| | At Large Membership and Civil Society Participation in ICANN |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
|
|
Abril i Abril on ICANN's board
|
Log in/Create an Account
| Top
| 21 comments
|
Search Discussion
|
|
|
|
The Fine Print:
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them.
We are not responsible for them in any way.
|
|
 |
One of the aspects of ICANN that has been visible to me as a board member and that has, unfortunately, been invisible to the public is the sense of the individual board members as people of quality.
For the most part, the ICANN directors are inteligent, concerned, and motivated people. None of them got where they are in life without a goodly deal of ability to think and to act.
One of the sad stories of ICANN is that the qualities of the individuals who compromise the board have been submerged into ICANN's collective entity and have been colored by an institutional "it's either us or them" siege mentality.
Amadeau's message - which I read to be that ICANN needs a change in people in order to break the institutional inertia that has caused ICANN's collective corporate personality - strikes me as one that is very perceptive and very important.
But a change of people on the board of directors, while necessary, isn't sufficient. Much of ICANN's institutional personality is carried in the momentum of its "staff". If there is value in changing the faces on the board, there is even more value in changing the faces on the "staff", particularly at the upper layers. Merely changing the president is not sufficient.
In addition, much of ICANN's hostility to the public has been fueled by certain of ICANN's contractors - such as, but not limited to, its law firm. If there is to be a change in ICANN, ICANN needs to obtain services from providers who are more interested in ICANN and ICANN's obligations to the public benefit than in invoices and being wannabe Iagos. [field-of-themes.com]
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
|
|
| Starting Score: |
3 |
points |
| Extra 'Interesting' Modifier |
|
0 |
|
| Total Score: |
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
I think that this is the real challenge that ICANN needs to win now: there needs to be a change in people and a change in the attitude that they collectively use in relationships towards the rest of the Internet. Yes, process is important, checks and balances too, but more fundamentally any venture is made by people, and it is the quality, skill and attitude of those people that determine its outcome.
--vb. (Vittorio Bertola)
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
| |
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
Privacy Policy: We will not knowingly give out your personal data -- other than identifying your postings in the way you direct by setting your configuration options -- without a court order. All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their
respective owner. The comments are property of their posters, all the rest © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 by ICANNWatch.Org. This web site was made with Slashcode, a web portal system written in perl. Slashcode is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL license.
You can syndicate our headlines in .rdf, .rss, or .xml. Domain registration services donated by DomainRegistry.com
|
