Dear Noah,
On 28/06/2017 09:14, Noah wrote:
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 11:50 PM, Sunday Folayan <sfola...@gmail.com
<mailto:sfola...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear Community,
Hello Sunday,
This afternoon, I was privileged to lead the AfriNIC board members
to meet with the ICANN Board, led by Steve Crocker at the ongoing
ICANN meeting. The meeting centered on the efforts of the AfriNIC
Board at learning best practices, with a view to improving our
processes and accountability to the community.
The Agenda of the meeting specifically was:
1. Limits of Board Transparency and Board Confidentiality
2. Management of open Board Meetings.
The open board meetings are one way of demonstrating transparency but
this is normally not a one day AGMM meeting. How we improve this going
forward is of great significant if we are to succeed in being
accountable and transparent.
We need to see more mechanisms in place for instance
- Board and organisation KPI's (as so many activities
happen but they are not measured to their effectiveness)
- Seeking recommendations from community on certain
issues where necessary
- Sound strategic plans for the organisation since today,
the 4 page document still doesn't cut it.
- Quarterly reports on the progress of the organisation
before even the annual reports
2. The multi-stakeholder model works
That is what must prevail as its a model that saw ICANN itself become
global multistakeholder governance organisation today.
3. Trust must be built. It does not just come
More transparency especially for a Not-for-profit public entity is
what can usher in more trust from bottom to the top.
5. Accountability is key
And leadership is all about accountability. This is what this
community seeks.
The Board is committed to ensuring that the organization is
responsive and accountable, and we do request the cooperation of
the community as we seek ways to improve the
Board/membership/Community interactions. We seek your continued
support in this regard.
It's also important for the board and the entire leadership to come to
the realisation that its the membership and the community that puts
you there to lead and manage the organisation and at any time, you can
be called out to be accountable and transparent no matter how bad or
good things might seem. If we have problems, we should be transparent
about them so that we seek solutions together to fix them. If we
succeed, we should be transparent about our success as well.
Most importantly, we seek that this words are followed up with real
action too.
Best Regards,
Sunday Folayan
Chair, AFRINIC Board
Cheers,
Noah
Thank you very much for all your comments. They will be put into
consideration moving forward.
Best Regards ....
Sunday.
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