[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC Election Begins Today

[William Drake]

Hi

For easy reference, Tapani has posted all the candidate statements to our website, http://www.ncuc.org/governance/elections-2013/

Best,

Bill


On Dec 4, 2013, at 1:48 PM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I’m pleased to say that all the nominees have now accepted their nominations and sent in candidate statements.  Later today ICANN staff will push the button and ballots will be sent to everyone for whom we were able to verify a working email address through the processes described earlier.  The ballot should look like the below.  There are two notes appended at the bottom that respond to questions people raised during the process last year (Tapani and I have spent much of the morning reading the list archives to track down how things were done and announced in prior years).
> 
> The election period runs from today Wednesday 4 December through Tuesday 17 December.  We should have results to announce on the 18th.  
> 
> Without wanting to belabor the obvious, we very much hope that everyone who is eligible will cast their ballot.  As I noted in a previous message, we had one race for a seat last year that was decided by a single vote, so every vote does count.  More generally, having a properly elected, fully mandated EC is important not only for our internal purposes, but in external contexts as well.  We’re in a much better position when advocating a position or claiming a seat at the table in ICANN or beyond if we can claim the mantle of democratic legitimacy and accountability.  I’ve had experience dealing with representatives of not nice governments in the past where this proved important, probably others here have as well.  So really, please do vote.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bill
> 
> ————
> 
> Mark exactly one box with an X for each of the six positions:
> 
> Chair
> 01 [ ]  William Drake
> 02 [ ]  Abstain
> 
> Executive Committee – Europe
> 03 [ ] Stefania Milan
> 04 [ ] Abstain
> 
> Executive Committee – Africa
> 05 [ ] Hago Dafalla
> 06 [ ] Grace Githaiga
> 07 [ ] Abstain
> 
> Executive Committee – Asia and the Pacific
> 08 [ ] Peter Green (aka Zuan Zhang, 张 钻)
> 09 [ ] Imran Ahmed Shah
> 10 [ ] Walid Al-Saqaf
> 11 [ ] Pranesh Prakash
> 12 [ ] Abstain
> 
> Executive Committee – North America
> 13 [ ] Roy Balleste
> 14 [ ] Abstain
> 
> Executive Committee – Latin America
> 15 [ ] Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza
> 16 [ ] Abstain
> 
> NOTES
> 
> 1.  It is permissible to vote more than once by resubmitting a ballot during the election period; only the last vote submitted ultimately will be counted.
> 
> 2.  Each NCUC member is entitled to vote for the chair and for 1 EC representative in each of the 5 ICANN geographic regions (i.e. up to six people).  Each NCUC member's vote is weighted: 4 for large organizations, 2 for small organizations, and 1 for individual members.
> 
> 
> 
> **********************************************************
> 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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