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The revised bylaws added "global public interest" to the core value describing global outreach and participation:
The revised bylaws added "global public interest" to the core value describing global outreach and participation:
<blockquote>Seeking and supporting broad, informed participation reflecting the functional, geographic, and cultural diversity of the Internet at all levels of policy development and decision-making to ensure that the bottom-up, multistakeholder policy development process is used to ascertain the global public interest and that those processes are accountable and transparent;<ref name="16bylaws">[https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/bylaws-2016-09-30-en ICANN Bylaws], as amended October 1, 2016</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>Seeking and supporting broad, informed participation reflecting the functional, geographic, and cultural diversity of the Internet at all levels of policy development and decision-making to ensure that the bottom-up, multistakeholder policy development process is used to ascertain the global public interest and that those processes are accountable and transparent;<ref name="16bylaws">[https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/bylaws-2016-09-30-en ICANN Bylaws], as amended October 1, 2016</ref></blockquote>
The "global public interest" also became a subject of the ICANN Board's deliberations on decisions, as well as a basis for the [[Empowered Community]] to object to board actions.<ref name="16bylaws" />
The "global public interest" also became a subject of the ICANN Board's deliberations on decisions, as well as a basis for the [[ICANN Empowered Community|Empowered Community]] to object to board actions.<ref name="16bylaws" /> The board is now expected to articulate its rationale for its decisions as they impact the global public interest. For its part, the Empowered Community can call out decisions that failed to take such considerations into account.
In 2018, the [[ICANN Board]] identified the GPI as one of its 2019 operational priorities and carried it over to 2021.
In 2018, the [[ICANN Board]] identified the GPI as one of its 2019 operational priorities and carried it over to 2021.