Hi. I just wanted to thank people for their support for the creation of this blog. I think this will be a useful way of being more accessible as an organisation and to be a little more responsive to questions and observations.
But this started with the release of our first Annual Report. Being our first we would really value feedback on it. It’s not perfect. We know that. But we hope to take comments on it for the future and thereby make it more relevant to you each year. So please do look at it and tell us what you think.
We are committed to being more transparent and accountable as an organisation and this blog is one part of that commitment. If you haven’t noticed there are others things we are doing: a news alert service and weekly news letter that you can subscribe to; a new more expanded report of Board meetings that will give you an insight into the thinking and debates at a Board level (you can find the preliminary report at http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-16jan07.htm); and of course the annual report as well as our consultation on management operating principles for transparency and accountability which is at http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-14dec06.htm
So thanks again. I look forward to having ongoing conversations!
Paul Levins
Executive Officer and Vice President, Corporate Affairs
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Javier Salinas 01.25.07 at 5:20 am
Paul.
Some people are claiming for a multilingual blog.
If you need some assistance, I’m offering part of my time for the spanish blog.
Not to translate, you can see my that my English is not good, but yes to support the administrative and technical areas.
Best regards
aspir8or 01.25.07 at 6:22 am
Thanks for publishing tha annual report. Just two problems. Firstly, the financial report is a series of scanned documents embedded in the pdf file and are completely unreadable at any resolution. Secondly, the “forum” is not what most people would class as a forum. It is simply an archive of emails, one of which would be classed as spam and which has been reproduced in it’s entirety including the html formatting. A bit of judicial editorial control would not be remiss there, although a proper forum with threads containing questions, opinions and answers, or in short, a proper interactive forum would be a good way of interacting with the wider community. Otherwise, the blog is a step in the right direction.
Paul Levins 01.25.07 at 9:30 am
Thanks for the offer Javier. I will think about this. We are going to work very hard this year to improve our communication in different languages. Kieren McCarthy who is joining us as General manager Public Participation will play a lead role here. H stsrts 5 Feb so I will raise it with him when he joins.
Re the audit report – yes thanks – others had noticed that too. Sorry. It has been fixed spo that you can now link to it and read it. Re the forum – yes I will attempt to do a better job of editing. Thanks
Chrissy 01.26.08 at 6:11 pm
Thanks for putting up this blog.
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