| No. | Recommendation | Recipient | Thematic Group Source | Assignees | Status | ||||||
| 22 | Members of the general public should be able to participate in ICANN on an issue-by-issue basis. Information on the ICANN website should, where practical, be in clear and non-technical language. | ICANN GSE Staff | TG4 |
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Pending At-Large Website Redesign & additional topic-based microsite |
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Notes:
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- Wolf Ludwig thinks this recommendation is a wishful thinking. The general public will have difficulty to truly understand/engage in ICANN issues. Such recommendation may be counter productive and unrealistic to achieve.
- Maureen Hilyard, for example, disagrees and thinks that engaging the general public is a big part of the multistakeholder bottom-up process. Part of the ICANN ALAC/At-Large mandate is to involve end users. To use less technical languages is important to enhance that engagement and carry out the mandates.
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Input from Social Media Working Group:
- Build a storage of graphics and educational resources that accompany ICANN policy issues
- Example: http://www.commoncraft.com/
- Dev Anand Teelucksingh to show the Loomio tool
- Link this recommendation to the progress on the website
- Recognize the efforts on the IANA, Accountability, and WHOIS microsites; similar microsites of other ICANN issues need to be created
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- Build a storage of graphics and educational resources that accompany ICANN policy issues - this has been done by the outreach & engagement WG and ICANN
- ICANN should have a catalog to organize those graphics
- The new At-Large website can potentially promote and link out to those graphics and educational resources; the new site also provides beginner friendly information on policy issues
- This recommendation should be implemented on an ongoing basis by soliciting feedback from the community
- Some topic-based microsite has already been done by ICANN (e.g. WHOIS, IANA, Accountability)
- Wolf Ludwig thinks this recommendation is a wishful thinking. The general public will have difficulty to truly understand/engage in ICANN issues. Such recommendation may be counter productive and unrealistic to achieve.
- Maureen Hilyard, for example, disagree and thinks that multistakeholder bottom-up process is all about engagement from the general public. Part of the ICANN ALAC/At-Large mandate is to involve end users. To use less technical languages is important to enhance that engagement and carry out its mandates.