[NCUC-EC] Nominations for NCUC Executive Committee Representative for North America

[Tapani Tarvainen]

Observing from the side, it would be nice if you could announce
complete election timeline (deadline for candidate statements, voting
period &c). Otherwise it looks good.

Tapani

On Apr 23 10:05, farzaneh badii (farzaneh.badii at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi EC, Here is the announcement for the vacated NCUC EC NA position. Since
> our bylaws are unclear about holding elections for situations like this, I
> recommend holding the election anyway. I would like to issue this call
> tomorrow so please comment quickly.
> 
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> The representative of North America on NCUC Executive Committee has
> resigned from the position due to other professional and academic
> engagements.
> 
> According to our interpretation of the NCUC  bylaws (VII-E) we need to hold
> an election in case of resignation of EC members  "If the remaining term of
> the resigning EC representative(s) is greater than six (6) months, a new
> election shall be organized.*"*
> 
> Since that is the case, we would like to issue a call for nominations and
> then hold an election for this position. please nominate yourself or others
> for this position until 30th April 2017.
> 
> Please note that the North America Representative should be based in North
> America.
> 
> 
> Executive Committee Reps are responsible for:
> 
> 1.  Recruiting new members from their regions
> 
> 2.            Working with members from their region to help them
> understand the ICANN structure and participate in the Constituency and
> ICANN processes.
> 
> 3.            Voting on the EC on the matters listed in section IV.F below.
> All EC votes called by the Chair must be responded to in ten days. Regional
> representatives who fail to vote within that time limit four times in a row
> are considered to have resigned their office as per VII.B.2 below
> 
> 4.            Ensure that members from their region are made aware of and
> respond to calls for comments by members of the Policy Committee on Working
> Group and other Council and other ICANN policy
> 
> development activities. Regional Representatives must provide a reply to
> all such requests from the Policy Committee.
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Farzaneh