Dear Beran, We have recorded your withdrawal. Thank you. Kind Regards, Yeşim Sağlam From: Beran Dondeh <berandondeh@yahoo.com> Date: 11 June 2023 Sunday 17:33 To: AFRI-Discuss <afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Cc: ICANN At-Large Staff <staff@atlarge.icann.org> Subject: [Ext] Re: [AFRI-Discuss] Call for Nominations for AFRALO Interim ALAC Representative /Appel à candidatures pour le représentant intérimaire de l'ALAC d'AFRALO Dear Afralo Colleagues I would like to take this opportunity to announce my withdrawal as a candidate for the AFRALO representative to the ALAC. I have read through some of the comments and given I am contesting to represent AFRALO at the ALAC, I would not want anyone on this list to feel hard done by or otherwise as a result of my candidature. As was rightly pointed out, these leadership positions are to serve the people. After much thought, I would like to withdraw as a candidate with immediate effect. I would like to thank those who nominated me and those who have supported my candidature. I will continue to engage and look forward to the GA. I wish the rest of the candidates luck and everyone a great week ahead. Best regards Beran Dondeh Gillen On May 24, 2023, at 7:08 PM, 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<https://community.icann.org/x/ZIIQAw> [eeBfPdm2eoBKnHEAAAAASUVORK5CYII=]<https://community.icann.org/x/ZIIQAw> 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 Sent from my mobile Kindly excuse brevity and typos Every word has consequences. Every silence does too! On Wed, 24 May 2023, 19:02 Isaac Maposa via AFRI-Discuss, <afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org<mailto: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 On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 8:28 PM ICANN At-Large Staff via AFRI-Discuss <afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org<mailto:afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org>> wrote:

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Dear All,

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.

AFRALO Selection Timetable for 2023

24 May 2023 - Announcement of call for nominations and Nominee's Statement. 24 May - 7 June - Nomination period (nominations accepted for 10 working days). 14 June 2023 - Deadline for nomination acceptances 19 June 2023 - 21 June 2023 (TBC) - Call with the candidates if desired by AFRALO. 26 -30 June 2023 - Elections (If required, elections will begin no later than one week after the deadline for nomination acceptances and end no later than two weeks after that deadline). 30 June 2023 - Newly elected ALAC Member shall be seated immediately upon selection given the vacant position.

Please note that nominations, including self-nominations, must be made directly to the afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org<mailto:afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> list. Any current subscriber to this list can make nominations.

Nominators must also post the nomination at the directly on the 2023 AFRALO Interim ALAC Representative Selection workspace, or by sending a mail to At-Large staff.

Additional details may be found on the 2023 AFRALO Interim ALAC Representative Selection workspace.

Kind regards,

At-Large Staff

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Chers tous,

Au nom de la direction d'AFRALO, nous annonçons le début de l'appel à candidatures pour le poste de représentant intérimaire d'ALAC d'AFRALO qui est disponible en raison de la démission de Sarah Kiden. Il s'agit d'un poste intérimaire dont le mandat commence immédiatement après la sélection jusqu'à la fin de l'AGA 2024.

Calendrier de sélection AFRALO pour 2023

• 24 mai 2023 - Annonce de l'appel à candidatures et déclaration du candidat.

• 24 mai - 7 juin - Période de nomination (nominations acceptées pendant 10 jours ouvrables).

• 14 juin 2023 - Date limite d'acceptation des nominations

• 19 juin 2023 - 21 juin 2023 (à confirmer) - Appel avec les candidats si souhaité par AFRALO.

• 26 -30 juin 2023 - Élections (si nécessaire, les élections débuteront au plus tard une semaine après la date limite d'acceptation des candidatures et se termineront au plus tard deux semaines après cette date limite).

• 30 juin 2023 - Le membre de l'ALAC nouvellement élu sera assis immédiatement après sa sélection compte tenu du poste vacant.

Veuillez noter que les nominations, y compris les auto-nominations, doivent être faites directement à la liste afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org<mailto:afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org>.

Tout abonné actuel à cette liste peut faire des nominations.

Les proposants doivent également publier la nomination directement sur l'espace de travail de sélection des représentants provisoires de l'ALAC AFRALO 2023, ou en envoyant un courrier au personnel d'At-Large.

Des détails supplémentaires peuvent être trouvés sur l'espace de travail 2023 AFRALO Interim ALAC Representative Selection.

Cordialment,

Personnel d'At-Large

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