Dear Councillors, The NextGen@ICANN program seeks input to help ICANN org can gauge the level of community interest, via a poll. The findings of this poll will inform the proposed NextGen program approach that will be published for Public Comment. Question: Is the ccNSO interested in nominating individuals to the NextGen@ICANN either as Selection Committee Members, or as Mentors? Please answer the short survey below by Friday, 29 November end of day. https://forms.gle/36YSZy2VkTiZ1yts7 The input of the survey will be used by the secretariat to answer the community-wide NextGen@ICANN poll. Background The NextGen@ICANN program is currently undergoing a community consultation: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/nextgen-community-consultation-2019-07... One request from the preliminary feedback received to-date was for ICANN org to explore the feasibility of having community volunteer representatives from Supporting Organizations (SOs), Advisory Committees (ACs), Stakeholder Groups (SGs), and Constituencies (Cs) to nominate individuals for the following two roles: 1. NextGen Selection Committee members 2. NextGen mentors For the Selection Committee, a time commitment of approximately 20 hours over three weeks is required (for each application round). Selection Committee members will typically serve for two years (or six application rounds). Mentors are expected to devote approximately 24 hours to pre-ICANN Public Meeting preparation with their mentees, to offer advice, networking support, and regular check-ins on-site, and to complete evaluations following the ICANN Public Meeting. Based on previous estimates, mentors spend about two hours per week during the six-week preparation period in advance of the meeting and about two hours per day providing on-site support at the ICANN Public Meeting. Mentors will typically serve for one year (or three meetings). Best regards, Joke Braeken ccNSO Policy Advisor joke.braeken@icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org> Follow @ccNSO on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccNSO Follow the ccNSO on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccnso/ http://ccnso.icann.org