Dear All,

I share the concerns of AK.

This further put pay to my continuos concerns on the deliberate attempt by certain leadership within AFRALO that continues to foist people on us as a way of rewarding friendship or just mere nepotism or favoritism.

Why would the AFRALO Chairman be seen to be so overtly partisan and call it 'an exception'?

The name Beran is news to me in all my 13 years in AFRALO.

I have nothing personal against him/her, but what happened to all the active members within AFRALO?

We hope one day, hopefully in Accra we shall all be bold for once to review our ROP  and put up a ROP that can stand the test of time and not this endemic african leaders mentality of sit-tight syndrome or APPOINTING their stooges to positions of authority.

I will continue to pray for AFRALO

Pastor Peters Osawaru OMORAGBON

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On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 21:12, Abdulkarim Oloyede via AFRI-Discuss <afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:

Dear all,

I am just curious as to the contribution of Beran to the AFRALO community since she left ALAC. How many of the AFRALO meetings has she atteened since leaving ALAC. 

 I really don't know Beran within the community for obvious reasons. I only know the name cos I read about the history of AFRALO at some point. I am not against her nomination but am surprised by it. Where are the active people like Chokri, Bukola, Dr Jebera, Remmy. 

Yes it a temporary but....

I hope we have more nominations.

AK

On Wed, 24 May 2023, 20:09 Beran Dondeh via AFRI-Discuss, <afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:

Dear Afralo community 

I thank my colleagues Isaac, Alagie and Seun for the nomination and statements of support. 

I would like to take this opportunity to accept their nomination and would like to highlight that in the past years of being at ICANN, I have served on various working groups, chaired and been a pen holder a committee level and participated in mentoring and coaching many newcomers from the region. I have also actively chaired Internet governance initiatives at national, regional and continental level having chaired The Gambia IGF Steering committee in recent years and successfully hosted the first West Africa IGF in The Gambia. 

I invite you all to my view my Statement of Interest 

community.icann.org

 and look forward to being given an opportunity to serve the community once again. 

Best regards

Beran  

On May 24, 2023, at 6:15 PM, Seun Ojedeji via AFRI-Discuss <afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

Since this is an interim position, I will make an exception on this one by lending my voice to this nomination. Isaac has well enumerated some of the qualities of Beran and I have no doubt that she will be a good replacement to Sarah both on diversity, commitment and experience reasons. 

I support her nomination and hopes she accepts as well.

Regards

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On Wed, 24 May 2023, 19:02 Isaac Maposa via AFRI-Discuss, <afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:

Dear AFRALO Community,


I would like to nominate Beran Dondeh Gillen as the interim ALAC Member selected by AFRALO. Since this is an interim position, Beran is in a good position to fill it as she was part of ALAC Leadership in the past (2013-2015). She had taken some time off to focus on family issues and her professional life, but has been following At-Large work. She has also been involved in Internet Governance discussions, and particularly ICANN policy development for several years.

I worked with her in 2016 on the Community Onboarding Pilot Program, which was a mentorship-based program with an objective of improving engagement and retention of new participants within ICANN. This was from ICANN55 to ICANN60.

Outside ICANN, she is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Hub, a tech innovator hub in the Gambia.

I believe that the ALAC and AFRALO will benefit from her experience and expertise.

Please read more from her Statement of Internet (SOI).

Regards,

Isaac Maposa



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> On behalf of the AFRALO Leadership, we are announcing the start of the call for nominations for the AFRALO Interim ALAC Representative position that is available due to the resignation of Sarah Kiden. This is an interim position with a term starting immediately upon selection through the end of the 2024 AGM.
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