[DCAD] ExtraOrdinary Meeting of DCAD (02 March 2023) and Next Steps

Fri Mar 3 00:01:46 PST 2023

Thanks for the update.

Following provided information.

On Fri, 3 Mar, 2023, 09:31 Muhammad Shabbir Awan, <mshabbirawan at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> Dear All,
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> Thanks first of all to those who attended the meeting yesterday. To those
> who could not attend for any reason, Judith has already shared the Caption
> First and AI transcripts with you and Joly will share the Zoom recording.
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> The key points are summarized below:
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> [1] The proposals on Governance and Code of Conduct documents were
> adopted. Lidia is leading a team to do both.  Judith, andrea and deidre
> volunteered to work with her on this. Any DCAD member interested to
> contribute in either of the documents, can contact Lidia at:
> best.lidia at gmail.com She is starting work on the two documents this
> weekend.
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> [2] Dr. Muhammad Shabbir (I) was elected Coordinator and Judith
> Hellerstein Co-Coordinator.
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> We are thankful to  the members who trusted us to revive the DCAD and
> coordinate its activities.
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> [3] Judith is working on annual report of DCAD and will send it to DCCG
> before the March 5 deadline.
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> It will first be shared with DCAD members before submission to DCCG.
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> Last but not the least, I wanted to thank Vint, Judith, Andrea and all
> others who worked with us to rejuvenate DCAD. It goes without saying that
> moving forward, myself and Judith would need the support of all DCAD
> members to make IGF and digital environments accessible for persons with
> disabilities.
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> Best,
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> Dr. Muhammad Shabbir,
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> Coordinator, DCAD,
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> https://www.twitter.com/mshabirawan/
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> *From:* Muhammad Shabbir Awan <mshabbirawan at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 1, 2023 7:21 AM
> *To:* judith at jhellerstein.com; 'Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and
> Disability' <dcad at lists.igf-dcad.org>
> *Subject:* RE: [DCAD] Extra Ordinary Meeting of DCAD
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> Dear DCAD Members,
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> In the follow up of our message on 21st Feb, having received no formal
> objections and based on the Doodle poll results, the extraordinary meeting
> of DCAD is scheduled for 1600 UTC on 2nd March (Thursday). Following are
> the details of the meeting:
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> ZOOM LINK: https://bit.ly/3EGbliL
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> Meeting ID: 844 8828 6388
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> Passcode: 939225
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> CAPTIONS (human captioning is arranged): In Zoom and
> https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-IGF-DCAD
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> RECORDING: Will be made available.
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> *AGENDA*
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> *1.                   **Adoption of Agenda. *
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> *2.                   **Deciding on a Governance model for DCAD.*
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> I propose to use the governance document of Internet Standards, Security
> and Safety (IS3) Coalition which is available here:
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> https://is3coalition.org/docs/dc-isss-governance-document-april-2021/
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> as model and evolve governance document of DCAD. I therefore would request
> you to familiarize yourself with this document prior to the meeting so we
> can discuss this during the meeting and save time. I also call for
> volunteers to draft the governance document of DCAD.
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> *3.                   **Appointing a leader for DCAD. *
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> I hereby also announce a call for nominations of DCAD Chair/coordinator.
> Any DCAD member can nominate themselves or others for this position prior
> to or during the meeting. In case of multiple candidates, an election will
> be held. The methodology for election (if required) will be discussed
> during the meeting.
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> *4.                   **Any Other Business (AOB).*
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> *Given the availability of time, we would discuss following points: *
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>    1. Preparation of DCAD annual report.
>    2. Volunteers to draft DCAD code of conduct.
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> Any DCAD member can propose additional topics for the agenda and we will
> put those under AOB. but, keep in mind that given the time constraints, we
> may not have enough time to discuss and may have to append those to the
> next meeting.
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> Looking forward to meeting you all,
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> Best,
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> Dr. Muhammad Shabbir.
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> https://www.twitter.com/mshabirawan/
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> *From:* DCAD <dcad-bounces at lists.igf-dcad.org> *On Behalf Of *Judith
> Hellerstein
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 21, 2023 3:36 AM
> *To:* dcad at lists.igf-dcad.org
> *Subject:* [DCAD] Extra Ordinary Meeting of DCAD
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>   Dear DCAD Members,
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> Lately, the DCAD has been quite silent and the result has been that in
> 2022 there was no representation of DCAD in IGF. In our understanding this
> has been due to mainly because of lack of leadership, dearth of activeness
> of DCAD members and its governance structure. We (Myself, Shabbir, Peter,
> Judy, and Lidia) have been thinking and discussing this issue amongst and
> others as well. in this context, myself and Shabbir talked to some other
> DCs and found that we need to change our governance model as well as find
> new coordinator(s).
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> To discuss this and decide a future plan of action, we feel that an
> extraordinary meeting of DCAD is necessary. So, please use this Doodle to
> mark your availability for date/time you can attend an online meeting
> through Zoom. Kindly mark as many options as you can and we’ll pick the
> most popular time.
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> https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/e36mx4Ad
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> This doodle will remain open till 12:00 UTC on 25th February.
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> We would have 2 point agenda:
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> 1. Deciding on a Governance model.
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> 2. Appointing a leader for DCAD;
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> I and Shabbir will also present a report on our findings and conclusions
> based on our discussions with other DCs.
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> I would like to propose Dr. Muhammad Shabbir
> <https://www.internetsociety.org/author/shabbir/> to chair this
> extraordinary meeting of DCAD. If someone has objection to this proposal,
> or to Dr. Shabbir chairing the call, please do let us know. We will be
> arranging for human captioning for this call.
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> Best,
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>  Judith Hellerstein
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> --
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