[council] Public Comment - ICANN Board Conflicts of Interest Review - Independent Expert Report

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/board-coi-review-report-05jun12-en.htm
ICANN Board Conflicts of Interest Review - Independent Expert Report
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Comment Open:

5 June 2012

Comment Close:

6 July 2012

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Report of Public Comments

Brief Overview

Originating Organization:

ICANN Board/Board Governance Committee

Categories/Tags:

ICANN Board/Bylaws

Purpose (Brief):

To receive public comment on the Report prepared by the team of independent 
international experts as part of their review of ICANN's conflicts of interest 
and ethics frameworks.

Current Status:

This Report will be discussed at a public session on 25 June 2012 at the Prague 
Meeting. The Board Governance Committee and the Board are also considering the 
Report and the adoption of the recommendations within the Report.

Next Steps:

The BGC and the Board will consider the public input to guide further Board 
action on the Report.

Staff Contact:

Amy Stathos, Deputy General Counsel

Email:

amy.stathos@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:amy.stathos@xxxxxxxxx?subject=More%20information%20on%20the%20ICANN%20Board%20Conflicts%20of%20Interest%20Review%20-%20Independent%20Expert%20Report%20public%20comment%20period>

Detailed Information

Section I: Description, Explanation, and Purpose

As a part of ICANN's commitment to enhancing its overall culture of promoting 
superior ethics, integrity and transparency, ICANN is posting for public 
comment the Report developed by the team of independent international experts 
with recommendations on enhancing ICANN's conflicts and ethics frameworks.

Section II: Background


Over the past year, heightened attention and scrutiny has been placed on how 
the ICANN Board addresses conflicts of interest, and on enhancing ICANN's 
ethical culture. While ICANN has a robust conflict of interest policy and code 
of conduct in place, work has been ongoing with the community and experts to 
determine how these, or implementation of them, can be further enhanced.

The work posted for public comment today represents one stage of ICANN's 
three-stage review. ICANN engaged a team of international ethics experts to 
provide recommendations for the enhancement of ICANN's ethical culture, drawing 
on international sources, including practices in other not-for-profit 
organizations. The team of experts produced the Report posted for public 
comment that will be discussed during the ICANN meeting in Prague.

Other work arising out of this three-stage review has already been presented to 
the community. ICANN engaged two sets of outside counsel - one that is familiar 
with ICANN to perform a holistic review of our policies to identify how they 
can be refined; and another set that is not familiar with ICANN to provide a 
review and recommendations for enhancements. The Board has already adopted the 
recommendations from those two stages of the review. As another facet of this 
work, the ICANN Board has finalized and announced rules on how Directors with 
interests in specific New gTLD applications may participate in New gTLD-related 
discussions and in post-Board service activities. In addition ICANN announced 
stringent communication rules for its staff regarding communications with 
potential new gTLD applicants.

Section III: Document and Resource Links

The Report prepared by the team of independent ethics experts is available at: 
http://prague44.icann.org/meetings/prague2012/presentation-ethics-coi-final-report-25jun12-en.pdf
 [PDF, 570 KB]

Section IV: Additional Information

Information and links to some of the other work arising out of this three-stage 
review is available at: 
http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-15may12-en.htm




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Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
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