Hello Sala,Your points are an ideals situation but we're talking about a volunteer environment particularly in At-large, that limits of how much time of volunteerism could be afforded.
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- At the end of the day, anyone who enters any of the constituencies will need to take a capacity building and transition into understanding how things work and the diverse content that exists and how to make sense of it.
The capacity building provided by the constituency are on an ongoing basis but for newcommers would be of a shock particularly to those whose English as a second language. Reading this thread myself needed to translate some of the words or even trying to understand the slang used. Imagine listening to ICANN terminologis and acronyms from a senior community member during the learning curve. That needs lots of dedication and interest from the members.
- This is why initiatives such as the Capacity building initiatives within ICANN were created and it has always the goal to make the information as simplified and possible.
Agree, but still need lots of efforts by the entrant and the community. Also no one knows all.
- To give credit to the webmasters, the website and model that it uses including the wiki has almost everything there is to know about governance, policies and procedures, scientific, financial reports etc.
I aslo command the effort of all involved in developing the website and populating the Wiki.
If we did a quick survey of how many of the current At-large members knows how to navigate around of ICANN Wiki you will be surprised of the exact percentage.
On this issue, I hope that all ATLAS III participants are asked to update or create their SOI and even add their reports to be familiarized of ICANN working platform.
- Without dedicated mentoring and capacity building newcomers can easily get overwhelmed and lost.
True, given the assumption that the mentors knows well their own constituency and able to give the right mentorship.
- To address this there has to be several attempts at providing this transitionary capacity building and mentoring several times a year depending on an analysis on new memberships that can easily be done virtually and through existing systems and innovative new approaches.
An excellent suggestion but needs lots of time and resources.
- Everyone who has entered ICANN at some stage has had their hand held to some extent.
Only if they have the interest to reach the right information or the right person.