Dear Olivier, colleagues! Greetings and many thanks for the invite to share some reflections as per your Qs. My brief reflections are as follows: *Q1. what topics are you most interested in ICANN? * Currently, I am very keen to see how the future global stewardship of some key technical Internet functions will continue affecting and impacting the developments of the Internet. New gTLDs is of my interest along with ways registrars and registries might change the way they run their business as a result of the new stewardship model, role of different stakeholders in this process, and how to bring more local voices into the processes. * Q2. As an ALAC representative, some focus more on capacity building and organisation building. Others focus more on policy. Which focus will you have: Capacity Building or Policy?* I bring several years of experience related to capacity building. I have designed capacity building programs, curriculums, teaching and learning practices behind, delivery methods, measuring results, phase-out, etc. I conducted cp programs with senior government officials, policy makers, CSOs, etc on a broad range of issues including Internet Governance, Open Government, Open Data, others. I have also provided several trainings on organizational development to different organizations in the country. P.S. back in 2007/8 i was the one to introduce OneDAY for ALAC (when I was an ALAC member), as I thought it was a way to improve the efficiency of ALAC itself (just giving it as an example related to organizational building) I do also bring specific experience related to policy making, as I was part of both policy making processes as well as facilitated multistakeholder, open data/open government data driven policy making on issues related to E-Government/governance, Open Government, Gender Equality, Education, social accountability. So, I could be well involved in both, depending on relevance, importance, and specific needs! *Q3. If there was one thing that you'd like to achieve when sitting on the ALAC, what would it be?* Co-creating/co-contributing to ICANN related policies processes together with the community-at-large (through capacitating them with co-creating methodologies) via using ICANN related/generated open data to support more informed decision making processes, more evidenced based discussions and strategizing around the future of the Internet. Many thanks for your time and interest indeed! Veronica On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com> wrote:
Dear Veronica, Dear Bastiaan,
thank you both for agreeing to put your name forward for the ALAC seat selected by EURALO. The next step, we'll have a vote of all ALS representatives, but before this, I know that both of you have been open to questions and I would like to kick off the discussion with a question to both of you:
Q1. what topics are you most interested in ICANN? Q2. As an ALAC representative, some focus more on capacity building and organisation building. Others focus more on policy. Which focus will you have: Capacity Building or Policy? Q3. If there was one thing that you'd like to achieve when sitting on the ALAC, what would it be?
There is no right or wrong answer, it's just to get a better idea of your future focus.
There will soon be a follow-up with a reminder of the calendar. I expect that we can conduct a single issue call where members can ask questions from both of you. This will be proposed shortly.
Kindest regards,
Olivier
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