Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] WEBINAR - Joint Applicant Support Working Group (JAS WG)

[Evan Leibovitch <evan@xxxxxxxxx>]

No, it's not a criticism of the policy and support staff who have been
working tirelessly to make the JAS report happen. All deserve our thanks,
with notable mention to Rob and Seth.

However, it is absolutely fair game criticism of whoever decided to limit
the available funding such that multi-lingual briefings could not be done.
And whoever made *that* decision to starve resources is likely someone on
staff, though likely someone further up the food chain than those mentioned
above who have been working with us directly.

Of all the major TLD-related issues that need to be presented to a global
audience in multiple languages, support for developing countries is amongst
the most worthy. A large proportion of the audience that would be affected
by this effort are not primarily English speaking, more than half the
countries in Africa don't even have English as a minority language. Denying
them access to this information (and potential feedback) is a serious
accountability / transparency breach which goes against the wishes of the
community, and for which ICANN should be held responsible.

It's bad enough the calls themselves couldn't be multi-lingual; denying the
facility to a summary briefing is inexcusable.

Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
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On 13 September 2011 10:53, Stéphane Van Gelder <
stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> FWIW, although I understand Olivier's point, I think it's important to
> point out that Staff has worked very hard on both supporting the JAS group
> in general and on organizing this seminar in particular.
>
> This Staff support is really the ICANN community as a whole showing support
> for the work being done here.
>
> Also, my understanding is that the seminar is aimed at explaining the final
> report to those community members that make up the JAS WG's chartering
> organizations.
>
> So even though yes, in an ideal world, it would be better to have a
> multi-lingual webinar, it may have been too complex or expensive to organize
> this on relatively short notice, for a webinar that is targeted at a
> well-defined audience (this is an assumption on my part, Staff may wish to
> correct that assumption if this was in fact not the case).
>
> Just pointing this out because I think we should make sure that comments
> such as these are not interpreted as criticism of Staff and the way the
> ICANN Community in general has considered the topic of applicant support,
> because I know that's not how they were meant.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stéphane
>
>
>
> Le 13 sept. 2011 à 16:37, Krista Papac a écrit :
>
> I also agree Olivier’s point.****
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> *From:* owner-soac-newgtldapsup-wg@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> owner-soac-newgtldapsup-wg@xxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Cheryl Langdon-Orr
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:32 AM
> *To:* Sébastien Bachollet
> *Cc:* SOAC-newgtldapsup-wg@xxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] WEBINAR - Joint Applicant Support
> Working Group (JAS WG)****
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>  ++1 agreed  opportunity lost  IMO
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> Cheryl Langdon-Orr
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> On 14 September 2011 00:26, Sébastien Bachollet <sebastien@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:****
> +1****
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> *Sébastien Bachollet*****
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> *De :* owner-soac-newgtldapsup-wg@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> owner-soac-newgtldapsup-wg@xxxxxxxxx] *De la part de* Olivier MJ
> Crepin-Leblond
> *Envoyé :* mardi 13 septembre 2011 07:19
> *À :* Glen de Saint Géry
> *Cc :* SOAC-newgtldapsup-wg@xxxxxxxxx
> *Objet :* Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] WEBINAR - Joint Applicant Support
> Working Group (JAS WG)****
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> On 12/09/2011 16:20, Glen de Saint Géry wrote :****
> The webinar will take place on *September 19th at 12.00 UTC and 22.00 UTC*
>  The two sessions are duplicates, scheduled to accommodate different time
> zones. The recording will be made available shortly after Sept 19 for the
> community members that are not able to attend any of the scheduled times.
> Each session, scheduled to run for 90 minutes, will be conducted in English
> only. The meeting will be run in Adobe Connect with a slide presentation
> along with a dial-in conference bridge for audio.****
>
>
> May I just note my personal disappointment that no interpretation will be
> available on this call.
>
> The JAS report is being translated to Spanish and French. It is a *core*
> constituent ICANN's future new gTLD application programme. The support
> programme will benefit applicants in Spanish and English speaking countries,
> yet the webinar will only be held in English? Please consider
> interpretation.
> Kind regards,
>
> Olivier
> (my own views)****
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> -- ****
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> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD****
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> http://www.gih.com/ocl.html****
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