I wanted to drop a note to say that I think the current leadership team is doing an excellent job.

During the April APRALO meeting, which had a full and substantive agenda, I was very pleased to hear the interest among the existing leadership team to mentor and train interested individuals from the region for future leadership roles in ICANN. This is important and extremely valuable as the ICANN context and issues are complex and require time to understand, navigate and intervene successfully.

I would encourage the leadership team to share its thinking about plans to support the development of future leaders with the APRALO community.

Best regards,

Rinalia

Member, ICANN Board of Directors

On Friday, 29 April 2016, Siranush Vardanyan <siranush_vardanyan@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear AP members,

As you have seen in my previous e-mail (updates from our April call) and also from the e-mail from staff, currently The elections for APRALO leaders is open for nomination. You can view the space to see the nominations and eligibility for all. Nominations will be accepted up until 9 May.

This is to let you know as well that as part of nomination procedure each current leaders (Chair, Vice-Chair, ALAC Member, NomCom appointee) were asked individually if they are willing to continue and taking into consideration that they all are eligible for re-election, all of them have indicated that they are willing to stand again and are making themselves available for their current positions.

So, this will be noted in the wiki space by staff, that all current members indicated that they would like to continue.

Meanwhile, all other nominations are welcomed.

Best

Siranush