Hi everyone Following from the last comments on the drafting team a few points on the report ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Renata Aquino Ribeiro <raquino@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 9:22 PM Subject: Re: Working WS2- Diversity Report To: Fiona Asonga <fasonga@kixp.or.ke> Cc: Julie Hammer <julie.hammer@bigpond.com>, Rafik Dammak < rafik.dammak@gmail.com>, RAHMOUNI Dalila <dalila.rahmouni@diplomatie.gouv.fr>, opomulero@akinbo.ng, Kimberly Anastácio <anastaciokimberly@gmail.com> Hi Julie and everyone I've added all Julie's comments on the doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l2cGcx8nNvYSg_ ZMUVnoC2t0VKb4ATQVTXxcxYILrXc/edit Except for comment 5. My observations: Comment 1: "... I would also suggest adding the words “relevant to their role” after “diversity” in Recommendation 4." I've replied on the doc "the problem is that when you add "relevance", you open the door for folks to just say there is no element of diversity relevant, so how to solve that?" And I'll add an example: Gender balance is deemed not relevant in exchange for an alleged "expertise" in many events. Only when a general calculation of the male presence on panels for instance versus the female presence and the high number of absent "experts" female is shown, then gender balance is deemed lacking. About comment 5 - self identification as minority group I did not express myself very happily on this but I will insist this is an important (and new) idea. There are diversity elements we didn't cover and which are incredibly complicated - race, for instance, already mentioned in other context They may not be identified as diversity elements in themselves but as group identity So leaving the possibility someone can self identify which minority group they are a part of, and maybe even pointing out how that represents a barrier, there could be some strong indication on how the work in diversity could evolve. An example of wording and place: 9. Self-identification as group - Upon self-declaration in the data collection process, a conformation of groups or self-identified minorities, disadvantaged populations or stigmatized groups can be described and pathways to foster inclusion can be drawn upon this identification for recommentations to act on a process to ensure diversity as a long term process. Again, this is quite new and I'm hoping to address very recent situations like the inclusion of native American/ indigenous activists, black coders (there is a group of black coders which participated in an outreach event recently of an ICANN SG), and any sort of other group which will not come forward by their element of diversity itself but may be self-identified as community. This would cover a major gap in the document. Best, Renata