Hello, APRALO members, Please note the following important election-related announcements from the At-Large Staff. First, it is our duty to announce that Professor Hong Xue has resigned as APRALO Chair effective 31 March 2011. We would like to thank Professor Xue for her leadership and work as Chairperson. APRALO’s Vice-Chairs, Fouad Bajwa and Charles Mok, are now serving as acting Co-Chairs and will do so until the seating of the new, regularly elected Chairperson. Second, we would like to announce the upcoming elections for the positions of APRALO Chair (1), Vice-Chair (1), and Secretariat (1). The Vice-Chair position to be filled is currently held by Charles Mok; the Secretariat position is currently held by ISOC-Hong Kong. As decided by the acting Co-Chairs, the terms for each of these newly elected APRALO officers will be as follows: - The new Chair will serve both for an interim term of 14 May 2011 through 30 June 2011 (completing the term of Professor Xue) and for the official term of 01 July 2011 through 30 June 2013. - The new Vice-Chair and Secretariat both will serve for the official term of 01 July 2011 through 30 June 2013. The suggested election schedule can be found below. Further details can be found on the APRALO election wiki page at https://community.icann.org/display/APRALO/2011+Election+Calls+-+APRALO. Third, with this e-mail, we are calling for nominations in the elections for APRALO Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretariat (as described above). The nomination period opens today and will close on 29 April 2011. Kindly e-mail all nominations to the APAC Discuss list (apac-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org<mailto:apac-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org>) and cc the At-Large Staff (staff@atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org>). Election schedule 6 April 2011 -- At-Large Staff will announce elections and call for nominations 6-29 April 2011 – Nomination period (nominations accepted for approximately four weeks) 6 May 2011 -- Deadline for nomination acceptances (nominees must accept nominations no later than seven days after the nomination period ends on 29 April 2011) 9-13 May 2011 -- Elections (elections begin no later than one week after the deadline for nomination acceptances and end no later than two weeks after that deadline) 14 May 2011 -- New APRALO Chairperson seated (term: 14 May 2011 through 30 June 2013) 1 July 2011 -- New APRALO Vice-Chairperson and Secretariat seated (term: 1 July 2011 through 30 June 2013) Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Seth Greene, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, Kristina Nordström ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org website: www.atlarge.icann.org