Dear ccNSO colleagues

My regrets I cannot join the call this evening (11pm Melb time) due to early morning commitments for the ccNSO tomorrow.

I have one thought about freeing up volunteers to offer for the mix, related to working methods.

I think we maybe don’t have enough methods where one or two people sit down to think something through and create a proposal to socialise. Whether it is in policy, or a guideline, or something else. I experience a lot of our work as people-intensive (crowd-sourcing things) and not prioritising deep thought.

If we use a bit more small/no group (solo) work for some deep thought, it might bring more fruitful results from when we crowd-source things – might build better starting points. It might also encourage different volunteers to act – maybe those who are more shy, or less social, or just don’t have the time to fit into a global meeting in a strange time zone.

One example of this to give the picture – in the policy gaps WG last year, I pulled together a set of proposed approaches. It probably saved a group of ten people two or three call hours – so thirty or forty person hours – for me doing one or two hours of work.

I know I am not the only person who could contribute that way.

So, it’s a working methods question, to give you to consider.

Best of luck for a great and thoughtful conversation, and I look forward to hearing how it goes.

Cheers

Jordan

From: Bart Boswinkel <bart.boswinkel@icann.org>
Sent: Thursday, 23 January 2025 6:46 AM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] - Topics Council working session 23 January 2025

Dear all,

In preparation of tomorrow’s working session you can find results from the previous working session.

As you will recall the purpose of this cycle of working session is to produce a roadmap to improve the ccNSO working methods and resourcing to be discussed and presented by ICANN82.

As you may recall the attendees of the Istanbul working sessions focused on the following two aspects of improving the capacity:

• What are we trying to accomplish by improving the capacity of the ccNSO to deliver on its Purpose and Goals? The results of this part of the working session are included in the consolidated notes and clustered in the What are we trying to accomplish overview.
• What changes can we make that will result in improving the capacity of the ccNSO to deliver on its work?  The results are included in the consolidated notes and how to build capacity overview

In tomorrow’s session the focus will be on two following questions, building on the outcomes of the previous session, specifically on the results of the 2^nd part of that session:

• What do you want to do to increase capacity (improve working methods and/or resources)?
• How would you that? What would it take to do that?

Working method

• Presentation of the results of working session 1
• Introduce questions – goal , type of response
• Break-out session 1- What do you want to do to increase capacity
• Think through your response individually
• Use zoom sticky note to make your suggestion (format max 6 words, using active verb)
• Discuss results per break-out room
• Break out session 2:  How would you that? What would it take to do that?
• Think through your response individually
• Use zoom sticky note to make your suggestion (format max 6 words, using active verb)
• Discuss results per break-out room
• Wrap-up & combine outcomes

Kind regards,

Bart