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Participate in the GNSO Review Supplementary 360 Assessment!
To provide further input on the GNSO, a Supplementary 360 Assessment has been launched! This Supplementary Assessment will provide survey takers with a mechanism to give valuable input into the GNSO's Working Groups. The GNSO Working Groups are one of the cornerstones of the ICANN Policy Development process, proving input on them is vital to a successful Review.
The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) serves an important function – it is responsible for developing and recommending to the ICANN Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains.
The GNSO Review is part of ICANN's commitment to continuous improvement, accountability and transparency. It uses mechanisms and measures to maintain public confidence in the viability, reliability and accountability of ICANN.
ICANN's Bylaws1 require that its structures, including the GNSO, be reviewed on a five-year cycle. The purpose of the review is to evaluate organizational effectiveness of the GNSO, acknowledge areas that are working well, identify areas that need improvement and affect needed changes.
The quality, validity and acceptance of the GNSO Review and the resulting improvements depend on relevant and useful feedback from a diverse and representative group of people. This is the cornerstone of ICANN's bottom-up multistakeholder model.
The 360 Supplementary Assessment, a new component within the organizational reviews, is designed to gather data for an independent examiner, Westlake Governance, to use in the review process and may also inform GNSO self-improvement efforts.
The 360 Supplementary Assessment is an easy-to-use online tool for the GNSO community, other ICANN structures and community members, the Board and staff to provide valuable feedback to the independent examiner regarding Working Groups.
To participate in this survey and make your voice heard, please click here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GNSO_review_working_group
The 360 Assessment will be live from 27-October-2014 23:59 UTC to 10-November-2014 23:59 UTC.
Please click here to download a PDF copy of the 360 Supplementary Assessment [PDF, 200 KB] | Français [PDF, 98 KB] | Español [PDF, 94 KB] | Pусский [PDF, 123 KB] | 中文 [PDF, 140 KB] | العربية [PDF, 4.01 MB].
To contact the Independent Examiner with any questions or comments, please email Westlake Governance at the following email address: gnsoreview@westlakegovernance.com
Additional Information – GNSO Review 2014
- GNSO Review 2014 Workspace
- GNSO Review Frequently Asked Questions and Answers (FAQs)
- GNSO Review Background Information
- GNSO Review 360 Assessment
Participation Opportunities
| Interested SOs/ACs | Interested Individuals | |
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| GNSO Review Working Party |
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| 360 Assessment | Participate in the 360 Assessment https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ |
Participate in the 360 Assessment https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ |
| Independent Examiner | Provide feedback to Westlake Governance gnsoreview@westlakegovernance.com | Provide feedback to Westlake Governance gnsoreview@westlakegovernance.com |
| Public Comment | Public comment period in November 2014-January 2015 | Public comment period in November 2014-January 2015 |
| Structural Improvements Committee | Provide feedback here | Provide feedback here |
| Staff | Provide feedback – larisa.gurnick@icann.org or matt.ashtiani@icann.org | Provide feedback – larisa.gurnick@icann.org or matt.ashtiani@icann.org |
For users wishing to view the survey before completing it, a copy of the English version of the survey can be downloaded in PDF format by clicking here [PDF, 1.03 MB].
1Article X of ICANN Bylaws provides further detail. ICANN's Bylaws require that its structures, including the GNSO, be reviewed on a five-year cycle. According to the Bylaws, the goal of the review is "to determine (i) whether that organization has a continuing purpose in the ICANN structure, and (ii) if so, whether any change in structure or operations is desirable to improve its effectiveness."