[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC Appointments for 2015

[Walid ALSAQAF]

Dear Bill,

Thank you for the update and for the great formal and informal discussions
we had in DC this week, particularly about member engagement.

With the support of the NCSG community, I plan to reboot the membership
affairs team by formulating and sending out to all members (old and new) a
questionnaire asking about their aspirations, concerns, questions and
suggestions.

If I get a good respondent turnout, I hope to present the survey results at
the next ICANN meeting in Singapore where we can together discuss steps
that may help engage our members more effectively.

All the best.

Sincerely,

Walid
On Jan 15, 2015 5:31 PM, "William Drake" <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:

> Hello
>
> The NCUC Exec. Committee met in Washington DC on Monday 12 January,
> primarily to deal with our appointments to various posts for the coming
> year.  Brief minutes will be posted to the website in the coming days, in
> the meanwhile I’d like to announce the following decisions here:
>
>
> External to the EC
>
> NCUC Reps. to the NCSG Executive Committee
> Robin Gross will continue for another term, and Tapani Tarvainen will
> replace Milton Mueller after four years of service in this role.  Welcome
> Tapani, we look forward to working with you, and thanks Milton.
>
> NCUC Rep. to the Public Interest Registry
> We decided to follow the simplest route with this, since the chair anyway
> needs to be in touch with PIR for its annual financial contribution etc. he
> may as well be the rep too, so I’ve been appointed.
>
> NCUC Reps. to the GNSO’s Standing Committee on Improvements
> Amr Elsadr has been reappointed, and David Cake has been reappointed his
> alternate. Both are Councilors and Amr is also chairing the NCSG PC this
> year, so it might have been better if we’d had candidatures from former
> Councilors or others intimately familiar with Council work, but we didn’t.
> Should anyone like that step forward in the months ahead, we can revisit
> our options then.
>
> Treasurer
> Milton Mueller is reappointed.
>
> Membership Affairs Team
> Walid Al-Saqaf is appointed the Coordinator of this team, the purpose of
> which is to focus on “in-reach” to existing members and ways to facilitate
> engagement, especially by new members.  This is further to the conversation
> on ncuc-discuss in the run-up to the election, in which a number of folks
> expressed concern about the need for new efforts in this area.  I am
> delighted that Walid stepped up and offered to serve in this capacity.  The
> team was launched in 2013 but sort of drifted off after a few months due to
> a lack of leadership and participation, but we still have a dormant email
> list with some subscribers that can be used to boot this up.
> http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/membership-affairs
> Interested members please subscribe and support Walid in moving this
> forward.  Once the initial population has stabilized we will re-list the
> team at http://www.ncuc.org/participate/working-teams/
>
> I’m just off a plane so that’s it for now, more to come…
>
> 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 (direct), wjdrake at gmail.com (lists),
>   www.williamdrake.org
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