[Chapter-delegates] IGF Ambassadorship Open

Sun Jul 10 04:43:04 PDT 2016

Laurie, when you say respecting - do you mean holding their time, work, and
contributions against them in terms of qualification for the Ambassador's
program?

David Vyorst
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On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Laurie Patton <ceo at internet.org.au> wrote:

> Again, at the risk of causing offence, we also need to look at
> diplomatically respecting the contribution of long term players while
> encouraging them to make way for new blood, of any age.
>
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> On 10 Jul 2016, at 9:15 AM, Olga Cavalli <olgacavalli at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Raul,
>
> many thanks for your comments.
>
> You mention that the IGF Ambassador´s program has been successful. In a
> way I totally agree with you, but perhaps the rules established some years
> ago (I remember it started in 2009?) may be revised in the ligth of other
> results of an constantly evolving Internet ecosystem.
>
> I agree with comments made by James Gannon, which I quote here:
>
> *"I think we need to take a serious look at our ability to engage and
> manage people who want to get into the nitty gritty details, because we are
> so incredibly understaffed in that area that its a serious concern of mine.
> And that means opening our support systems to anyone who can demonstrate
> knowledge, ability and willingness to perform as a volunteer. Wether these
> end up as two separate streams of engagement across the various I*
> organisations is for others to determine, but I do think that we need to
> realise and accept that we have a capacity problem that we are not fixing
> despite our efforts, and we should take a hard hard look at excluding
> potential applicants who can be converted into the people on the front
> lines, building policy, ensuring our agenda is heard and doing the work. If
> we exclude these people based on arbitrary criteria then we are doing
> ourselves a disservice I think. If someone is willing to get involved and
> do the work I don’t think we should care if they are 18 or 80, from the US
> or from Uzbekistan, I feel that we almost don’t have that luxury yet, or if
> we feel we do, then we need a parallel program for those willing to do the
> heavy lifting."*
>
> Those of us that dedicate our time to actively participate as volunteers
> in different I* activities, usually see how difficult it is to find
> participants who engage in a more relevant and deeper level, than just go
> to the meetings, one or several times.
>
> Best regards
>
> Olga
>
>
>
>
>
> 2016-07-09 1:22 GMT-03:00 Raul Echeberria <echeberria at isoc.org>:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi everybody
>>
>> I would like to thank all the comments and feedbacks you have provided in
>> the last few days on this topic.
>>
>> We have many different programs and different fellows programs that
>> target different audiences. Some are oriented to new leaders, others to
>> policy makers, to technical people or to chapters leaders.
>> Those are programatic decisions based on the objectives of each of the
>> programs which are different among them.
>> For example, the regional Chapters workshops are managed with different
>> criteria. We held the European regional workshop, attended by 23 chapters
>> if I remember well and we will have the LAC one this month in Costa Rica.
>> This is a chapter oriented program, like also Beyond he Net.
>>
>> The IGF Ambassadors is one of our very successful programs and it is
>> oriented to a given target. We have even received sometimes criticism in
>> the opposite direction of the discussion in this list. Some people think
>> that we should low the age of the participants. I think that the current
>> program is good and it is complementary to other initiatives we have, like
>> the Youth program in which we participated last year together with the CGI
>> Brasil and that we are trying to replicate this year.
>>
>> I have the opportunity to participate as a Mentor of the IGF Ambassador
>> program the last 2 years and it has been a very good experience. It has
>> been exciting to work with the participants, who represent a good balance
>> between youth and experience and that brings every year new energy to the
>> IGF.
>>
>> As I said, these are programatic decisions, so they can be always
>> arguable in one direction or another.
>> Can we have other programs? of course! And we do it.
>> Programs and projects evolve all the time looking always for the most
>> effective ways to accomplish our goals and objectives.
>>
>> I really hope that we have this year once again a good list of candidates
>> for participating in this programa and I encourage you to promote people
>> from your communities to participate.
>>
>> We appreciate very much your support for the continue success of this
>> program. (and all the other programs, or course)
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Raúl
>>
>>
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