[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC Election 2013

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2013/11/12 David Cake <dave at difference.com.au>

> 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.
>
> 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> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> 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.
>
> The positions that will be open are:
>
> 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]
>
> 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.
>
> The timetable will be as follows:
>
> 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
>
> Voter eligibility:
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
> 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> 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.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> 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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