NCUC ELECTIONS - VOTE NOW (deadline is tomorrow)

[Marcelo Fernandes Costa]

Dear NCUC fellows,

We are living our electoral process. Unfortunately only 16 of 36  
possible voters voted up to now. It represents less than 45 % of the  
organizations that make part of the NCUC.

Our organization is very small in terms of participants, but very  
important in his acting inside ICANN. We are always very well  
represented in the GNSO Council and are acting in several fronts  
inside ICANN.

We are regularly developing and presenting precious contributions,  
responding to ICANN?s challenges, confronting ideas and projects that  
not always are the best alternatives for the Internet community.

We have been supporting the spacious discussion with campaigns as  
?Keep the Core Neutral? and produced papers with clear positions in  
the main discussions that are developed within ICANN, like new gTLDs?  
policies.

However we always have a small participation in our face-to-face  
meetings. In our list just a small group of persons is shown and in  
this decisive moment, our internal elections, we have a large part of  
our group which does not participate.

I ask you to dedicate two minutes of your attention and locate the  
e-mail you received from ncuc2007 at registro.br and subject NCUC  
Elections with instructions on how to vote (deadline is tomorrow).

Your participation is very important. We need a strengthened and  
participative NCUC, playing a critical and independent role in several  
issues related to the ICANN world, the politics and governance of the  
global Internet.

I would like to use this opportunity to stimulate each one of the  
organizations to promote the discussion in their countries, spread the  
work of the NCUC and stimulate new organizations to take part and to  
participate in our constituency within ICANN.

I trust this appeal meets a good response and that tomorrow we will  
have, if not the totality, most of the NCUC votes to enhance  
legitimacy of our representatives.

Be sure that the independent NCUC is very relevant within a system  
like ICANN, where frequently conflicts of interest permeate its  
processes.

Best regards,

Marcelo Fernandes
Executive Committee Member
Latin America/ Caribbean Region