[AFRI-Discuss] [ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- ICANN 2014 Nominating Committee Announces Selections

Mon Aug 18 12:15:07 UTC 2014

+1 Peters, I really find it as a great concern. I think it's important to
know why this was so as I checked and found that there were indeed
nomination from Africa.

Regards

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kindly excuse brevity and typos.
On 18 Aug 2014 13:00, "peters omoragbon" <petersomoragbon2 at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

> While congratulating all those nominated, it must however be noted that,
> of 5 Regions of the world, each had a representative except Africa while
> one region had two nominations.
> How representative could this result be?
> This negates the democratic credentials of ICANN, and a marginalization of
> the African Region and it is not late for a review and a candidate from
> amongst the Nine nominations receieved from Africa considered.
>
> If this is not possible we demand explanations.
>
> Thanks
>
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> On Monday, 18 August 2014, 5:22, ICANN At-Large Staff <
> staff at atlarge.icann.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> ICANN News Alert
>
> News Alert
> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-08-15-en
> ________________________________
>
> ICANN 2014 Nominating Committee Announces Selections
> 15 August 2014
> The ICANN 2014 Nominating Committee (NomCom) has completed its selections
> for six leadership positions within ICANN, listed below for each ICANN
> body, in alphabetical order by family name:
> ICANN Board of Directors
>
> Steve Crocker
> North America
>
>
> Asha Hemrajani
> Asia/Australia/
> Pacific Islands
> ALAC
>
> Alan Greenberg
> North America
>
> Jimmy Schulz
> Europe
> ccNSO Council
> Ching Chiao
> Asia/Australia/
> Pacific Islands
> GNSO Council
> Carlos Raul Gutierrez
> Latin America/
> Caribbean Islands
> Those selected will take up their positions after the end of ICANN's
> Annual General Meeting, which will take place during the ICANN Public
> meeting scheduled for October 12 - 16, 2014, in Los Angeles, California,
> USA.
> The NomCom is charged with recruiting and selecting a portion of ICANN's
> leadership. The NomCom is mandated to ensure that ICANN's overall
> leadership is diverse in geography, culture, skills, experience, and
> perspective. The basic criteria is that selectees are people of integrity,
> objectivity and sound judgment, can support decision-making within groups,
> can work effectively in English, have an understanding of ICANN's mission
> and operation, are committed to its success, experienced in world affairs,
> contribute to cultural, professional and geographic expertise, and can work
> long and hard, generally as volunteers, in the global public trust.
> Balancing Confidentiality with Transparency
> Discussing the 2014 Nominating Committee results, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, the
> Chair of the 2014 NomCom, shared the following:
> "It is with great pleasure that I can today report, to the ICANN Community
> on behalf of the highly collegiate, effective and efficient 2014 Nominating
> Committee, that during our recent meeting in London, United Kingdom, held
> at the conclusion of the ICANN #50 Meeting, we reached unanimous agreement
> on the final slate of selectees for the leadership roles we appointed this
> year.
> >These six extraordinary leaders were from the 58 exceptionally high
> quality Statements of Interest that were received and fully completed in
> the extremely short (less than 60 days) application process. This year the
> application process itself was completely overhauled and a new online (wiki
> based) system developed by the 2014 Nominating Committee was piloted. We
> also continued to build on the changes seen from last year's NomCom
> relating to greater transparency and accountability, by having more open
> meetings, regular reporting to the community throughout the process and we
> hope developing greater trust and understanding of what ICANN's NomCom
> does. In our public meeting during ICANN 51 in Los Angeles we will deliver
> a full and comprehensive report and we look forward to having more
> community feedback and interaction then."
> Regional Breakdown
> As noted above, the 2014 NomCom received 58 Statements of Interest from
> candidates all over the world (12 female and 46 male), during its open
> nomination period from 31 January 2014 to 1 April 2014.
> The regional breakdown of this year's candidates is:
> 9 from Africa
> >22 from Asia/Australia/Pacific Islands
> >12 from Europe
> >3 from Latin America/Caribbean Islands
> >12 from North America
> For more information about the NomCom, please visit
> http://nomcom.icann.org/
>
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