[bc-gnso] BC constituency report to GNSO Council at Dakar Meeting 26th October 2011

["Chris Chaplow" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

BC constituency report to GNSO Council at Dakar Meeting  26th October 2011 

 

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IT IS A TREMENDOUS WORKLOAD AND WE HAVE REALLY APPRECIATED THE WORK YOU DO.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO OPEN MY REMARKS WITH THAT Aon ND HOW IMPORTANT WE DO
THINK THE WORK OF THE COUNCIL IS.



MY COMMENTS WILL BE FOCUSED NOT ON WHAT WE DO ON CONSTITUENCY DAY OR ON gTLD
POLICY. WE WILL LEAVE THAT TO OUR VERY ABLE COUNCILLORS. AND IF YOU ARE
INTERESTED IN OUR AGENDA OR YOU ARE INTERESTED IN WHAT WE DO, WE TRANSCRIBE
OUR CALLS AND OUR MEETINGS. WE ALSO DO MINUTES OF OUR MEETINGS, AND THEY ARE
POSTED ON THE PUBLIC ARCHIVE ON OUR WEB SITE WWW.BIZ -- CONST.ORG, AND YES,
I KNOW, I HAVE TO CHANGE THE NAME.



THE SECOND THING I WANT TO SAY IS I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU SOMETHING I HOPE
YOU HAD ALL FIND USEFUL. THE BUSINESS CONSTITUENCY LAUNCHED ITS QUARTERLY
NEWSLETTER IN TIME FOR DAKAR. IT IS SOMETHING WE DEVELOPED OURSELVES. IT
COST US ROUGHLY A THOUSAND EUROS, AND THAT INCLUDES PRINTING 500 GLOSSY
COPIES.



SOMETIMES PEOPLE THINK THAT DEVELOPING COLLATERAL IS VERY EXPENSIVE. WE DID
THIS OURSELVES. WE WROTE IT OURSELVES. WE'RE HIGHLIGHTING OUR MEMBERS. THE
CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE PHOTOS AND THE INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL WE HOPE MAKES IT
LOOK SPHWOOD GOOD, AND WE WOULD WELCOME SHARING WITH YOU THE PROCESS WE USED
SHULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN UNDERTAKING SOMETHING LIKE THAT.



BUT I WILL ASK YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE SHEET, THE SINGLE SHEET THAT I
HANDED OUT, AND I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE VICE CHAIR OF FINANCE AND
OPERATIONS, CHRIS CHAPLOW, AND OUR PART-TIME SECRETARIAT, (SAYING NAME), AND
AFTER I TELL YOU WHAT A GREAT JOB THEY DID, DO NOT TRY TO POACH THEM.



THE INSIDE OF THE BROCHURE AND THE SHEET I GAVE YOU IS A CODE SHEET TO
UNDERSTAND WHO THE CURRENT -- THE NEW LEADERSHIP IS OF THE GNSO COUNCIL, THE
SGs AND THE CONSTITUENCIES, AND HOPEFULLY THIS WILL SUPPORT STEPHANE'S
VERBAL EXPLANATION OF THE BUILDING BLOCK APPROACH. WE WERE INSPIRED TO DO
THIS BECAUSE OF THE CHALLENGE OF EXPLAINING, ON THE BACK OF COCKTAIL
NAPKINS, HOW THE COUNCIL, THE SG, AND THE CONSTITUENCIES FIT TOGETHER. SO WE
HOPE YOU WILL FIND THIS HELPFUL. IT WILL BE AVAILABLE ON OUR WEB SITE IN A
SINGLE PAGE PDF THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD AND USE IT. WE WILL KEEP
IT UPDATED AND WE WILL ALSO HAVE THE FULL BROCHURE AS WELL.



THE SECOND THING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO JUST MENTION IS THAT IN CARTAGENA, A
FEW OF THE CHAIRS OF THE SGs AND THE CONSTITUENCIES GATHERED FOR BREAKFAST
INFORMALLY. WE HAD FOUR PARTICIPANTS AND TWO REGRETS, AND AT THIS MEETING,
THE CHAIRS OF THE STAKEHOLDER GROUPS AND THE CONSTITUENCIES JOINED BY THE
CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL AND THE TWO VICE CHAIRS HAD AN INFORMAL AD HOC NO-HOST
BREAKFAST, THAT MEANS WE ALL BOUGHT OUR OWN, AND DID NOT TALK ABOUT gTLD
POLICY, BECAUSE MY VIEW IS THAT'S REALLY NOT WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING. AND WE
TALKED P ABOUT THE LARGER ECOSYSTEM CHALLENGES. I THINK EVERYONE ENJOYED IT,
FOUND IT A WORTHWHILE THING TO DO AND AS TIME PERMITS, I THINK WE ARE GOING
TO DO IT AGAIN.



I WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT WHAT OUR UNDERSTANDING IN THE B.C., LED BY
JOHN BERARD, ONE OF OUR COUNCILLORS, WAS THAT PERHAPS THIS SEGMENT WOULD
TURN TO MORE INTERACTION WITH THE PARTICIPANTS, BOTH REMOTELY AND ALSO IN
THE ROOM AROUND gTLD POLICY TOPICS.
I MIGHT SUGGEST THAT NEXT TIME, IF YOU

 

BUSINESS CONSTITUENCY LAUNCHED ITS QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER IN TIME FOR DAKAR.
IT IS SOMETHING WE DEVELOPED OURSELVES. IT COST US ROUGHLY A THOUSAND EUROS,
AND THAT INCLUDES PRINTING 500 GLOSSY COPIES.
SOMETIMES PEOPLE THINK THAT DEVELOPING COLLATERAL IS VERY EXPENSIVE. WE DID
THIS OURSELVES. WE WROTE IT OURSELVES. WE'RE HIGHLIGHTING OUR MEMBERS. THE
CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE PHOTOS AND THE INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL WE HOPE MAKES IT
LOOK SPHWOOD GOOD, AND WE WOULD WELCOME SHARING WITH YOU THE PROCESS WE USED
SHULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN UNDERTAKING SOMETHING LIKE THAT.


BUT I WILL ASK YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE SHEET, THE SINGLE SHEET THAT I
HANDED OUT, AND I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE VICE CHAIR OF FINANCE AND
OPERATIONS, CHRIS CHAPLOW, AND OUR PART-TIME SECRETARIAT, (SAYING NAME), AND
AFTER I TELL YOU WHAT A GREAT JOB THEY DID, DO NOT TRY TO POACH THEM.



THE INSIDE OF THE BROCHURE AND THE SHEET I GAVE YOU IS A CODE SHEET TO
UNDERSTAND WHO THE CURRENT -- THE NEW LEADERSHIP IS OF THE GNSO COUNCIL, THE
SGs AND THE CONSTITUENCIES, AND HOPEFULLY THIS WILL SUPPORT STEPHANE'S
VERBAL EXPLANATION OF THE BUILDING BLOCK APPROACH. WE WERE INSPIRED TO DO
THIS BECAUSE OF THE CHALLENGE OF EXPLAINING, ON THE BACK OF COCKTAIL
NAPKINS, HOW THE COUNCIL, THE SG, AND THE CONSTITUENCIES FIT TOGETHER. SO WE
HOPE YOU WILL FIND THIS HELPFUL. IT WILL BE AVAILABLE ON OUR WEB SITE IN A
SINGLE PAGE PDF THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD AND USE IT. WE WILL KEEP
IT UPDATED AND WE WILL ALSO HAVE THE FULL BROCHURE AS WELL.



THE SECOND THING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO JUST MENTION IS THAT IN CARTAGENA, A
FEW OF THE CHAIRS OF THE SGs AND THE CONSTITUENCIES GATHERED FOR BREAKFAST
INFORMALLY. WE HAD FOUR PARTICIPANTS AND TWO REGRETS, AND AT THIS MEETING,
THE CHAIRS OF THE STAKEHOLDER GROUPS AND THE CONSTITUENCIES JOINED BY THE
CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL AND THE TWO VICE CHAIRS HAD AN INFORMAL AD HOC NO-HOST
BREAKFAST, THAT MEANS WE ALL BOUGHT OUR OWN, AND DID NOT TALK ABOUT gTLD
POLICY, BECAUSE MY VIEW IS THAT'S REALLY NOT WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING. AND WE
TALKED P ABOUT THE LARGER ECOSYSTEM CHALLENGES. I THINK EVERYONE ENJOYED IT,
FOUND IT A WORTHWHILE THING TO DO AND AS TIME PERMITS, I THINK WE ARE GOING
TO DO IT AGAIN.



I WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT WHAT OUR UNDERSTANDING IN THE B.C., LED BY
JOHN BERARD, ONE OF OUR COUNCILLORS, WAS THAT PERHAPS THIS SEGMENT WOULD
TURN TO MORE INTERACTION WITH THE PARTICIPANTS, BOTH REMOTELY AND ALSO IN
THE ROOM AROUND gTLD POLICY TOPICS.



I MIGHT SUGGEST THAT NEXT TIME, IF YOU ALL AGREE THAT IF YOU WOULD MOVE
FORWARD WITH THAT AND MAYBE HAVE A SORT OF A LIST OF TOPICS THAT YOU WANT
PEOPLE TO COMMENT ON AHEAD OF TIME, THEY COULD PREPARE FOR THAT, BUT YOU
MIGHT WANT TO ALSO FACTOR INTO THAT TALKING TO GLEN AND THE STAFF ABOUT
SLIGHTLY CHANGING YOUR ROOM SETUP. I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO HOW TO ORGANIZE
IT. YOU HAVE EXPERT STAFF TO DO THAT. BUT OF COURSE IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE
ABLE TO FACILITATE REMOTE PARTICIPATION, IT DOES TAKE SOME PREPLANNING. AND
SO I JUST MENTION THAT SO YOU COULD ADDRESS IT IN TIME FOR THE COSTA RICA
MEETING PLANNING.



THANK YOU.