Dear Colleagues,

Are there any volunteers to select the recipient(s) of the Ethos Award? We can name up to 2 people.

Thank you!

Kind regards,

]{atrina

From: David Olive [mailto:david.olive@icann.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 5:08 PM
To: Katrina Sataki <katrina@nic.lv>; Drazek, Keith <kdrazek@verisign.com>; Aftab Siddiqui <aftab.siddiqui@gmail.com>; Rod Rasmussen <rod@rodrasmussen.com>; Fred Baker <fred@isc.org>; manal@tra.gov.eg; Maureen Hilyard <maureen.hilyard@gmail.com>
Cc: Team-leaders@icann.org; Ozan Sahin <ozan.sahin@icann.org>
Subject: ACTION REQUESTED: Request For Community Selection Panel Participants – 2020 Multistakeholder Ethos Award Program

Dear Manal, Katrina, Maureen, Keith, Rod, Aftab, and Fred,

The process for the 2020 Multistakeholder Ethos Award is opening shortly, and I would like to give you some more details about the award. Our goal is to present the sixth annual award at the ICANN68 Policy Forum in Kuala Lumpur. We would like to have up to two (2) members from each of your communities to help choose the recipient(s) of the award.

In order to achieve the goal of presenting the award at ICANN68, we will announce the opening of the recipient nomination period on Monday, 16 December. That nomination period will run through the 20 March 2020.

Thanks to good feedback from panelists who served on the last year’s selection panel, we will monitor the number of nominations closely and work with the panelists proactively to encourage more nominations, if needed. An initial panel call before ICANN67 will enable collaboration while the nomination period is still open. Please find attached an overview document outlining the program details.

In the meantime, between now and 27 January 2020 we would like you to identify interested community members from your communities to help select the recipient(s) of the award. Following the framework used for the previous awards, we would like to offer you the opportunity to name up to two people from your community (including yourself if you would like) to comprise the panel that will select the award recipient(s).

I would like to take this opportunity to thank panelists who served on previous panels and helped shape the award process for the future. Moving forward it would be ideal for panelists to serve a maximum of two consecutive terms on the selection panel to ensure diversity and variety of input and equal opportunity among community members to take part in this valuable effort of fellow recognition. Alternatively, it would be great if one of the two slots could be rotated, for the reasons listed above. Please note that volunteers who previously served on the selection panel are welcome to serve again, if they wish to do so, bearing in mind some diversity of input and a two consecutive term cap if possible.

With appropriate staff support, we envision the workload of the selection panelists will be limited. Some time will be necessarily devoted to reviewing nominations, but we expect weekly one-hour calls from the end of March to June to discuss the process, review the nominations, and select the award recipient.

We would like to have panelist names from you by 27 January 2020 so that an initial panelist call can be scheduled before the nomination period ends, a second call can take place shortly after the nomination period closes and then additional calls can be scheduled to make award recipient decisions.

I look forward to working with you on this effort and welcome any thoughts, comments, or ideas.

Best regards, 

David

David A. Olive
Senior Vice President

Policy Development Support

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Washington, D.C.