Hi Tapani,

yes I think those info are public:
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/planning-en
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/financials-en

and following up what you mentioned it is also about participating more
effectively in the annual budget planning .

Best,

Rafik

2016-02-27 2:10 GMT+09:00 Tapani Tarvainen <[log in to unmask]>:

> Sam,
>
> That question is perhaps too broad as such. ICANN budget and
> expenditures are at least supposedly pretty public already.
>
> The question would be more effective if you could narrow
> it down, point to some specific piece of information you
> could not find or get despite asking - some big opaque
> blob you stumbled in a budget report somewhere, say.
>
> Just asking the board to be more transparent isn't likely
> to get us anywhere. They can just say "look, it's all there".
> With something more concrete to wave at them it would be much better.
>
> Actually I think that's something that would be useful for
> us to do in a continuing basis: try to dig into and track
> ICANN's money flows, looking for odd or hidden things.
> That way we might come up with some really hard questions
> for the Board.
>
> --
> Tapani Tarvainen
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 09:49:21AM -0500, Sam Lanfranco ([log in to unmask])
> wrote:
>
> >    As a complement to the "work flow burden" issue I would like to ask
> >    about more transparency with regard to
> >    how ICANN funds are allocated to internal and external support of
> AC/SC
> >    activities. Who gets what to do what?
> >    Sam L.
>