[NCUC-DISCUSS] Open NCUC Positions

[Olivier Kouami]

Congratulations to my friend Peter Green for his nomination.
Cheers !
-Olevie-



2013/8/5 William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com>

> Hello
>
> I can now formally confirm that the NCUC EC has selected Peter Green (Zuan
> Zhang) to serve as Interim Asian Representative on the EC; Rafik Dammak to
> serve another year as our representative on the NomCom; and Nuno Garcia to
> serve as our representative on the NCSG PC.
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
> On Jul 27, 2013, at 7:29 PM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Having checked with the Exec. Committee I'd now like to inform members
> about our efforts to fill three open positions.
>
> ** Interim Asian Representative on the EC*: you may recall that two fine
> candidates, Patrick Lenihan and Peter Green (Zuan Zhang) offered to fill
> the EC slot until our next election that was vacated by Norbert Klein.  At
> the Durban EC meeting we discussed the fact that we'd never had a situation
> like this before and would have to improvise a solution.  Since there is
> not the time or bandwidth to hold a proper election we will have to make a
> selection, and here we can either flip a coin or try to make a more
> informed decision.  We've opted for the latter, and so I would hereby like
> to ask Patrick and Peter to send us a couple paragraphs explaining what
> your vision is for the EC, how you would go about meeting the requirements
> of the Asian rep. role as specified in the bylaws, and what specific
> functional tasks (e.g. sort of work we are trying to get moving through the
> Teams http://www.ncuc.org/participate/working-teams/) you'd be willing to
> help lead on.  Hopefully this will give us a non-arbitrary basis for a
> decision.  If you could get that to us by say mid-August that'd be really
> helpful.  I hope this is ok by you….
>
> **Nomcom.*  When we were asked a couple months ago to identify our
> candidate for the new Nomcom, many people replies saying Rafik should stay
> in the position for another year.  One person suggested the need for
> alternative candidates, but no such candidate was identified or came
> forward subsequently.  Accordingly, we will notify ICANN that Rafik shall
> continue another term as our representative.
>
> **NCSG PC.*  As Mary has joined the ICANN staff, we have to replace her
> as one of two NCUC reps on the NCSG PC (alongside NPOP reps and
> Councilors).  This is a really important position; we need someone with the
> time and knowledge base to actively contribute to constituency and
> stakeholder group positions on substantive issues being considered in the
> GNSO Council and beyond.  In addition, if we do decide to reboot a NCUC PC,
> as is provided for in our bylaws, I would argue that its members should
> serve on the NCSG PC as well for coordination purposes.  So we have to
> select someone who's really looking to step up a level or two in their
> engagement.
>
> Anyone interested in tossing their hat in the ring?  Once we know what our
> options are we can decide how to organize the selection process; in the
> event there's more than one candidate, I suppose something similar to what
> we're doing with the Asian EC rep would be likely….
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
>
> **********************************************************
> William J. Drake
> International Fellow & Lecturer
>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
>   ICANN, www.ncuc.org
> william.drake at uzh.ch (w), wjdrake at gmail.com (h),
>   www.williamdrake.org
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>
> **********************************************************
> William J. Drake
> International Fellow & Lecturer
>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
>   ICANN, www.ncuc.org
> william.drake at uzh.ch, wjdrake at gmail.com (lists),
>   www.williamdrake.org
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