Centre for Internet and Society

NETmundial Outcome Document - Draft Article 13

geetha — 2014-04-29T17:13:43Z

Compilation of comments made in relation to the draft Article 13 of the NETmundial outcome document. The Article dealt with enabling environment for innovation and creativity.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/netmundial-outcome-document-draft-article-13

Table of CIS DIDP Requests

geetha — 2015-03-05T06:42:25Z

CIS sent 10 DIDP requests to ICANN, and we received responses for 9 of them. As this table shows, the majority of ICANN's responses are negative. In 7 requests out of 9, ICANN provides no new information apart from what CIS had already identified in the Requests.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/table-of-cis-didp-requests

DIDP Request #1: ICANN's Expenditures on "Travel & Meetings"

geetha — 2015-03-05T08:00:36Z

CIS sent ICANN a request under its Documentary Information Disclosure Policy, seeking details of expenditure by ICANN at its Meetings. CIS' request and ICANN's response are detailed below.

CIS' Request

18 December 2014

To:

Mr. Cherine Chalaby, Chair, Finance Committee of the Board

Mr. Xavier Calvez, Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Samiran Gupta, ICANN India

All other members of Staff involved in accounting and financial tasks

Sub: Request for itemized details of expenditure by ICANN at its Meetings

We would like to thank Mr. Calvez and Mr. Gupta for providing information regarding ICANN’s domain name revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014.[1] We would like to request further information through the DIDP.

In the Audited Financial Statements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the “statements of activities” provides Total Expenses (for ICANN and New gTLD) as USD 124,400,000.[2] For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2013, the Total Expenses (ICANN and New gTLD) noted is USD 150,362,000.

According to the statement, this covers expenses for Personnel, Travel and meetings, Professional services and Administration. Quarterly Reports note that the head “Travel and meetings” includes community support requests.[3] In addition to these heads, Quarterly Reports include “Bad debt expenses” and “Depreciation expenses”. The manner of accounting for these is explained in Note 2 to the Notes to Financial Statements.[4] Note 2 explains that the expenses statement is prepared by “functional allocation of expenses” to identifiable programs or support services, or otherwise by methods determined by the management.

For the purposes of our research into normative and practised transparency and accountability in Internet governance, we request, to begin with, current and historical information regarding itemized, detailed expenses under the head “Travel and meetings”. We request this information from 1999 till 2014. We request that such information be categorized and sub-categorised as follows:

Total and Individual Expenses for each meeting (categorised by meeting and year):

1. Total and individual expenses for ICANN staff (differentiated by department and name of each individual attending the event, including dates/duration of attendance);

- Also broken down into each individual expense (flights, accommodation, per diem or separate local transport, food and other expenses).

- Each ICANN staff member who attended the event to be named.

2. Total and individual expenses for members of ICANN Board (listed by each Board member and dates/duration of attendance);