Dear all,

Staff have decided to open up Term 2 of the Policy Development Accelerator to outside participants. This is an exception from our normal practice in response to several requests. 

Term 2 involves participating in four workshops focusing on developing soft skills and leadership skills that are useful for policy development and day-to-day life. 

Participants with a 75% percent attendance rate will receive a pdf certificate at the end of the course.

The previous Term 2 Syllabus and Recordings can be found here: https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/pIAwDQ

The calls will take place at 13:00 UTC. 

The proposed dates are:

08 January

22 January

05 February

19 February

Read what a past participant had to say about the program: https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-icann-policy-development-accelerator-a-participants-perspective-27-05-2025-en

Sign up now to learn more about ICANN policy development. Enrollments will be fielded through ICANN Join that requires you to first login to ICANN Account. If you have not used ICANN Join before, please follow the ICANN Join: New User Instructions to enroll yourself to the Policy Development Accelerator. The enrollment window closes 19 December 2025.

Please reach out to devan.reed@icann.org if you have any questions.

Kind regards,

Devan and the Policy Development Accelerator team