Hello All, As a NomCom 2014 member, I certify that Africa had 9 candidates over 58, - 8 applied for the Board - 8 for GNSO - 6 for ccNSO - 0 for ALAC as there were no ALAC position open for Africa this year You can see that many applied for 2 to 3 positions. I participated in the entire selection process and it was done in a very fair way. African candidates had a lot of potential but this time, they were not selected because they were not the best. I will recommend that all of us start as soon as possible outreach activities to have more African candidates for 2015. I will make sure you get the information and I would even suggest that we create a small task force within AFRALO for that purpose. Thanks for your understanding and support for more African representation in 2015. Best regards, Fatimata 2014-08-18 12:15 GMT+00:00 Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji@gmail.com>:
+1 Peters, I really find it as a great concern. I think it's important to know why this was so as I checked and found that there were indeed nomination from Africa.
Regards
sent from Google nexus 4 kindly excuse brevity and typos. On 18 Aug 2014 13:00, "peters omoragbon" <petersomoragbon2@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
While congratulating all those nominated, it must however be noted that, of 5 Regions of the world, each had a representative except Africa while one region had two nominations. How representative could this result be? This negates the democratic credentials of ICANN, and a marginalization of the African Region and it is not late for a review and a candidate from amongst the Nine nominations receieved from Africa considered.
If this is not possible we demand explanations.
Thanks
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ICANN 2014 Nominating Committee Announces Selections 15 August 2014 The ICANN 2014 Nominating Committee (NomCom) has completed its selections for six leadership positions within ICANN, listed below for each ICANN body, in alphabetical order by family name: ICANN Board of Directors
Steve Crocker North America
Asha Hemrajani Asia/Australia/ Pacific Islands ALAC
Alan Greenberg North America
Jimmy Schulz Europe ccNSO Council Ching Chiao Asia/Australia/ Pacific Islands GNSO Council Carlos Raul Gutierrez Latin America/ Caribbean Islands Those selected will take up their positions after the end of ICANN's Annual General Meeting, which will take place during the ICANN Public meeting scheduled for October 12 - 16, 2014, in Los Angeles, California, USA. The NomCom is charged with recruiting and selecting a portion of ICANN's leadership. The NomCom is mandated to ensure that ICANN's overall leadership is diverse in geography, culture, skills, experience, and perspective. The basic criteria is that selectees are people of integrity, objectivity and sound judgment, can support decision-making within groups, can work effectively in English, have an understanding of ICANN's mission and operation, are committed to its success, experienced in world affairs, contribute to cultural, professional and geographic expertise, and can work long and hard, generally as volunteers, in the global public trust. Balancing Confidentiality with Transparency Discussing the 2014 Nominating Committee results, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, the Chair of the 2014 NomCom, shared the following: "It is with great pleasure that I can today report, to the ICANN Community on behalf of the highly collegiate, effective and efficient 2014 Nominating Committee, that during our recent meeting in London, United Kingdom, held at the conclusion of the ICANN #50 Meeting, we reached unanimous agreement on the final slate of selectees for the leadership roles we appointed this year.
These six extraordinary leaders were from the 58 exceptionally high quality Statements of Interest that were received and fully completed in the extremely short (less than 60 days) application process. This year the application process itself was completely overhauled and a new online (wiki based) system developed by the 2014 Nominating Committee was piloted. We also continued to build on the changes seen from last year's NomCom relating to greater transparency and accountability, by having more open meetings, regular reporting to the community throughout the process and we hope developing greater trust and understanding of what ICANN's NomCom does. In our public meeting during ICANN 51 in Los Angeles we will deliver a full and comprehensive report and we look forward to having more community feedback and interaction then." Regional Breakdown As noted above, the 2014 NomCom received 58 Statements of Interest from candidates all over the world (12 female and 46 male), during its open nomination period from 31 January 2014 to 1 April 2014. The regional breakdown of this year's candidates is: 9 from Africa 22 from Asia/Australia/Pacific Islands 12 from Europe 3 from Latin America/Caribbean Islands 12 from North America For more information about the NomCom, please visit http://nomcom.icann.org/
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