[council] FW: GNSO Council - Induction & Training - Friday 22 November 2013

["Jonathan Robinson" <jrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

 

Please be aware of the following letter which was recently sent out to
constituency and SG chairs in order to invite participation in the first
session of the meeting planned for Friday 22 November 2013 (10h00-11h30).

 

The key purpose of the letter was twofold:

 

1.       To ensure they were aware of the event and best placed to ensure
that incoming councillors are too.

2.       To ask whether they could offer themselves or an alternate member
of the leadership group, to participate in the first session, in addition to
councillors.

 

Thanks,

 

 

Jonathan

 

From: Jonathan Robinson [mailto:jonathan.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 20 September 2013 14:14
To: 'Keith Drazek'; Michele Neylon; 'Elisa Cooper'; 'Kristina Rosette';
'Tony Holmes'; 'Robin Gross'; 'William Drake'; 'Marie-Laure Lemineur'
Cc: 'Glen de Saint Géry'; 'gnso-secs@xxxxxxxxx'
Subject: GNSO Council - Induction & Training - Friday 22 November 2013
Importance: High

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

I am writing, I trust, to remind you of an event we are planning to run in
Buenos Aires.  On Friday 22 November, the plan is to run an induction and
training session for the ?new? GNSO Council i.e. the Council to be seated
and in place from the ICANN Buenos Aires meeting onwards.

 

The background to this is that, when I started in as GNSO Council chair in
October 2012, it struck me that the preparation or induction was in place
for incoming councillors was limited and necessarily remote i.e. by email
and telephone.  Significantly, the first time the then ?new? council got
together in person was many months later in Beijing.

 

There are many good reasons to orient and prepare councillors for their work
on the Council in the year ahead and so this is one initiative that we
agreed to pursue at our council leadership / staff session back in Amsterdam
in January 2013.  We subsequently applied to ICANN for funding for an event
and this funding was agreed.  The support will finance the event and an
overnight stay, but not travel, so it must necessarily occur simultaneous
with, or adjacent to, an ICANN meeting.  Hence the reason we arrived at
Friday 22 November 2013.  The event will run from approximately 10h00 and
will be completed with a dinner in the evening.

 

The intended attendees at the meeting are the full GNSO Council which will
be in place subsequent to the council meeting on Wednesday 20 November i.e.
the then ?new? council.  The agenda hasn?t yet been fully developed but the
objective is clear; ensure that incoming and existing councillors are as
well trained and oriented as possible and moreover, that the whole council
is as well-prepared as possible to function effectively together in the year
ahead.  By function effectively together, I mean that they can work
effectively together as a council and be clear on the one another?s
relationships with, and responsibilities to, their respective constituencies
and/or groups.

 

Therefore, the reason I am writing to you is twofold as follows:

 

1.       To ensure you are aware of this event and well placed to ensure
that your incoming councillors are too.

2.       To ask whether you could offer yourselves, or if you are not
available, an alternate member of your leadership group, to participate in
the first session (Friday 22 November 10h00-11h30) in addition to your
councillors who we expect will be there for the full day and evening.

 

The purpose of 2 above is to make sure that, from the outset, the Council as
a whole is as well aware as possible of the relationship with and connection
to the broader GNSO and the groups constituting the GNSO.

 

If you have any questions or suggestions relating to this event, or indeed
any aspect of the chairing of the Council, please do get in touch with me.
I am personally committed to a well-managed and effective GNSO Council and
am open to any feedback in how best to achieve that.

 

Best wishes,

 

 

 

Jonathan

 

 

Jonathan Robinson

Chair

ICANN GNSO Council

 

jonathan.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx

Tel: +44 (0)20 7993 6103

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