[APAC-Discuss] ICANN's Leadership Positions

Fouad Bajwa fouadbajwa at gmail.com
Wed Dec 22 00:00:18 UTC 2010


Hello All, I wanted to share the following announcement from ICANN for
information purposes.

Apply Now for ICANN's Leadership Positions
Apply Now to Join the ICANN Board, the Councils of GNSO and ccNSO, and the ALAC
17 December 2010
Source: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-17dec10-en.htm

ICANN's Nominating Committee (Nom Com) invites Statements of Interest
and candidate recommendations from the Internet community for key
leadership positions to fulfill ICANN's technical and policy
coordination role. Interested individuals are invited to submit a
Statement of Interest to the 2010 Nom Com for the following positions:

- Two members of the Board of Directors of ICANN
- Three At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) representatives (one each
from the Africa, Asia/Australia/Pacific and Latin America/Caribbean
regions)
- Two members of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO)
- One member of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting
Organization (ccNSO)

The Nominating Committee (Nom Com) is an independent committee tasked
with selecting a majority of the members of the Board of Directors and
other key positions within ICANN's structure. ICANN is an
internationally organized, public benefit, non-profit corporation
dedicated to: preserving the operational security and stability of the
Internet; promoting competition; achieving broad representation of
global Internet communities; and supporting the development of
policies appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based
processes.

Individuals selected by Nom Com will have a unique opportunity to work
with accomplished colleagues from around the globe, address the
Internet's intriguing technical coordination problems and policy
development challenges with diverse functional, cultural, and
geographic dimensions, and gain valuable insights and experience from
working across boundaries of knowledge, responsibility and
perspective.

Those selected will gain the satisfaction of making a valuable public
service contribution towards the continued function and evolution of
an essential global resource. Considering the broad public interest,
those selected will work to achieve the goals towards which ICANN is
dedicated in order to facilitate the Internet's critically important
societal functions.

Current Board members who have been selected by the Nominating
Committee include: Cherine Chalaby, Bertrand de la Chapelle, Steve
Crocker, Erika Mann, Gonzalo Navarro, Rajasekhar Ramaraj, George
Sadowsky, and Katim Touray.

Statements of Interest for the positions described above can be
submitted through an on-line application form at
(http://forms.icann.org/nomcom/soi.php) or by contacting
nomcom2011 at icann.org.

More information regarding the Nominating Committee can be found at
http://nomcom.icann.org. Applications will be considered in confidence
and should be received by 4 April 2011 for full consideration.
Selections will be announced in early September 2011. Successful
candidates will take up their positions following ICANN's Annual
Meeting in October 2011.

Candidate recommendations are encouraged and can be submitted through
an on-line form at
(http://forms.icann.org/nomcom/suggestcandidate.php), and questions or
comments may also be submitted to nomcom2011 at icann.org.

Background:

The Nominating Committee is designed to function independently from
the ICANN Board, Supporting Organizations, and Advisory Committees.
Nominating Committee members act only on behalf of the interests of
the global Internet community and within the scope of the ICANN
mission and responsibilities assigned to it by the ICANN Bylaws.

Nominating Committee members contribute understanding of the broad
interests of the Internet community as a whole, and knowledge and
experience of specific Internet constituencies who have appointed
them.

The challenge for the Nominating Committee is to integrate these
perspectives and derive consensus in its selections. Although
appointed by Supporting Organizations and other ICANN entities,
individual Nominating Committee members are not accountable to their
appointing constituencies.

Members are accountable for adherence to the ICANN Bylaws and for
compliance with the rules and procedures established by the Nominating
Committee.

Successful candidates are not remunerated, although direct expenses
incurred in the course of duty will be reimbursed. Fluency in English
is a requirement for all positions. These positions may involve
significant international travel, including personal presence at
periodic ICANN meetings, as well as regular telephone and Internet
communications.

Recent ICANN Meetings have been held in Brazil, Portugal, Puerto Rico,
the United States, India, France, Egypt, Mexico, Australia, South
Korea, Kenya and Colombia. Meetings during 2011 are scheduled for San
Francisco, CA in the United States of America; Asia/Australia/Pacific
and Africa. The diverse locations facilitate participation across the
world's Internet community; an aspect of growing importance as ICANN's
recently signed Affirmation of Commitments emphasizes ICANN's
accountability to the community.


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Happy Holidays.
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Fouad Bajwa



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