Many people ask me “What is it to be on the Board of ICANN?”<\/p>\n
Here is my response, with some astonishing data.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
From the outside it looks great – lots of travel, business class, good hotels.<\/p>\n
From the inside: lot of work. You travel to New Zealand – two nights on planes, and you don’t have even an extra day to see anything. Why not having an extra day? You will see below.<\/p>\n
Let’s take a closer look at the time we spent on ICANN…
\nThe ICANN Board list has 16217 messages since I joined (June 25, 2003) until a couple of weeks ago, when I did the calculations below.
\nThe different committees I am in have the following number of mails:<\/p>\n
Meetings Committee – 365
\nAudit – 234
\nBoard Governance – 106
\nBoard only – 142
\nGeneral Assembly – 265 (since january 2006)
\nGAC WG – 94
\nICANN- 4152 (directly related)
\nICANN media – 615
\nICANN other – appr. 2000
\ntotal: 24190<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nOr on average I received 23 messages a day.<\/p>\n
This number does not include all messages I wrote (they are in several different directories, and difficult to count).<\/p>\n
Reading an e-mail takes on average 5 minutes.<\/p>\n
That’s about 115 minutes \/ day, or 2 hours. Every day. Or 60 hours \/ month, which equals between 7 and 8 working days. (Note, that’s without calculating reading the different documents, sometimes hundred of pages!).<\/p>\n
Or for one year it’s exactly 90 working days (60 hours by 12 months = 720 hours, the working day consists of 8 hours, so it makes 90).
\nThat is 18 weeks<\/strong> (5 working days each).<\/p>\nPlus the 30 days<\/strong> we go for the conferences (on average we spent at the conference venues 8 days, plus 2 days travel), plus 8 days for two board retreats (2 day-retreat + 2 days travel). They include Saturdays and Sundays, which in my own country Bulgaria has to be calculated twice, but I will not do it here.<\/p>\n
Then we have the monthly conference calls – 2 hours each, which adds to this another 2 working days.<\/p>\n
That’s actually 40 days, or another 8 working weeks<\/em>.
\nThe total account comes to 26 (twenty six) working weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\nWithout counting the reading of the different documents we are supposed to read. E.g. the “.xxx” had about 2000 pages.
\nWithout counting all the people who we meet at different places, and they talk to us about ICANN.<\/p>\nAnd last, but not least, without counting that whatever decision you will vote, you’ll be always blamed by more than half of the people coming to the ICANN conferences.<\/p>\n
That’s the calculation. Now, some may say that they don’t spend, or don’t need to spend on average 5 minutes per e-mail. True. But there are e-mails where you have to spend 50 minutes, and there are such, which will take you a minute. That’s why on average it’s 5.<\/p>\n
If you find an error in my calculations, please, leave a comment. Thanks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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