The recently approved ICANN FY14 Operating Plan and Budget (FY14
OPP) includes some expanded resources for outreach, otherwise known as the Community Regional Outreach Pilot Programme (CROPP) as part of capacity-building efforts by internet communities,
reports DigitalSENSE Business
News.
The ICANN Board and Senior Staff recognized in the financial year
2014 (FY14) OPP that, while organization-wide efforts to develop a comprehensive
ICANN outreach strategy.
DigitalSENSE
Business News also reports that ICANN plans to give individual communities
some immediate flexible support to start or continue targeted outreach efforts
that support specific community outreach or recruitment strategies.
In an effort to provide that support as soon as possible and to
test whether such a resource can be effectively and consistently managed on an
organization-wide basis, staff was directed to develop – as a pilot program - a
community regional outreach trip programme to be made available to regional
At-Large organizations and non-contract Generic Name Supporting Organisation (GNSO)
constituencies.
DigitalSENSE
Business News gathered that based on the foregoing, ICANN recognizes that
the formal FY14 OPP was approved almost two months into the fiscal year, staff reportedly
worked hard over the last several weeks to develop a pilot programme framework
that is “implementable” in the short term and “assessable” over the long term.
To this extend, DigitalSENSE
Business News reports that a detailed overview of this new Community
Regional Outreach Pilot Program (CROPP) shows ICANN has created a new
wiki workspace in addition to administer the programme.
Further, DigitalSENSE
Business News reports that in according with the FY14 OPP directive to CROPP
provides a framework in which each of the 5 At Large Regional Organisations (RALOS)
and each of the 5 GNSO non-contract Constituencies will have available 5
"regional" (three-day) outreach trips in FY14.
The specific processes for how these resources are to be made
available are set forth in the attached overview document and in the wiki
workspace.
Three critical components of the programme include specific
pre-trip approval standards such as flexibly administered by community-based
leadership and ICANN Regional Vice Presidents; post-trip reviews and
assessments and finally an overall spirit of transparency by which all ICANN
community members could observe the implementation of the programme.
Remmy Nweke
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