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AoC
Accountability and Transparency Review: Independent Expert – Request for
Proposals
Updated
12 June 2010
11 June 2010
2 June 2010
Deadline extended to: 12 June 2010 – 23.59 UTC
In the Affirmation
of Commitments (AoC), ICANN commits to maintain and improve robust mechanisms
for public input, accountability and transparency so as to ensure that the
outcomes of its decision-making reflect the public interest and are accountable
to all stakeholders. To this end, the AoC prescribes the setting-up of a Review
Team as to evaluate ICANN’s Accountability and Transparency – this
led to the creation of the first ATRT in March 2010.
In its examination
of ICANN’s activities, the first ATRT recently published Questions to the Community for Public Comment.
As part of
its review effort, the AoC Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT) now issues a Request for Proposals (RfP) [PDF, 49 KB] in order to
appoint an independent expert.
The
purpose of this assignment is to perform a n assessment of ICANN
decision-making to identify whether ICANN’s processes and procedures are
designed and executed in a manner that ensures its AoC commitments.
Interested
parties
are invited to provide relevant background material, written methodology for
execution of this task, views on the tentative timeline enclosed in the RfP, a
proposed budget, resumes, references and financial information by June 12, 2010 – 23.59 UTC to
Alice E. Jansen, ICANN, Assistant, Organizational Reviews at alice.jansen@icann.org.
Interested
parties, please be advised that the RT has addressed a set of questions
received in response to the RfP: RfP Questions and Answers [PDF, 64 KB].
Based on review of
the June 12, 2010 submissions, parties may be invited to present their
proposals to perform this study to the ATRT during its meeting on June 18-19,
2010 in Brussels, Belgium.
The ATRT
intends to notify candidates on Monday, 14 June 2010.
Candidates
selected to make presentations to the ATRT will be notified of the date and
time of their presentation and will present on one of the two dates indicated.
Glen de
Saint Géry
GNSO
Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org