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. >