Hi Arsene,

With respect, did you actually read the comment? 

We state on the first page that there are, "two purposes recognised for the existence of the Fellowship Program: one is to increase ICANN’s global reach and to have a local presence; a focal point or an advocate who understands their local Internet governance landscape and its broader global impact and who can help ICANN to increase awareness about Internet governance issues and specifically ICANN’s mission and mandate in their country and in their region. ... The other purpose for the fellowship is to get the fellows engaged with internal ICANN policy development processes and to help the Supporting Organisations and Advisory Committees (SO/ACs) recruit the fellows to join their SO/ACs."

So, unless I have misunderstood your email, I believe the text of our proposed statement already addresses your concerns.

Best wishes,
​Ayden Férdeline

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On 23 July 2018 4:04 PM, Arsène Tungali <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> ​​
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks to the small team for this draft. I have read it and support
> 
> many of the concerns raised with regards to the suggested improvements
> 
> to the Fellowship Program and have made few suggested edits.
> 
> I, however, have a general comment and wanted to bring it here instead
> 
> as it is not related to a specific section of our comment but rather
> 
> the general spirit behind the comment.
> 
> I do agree that we should encourage fellows to be doing policy work
> 
> and that ICANN should provide metrics that tell us how fellows have
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> been involved into policy work. That's true and i would like to see
> 
> those metrics developed. And such a request is genuine from our point
> 
> of view because we are part of the GNSO and our work is to do policy.
> 
> However, our comments seem to ask that the whole Fellowship program
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> brings solely people who will be doing DNS policy though ICANN is not
> 
> only about policy. I believe there are so many other things happening
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> at ICANN including the security aspect of the DNS where there is a
> 
> need for people, etc. The GNSO is the only place for policy
> 
> development but other SO/AC do not solely do policy, there is a need
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> for fellows who will also be interested in that part of ICANN.
> 
> I also believe ICANN Org needs to be present all over the world to
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> ensure everyone is aware of its work within the Internet ecosystem.
> 
> Hence the need to bring in fellows who might also help it meet that
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> objective. These people might not be interested at the end in doing
> 
> policy but they might be interested in being involved for example into
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> the DNS business or into advocacy to help their countries better
> 
> manage their ccTLD etc and this is all ICANN.
> 
> I hope i am making my point clear. I don't want us to forget that
> 
> there are so many other things going on at ICANN outside of the policy
> 
> making and have this reflected in our comments. Of course, we should
> 
> speak about our desire to have fellows who will also be involved in
> 
> policy and encourage all those who are our members to do so since they
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> have decided to be part of the GNSO (through the NCUC/NPOC/NCSG).
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> I am glad many of the improvements we suggested in our first comment
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> were taken into account. Let's see how this new strategy will be
> 
> implemented and what results it will bring.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Arsene
> 
> 2018-07-23 11:49 UTC+02:00, Ayden Férdeline [log in to unmask]:
> 
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > Over the past few weeks a small team has been drafting an NCSG comment on
> > 
> > the proposed changes to the ICANN Fellowship Program. We now have a first
> > 
> > draft ready for your review:
> > 
> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rUjAgOGtp3FLX6AsrGpmqC6mnQ17qNRkqQJHpvPYh-Q/edit?usp=sharing
> > 
> > We are open to constructive edits that address the proposal put forward byICANN org in thisdocument.
> > 
> > Please propose edits directly into our Google Doc (preferred method), or on
> > 
> > this mailing list, by COB in your timezone on Wednesday 25 July.
> > 
> > On Thursday the statement, and any input received, will be shared with the
> > 
> > NCSG Policy Committee for its review and potential endorsement. The deadline
> > 
> > for submission of comments on this issue is Friday 27 July.
> > 
> > Thanks for your time.
> > 
> > Best wishes,
> > 
> > Ayden Férdeline
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