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<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 16, 2017 1:33 PM, "Chenai Chair" &lt;<a href="mailto:chrche001@gmail.com" class="">chrche001@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi All,<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Many thanks for the update on why there are low applications. I just had a question on this point:&nbsp;</div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><i class="">We are also facing the hurdle to&nbsp;more female candidates since we have on 15.69 % applicants as female.</i></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><i class="">Out of 51 applications that we have received, there are only 8 female candidates. Grateful to you also if you could please help us to outreach for Female candidates from Africa.</i></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is there a targeted outreach strategy to attract female candidates? or will one need to be developed after of course figuring out the reason why women are not applying?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Will share within the African women community as well.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">chenai</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 8:00 AM,  <span dir="ltr" class="">&lt;<a href="mailto:afri-discuss-request@atlarge-lists.icann.org" target="_blank" class="">afri-discuss-request@atlarge-<wbr class="">lists.icann.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send AFRI-Discuss mailing list submissions to<br class="">
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&nbsp; &nbsp;1. Re: Call for a theme for the Joint AFRALO/AfrICANN Meeting at<br class="">
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ICANN58 Copenhagen (Dave Kissoondoyal)<br class="">
&nbsp; &nbsp;2. Re: Call for a theme for the Joint AFRALO/AfrICANN Meeting at<br class="">
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<br class=""><br class="">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br class="">From:&nbsp;Dave Kissoondoyal &lt;<a href="mailto:dave@isoc-mu.org" target="_blank" class="">dave@isoc-mu.org</a>&gt;<br class="">To:&nbsp;Afri-Discuss &lt;<a href="mailto:afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org" target="_blank" class="">afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.<wbr class="">icann.org</a>&gt;, AfrICANN Community List &lt;<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net" target="_blank" class="">africann@afrinic.net</a>&gt;, Afrinic-discuss &lt;<a href="mailto:afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net" target="_blank" class="">afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net</a>&gt;<br class="">Cc:&nbsp;Dave Kissoondobyal &lt;<a href="mailto:dave@kmpglobal.com" target="_blank" class="">dave@kmpglobal.com</a>&gt;<br class="">Date:&nbsp;Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:45:01 +0400<br class="">Subject:&nbsp;Re: [AFRI-Discuss] Call for a theme for the Joint AFRALO/AfrICANN Meeting at ICANN58 Copenhagen<br class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt" class="">Dear All&nbsp;</span><div class=""><span style="font-size:12pt" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12pt" class="">The NomCom February Report Card has been posted on the NomCom webpage at:</span><span style="font-size:12pt" class="">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/nomcom2017-report-cards-2016-12-16-en" style="font-size:12pt" target="_blank" class="">https://www.icann.org/reso<wbr class="">urces/pages/nomcom2017-report-<wbr class="">cards-2016-12-16-en</a><span style="font-size:12pt" class="">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt" class="">&nbsp;</span><div class=""><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class="">Best regards</font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class="">Dave Kissoondoyal<br class=""></font><div class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" class=""><div class="m_-4601286856407265942m_-5354640987756629295m_-5317691095860801627WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt" class=""><br class=""></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""><br class="">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br class="">From:&nbsp;Barrack Otieno &lt;<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>&gt;<br class="">To:&nbsp;Dave Kissoondoyal &lt;<a href="mailto:dave@isoc-mu.org" target="_blank" class="">dave@isoc-mu.org</a>&gt;<br class="">Cc:&nbsp;Afri-Discuss &lt;<a href="mailto:afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org" target="_blank" class="">afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.<wbr class="">icann.org</a>&gt;, Dave Kissoondobyal &lt;<a href="mailto:dave@kmpglobal.com" target="_blank" class="">dave@kmpglobal.com</a>&gt;, AfrICANN Community List &lt;<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net" target="_blank" class="">africann@afrinic.net</a>&gt;, Afrinic-discuss &lt;<a href="mailto:afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net" target="_blank" class="">afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net</a>&gt;<br class="">Date:&nbsp;Thu, 16 Feb 2017 08:48:03 +0300<br class="">Subject:&nbsp;Re: [AFRI-Discuss] Call for a theme for the Joint AFRALO/AfrICANN Meeting at ICANN58 Copenhagen<br class="">Many thanks Dave,<br class="">
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Can you share your experiences on why there has been low applications<br class="">
from applicants from the Africa Region and where we need to improve?<br class="">
(that is if you are allowed to do so?)<br class="">
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On 2/16/17, Dave Kissoondoyal &lt;<a href="mailto:dave@isoc-mu.org" target="_blank" class="">dave@isoc-mu.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br class="">
&gt; Dear All<br class="">
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&gt; The NomCom February Report Card has been posted on the NomCom webpage at:<br class="">
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<br class=""><br class="">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br class="">From:&nbsp;Dave Kissoondoyal &lt;<a href="mailto:dave@isoc-mu.org" target="_blank" class="">dave@isoc-mu.org</a>&gt;<br class="">To:&nbsp;Barrack Otieno &lt;<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>&gt;<br class="">Cc:&nbsp;Afri-Discuss &lt;<a href="mailto:afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org" target="_blank" class="">afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.<wbr class="">icann.org</a>&gt;, AfrICANN Community List &lt;<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net" target="_blank" class="">africann@afrinic.net</a>&gt;, Afrinic-discuss &lt;<a href="mailto:afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net" target="_blank" class="">afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net</a>&gt;<br class="">Date:&nbsp;Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:00:41 +0400<br class="">Subject:&nbsp;Re: [AFRI-Discuss] Call for a theme for the Joint AFRALO/AfrICANN Meeting at ICANN58 Copenhagen<br class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class="">Dear Barrack,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So far we have received 8 applicants from Africa compared to only 5 from Europe.</div><div class="">But we can still improve as the deadline is 21st March 2017. Please help us spread the message in our community.</div><div class="">We are also facing the hurdle to attract more female candidates since we have on 15.69 % applicants as female.</div><div class="">Out of 51 applications that we have received, there are only 8 female candidates. Grateful to you also if you could please help us to outreach for Female candidates from Africa.</div><div class="">In fact we need more candidates, both male and female, from our region.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks and best regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dave Kissoondoyal</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="cid:BCBA96F9-45A7-4F74-8E62-9AE13D9248AE@kmpg.us">&lt;NomCom Applications - 6 feb 2017.png&gt;</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16 Feb 2017, at 09:48, Barrack Otieno &lt;<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="m_-4601286856407265942m_-6518555559349692513Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Many thanks Dave,<br class=""><br class="">Can you share your experiences on why there has been low applications<br class="">from applicants from the Africa Region and where we need to improve?<br class="">(that is if you are allowed to do so?)<br class=""><br class="">Regards<br class=""><br class="">On 2/16/17, Dave Kissoondoyal &lt;<a href="mailto:dave@isoc-mu.org" target="_blank" class="">dave@isoc-mu.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Dear All<br class=""><br class="">The NomCom February Report Card has been posted on the NomCom webpage at:<br class=""><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/nomcom2017-report-cards-2016-12-16-en" target="_blank" class="">https://www.icann.org/resource<wbr class="">s/pages/nomcom2017-report-<wbr class="">cards-2016-12-16-en</a><br class="">&lt;<a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/nomcom2017-report-cards-2016-12-16-en" target="_blank" class="">https://www.icann.org/resourc<wbr class="">es/pages/nomcom2017-report-<wbr class="">cards-2016-12-16-en</a>&gt;.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Best regards<br class=""><br class="">Dave Kissoondoyal<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Barrack O. Otieno<br class=""><a href="tel:+254%20721%20325277" value="+254721325277" target="_blank" class="">+254721325277</a><br class=""><a href="tel:+254%20733%20206359" value="+254733206359" target="_blank" class="">+254733206359</a><br class="">Skype: barrack.otieno<br class="">PGP ID: 0x2611D86A<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div><br class="">______________________________<wbr class="">_________________<br class="">
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