Re: [ga] Outreach

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Danny and all assembly members,

  Thank you Danny for sharing this persons concerns with us here.
I am sure many here, including myself and a number of our
members share in this persons concerns.

  Perhaps this person would be willing to personally share his concerns
himself on the ALSC forum by subscribing?  I hope so!

As to the outreach situation.  I am glad that you Danny are reaffirming
Eric as the ambassador.  However I was under the understanding
that he was the leading this effort anyway, as part of WG-E.  I am
very pleased to see that yet again you wish to reaffirm this outreach
effort.  It is my and all of our members heart felt interest that
Eric's effort's to gain more participating stakeholders to this
forum as well as the ALSC forum as well.  Given however the
unofficial practice of the secretariat of not allowing other interested
parties or stakeholders form participating, I am sure this task
will be significant and require tremendous effort on Erics
part.  He has my and our members support.

DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> Dear members,
>
> I have received the following request from a participant to the ALSC Forum:
>
> In a couple of weeks I leave my current job in an internet cafe, which
> allowed me free access to the net and the opportunity to learn about ICANN.
> I expect now to have a maximum of 3 (three) hours access per week instead of
> an average of 3 (three) hours access a day, because I will have to pay for
> it.  Even then I am one of the privileged few.  If you are willing to pass on
> matters of concern in ICANN to me, I can guarantee that fifty people in
> Zambia will have that information forwarded to them.  Marginalised does not
> equal Disinterested as has been implied on this forum.  Sorry to have picked
> on you, but it had to be someone.  If it is one cross too many to bear,
> please pass this request on to another who shares our concerns.
>
> Thanks in Advance
> Malele
>
> As we consider the recommendations advanced by the At-Large Study Committee,
> I would ask all of you to reflect upon Malele's comments.   There are many
> stakeholders in this world that do not enjoy the many advantages that we
> often take for granted, and we in the General Assembly (as advocates for
> inclusiveness and greater representation) have a moral obligation to commit
> ourselves to actualizing outreach and global awareness.
>
> I am reminded of the recommendations of Working Group E:
>
> The goal should be to create materials that address particular needs of those
> who are prepared to receive and use the information.
>
> 1.  Simplicity will facilitate the widest possible distribution across the
> very diverse population to be reached. Simplicity will make it easier to
> translate materials into different languages as well as to distribute them
> via various means of communication.  Simplicity will also facilitate the
> processes of distributing information quickly and making it easily understood
> and absorbed.
>
> 2.  Customization of information material to local community needs will
> improve the effectiveness of           outreach. Customization can include
> translation into native languages, integration of information into
> familiar settings (e.g., web pages, local newsletters), etc.
>
> 3.  Central control of the content of information materials will reduce the
> likelihood of intended messages being distorted as they are distributed to
> different audiences and via different modes of communication.
>
> 4.  Outreach materials will be ignored if the content is not reliable and
> accurate.
>
> As we are all aware, our Names Council has never acted upon the
> recommendations of Working Group E, neither do they wish (as indicated by
> their Interim Review Task Force Report) to spend any DNSO funds to facilitate
> the translation of ICANN documents...  but we in the Assembly cannot ignore
> such a heartfelt plea.  We have an obligation, a duty, to "pick up the cross"
> and to do that which must be done.  It is time to end the lip-service given
> to outreach and to become pro-active.
>
> I am therefore enacting the following:
>
> 1.  The establishment of a permanent General Assembly Outreach committee.  To
> chair this committee, I am appointing Eric Dierker (if he will accept),
> because Eric has long-demonstrated a steadfast commitment to worldwide
> outreach.
>
> 2.  The Outreach Committee will be asked to convene an Editorial Board that
> will be responsible for aggregating Assembly views and matters of concern in
> ICANN into a regularly published digest.
>
> 3.  The Outreach Committee will secure volunteers that will translate the
> output of the Editorial Board, and key ICANN documents, into a variety of
> languages.
>
> 4.  The Outreach Committee will designate a webmaster.
>
> 5.  To facilitate this outreach I will donate my own website, icannworld.org
> for the exclusive use of the Outreach Committee (which will redesign the site
> as they see fit).
>
> We can make this work.  We have the talent.  We have the motivation.  We
> understand our duty.
>
> I look forward to your participation in this project, and wish to personally
> thank Malele for exhibiting such a strong commitment to the ICANN process.
>
> Danny Younger
> Chair, General Assembly of the DNSO
>
>
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