[rpd] [Community-Discuss] Larus foundation fellowship

[SOUAD ABIDI]

Hello,

After attending two AfriNIC meetings, I noticed that afriNIC boot doesn't
have any flayers, booklets or any kind of printed material to share with
the newcomers about how AfriNIC works or the main policies to discuss in
the meeting period.

Below some suggestions :

a)  To have a booklet about the hottest topics written by Policy authors in
each afriNIC meeting , where they explain briefly the policy in a simple
way, which in my opinion will increase the rate of participation in the
room, since most of the newcomers are not subscribed in the mailing list
yet so not aware about what's going on.


b) I agree with Jordi to make a session with newcomers after the newcomers'
session on the first day, to discuss the policies before the PDP day.

c) I suggest for AfriNIC fellowship program,  to make a mandatory course to
complete by the fellows before attending the meeting so they can have an
idea about the AFRINIC meeting and getting a maximum contribution during
the meeting.

I know that AFRINIC website has many resources, but a dedicated course to
the newcomers with a scope from each main area, I believe would be
useful(As ICANN does with the fellows).
[I volunteer to contribute in this if it's approved]

By doing so, we won't let the floor to multiple resources that might lead
to confusion.

Best regards.
Souad

Le mer. 3 juil. 2019 à 09:48, Sami Salih <sami.salih at outlook.com> a écrit :


> Salam,

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> If I remember well, the colonists also came to "*help*".

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> To help someone/nation you need to be humble enough to give them the

> abstract things (Materials in this case), especially when dealing with

> young/fresh fellows. I believe from my long teaching experience that its

> much better to pass the abstract level of the knowledge so that student can

> use his own brain/logic to drawn the conclusion based on his logic. Giving

> youth ready made conclusions to just parroting others logic is much

> harming. Increasing the population at AFRINIC meeting is not a goal.

> To show the good well of the fellowship providers, its much better to

> involve AFRINIC in the process from selection throw education and then

> effectively contribute to the meeting. This is the only way to assure

> sustainable, valuable, and trusted contributions and  to build a real "

> *bottom-up*", "*Open*", and "*Transparent*" process in a real *democratic*

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> Those who are in my age may remember this "*no separation for one nation

> down down colonization*"

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> *Dr. Sami H.O. Salih*

> Assistant Prof, School of Electronics Engineering, SUST

> Head of R&D, NTC, SUDAN

> President of SDv6TF

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> *From:* Ousmane M. TESSA <ousmane at musatesa.net>

> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 3, 2019 11:17 AM

> *To:* JORDI PALET MARTINEZ

> *Cc:* General Discussions of AFRINIC; AfriNIC List

> *Subject:* Re: [Community-Discuss] [rpd] Larus foundation fellowship

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> A+  Jordi!

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> As an academic, most useful educational materials to leraners community

> have to be FAIR (findable accessible interoperable and reusable)!

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> So selective use of filtered and uncorrect "quoted" opinions have a

> flavour of ... project!

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> Those who say that they come as samaritain to "help" must bear in mind

> that AfriNIC community is more agile and smart than they think!

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> RESPECT! RESPECT! "Shouting is not a act of vitality"!

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> JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss <community-discuss at afrinic.net>

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> Actually, I think this is something to be done by Afrinic, with the help

> of PDP chairs and policy proposal authors. The goal is not to convince them

> about **any** policy proposal, just to have more open time for openly

> discussing them, and mainly oriented to newcomers, but not only.

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> I’ve actually suggested (several times) for the last couple of years, some

> of those activities, that I’ve suggested as well in other RIRs and have

> been implemented already, with a great success. Up to now, it has never

> been done, despite how much I’ve insisted (staff and co-chairs can confirm

> that I’ve once and again provided lots of those ideas).

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>     1) Setting up open sessions for discussion with policy proposal

> authors. The idea is that all the authors (willing to contribute) have a

> short explanation of each policy proposal (no slides, a common slide with

> titles of all policy proposals just for reference), and they can discuss

> openly with the participants. There is not any decision process here.

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>     In order to plan agenda, I suggest doing this after the session for

> newcomers and/or sponsored fellows, same meeting room, so the people don't

> need to move, make it as easier as possible for them. In LACNIC we did that

> on Sunday evening because most of the folks travel on the morning.

> Distances and flights aren't the same in this region, so we should consider

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>     2) Setting up specific tables for lunch for the same. Similar to

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>     3) Group Dynamics. Take newcomers and other people interested in the

> PDP. One morning before the policy-day. Create 3-4 small groups depending

> on how many folks participate (may be more if there are more people, but

> you need one staff or co-chair for each group), and each group should work

> in "understanding" a different policy proposal, looking for pros-cons, and

> trying to "develop" consensus on it and then presenting shortly their

> results to all the groups. The idea is that they get used to the process

> and can bring their views to the policy day. As the previous ones, this is

> not a formal part of the PDP. But in LACNIC has been useful because new

> people get engaged in the list and in the mics of the meeting.

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> El 2/7/19 20:55, "Noah" <noah at neo.co.tz> escribió:

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> On Tue, 2 Jul 2019, 17:11 JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss, <

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> When anyone present a summary of a policy proposal (which has been done

> already by the authors) you’re directly or indirectly doing your own

> analysis and arguing for or against based on your own perspective. This is

> influencing participants, it can be never 100% unbiassed.

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> I believe Wafa has provided far much better educational materials

> (unbiassed) on the policy development process to all the newbie's who can

> parse through and understand through those various links the origins of

> AfriNIC and how the entire pdp process works.

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> If anything, new folks would find the rpd list and its archives even more

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> I have been party to various working groups that lobby for or against some

> policies which is completely fine but the Larus Foundation approach is on

> some next level and seriously undermines the entire pdp process.

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