<div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">Dear colleagues, </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"> It's always good and interesting to have this conversation (almost every year) during the election period. In addition to what Julf, Tomslin, Pedro, Stephanie and other colleagues have said, I propose that we set up an ad-hoc committee after these elections.</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"> This committee would be tasked with identifying the KPIs, accountability metrics, and capacity-building efforts that can help nurture a new generation of leaders and also a nomcom for our elections. </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"> I personally joined ICANN 9 years ago as a French native speaker. It took me almost 4 years to overcome the language barrier, understand the complexity of ICANN as an organization, and contribute to the topics. </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">I know that people from Francophone, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic backgrounds face similar challenges, often hesitating before contributing or joining a conversation. It's not easy, and we must encourage and support them. It's painful to feel stupid because you have ideas you can't express in another language. Let's fix that gap. </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"> Volunteering is good but needs to be measured because it's unfair for people to dedicate hours of work and then see others, with little or no contribution or knowledge, stepping into leadership roles. It's a problem of democracy. </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">We often see the usual suspects even for webinars and the policy transition pilot project, while others don't show willingness & Pedro said it well. Most calls, including council and policy calls, are open, but we can barely count new faces. </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">It would be beneficial to have these conversations throughout the year, not just during the election period.</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"> There shouldn't be shortcuts to being elected as a leader just because one can rally people during elections. It's good to complain about "recycling", but let's put proposals on the table. & thanks Remmy & Stephanie for the proposals and willingness to help. Your mail boxes will be full soon :) </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">Warm regards,</div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">Emmanuel </span></div><br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from iPhone. Excuse brevity and typos.</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue 14 May 2024 at 15:19, Thato Mfikwe <<a href="mailto:thatomfikwe@gmail.com">thatomfikwe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Good evening afternoon colleagues from South Africa,<div><br></div><div>Thato Mfikwe (Ntjatje) here. I am concerned about recycling on NCUC and NCSG leadership roles, especially at regional representation and chairperson level, I strongly feel we need to give other members of our community a chance in leadership positions as I keep seeing the same names year after year going back to the same leadership roles. This is my honest opinion, it would be good to give new people or those who served one term another chance at leadership roles as opposed to those who have served more than 6 years in similar roles for instance.</div><div><br></div><div>This is my humble submission to the membership as this will facilitate rotation and inclusion, thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Thato Mfikwe (Ntjatje).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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