<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello<div><br></div><div>A quick procedural addendum, based on experience etc:</div><div><br></div><div>*Please do not send nominations or endorsements of people before the nomination period opens 6 November.</div><div><br></div><div>*Nominations must be sent to ncuc-discuss, not to me or anyone else bilaterally.</div><div><br></div><div>*Self-nominations are of course welcome. If you wish to nominate someone else, please be in touch with them first to be sure that they are willing to stand for election.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Oct 27, 2013, at 7:10 PM, William Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi<div><br></div><div>Now that NCSG has wrapped up its annual election, it is NCUC's turn. We will need to elect a Chair and an Executive Committee. </div><div><br></div><div>The positions that will be open are:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Chair <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[currently held by William Drake]<br>2. EC – Europe<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[currently held by Tapani Tarvainen]</div><div>3. EC - Africa<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[currently held by Wilson Abigaba]</div><div>4. EC – Asia and the Pacific<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[currently held by Peter Green (aka Zuan Zhang 张 钻)</div><div>5. EC – North America<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[currently held by Edward Morris]</div><div>6. EC – Latin America<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[currently held by Carlos Alberto Afonso]</div><div><br></div><div>NCUC really needs committed volunteers who are really willing to donate a few hours a week to collaboration in order to help ensure that civil society's voice is heard in ICANN. If you think that could be you, please consider standing for one of these positions.</div><div><br></div><div>The timetable will be as follows:</div><div><br></div><div><div>November 6 - 19 (Constituency Day in Buenos Aires): Nominations submitted to ncuc-discuss </div><div>November 20 - December 3: Candidates submit statements to ncuc-discuss </div><div>December 4 − 17: Election period </div><div>December 18: Results announced</div></div><div><br></div><div>Voter eligibility:</div><div><br></div><div>As you know, NCSG does a labor-intensive "check-in" procedure (which is important in the SG context), and members who do not reply in time to multiple email promptings become ineligible to vote in the election cycle. In the recently concluded election, this resulted in a fairly large number of members, including NCUC members, being declared Inactive. <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmHFgvYjF_e4dGIycFJVenFSak9ZWDdRdXVlNXdBV2c&usp=sharing#gid=0">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmHFgvYjF_e4dGIycFJVenFSak9ZWDdRdXVlNXdBV2c&usp=sharing#gid=0</a></div><div><br></div><div>NCUC has never done a check-in, and has opted for simple majority votes instead. For example, last year 140 votes were cast, and one position was decided by a single vote <a href="https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1212&L=NCSG-DISCUSS&F=&S=&P=14878">https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1212&L=NCSG-DISCUSS&F=&S=&P=14878</a>. Which suggests a) we really should try to increase the overall voter turn out this year, and b) every vote counts, so please participate. </div><div><br></div><div>While we don't check-in, we do need to send to the GNSO Secretariat a list of eligible voters. <b>We must have your correct current email address in order for you to receive a ballot. </b>Tapani Tarvainen <<a href="mailto:ncuc@TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO">ncuc@TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO</a>> is maintaining our data base. So please send him your details if you did not respond to him in the Spring when he pulled member addresses from the NCSG list to launch ncuc-discuss, or for that matter to Robin's recent NCSG check-in. You might want to check that you are correctly listed at <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/participate/members/">http://www.ncuc.org/participate/members/</a> as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks much,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">**********************************************************<br>William J. Drake<br>International Fellow & Lecturer<br> Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ<br> University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, <br> ICANN, <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/">www.ncuc.org</a><br><a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a> (w), <a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">wjdrake@gmail.com</a> (h),</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <a href="http://www.williamdrake.org/">www.williamdrake.org</a><br>***********************************************************</div></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>