Nominating Committee application period ended yesterday (April 4, 2011).
All: Just to let you know that the 2011 Nominating Committee application period ended yesterday (April 4, 2011). This year we received 77 Statements of Interest. 12 candidates are from Europe, 22 are from Asia/Pacific, 11 are from Latin America, 14 are from North America, and 18 are from Africa. 18 candidates are female, 59 are male. Candidates primary interest in serving is as follows: 37 on the ICANN Board, 11 on the GNSO Council, nine on the ccNSO Council, and 20 on the ALAC. Many candidates have asked to be considered for more than one position. Thanks to those of you that applied. More information here: http://nomcom.icann.org/. -ed -- NOTICE: The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you have received this communication by error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and delete the original message.
Thank you Eduardo. The imbalance of gender remains. The imbalance of interest in the board relative to all of the interests in the other bylaws entities remains. No data is available on the education, income or class characteristics of the applicants. In sum, the outreach was four times as likely to motivate a male to submit a SOI than a female, and four times less likely to motivate an SOI for policy development than for corporate governance, and two times less likely to motivate an SOI relating to the public interest than for corporate governance. The community response suggests that one or both of the constituency, now stakeholder model for policy development, or "policy development" itself, is unimportant. The community response also suggests that "public interest" is twice as important as commercial interest, or national interest, but only half as important as corporate governance. I remain concerned that the "outreach" attempted through the only North American meeting since November 2007 has no measurable effect as yet. Eric
On 6 April 2011 09:54, Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net>wrote:
I remain concerned that the "outreach" attempted through the only North American meeting since November 2007 has no measurable effect as yet.
... and as a result, North Americans are horribly under-represented within ICANN.... Don't feel too unfairly dealt with, though. Outreach done at other regional meetings is just as miserable.
Hi the outreach that was done this year has managed to get us from dismal numbers of female applicants (only 4 last year) to almost record numbers of female applicants (last I checked, there were OVER FOUR TIMES as many as last year) - that shows improvement, doesn't it? This year it's probably going to be the highest number and % of female applicants ever! Of course, it would probably help if we had a higher % of women in Internet tech areas, so we'd have a larger pool of qualified interested women to tap into, but somehow, I think that addressing the global gender imbalance in science, technology, engineering and IT is a bit outside ICANN's remit. BTW - in 2007 there were TWO ICANN meetings in NA (San Juan and LA) so I guess that's a valid reason for NA to skip a turn. Jacqueline A. Morris Technology should be like oxygen: Ubiquitous, Necessary, Invisible and Free. (after Chris Lehmann ) On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
On 6 April 2011 09:54, Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net>wrote:
I remain concerned that the "outreach" attempted through the only North American meeting since November 2007 has no measurable effect as yet.
... and as a result, North Americans are horribly under-represented within ICANN....
Don't feel too unfairly dealt with, though. Outreach done at other regional meetings is just as miserable. ------ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss
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Hi Jacqueline, I am gratified to learn that my concerns are completely baseless. Eric
Eric, don't be ridiculous. I only referred to the female candidates and gender equity part. You had a lot more points. I didn't deal with any others. Jacqueline A. Morris Technology should be like oxygen: Ubiquitous, Necessary, Invisible and Free. (after Chris Lehmann ) On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net> wrote:
Hi Jacqueline,
I am gratified to learn that my concerns are completely baseless.
Eric
On 6 Apr 2011, at 15:24, Jacqueline Morris wrote:
BTW - in 2007 there were TWO ICANN meetings in NA (San Juan and LA) so I guess that's a valid reason for NA to skip a turn.
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I remain concerned that the "outreach" attempted through the only North American meeting since November 2007 has no measurable effect as yet.
Personally, I wouldn't care whether the board members are male, female, black, white, or green, so long as we could find some with the ability to get the ICANN staff under control. So far, no luck. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
Some if not many would say that the ICANN staff juggernaut has its own agenda, and as such, the at large movement is something to be tolerated but otherwise ignored and rolled over. It is something like that game Katamara Damacy. From the wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy: "The game's plot concerns a diminutive prince on a mission to rebuild the stars, constellations, and Moon, which were accidentally destroyed by his father, the King of All Cosmos. This is achieved by rolling a magical, highly adhesive ball called a katamari around various locations, collecting increasingly larger objects, ranging from thumbtacks to people to mountains, until the ball has grown great enough to become a star. Katamari Damacy's story, characters, and settings are bizarre and heavily stylized, rarely attempting any resemblance of realism...." At 10:49 AM -0400 4/6/11, John R. Levine recently said:
I remain concerned that the "outreach" attempted through the only North American meeting since November 2007 has no measurable effect as yet.
Personally, I wouldn't care whether the board members are male, female, black, white, or green, so long as we could find some with the ability to get the ICANN staff under control. So far, no luck.
Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly ------ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss
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LOL But it's interesting that you think that Board members should control staff. Isn't staff management an executive function? Should ICANN have an executive Board? Jacqueline A. Morris Technology should be like oxygen: Ubiquitous, Necessary, Invisible and Free. (after Chris Lehmann ) On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:49 AM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
I remain concerned that the "outreach" attempted through the only North American meeting since November 2007 has no measurable effect as yet.
Personally, I wouldn't care whether the board members are male, female, black, white, or green, so long as we could find some with the ability to get the ICANN staff under control. So far, no luck.
Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly ------ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss
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But it's interesting that you think that Board members should control staff. Isn't staff management an executive function? Should ICANN have an executive Board?
Hey, I didn't say manage the staff, I said control the staff. Like, say, telling the staff that when they summarize comments, they should summarize what they actually say rather than what the staff wished they said. The lack of control starts at the top, viz a prior president who couldn't be bothered to live on the same continent where he works, and the current one who's building an unneccsary million dollar new headquarters so he can be closer to his friends in Silicon Valley. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
Well, if they didn't do their job properly, then executive management should deal with it. If they do not provide proper summaries, that is poor execution of their job, and they should be dealt with accordingly. Of course, you think that the problem starts or reaches to the management and executive levels, so that the general way that things should work isn't what happens in ICANN. In that case, if the executive management and senior management are misleading the Board by doctoring the reports given to the Board, that's a major issue, esp for a california non-profit, isn't it? Jacqueline A. Morris Technology should be like oxygen: Ubiquitous, Necessary, Invisible and Free. (after Chris Lehmann ) On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:25 AM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
But it's interesting that you think that Board members should control staff. Isn't staff management an executive function? Should ICANN have an executive Board?
Hey, I didn't say manage the staff, I said control the staff. Like, say, telling the staff that when they summarize comments, they should summarize what they actually say rather than what the staff wished they said.
The lack of control starts at the top, viz a prior president who couldn't be bothered to live on the same continent where he works, and the current one who's building an unneccsary million dollar new headquarters so he can be closer to his friends in Silicon Valley.
Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
Hi, I believe the Board has to be responsible for staff operations at the senior level, the half dozen or more vice presidents are the Board's responsibility as is the operation of their departments. I do not think they should have direct responsibility for employees who are below the rank of VP. a. On 6 Apr 2011, at 10:12, Jacqueline Morris wrote:
But it's interesting that you think that Board members should control staff. Isn't staff management an executive function? Should ICANN have an executive Board?
The Board is ultimately responsible for ICANN and everything to do with it. The Board in any corporate body, for-profit or not, is supposedly the stakeholder / shareholder oversight over operations and policy. The CEO is "head staff", accountable to the Board on all operational issues. It is uncommon, but not unheard of, for the Board to engage in micromanagement at lower staff levels -- but this usually specifically reflects a low level of confidence in the CEO. Given the high level of dissatisfaction with (especially policy) staff that now seems to exist amongst a great many ICANN stakeholders, the Board would -- one would think -- want to investigate the disconnect. The recent GAC self-assertion was just the last of many examples of community pushback. The GAC has -- as does ALAC, in theory -- the ability to circumvent staff and go directly to the Board with its statements. To do so effectively ALAC "statements" -- as opposed to policies and comments -- should be fairly few and straightforwardly written. I would also note that, unlike the GNSO, ALAC has a mandate to comment on *anything* about ICANN, including operations. There is nothing (in the structure or bylaws of ICANN) that prevents us from issuing a Statement to the Board indicating something in operations is broken and asking for repair. We don't need to wait for an open Public Comment to initiate such a request.I appreciate Jean's comment that At-Large Statements such as this are likely to be ignored, and in the past they certainly have. But in the days of the ATRT, heavy DoC scrutiny and GAC anger, we will at least get some attention that might not have some our way as little as a year ago. Such a statement might also be more powerful if it attracted the participation and support of groups not normally empowered to comment in this manner (ie, GNSO constituency groups). - Evan
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