Thank you Emily,

I have found one to one call very constructive and encouraging. We have discussed a number of items just to share them out as follows:

1. While Term of Reference and Work Plan via strawman proposal sound great and time saving initiatives but there is also a high need to review team to share out how they understood the initial call which made them to express their interest. I will also prepare one page on this case and share it in the mailing list.

2. As we are working for the outreach plan, I still see the great potential to use the two scheduled meeting in Africa to get stakeholders input for our work. This will depend on what we will agree to collect from the outreach. I am aware that sometime participation of African to ICANN Meeting is low and therefore using these meeting we get their feedback onboard.

3. For the connectivity, it is very embarrassing to join the meeting and you find most of the time spent on settling connectivity and find missing giving out my view and active participation. I support the proposal you have mentioned out.

4. For logistical issues, ICANN should dedicate a staff handling travel logistics and settling per diem and visa re-funds. I have bad experience with this as I attended ICANN54 in Dublin and since that time I have not received my visa re-funds. I stayed very quite known that someone is responsible for that and since that time no one reached me on the same. When tried to send an email on the matter, account payable replied that the re-fund was done very long time ago. I requested for transfer confirmation, once they send me that I noted that the funds was transferred to a wrong account. I don't even how that happen while I shared the correct accounts and to the moment no one is ready to talk on the same. I am thinking that the same might have been repeated with Denmark re-funds. This has been communicated to Karen and still waiting for her feedback. We need someone who is dedicated to handle such kind of matter.

Lastly, I very convinced on how you are collaborating to each other to make sure that the work ahead is delivered ontime. I also appreciate the support that ICANN Staff is giving the team.


Regards,
Matogoro

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Emily Taylor <emily.taylor@oxil.co.uk> wrote:
Hi Matogoro

Many thanks for making yourself available for today's 1:1 call.

We discussed the difficulties you are experiencing in participating in our team calls especially when they occur out of office hours.  We agreed that while ICANN provides considerable resource to support the physical attendance of review team members at face to face meetings, a great deal of the work is conducted on these weekly calls.

I asked whether you could make a few practical suggestions for how ICANN could support your participation in out-of-hours calls, which Denise, Eric and myself could then try and coordinate with staff to make happen if we can.

Possibilities could include:

- Loan of a handset or satellite phone for the duration of the Review Team work
- Arrangements with local ISP(s) to provide dedicated bandwidth for participation in team calls
- Contribution to upgrading physical or mobile home connection.

Clearly, there will be cost implications for each alternative, and it would be very helpful if you could think about the highest benefit for the least cost!

Thanks for your constructive comments and suggestions for the way forward, which I will follow up on the list. I encourage you to keep sharing your ideas on the email list.

Best wishes

Emily

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MATOGORO Jabhera
Assistant Lecturer & Coordinator - Microsoft Innovation Center, Tanzania
College of Informatics and Virtual Education
The University of Dodoma (www.udom.ac.tz)