[Aftld-members] [cctldcommunity] Update on ICANN Public Meeting Innovation

[Barrack Otieno]

Dear All,

I am forwarding you a blog post by Sally Costerton, Senior Vice
President, Global Stakeholder Engagement and David Olive, Senior Vice
President, Policy Development Support

https://www.icann.org/news/blog/update-on-icann-public-meeting-innovation


Best regards,

Joke Braeken

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At a special meeting of the ICANN Board on Thursday 14 January, the
Board decided [1] that ICANN70 will be the fourth Public Meeting to be
held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prior to Thursday’s Board meeting, ICANN org staff presented the Board
with an initial report on the findings from the community engagement
process [2] to further innovate ICANN org’s support for virtual Public
Meetings, and what lessons we can apply to future in-person Public
Meetings.

During this consultation process, we received consistent feedback that
improvements to participation features and services for virtual meetings
should be prioritized separately from changes to the overall meeting
strategy. More time and community consultation are needed to establish
strategic changes that will be applicable to future in-person meetings.

With Board and community input, we are implementing several actions and
improvements for ICANN70 that directly result from our dialogue to date
with the community:

  	* A majority of community groups prefer to do concentrated work over a
reduced number of days for virtual meetings. In response, we have
modified the length of ICANN70 to four days (22-25 March 2021).
	* The time zone for virtual meetings will be rotated among the five
ICANN regions. The upcoming ICANN70 Community Forum will be held in the
Cancún, Mexico, time zone (UTC +5). Plenaries and networking activities
will continue to be a priority, and will be scheduled at varying times
to improve opportunities from different time zones.

	* We have heard the request to further enhance existing language
services, such as interpretation and real-time transcription.

  	* For ICANN70, we are testing better integration between Zoom and the
interpretation platform, which will likely eliminate the need for a
second device.
	* We are also testing live real-time transcription in English within
the Zoom platform.

  	* Access for the entirety of our community remains a priority. We plan
to expand our limited YouTube live streaming pilot from ICANN69,
live-streaming more key ICANN70 sessions on YouTube [3] for attendees
with limited bandwidth.
	*

We will provide more details on these innovations soon.

Other enhancements to ICANN’s virtual platform for meetings are being
tried and tested for the virtual ICANN70. We look forward to continuing
consultation with community leaders about the evolution of future
meetings. We will continue to share updates as our efforts progress.

Public Meetings are key to our multistakeholder model. While the ICANN
ecosystem continues with virtual meetings, the org is committed to
making the community’s meeting experience as easy, secure, engaging,
and valuable as possible to support your important contributions to
ICANN’s mission.

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Joke Braeken

ccNSO Policy Advisor

joke.braeken at icann.org



Links:
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[1] https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2021-01-14-en
[2] 
https://www.icann.org/news/blog/making-icann-public-meetings-work-for-you
[3] https://www.youtube.com/user/ICANNnews
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