Hello AJ,

My Apologies for come back with you late, I totally disagree with you urgings and it actually clarify nothing here is truth. 

  1. https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/UA-Ambassadors-18-01-15.pdf  still don’t have any eligibility conditions to be UAA.
  2. Information shared that announcement of appointment of UAA was shared on 25 April 2018 is also contrived, fact is that it was done by Don in Feb 2018 Via Email to all community members. Which evidently evidences that no assessment was done and individuals whom DON desires to favour or was in burden to appoint were pre-decided. Elaine Pruis – Appointed February 2018, Ashish Modi – Appointed February 2018, Dusan Stojicevic – Appointed February 2018.  
  3. Astonishingly was Secretary General authorised to take such important decisions with such approved without involving anyone.
  4. February 2018 was the start of term and Jan 2019 was the end of the term for all these UAA, every appointment was clearly for a term of 12 months. No communication was shared with community in Feb, March or April 2019 that term of any individual was further extended or renewed. When community raise concerns all these are afterward beliefs that it’s expected to continue till terminated, sorry community groups are not run on individual thoughts and beliefs which are not approved over document.
  5. Now It’s elucidated from your email that every UAA must have provide Secretary General with a quarterly report which none of them did and when community raised concerns its said that they are not paid individuals complete indiscipline and distrust and are clear evidence of mis-conduct or under performance of UAA available with us. It’s also dreadful to know that when complaints were heard for Ambassadors approach adopted was to reached out to people that Secretary General know who have said  that their performance is good.  Are we running this community group on Secretary General beliefs and personal like /dislikes. Was there no laid down procedure that what Secretary General has to do to address complains, why no feedback was taken from community members. It’s evident that since few individuals were been appointed by Secretary General whom he wanted to be so community complains were ignored and no inquire was done which would have led to necessary action.
  6. The attacks on this one ambassador have been ongoing since before the Barcelona meeting.  This ambassador has risen to the occasion anytime they were called on and we are grateful for their continued participation and the support they get from their employer. 
  7. Suggestion: If community members and supporting organizations are not volunteering their services in UAA program then there are clear defects in UAA program. This must be rip to shreds and launched after doing complete ground work indicating proper expectations, eligibilities and qualifications. The selection must be done by community views, votes and support. Term of appointment should be similar to term of chair or vice chairs.

I am still waiting for the remaining replies on the term appointment and other issues raised for Secretary General and its members of Secretariat

AJ in every community, there is work to be done. In every heart, there is the power to do it. We believed in you never let us down for our decisions. Your greatness in community is most accurately measured by your compassionate actions.
 
Danny
 
 
 
 
 
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2019 at 9:30 PM
From: "Dr Ajay Data" <ajay@data.in>
To: "universal access" <ua-discuss@icann.org>
Subject: [UA-discuss] Universal Acceptance Ambasador Program

Hello Everyone,

 

There have been lot of talks about Ambassador program since last few months and this promoted us to learn more about the Ambassador program, particularly its rationale , process adopted, expected outcome etc. So here are some of the answers we are able to collect,  which probably will explain queries about UAA for all of us.

 

  1. Did we announce Universal Acceptance Ambassador (UAA) program on uasg.tech website to call for application? if yes, when and how we did it. Give us dates please.

Answer :  We made an announcement to the UA-Discuss list. We published a Help Wanted Ad (which is still open), https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/UA-Ambassadors-18-01-15.pdf which was done on January 15th 2018

 

  1. What was the criteria for eligibility of UAA, please share the URL of document if any?

Answer:  Criteria is in the Help Wanted ad shown above.

 

  1. Was there any announcement of appointment of UAA on uasg.tech site , please share URL and when it was done.

Answer: https://uasg.tech/2018/04/introducing-the-first-ua-ambassadors/ on 25 April 2018

 

  1. Was there anyone (except elected leadership) from ICANN/Society/Members involved in the selection of UAA at the time of appointment?

Answer:  The Secretary General took the applications, assessed them and prepared a recommendation for the Coordination Group.   If the Secretary General didn’t know a person they would check with the ICANN GSE team who could provide advice. Only members of the UASG Coordination Group were involved.

 

  1. Please share the list of UAA with their term start and end date.

Answer: The list of UA Ambassadors is shown here: https://uasg.tech/people/   Harish, Abdalmonem, Ashish, Elaine, and Dusan were in the first group.   John Levine joined early on.   Mark Datysgeld only recently.   Tobias came after the Puerto Rico meeting and resigned recently.  We haven’t been keeping a registry.

 

  1. Please share the understanding of UAA’s if they will continue to remain UAA till asked to step down?  If not, what decision was taken by leadership at the time of expiry of term?

Answer:  We’ve not discussed this.   It’s certainly our expectations and hope that people will continue.   We put the year tenure in to the program to allow easy exit if things didn’t work out.  As it is volunteer role, we wanted a commitment for at least 12 months and expected it to continued till terminated.

 

  1. Is there any report submitted by UAA’s ?  Was it shared with UA members? Please share date and report.

Answer: They should provide the Secretary General with a quarterly report.  In practice they let the SG know what they’re doing while they’re doing it.   A draft annual report has been prepared.  We’re not grading individual ambassadors.   These are volunteers, they generally do not cost us much, and we see value in keeping them engaged.  

 

  1. Is there any evidence of mis-conduct or under performance of any UAA available with us. Please do share if any.

Answer: Under performance is a challenging term.   We have heard complaints only of about one of the Ambassadors and have reached out to people that we know who have said  that their performance is good.   The attacks on this one ambassador have been ongoing since before the Barcelona meeting.  This ambassador has risen to the occasion anytime they were called on and we are grateful for their continued participation and the support they get from their employer.

 

The Secretary General talks from time to time with each of the ambassadors.   This usually includes us identifying opportunities and them identifying opportunities.   (It is usually the ambassadors that are seeking opportunities)  We sometimes get requests from them that aren’t appropriate and we don’t go further.   The SG often checks with the local GSE team.

 

  1. How many applications of UAA were received before and after 13th March 2019 (since new leadership started getting on board) ? and how many were approved.

Answer:

We’ve received 10 applications.
One was declined.
One left after appointment.
One is pending for decision.
None have been received since Kobe.

Hopefully, This answers the queries to the UAA program and lets all join our hands together to make this Universal Ambassador a success. Please feel free to send us email to let us know in which area of UA you would like to contribute in our joint mission.

Best Wishes

Dr. Ajay Data
Chair
Universal Acceptance Steering Group


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