RE: [gnso-travel-dt] Travel policy lunch with staff
Also - we need a detailed breakdown of the GNSO travel support budget. Zahid Jamil Barrister-at-law Jamil & Jamil Barristers-at-law 219-221 Central Hotel Annexe Merewether Road, Karachi. Pakistan Cell: +923008238230 Tel: +92 21 5680760 / 5685276 / 5655025 Fax: +92 21 5655026 www.jamilandjamil.com <http://www.jamilandjamil.com/> Notice / Disclaimer This message contains confidential information and its contents are being communicated only for the intended recipients . If you are not the intended recipient you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this message by mistake and delete it from your system. The contents above may contain/are the intellectual property of Jamil & Jamil, Barristers-at-Law, and constitute privileged information protected by attorney client privilege. The reproduction, publication, use, amendment, modification of any kind whatsoever of any part or parts (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means whether or not transiently or incidentally or some other use of this communication) without prior written permission and consent of Jamil & Jamil is prohibited. From: Zahid Jamil [mailto:zahid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 05 March 2009 03:08 To: 'Olga Cavalli'; gnso-travel-dt@xxxxxxxxx; 'Glen de Saint Géry' Subject: RE: [gnso-travel-dt] Travel policy lunch with staff My points: All Councillors should be funded. · The GNSO should have travel support. Why: · The Board has given us a herculean task for implementation of improvements and restructuring. The numerous Cs, WGs, DTs etc. all require bodies to man these structures. We have a deficit of manpower and resource. Although this work has been assigned in these times (especially this economically difficult times) the Budget travel support is the same as last year. Hence, technically the work assigned is unsupported/unfunded. The workload of the GNSO is at least in these times enormous and it would be unrealistic for the structures to work by volunteers being stretched beyond limits especially without travel support. (this implies the support is not restricted to the 3 ICANN meetings for only Councillors but may include WG and DT members as the Constituencies may nominate) Whether all or some are funded: · The budgeted amount for GNSO should be monetized and divided equally between Constituencies (possibly SGs if there is a proliferation of Constituencies) · The Constituencies should decide who, how many and when to allocate the travel funding · Constituency allocation should be transparent but at the discretion of the Constituency · If in one Financial Year a Constituency does not utilise and saves its allocation that allocation should be reserved and rolled over into travel reserves for the next FY in addition to the budget allocation for the next FY - this will allow Constituencies to plan their work which are usually 2 to 3 year projects over the years by planning financially over the 2-3 year period instead of having compulsorily to utilise the amount allocated per year in that year. So the 2-3 year work plan should not be constrained by a limitation of the FY utilisation. Zahid Jamil Barrister-at-law Jamil & Jamil Barristers-at-law 219-221 Central Hotel Annexe Merewether Road, Karachi. Pakistan Cell: +923008238230 Tel: +92 21 5680760 / 5685276 / 5655025 Fax: +92 21 5655026 www.jamilandjamil.com <http://www.jamilandjamil.com/> Notice / Disclaimer This message contains confidential information and its contents are being communicated only for the intended recipients . If you are not the intended recipient you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this message by mistake and delete it from your system. The contents above may contain/are the intellectual property of Jamil & Jamil, Barristers-at-Law, and constitute privileged information protected by attorney client privilege. The reproduction, publication, use, amendment, modification of any kind whatsoever of any part or parts (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means whether or not transiently or incidentally or some other use of this communication) without prior written permission and consent of Jamil & Jamil is prohibited. From: owner-gnso-travel-dt@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-travel-dt@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Olga Cavalli Sent: 05 March 2009 02:47 To: gnso-travel-dt@xxxxxxxxx; Glen de Saint Géry Subject: [gnso-travel-dt] Travel policy lunch with staff Notes from the meeting with staff in relation with Travel Policy Wednesday March 4th, 12:30 - 14 hs GNSO council members present: Zahid Jamil Stefan Van Helder Greg Ruth Tim Ruiz Olga Cavalli Norbert Klein - Noncom ICANN Staff Kevin... Doug Brent Stacy Hoffberg What we expressed: All GNSO council members should be founded to attend ICANN meetings. All council members volunteer their time and the GNSO amount of work is a lot. The amount of work in GNSO is highly increasing due to the GNSO restructuring and the different steering commitees and working groups that council members participate in. It could be good if constituencies recieve funds and they distribute these funds among their members. If they want highly qualified people to volunteer their time to ICANN they should pay to all travel expenses. What Olga expressed: GNSO should have same treatment like Board members in relation with travelling. GNSO is a lot of work and responsibility and we all volunteer our time. What ICANN staff said: Present ICANN Budget for travel 1,5 MUSD. Today all ALAC is founded. Some ccNSO members are founded. Half GNSO members are founded. GAC is asking for travel founds. It could be helpful if GNSO prepares a draft document that justifies founding all council members (workload, volunteer time, etc) It may be a unified position or different views of the same issue but all in a document produced by GNSO. ICANN long term goal is to collect money to benefir larger community with its work. Zahid, could you please add more detail into the last part of the conversation about keeping money from one year budget to the following year? I could not get the whole idea of this last part of the meeting. Please those who were presen add other comments that perhaps I missed. Next steps: I could draft a new document taking these comments and using our previous agreed document about travel policy and then I send it to the drafting team list for your comments. Then we should send it to GNSO list. I will welcome your comments. Regards Olga <<attachment: winmail.dat>>
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