[NCUC-DISCUSS] Leadership roles in NCUC and NCSG

[Pedro de Perdigão Lana]

Hi,

My two cents here.

In the (very few) years that I have been part of this community, it has
seemed to me that there is a great difficulty in overcoming the initial
engagement curve. It appears that just a few people are interested in
engaging in depth if there is no immediate return for their time and
dedication. Since slots for this kind of "compensation" are limited, and it
is hard to argue against the idea that one needs to understand the
ecosystem at least a bit before assuming a leadership role, the result is
that we do not have a large pool of people outside these circles with that
high level of dedication to NCSG/NCUC/NPOC's mission that is necessary in
order to pursue the enormous learning curve needed to be able to act more
effectively within ICANN (while also following up closely if this
dedication does not fade after the person has been elected, and, as Julf
mentioned, implementing mechanisms to hold representatives accountable).

Maybe we can move towards closing this gap with more capacity-building and
leadership-forming programs, developing a solid plan on how to attract good
people from NextGen/Fellowships programs, etc. Something to keep talking
about, in this continuous process of trying to make our Stakeholder Group
and Constituencies better each year that goes by 🙂

Cordially,

*Pedro de Perdigão Lana*
Lawyer <https://www.nic.br/>, GEDAI/UFPR <https://www.gedai.com.br/>
Researcher
PhD Candidate (UFPR), LLM in Business Law (UCoimbra)
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Em ter., 14 de mai. de 2024 às 15:21, Johan Helsingius via Ncuc-discuss <
ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org> escreveu:

> Thanks Remmy, you bring up a valid issue, but often our problem
> isn't that there are too many candidates, but rather that there
> aren't enough qualified volunteers.
>
> What we should also look at is monitoring our leadership and
> representatives better, and holding them accountable. A first
> step would be publishing attendance records, something we have
> been discussing a lot, and that I did not want to introduce
> too close to the elections as that could be seen as trying to
> influence the elections.
>
>         Julf
>
>
> On 14/05/2024 20:10, Remmy Nweke wrote:
> > Thanks Johan for this update perspective.
> > The charter limits tenure to two, but the point here is how do we
> > checkmate people coming from retirement to seek the same office again.
> > Maybe its high time to get a nomination committee before our elections.
> > This election is given, but for the future exercise and improvement on
> > our mentorship programme.
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> > On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 6:52 PM Johan Helsingius via Ncuc-discuss
> > <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org <mailto:ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     On 14/05/2024 19:44, Remmy Nweke wrote:
> >
> >      > This observation is well in order but the problem is with the NCSG
> >      > Charter which has no limitation on tenure.
> >
> >     "The NCSG Chair is elected by the general NCSG membership for a
> >        one-year term and is limited to two consecutive terms."
> >
> >     "GNSO Council Representatives are subject to terms limits as
> specified
> >        in Article X, Section 3 of the Bylaws and the GNSO Operating
> >     Procedures
> >        (GOP)."
> >
> >       From the GOP Article 11 Section 3 (b):
> >     "Except in a "special circumstance," such as, but not limited to,
> >        meeting geographic or other diversity requirements defined in the
> >        Stakeholder Group charters, where no alternative representative is
> >        available to serve, no Council member may be selected to serve
> more
> >        than two consecutive terms, in such a special circumstance a
> Council
> >        member may serve one additional term."
> >
> >              Julf
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