[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC Election 2013

[David Cake]

I would like to nominate Bill Drake for the position of NCUC Chair.  

Bill has a wealth of experience within ICANN, and the Internet governance world generally. He knows how the GNSO, and GNSO Council in particular, works in great detail, knows a great deal about ICANN generally, knows how ICANN fits into the global landscape, and is a noted scholar on these areas as well as practical experience. He is always engaged, and works hard in many ways to improve NCUC and ICANN. And his first term as NCUC chair has seen a lot of terrific improvements in the way the constituency functions.  

I served as chair of NCUC before Bill, so I understand the demands of the job, and I think Bill is well suited to the role and has been doing a great job in a job that is never easy.

NCUC will face many challenges in the next year, in terms of how it will fit into a changing ICANN landscape while continuing efforts to remain a strong, diverse, effective and open constituency.  I think Bill is an excellent choice to lead us in facing those challenges.  

Regards

David

On 27 Oct 2013, at 7:10 pm, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch (mailto:william.drake at uzh.ch)> wrote:
> Hi
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> Now that NCSG has wrapped up its annual election, it is NCUC's turn.   We will need to elect a Chair and an Executive Committee.   
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> The positions that will be open are:
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> 1.  Chair   [currently held by William Drake]
> 2.  EC – Europe [currently held by Tapani Tarvainen]
> 3.  EC - Africa [currently held by Wilson Abigaba]
> 4.  EC – Asia and the Pacific [currently held by Peter Green (aka Zuan Zhang 张 钻)
> 5.  EC – North America [currently held by Edward Morris]
> 6.  EC – Latin America [currently held by Carlos Alberto Afonso]
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> NCUC really needs committed volunteers who are really willing to donate a few hours a week to collaboration in order to help ensure that civil society's voice is heard in ICANN.  If you think that could be you, please consider standing for one of these positions.
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> The timetable will be as follows:
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> November 6 - 19 (Constituency Day in Buenos Aires): Nominations submitted to ncuc-discuss   
> November 20 - December 3: Candidates submit statements to ncuc-discuss  
> December 4 − 17: Election period  
> December 18: Results announced
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> Voter eligibility:
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> As you know, NCSG does a labor-intensive "check-in" procedure (which is important in the SG context), and members who do not reply in time to multiple email promptings become ineligible to vote in the election cycle. In the recently concluded election, this resulted in a fairly large number of members, including NCUC members, being declared Inactive.  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmHFgvYjF_e4dGIycFJVenFSak9ZWDdRdXVlNXdBV2c&usp=sharing#gid=0
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> NCUC has never done a check-in, and has opted for simple majority votes instead.  For example, last year 140 votes were cast, and one position was decided by a single vote https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1212&L=NCSG-DISCUSS&F=&S=&P=14878.  Which suggests a) we really should try to increase the overall voter turn out this year, and b) every vote counts, so please participate.   
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> While we don't check-in, we do need to send to the GNSO Secretariat a list of eligible voters.  We must have your correct current email address in order for you to receive a ballot.  Tapani Tarvainen <ncuc at TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO (mailto:ncuc at TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO)> is maintaining our data base.  So please send him your details if you did not respond to him in the Spring when he pulled member addresses from the NCSG list to launch ncuc-discuss, or for that matter to Robin's recent NCSG check-in.  You might want to check that you are correctly listed at http://www.ncuc.org/participate/members/ as well.
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> Thanks much,
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> Bill
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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 (http://www.ncuc.org/)
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>   www.williamdrake.org (http://www.williamdrake.org/)
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