[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC EC Elections: Last Call for Nominations + Acceptances

[William Drake]

Hello from IGF Brazil

Tomorrow is the last day for nominations.  As you can see from the Elections page below, we potentially have competitive elections for the AF position (2 candidates) and the AP position (3 candidates) but not for the chair, Europe, NA, or LAC.  So again, I would strongly encourage anyone who is interested in getting more involved to consider standing for election.  The next year should be an interesting and important one in NCUC’s development and in ICANN more generally, so it’s worth giving it a try if you have any inclination. 

In addition, it is helpful to have competitive elections from the standpoint of legitimacy and buy-in, and as an incentive to electoral ‘turn-out’ when the time comes to vote.  Civil society’s influence in ICANN is enhanced if our representatives can credibly say they represent xyz members, and the credibility of that claim is increased if we have a good level of participation in the election.

As you also can see from the Elections page, four of the nine people nominated thus far have yet to indicate that they accept the nomination.  One should accept the nomination before submitting a candidate statement, a process that begins Monday, so it’d be good to hear from those folks, even in the case of self-nominations, just to be sure.

Cheers

Bill


> On Nov 6, 2015, at 5:03 AM, Maryam Bakoshi <maryam.bakoshi at icann.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> The two week window for self nominating or nominating any other member http://www.ncuc.org/about/members/ <http://www.ncuc.org/about/members/>  for the NCUC EC Elections, ends this Sunday 8th November 23:59 UTC.
> If you haven’t already done so, and would want to, please send an email to the discuss list with a name(s) for any of the positions.
> 
> As a reminder, the timetable is as follows:
> 
> 26 Oct. - 8 Nov.:  Nominations submitted to ncuc-discuss  
> 9-22 November:    Candidates submit statements to ncuc-discuss 
> 23 Nov. - 6 Dec.:  Election period 
> 7 December:  Results announced
> 
> Elections page: https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomuserconst/Elections+2015 <https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomuserconst/Elections+2015>
> List of nominees: https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomuserconst/Nominations <https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomuserconst/Nominations>
> 
> Many thanks,
> -- 
> Maryam Bakoshi
> Secretariat ­Support - NCSG, NCUC, NPOC
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
> 
> Email:  maryam.bakoshi at icann.org <mailto:maryam.bakoshi at icann.org>
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