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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