RE: [council] Questions for chair

[Adrian Kinderis <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the response Olga, although I think you missed my question.

Perhaps I'll ask it a different way;

Do you plan on meeting with other Stakeholder groups to discuss your view and 
ideas on Council Leadership and if so when? I am a little surprised that you 
should have to be asked quite frankly. I would have thought it was something 
that you would have sought out. Perhaps you can explain why you haven't?

Thanks for your time.

I know you are busy!

Adrian Kinderis


From: KnobenW@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:KnobenW@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 7:34 PM
To: olgacavalli@xxxxxxxxx; Adrian Kinderis
Cc: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: AW: [council] Questions for chair

Thanks Olga! I think this is also a valuable input for the Cartagena discussion 
on council role.


Regards

Wolf-Ulrich

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Von: Olga Cavalli [mailto:olgacavalli@xxxxxxxxx]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. November 2010 22:59
An: Knoben, Wolf-Ulrich; Adrian Kinderis
Cc: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: Re: [council] Questions for chair
Hi,
in relation with the questions sent by Adrian and Wolf, these are some comments 
and I am happy to further explain these ideas during the conference call next 
Friday.

Adrian, my mission as a NonCom Appointee is to participate in GNSO with a 
neutral perspective placing the broad public interest ahead of any particular 
interests. In my view, a chair is a facilitator and a coordinator of the work 
of the GNSO, including all different interests and perspectives of all the 
council members and their stakeholder groups as well.

As you may recall, we NCAs could be also non voting members of the GNSO, which 
is the case of Andrei now. So there could be even a non voting chair.

I have shared working teams, drafting teams and several other activities in my 
three years serving the GNSO with almos all of the council members and dialogue 
has been always open, so I am happy to answer any other question or doubt you 
may have.

I would apprecialte if you could clarify the concept "platform" included in 
your question.


Wolf, for me the key issue in the future of GNSO is broaden its perspective 
through outreach.

In the Constituency Operations Working Team that I have chaired as part of the 
GNSO restructuring process, we have produced a very interesting document about 
outreach that is now under final revision by the OSC and will soon will be 
available for GNSO revision. (Special thanks to Debbie Hughes that chaired the 
subworking team, Krista Papac, Claudio DiGangi, Rafik Dammak, Tony Harris and 
Michael Young for their active participation in drafting the document).

If GNSO could broaden participation including a more diverse perspective and 
more active participation from a wider universe, then it would be easier to 
have more participants from different stakeholder groups into different 
projects.

As we learned in the prioritization working group, where you were a very active 
member, all projects have their impact and are relevant and interesting for 
different councilors and for their stakeholdergroups. So if more 
representatives can actively participate in different activities then 
prioritization could be more a managerial issue than a problem of  
administrating lack of time and resources.

In relation with your question on how to "avoid the council's position in the 
policy development process becoming more and more weakened?", again I think 
that the answer is having a GNSO with a broader perspective, and this could be 
achieved through an outreach effort.

I will be happy to explain this further or answer other questions next Thrusday.

Best regards

Olga




2010/11/16 <KnobenW@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:KnobenW@xxxxxxxxxx>>
I've 2 questions to both candidates:


 1.  I'd appreciate a statement from regarding action item 1. from our last 
call (prioritization, see attached). Which specific efforts do you have in mind 
in order to strengthen the council's ability and effectiveness in organizing 
its work?
 2.  With respect to the fact that the board recently took decision on VI 
without having received a specific council recommendation: which measures do 
you have in mind to avoid the council's position in the policy development 
process becoming more and more weakened?

Thanks and regards
Wolf-Ulrich

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Please note the following action items from our Council meeting one week ago:

1.      Assuming we dispense with the prioritization effort, Councilors are 
encouraged to communicate ideas on the Council mailing list on how to make 
decisions regarding whether or not to proceed on a project; the aim would be to 
compile a list of factors that can be used to make choices, and over time 
develop criteria for choosing projects and work items.