Back in November, we outlined “more mechanisms for transparency and accountability” which flagged up the Dashboard that you can access from the front page of the ICANN website, but which also spoke of an “operational scorecard” where the work that ICANN does is clearly identified and tied to the organization’s operating plan and budget.

Just under a month ago that scorecard was published on the ICANN website. COO Doug Brent has been pointing to it frequently ever since but as ever, with such a large and diverse community, very few people are aware of the scorecard.

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I’m a big exponent of feedback – particularly simple, mass feedback – for the work that ICANN does. With such a diverse community, in both geographic and cultural terms, it can be next to impossible for ICANN staff to get a feel for what the community thinks about a topic or a session.

We often end up hearing only a very few voices – and usually the same voices – and so broad-based feedback, even if as a result it comes without precision, is enormously valuable. But there is also a requirement on ICANN staff to make it clear to the community that the feedback that is sought and is provided is listened to and reflected.

And so with that in mind, the two sessions in which I personally was able to develop some feedback for have since been updated online with what precisely you said.

The Joint AC/SO session on Monday afternoon was a very different approach to the usual ICANN meeting. It was developed jointly by the different chairs of the Advisory Committees and Supporting Organizations over a number of teleconferences in the months preceding the Mexico City meeting, with input from myself and from Patrick Sharry, who moderated the session.

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A community database of portraits of the ICANN community has gone live online.

You can find it at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/icann/sets/72157615078679248/

The 231 photographs were taken at the recent Mexico City meeting and the database has individuals from right across the spectrum of attendees – from the Board to Council members to first-time attendees. All those featured agreed to provide ICANN with rights to the photographs.

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At the end of each international public meeting, we produce a summary of the meeting which we call a Briefing Note. This note covers the main topics discussed at the meeting complete with a rundown of what happened and links to further resources.

The Briefing Note is published on the Mexico City meeting website and linked to on its front page. We republish it here:

Hands down, the most common question I get at an ICANN meeting is “Where are the restrooms?” A close second is “How many top-level domains are there?” Occasionally they are more specific — how many are there of a certain type. Here is the current answer to all of those questions. Restrooms are just past [...]

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