Dear All, All nominees for the APRALO Vice Chair positions have accepted or declined their nominations. The following candidates will stand for election (in alphabetical order by family name): Les Allison Fouad Bajwa Sivasubramanian Muthusamy To expedite the election process, the APRALO Chair decided to advance the start of the online elections by one week. The new starting date for the APRALO Vice Chair elections is Monday, April 26th. (additional information available under: https://st.icann.org/asiapac/index.cgi?2010_election_call_apralo_vice_chair_...) The online election is anonymous. You will be asked to rank the candidates by order of preference. The candidate with the highest preference will be appointed for a two-year term. The candidate with the second highest preference will be appointed for the remainder of Mahmoud Lattouf's term which ends in March 2011. You will receive additional details on the voting method before the start of the election on Monday. In view of the elections, we would like to confirm the ALS representatives participating in the online election and the email address where the voting credentials will be sent to. Attached below you find to list with all regional ALSes representatives and the corresponding contacts according to our current information. This email is sent to all ALS representatives and copied to the APRALO mailing list. Please respond to us by Sunday, April 25th if the information for your ALS need to be changed. You ONLY need to reply to this message if the information for your ALS is INCORRECT. Please do not reply to all recipients of this message, you can simply send to message to staff@atlarge.icann.org . We will send out an updated list before the start of the elections. -- 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 ****************** Eligible APRALO voters (total 19): Aotearoa Maori Internet Organisation Karaitiana Taiuru karaitiana@taiuru.maori.nz Arab Knowledge Management Society (AKMS) Mahmoud Lattoufi mlattouf@agip.com At Large@China Asia-Pacific Mengxuan Wu wu.mx@hotmail.com Chinese Domain Name Users Alliance Dr. Hong Xue Chair o hongxueipr@gmail.com Emirates Internet Group Asia-Pacific Khalid Bin Thani Chairman info@isoc.ae Hong Kong Internet Forum (HKIF) Asia-Pacific Paul Chow Secretary paul@hkif.hk Internet Users Network Asia-Pacific Izumi Aizu iza@anr.org Internet Users Society Niue Stafford Guest Secretary sguest@niue.nu ISOC Australia Asia-Pacific Cheryl Langdon-Orr langdonorr@gmail.com ISOC Chapter India Chennai Sivasubramanian Muthusamy isolatedn@gmail.com ISOC HK Edmon Chung sec@hkif.hk ISOC NZ Keith Davidson keith@internetnz.net.nz ISOC Taiwan Chapter Asia-Pacific Chung Laung Liu liucl@mx.nthu.edu.tw National Information Infrastructure Enterprise Promotion Association (NIIEPA) Ku Wei Wu kuoweiwu@gmail.com Open Standards and Internet Association (OSIA) Hyun-kook Kahng kahng@kkorea.ac.kr Pacific Islands Chapter fo the Internet Society (PICISOC) Leslie Allison Chairman leslie.allinson@gmail.com Society Vasudhay Kutumbhkum (ISVK)- India Nimrol Agarwal nirmol81@yahoo.com Internet Society Pakistan Chapter QasimY. Khan isoc@isocpk.org Pakistan ICT Policy Monitor Fouad Riaz Bajwa fouadbajwa@gmail.com