICANN staff, introduced

into the mentorship program a system where the Mentor would exit the

program and allow for a mentee to become the mentor and a new member from

our respective constituency onboarded into the program as mentee to

allow for continuity. Note that this new mentee would have leadership

potentials to become the mentor in the next ICANN Financial year. On the

strength of this, the ccNSO, GAC, ISPCP amongst others have had mentees

move on to become mentors. Here the BC Excomm's decision sets a new

precedence for the ICANN Community Onboarding Program by causing the exit

of its mentees and retaining the mentor and not taking diversity into

consideration.

Invariably, the BC's choice of the Mentor should have been between Omar

and myself as the current mentees on the program. Hence I seek to know the

exception Excomm used to arrive at its decision and how this was voted

on at its meeting, otherwise I request that I be considered for the

mentorship role on the Onboarding program to conform with ICANN's

standard form the community.

Lawrence.

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