Greetings, Volunteer to serve on the Outreach/New Members Recruitment team. Perhaps I should not enumerate who I am and what I do to spare you the warm and fuzzy feeling bound to follow thereafter? Thank you. Alex On Jan 13, 2013 7:29 PM, "William Drake" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello, > > One of the things I'd like to happen going forward is regular monthly > reporting back to NCUC members by the EC on any noteworthy organizational > and policy matters. We don't have a mechanism in place yet to coordinate a > collective effort on this, so I'll get it started with a few notes on > recent developments. > > > *1. New Executive Committee* > > On 3 December the 2012 election results were announced. Our new EC includes > > Chair: Bill Drake <[log in to unmask]> > Africa: Wilson Abigaba <[log in to unmask]> > Asia/Australia/Pacific: Norbert Klein <[log in to unmask]> > Europe: Tapani Tarvainen <[log in to unmask]> > Latin America/Caribbean: Carlos A. Afonso <[log in to unmask]> > North America: Edward Morris <[log in to unmask]> > > Since the 13th (post-WCIT) the EC has begun to get organized and by the > end of January we should have more to report on various items. In the > meanwhile, members who want to know what's being discussed, provide input, > offer to help with tasks and so on can always visit the EC list archive > http://mailman.ctyme.com/pipermail/ec-ncuc/ and be in touch here or via > the addresses above, as appropriate. > > > *2. Appointments to NCSG Committees* > > Due to the delayed election timing the new EC came in already behind > schedule on some housekeeping items. One of the first things we needed to > get done was to fill these slots so NCSG internal and GNSO work could > proceed without hiccups. Accordingly, the EC has made the following > appointments until the 2013 annual meeting: > > a. NCSG EC https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-EC > > - Rafik Dammak > - Milton Mueller [both continuing] > > b. NCSG PC https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-PC > > - Mary Wong > - Avri Doria [replacing Brenden and Konstantinos] > > c. NCSG FC https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-FC > > > - Milton Mueller [continuing] > > > > *3. Functional Work Teams* > > In my candidate statement > https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1211&L=NCSG-DISCUSS&F=&S=&P=38527 I > argued that it'd make sense to have > > > - A more active EC team in which each member has defined > responsibilities entailing at least one or two hours of individual work per > week beyond reading email. I’d love it if EC members would each take the > lead on coordinating specific functional tasks and assemble work teams of > interested members to deal with items like: > > o In-reach and engagement of existing members, updating of the > membership list > > o outreach to potential new members (it’d also be nice if each regional > representative could bring on a few folks from their regions per year) > > o e-platform improvement and updating > > o external communications/publicity > > o finance (dealing with the ICANN budget process, external fundraising > for initiatives, etc.) > > > Or something like this…to be discussed… This is the kind of functional > division of labor I’ve seen work better in other civil > society organizations and coalitions, including ones I’ve led, and some > evolution in that direction could be helpful. What plainly has not worked > well is for everything to just default to one maxed out volunteer. > > > Nobody has argued against this sort of approach and some folks on and off > the EC have expressed interest in helping with particular tasks. So now > we'd like to begin to constitute teams/groups/whatever we want to call them > on the five tasks above, plus one other I forgot to mention, the very > overdue and urgent task of revising our Charter (ideally by the summer for > a vote prior to the next EC vote). Conversations have been underway in the > EC and beyond to get some folks on board each to start, and so far there > have been expressions of interest/willingness to be involved from the > following folks (apologies to anyone I've forgotten, or conversely who's > surprised to be listed based on prior conversations). Oh, and I should add > that while from a coordination and info flow standpoint it'd usually be > easiest if EC members were the coordinators, this doesn't rule out the > possibility of experienced, plug n play non-EC people serving is these > capacities, as is reflected below. > > > * In-reach/member engagement* > > - TBD [Coordinator] > - Edward Morris > - Rafik Dammak > - Bill Drake > > * > * > *Outreach/new member recruitment* > > - Edward Morris [Coordinator] > - Bill Drake > > * > * > *E-platforms* > > - Wilson Abigaba [Coordinator] > - Edward Morris > - Tapani Tarvainen > - David Cake > - Brenden Kuerbis > - Bill Drake > > * > * > *Communications/PR* > > > - Mary Wong [Coordinator] > - Bill Drake > > > * > * > *Finance* > > - Milton Mueller [Coordinator] > - Brenden Kuerbis > - Maria Farrell > - Bill Drake > > > *Charter Revision* > > > - Bill Drake [Coordinator] > - Edward Morris > > > Obviously, we need more EC and regular members to populate these groups, > share the workload, and get things moving. Pretty much any amount of time > and energy beyond zero will make a difference and be much appreciated, so > please consider getting involved. Reply on list or privately, as you like. > > > *4. Web Spaces/E-Platforms* > > Once we have teams associated with each of these functions, we should put > them on the web and set up communication channels for them to work. This > goes to some of the larger e-platform questions we've been contemplating in > the EC. Clearly, NCUC's public ning site needs some serious > rethinking/refreshing and we may even want to consider moving to another > platform down the line. But in the meanwhile, I'd argue it would make > sense to refresh the list of groups there http://ncuc.org/groups by a) > creating spaces for the new teams and list the people associated with them; > b) deciding whether the teams should work there or on listservs etc; and c) > if possible, for institutional memory purposes, create a space on the site > called Previous Groups and dump all the old ones there, rather than simply > deleting them. > > Again, nothing we do now to get started locks us into a final decision > about the website. If all the web wizards decide a Ning is not the best > for us and want to migrate to some other platform, we can deal with that > then. But for now let's get some web presence going so people know we're > alive and they can join and participate. > > Just to repeat again in case any members are unaware, NCUC's web presence > is rather spread around and in need of more consistency and maintenance, > e.g. > > 1. NCUC.org <http://ncuc.org/> [the public face…unfortunately most > content quite dated, especially member pages etc] > > 2. NCUC @ GNSO's public pages > http://gnso.icann.org/en/about/stakeholders-constituencies/ncsg/ncuc [in > process of revision] > > 3. NCUC @ Confluence > https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8945848[Confluence is the ICANN provided workspace] > > A meta-question to consider is whether we want to continue to maintain both > NCUC.org <http://ncuc.org/> and Confluence with some bits of parallel > content, redefine the division of labor between them etc… > > > I think that's enough for one message… > > Best, > > Bill > > > *************************************************** > William J. Drake > International Fellow & Lecturer > Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ > University of Zurich, Switzerland > www.williamdrake.org > Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, > ICANN, www.ncuc.org > [log in to unmask] > **************************************************** > >