For more than nine years, the Policy
Development Support team has provided monthly
updates on the work of the
ICANN
community related to policy development. The
goal of this effort has been and continues to be
to keep all of our stakeholders (from seasoned
veterans to newcomers) informed on a regular
basis about the policy development related
activities of our community. We have evolved
this publication in that time and continue to
adapt.
We
have observed over time that fewer and fewer
community members are reading the updates via
traditional email channels, and we believe that
more will benefit from broader promotion and
dissemination of our updates via social media
platforms and dynamic multilingual translations.
As a consequence, this issue marks the final
monthly issue of Policy Update in its present
format.
In
collaboration with the ICANN
Communications team, we will now be publishing
monthly updates about policy development
activities across ICANN's
four regional newsletters. This new content
publication approach will align quality updates
about policy developments with new content from
ICANN's
engagement activity teams.
In
January, we will provide information to you via
email for how to update your subscription
preferences to ensure you receive your preferred
regional newsletter(s). The Policy Update archive will remain available,
and I will occasionally post important and
timely messages on the ICANN blog.
Thank
you for your steadfast readership of the monthly
publication over the years. Policy Update would
not have succeeded without your feedback and
support. We hope this broader and more
comprehensive communications strategy will
improve the delivery of information to you. As
we continue to evolve and fine-tune our
information delivery methods, I continue to
welcome any and all your ideas and feedback.
Best
wishes for the New Year,
David
Olive
Senior Vice President, Policy
Development Support
General Manager, Istanbul
Hub Office
