Nominations procedures?

[Robin Gross]

Thanks, Cedric!

The NCUC Charter contains more specific info about duties of
Executive Committee Members and GNSO Counsel Representatives.
   http://icann-ncuc.ning.com/page/charter-1

For the Executive Committee (EC), I estimate that it takes 5-10 hours
of volunteer time per week, and the term is one year.  EC members
should help with membership and conduct outreach to their own
geographical regions, approve budgets, ballots, handle appeals,
appoint representatives to the Nominating Committee, PIR Committee,
and similar other duties.

The GNSO Council Representative is generally more work than EC - both
in the time commitment and expected output.  GNSO Councilors
volunteer from 10-20 hours per week (some weeks less, and during
ICANN mtg weeks, much more).  The term is for TWO years for GNSO
Council.

ICANN has finally agreed to provide constituencies with a minimal
level of travel support so we can bring 3 people to ICANN meetings.
NCUC's policy is to use that support to bring our 3 GNSO Councilors
to the meeting (if they don't already have their travel costs covered
from somewhere else, like a university or NGO).   If a councilor
doesn't travel or need funding from NCUC, we can allocate that travel
funding slot to another member who needs to be at the meeting and has
no other means of getting there, like an EC member or a member active
in a GNSO working group that will be the hot topic at the ICANN meeting.

One thing I'd for us to do more of in the next year, is fund raising
so we can bring more members to ICANN meetings.  It is very
frustrating for the commercial constituencies and ICANN staff to
complain about "how small NCUC is" in attendance numbers at these
ICANN meetings.  Of course it costs $2-4k to bring a body to these
meetings and as there is no economic interest supporting our
participation (by definition), we don't get the same kind of numbers
in person at ICANN meetings that we have who participate in the
mailing list and within the constituency otherwise.  So our lack of
physical presence at ICANN meetings continues to perpetuate the myth
that NCUC is "small", even though we have 154 noncommercial
organizations and individuals as members.

Please let me know if you have any more questions on this.
Considering our incredible membership growth in the last year, we
should have quite a few fine candidates from all regions and in all
positions.

Best,
Robin


On Sep 6, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Cedric Laurant wrote:

> Hi Milton, Robin and others,
>
> Could you tell how much of a commitment it represents (hours/week),
> for how long? (one or two years or less?) and if there is any
> financial expense to be foreseen (e.g., travel for meetings) or are
> they reimbursed by ICANN?
>
> Sorry if someone else has already made you those questions before.
> It might be useful to explain what such a commitment concretely means.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cedric
> ---
>> Let me also emphasize that people should not be bashful about
>> nominating themselves, or at least expressing interest on the list.
>> In many cultural and political contexts, self-nomination is not
>> considered to be so good, and of course it is better if 5 or 6
>> people want you to be the Council rep not just yourself. But this
>> is a large group now and frankly most of us have no idea who is
>> willing and able to devote time to this thing. And it does take a
>> lot of time and commitment to serve on the Council. So if you are
>> interested I at least would appreciate it if you let the rest of
>> us know.
>> --MM (speaking entirely for myself)
>>
>> From: Non-Commercial User Constituency [mailto:NCUC-
>> DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Robin Gross
>> Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 11:08 AM
>> To: NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>> Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Nominations procedures?
>>
>> Thanks, Norbert.
>>
>> Multiple nominations are no problem at all.
>>
>> Nominations should be send to the main NCUC list.
>>
>> Robin
>>
>> On Sep 6, 2009, at 3:39 AM, Norbert Klein wrote:
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the "NCUC Elections 2009 - Nominations Now Open" info,
>> it said
>> which positions are to be filled, but I missed to see whether we
>> can send
>> one or multiple nominations, and where to send the nominations. We
>> do not
>> have much time - I hope for further instructions soon.
>>
>>
>> Norbert Klein
>>
>>
>>
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>> Robin Gross, Executive Director
>> 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA  94117  USA
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>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --




IP JUSTICE
Robin Gross, Executive Director
1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA  94117  USA
p: +1-415-553-6261    f: +1-415-462-6451
w: http://www.ipjustice.org     e: robin at ipjustice.org



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