Dear All, Thursday 20 October 2016 23.59 UTC the call for nominations for the regular and special ccNSO Council elections was closed, as per the announcement located on https://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-29sep16-en.htm In accordance to the applicable rules, the following candidates were nominated, seconded and have accepted their Nomination: · REGULAR COUNCIL ELECTION Africa: Souleymane Oumtanaga Asia-Pacific: Hirofumi Hotta Europe: Nigel Roberts Latin America/Caribbean: Alejandra Reynoso North America: Stephen Deerhake · SPECIAL COUNCIL ELECTION Africa: Abdalla Omari All Nominations and Secondments can be found here: https://forum.icann.org/lists/ccnso-nominations/ At the Q&A session in Hyderabad, there will be an opportunity for the ccTLD community to interact with the candidates. In preparation of this session, candidates are invited to share their candidate statements with the ccNSO members via the ccNSO mailing list (ccnso-members@icann.org<mailto:ccnso-members@icann.org>) The Q&A session is scheduled on SUNDAY, 6 November, between 15:15 and 16:45 local time in Hall 5. See agenda ccNSO Members Days: https://ccnso.icann.org/meetings/hyderabad57/agenda.htm[ccnso.icann.org]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ccnso.icann.org_meetings_hyderabad57_agenda.htm&d=DQMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=HyTT2ymvadmiQcmo6B088sWOukGjEbibHJ64u5rMiME&m=U1Wk8mKwaeJSGPpmkf-EqefjA8TjbXk7DU_wOlFAOak&s=a7kQxKVh0Us09SOuM7why3NxO9fszMYRTEk0KeuE35k&e=> For remote participants: https://participate.icann.org/hyd57-hall5 Do not hesitate to contact me should you have questions. Best regards, Joke Braeken ccNSO Policy Advisor joke.braeken@icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org> Follow @ccNSO on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccNSO Follow the ccNSO on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccnso/ http://ccnso.icann.org