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ALAC Review Terms of Reference Multilingual / TOR de la revisión de ALAC multilingüe / revue d'ALAC multilingue
by Nick Ashton-Hart April 26, 2007

April 26, 2007

Dear Community: The translated versions of the Draft Terms of Reference for the ALAC review are now available in Brazilian Portuguese and French. The spanish version will be available shortly. If you have not yet put your comments in please do so soon. ----FRANCAIS ---- La chère Communauté : Les versions traduites du mandat d'ébauche pour la revue d'ALAC sont maintenant disponibles dans portugais brésiliens et français. La version espagnole sera disponible bientôt. Si vous n'avez pas encore mis vos commentaires satisfont dedans font ainsi. --- PORTUGUES ---- Cara comunidade: As versões traduzidas dos termos do esboço de referência para a revisão de ALAC estão agora disponíveis em Portuguese e francês. A versão espanhola estará disponível logo. Se você não puser ainda seus comentários satisfazem dentro fazem assim. ---- ESPANOL --- Estimada comunidad: Las versiones traducidas de los términos del bosquejo de la referencia para la revisión de ALAC están disponibles ahora en portugués brasileños y francés. La versión española estará disponible pronto. Si todavía no has puesto tus comentarios adentro satisfacen hacen tan. French: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-30mar07-fr.htm Brazilian Portuguese: http://www.icann.org/announcements/ announcement-2-30mar07-pt.htm English: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-30mar07.htm --- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN PO Box 32160 London N4 2XY United Kingdom Main Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011] USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 email: nick.ashton-hart(a)icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart

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Nominations - update
by Vittorio Bertola April 25, 2007

April 25, 2007

All, below there is a summary of the nominations that I've seen thus far. I still think that we miss certain parts of Europe, such as Spain / Portugal, UK / Ireland, Scandinavia / Finland, Poland / Czech Rep / Hungary, and Russia / Ukraine / Baltic. Is there anyone from there? Also, perhaps those who are candidates for the ALAC could consider running for the Board as well - we have four great candidates and it would be a pity to completely lose the contribution of two of them. Those who have been nominated should please notify the list whether they accept the nomination. Finally, do people think that they need more time to post more nominations? Can we close by April 22, or do we go until May 1st? Regards, == Nominations for the ALAC Patrick Vande Walle (self-nomination) (accepted) Sebastien Bachollet (Dessi) (accepted) Dessi Pefeva (Vittorio) (?) Veronica Cretu (Wolfgang) (?) == Nominations for the EURALO Board Rudi Vansnick (self-nomination) (accepted) Vittorio Bertola (self-nomination) (accepted) Dessi Pefeva (Vittorio) (?) Christoph Bruch (Vittorio, Wolfgang) (?) Desiree Milosevic (Wolfgang) (?) Bill Drake (Wolfgang) (?) Jeanette Hofmann (Wolfgang) (accepted) Wolfgang Kleinwaechter (Vittorio) (rejected) -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------

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EURO-Discuss: Veronica Cretu (short intro)
by Veronica Cretu April 25, 2007

April 25, 2007

Dear members of the EURO-Discuss list! Greetings from Chisinau, Moldova! I am sending, as it has been suggested, a very short intro and a short statement of interest in ALAC. Short Intro Veronica Cretu is the President of the "CMB" Training Center, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. "CMB" Training Center is a non-governmental organization the mission of which is promoting Innovations in Communication, Management and Business. Mrs. Cretu has founded this NGO back in 2002 has been successfully running it until now. Mrs. Cretu holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Diplomacy, with DiploFoundation, Malta and her first degree is in English Philology, with the State Pedagogical University of Moldova. Along with the activities at the "CMB" Training Center in Moldova, Mrs. Cretu is currently involved in the Internet Governance Capacity Building Program with DiploFoundation. She has been acting as an online tutor and online research supervisor in this Program since 2005. Mrs. Cretu's areas of expertise are: Project Management, Human Resources Management and Adult Education. Mrs. Cretu's current areas of interest are: The role of IT in Diplomacy, The Multi stakeholder partnerships in ICT for All, The Evolution and further development of the Internet and the Role of IGF, Ways of improving literacy and educational facilities as a means of reducing the digital divide and improving accessibly in the developing countries, Promoting Multilingualism and Cultural Diversity on the Internet, Role of E-education in Promoting Access to Knowledge in the Developing Countries. Interests in ALAC: I would like to help to get internet end users - especially of developing countries - involved in ICANN decision making processes, to strengthen civil society in Eastern Europe and considering civil liberties in setting up IT-infrastructure, promoting multilingualism and cultural diversity on the Internet and support competition in Domain market. I am willing to do outreach work in Eastern Europe and think that the fact that I am fluent in Romanian, English and Russian is very helpful in doing so. I am committed to ALAC-ICANN goals and bylaws and consider consensus decision making as very important for the committee-work. I attended two ALAC outreach meeting (Prague and Athens last year). For more information you can contact me at VeronicaC(a)diplomacy.edu/ Skype: veronicaretu. Thank you for your time! Warmest regards, Veronica Cretu ----- Original Message ----- From: <euro-discuss-request(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> To: <euro-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:00 PM Subject: EURO-Discuss Digest, Vol 6, Issue 20 > Send EURO-Discuss mailing list submissions to > euro-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss_atlarge-lists.… > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > euro-discuss-request(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > euro-discuss-owner(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of EURO-Discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Nominations - update II (Vittorio Bertola) > 2. Re: Nominations - update II (S?bastien Bachollet) > 3. Re: [EURO-ALS] Strawman proposal for the inclusion of > individual users within Euralo (Rudi Vansnick) > 4. Re: Nominations - update II (Kleinw?chter) > 5. Re: Nominations - update II (Desiree Miloshevic) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:57:48 +0200 > From: Vittorio Bertola <vb(a)bertola.eu> > Subject: [EURO-Discuss] Nominations - update II > To: Discussion for At-Large Europe > <euro-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> > Message-ID: <462F423C.9070504(a)bertola.eu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed > > All, > > this is the current status of nominations. The people who did not accept > or reject yet are kindly expected to do so as soon as possible. > (Wolfgang - you wrote that both Veronica and Desiree accepted, but I > find it hard to vote for someone who has never sent a single message to > this mailing list - could you please encourage them to join the list and > send a message of acceptance and self-introduction?) > > For the rest, I would follow Annette's suggestion and start the > discussion on the two slates of candidates and on the number of Board > members. In the revised schedule, voting was expected to start on April > 29th but let's see how the discussion goes - if the discussion is still > alive and productive, I'm also fine with waiting until May 5th for the > vote. > > By the way - assuming that all nominations are accepted, we now have > eight candidates for the Board. If we agreed that whoever is not elected > for the ALAC is added to the Board, we could have a 9-member Board and > the two ALAC members, not reject anyone's desire to contribute, and only > have to vote (if necessary) once. What would you think of this? > > Regards, > > > == Nominations for the ALAC > > Patrick Vande Walle (self-nomination) (accepted) > Sebastien Bachollet (Dessi) (accepted) > Veronica Cretu (Wolfgang) (?) > > Dessi Pefeva (Vittorio) (rejected) > > > == Nominations for the EURALO Board > > Rudi Vansnick (self-nomination) (accepted) > Vittorio Bertola (self-nomination) (accepted) > Dessi Pefeva (Vittorio) (?) > Christoph Bruch (Vittorio, Wolfgang) (accepted) > Desiree Miloshevic (Wolfgang) (?) > Bill Drake (Wolfgang) (accepted) > Jeanette Hofmann (Wolfgang) (accepted) > Andres Oliva (Dessi) (?) > > Wolfgang Kleinwaechter (Vittorio) (rejected) > > -- > vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- > --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <-------- > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:13:21 +0200 > From: S?bastien Bachollet <sebastien.bachollet(a)isoc.fr> > Subject: Re: [EURO-Discuss] Nominations - update II > To: "'Discussion for At-Large Europe'" > <euro-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> > Message-ID: <011c01c78733$21260490$9601a8c0@C400SBTBBS> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear all, > I support this proposition. > I just want to tell you that I will be in the US from the 1st to the 6th > of > May therefore I would like to be able to have our discussion before. > Thanks > > S?bastien Bachollet > Pr?sident > sebastien.bachollet(a)isoc.fr > www.egeni.org > www.isoc.fr > > -----Message d'origine----- > De?: euro-discuss-bounces(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > [mailto:euro-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] De la part de > Vittorio > Bertola > Envoy??: mercredi 25 avril 2007 13:58 > ??: Discussion for At-Large Europe > Objet?: [EURO-Discuss] Nominations - update II > > All, > > this is the current status of nominations. The people who did not accept > or reject yet are kindly expected to do so as soon as possible. > (Wolfgang - you wrote that both Veronica and Desiree accepted, but I > find it hard to vote for someone who has never sent a single message to > this mailing list - could you please encourage them to join the list and > send a message of acceptance and self-introduction?) > > For the rest, I would follow Annette's suggestion and start the > discussion on the two slates of candidates and on the number of Board > members. In the revised schedule, voting was expected to start on April > 29th but let's see how the discussion goes - if the discussion is still > alive and productive, I'm also fine with waiting until May 5th for the > vote. > > By the way - assuming that all nominations are accepted, we now have > eight candidates for the Board. If we agreed that whoever is not elected > for the ALAC is added to the Board, we could have a 9-member Board and > the two ALAC members, not reject anyone's desire to contribute, and only > have to vote (if necessary) once. What would you think of this? > > Regards, > > > == Nominations for the ALAC > > Patrick Vande Walle (self-nomination) (accepted) > Sebastien Bachollet (Dessi) (accepted) > Veronica Cretu (Wolfgang) (?) > > Dessi Pefeva (Vittorio) (rejected) > > > == Nominations for the EURALO Board > > Rudi Vansnick (self-nomination) (accepted) > Vittorio Bertola (self-nomination) (accepted) > Dessi Pefeva (Vittorio) (?) > Christoph Bruch (Vittorio, Wolfgang) (accepted) > Desiree Miloshevic (Wolfgang) (?) > Bill Drake (Wolfgang) (accepted) > Jeanette Hofmann (Wolfgang) (accepted) > Andres Oliva (Dessi) (?) > > Wolfgang Kleinwaechter (Vittorio) (rejected) > > -- > vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- > --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <-------- > > _______________________________________________ > EURO-Discuss mailing list > EURO-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss_atlarge-lists.i > cann.org > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.463 / Virus Database: 269.6.0/775 - Release Date: 24/04/2007 > 17:43 > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.463 / Virus Database: 269.6.0/775 - Release Date: 24/04/2007 > 17:43 > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:06:38 +0200 > From: Rudi Vansnick <rudi.vansnick(a)isoc.be> > Subject: Re: [EURO-Discuss] [EURO-ALS] Strawman proposal for the > inclusion of individual users within Euralo > To: Vittorio Bertola <vb(a)bertola.eu> > Cc: Discussion for At-Large Europe > <euro-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org>, patrick(a)vande-walle.eu, > Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette(a)wz-berlin.de> > Message-ID: <462F525E.5010808(a)isoc.be> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Vittorio Bertola schreef: >> Jeanette Hofmann ha scritto: >> >>> So, there is actually not much of a difference and individual users have >>> the choice between joining an ALS or the amorphous group for individual >>> users. Actually, this is not a model for individual participation, it >>> just differentiates the structure already there. >>> I would like to participate in an individual capacity. >>> >> >> I think that you could interpret Patrick's proposal in a way that might >> be more suitable to you: instead than the 50 people electing among >> themselves one representative to the GA (which, by the way, is more or >> less what the NARALO is doing to incorporate individual user >> representation: they will have two GA representatives per ALS plus two >> GA representatives of individual NARALO members no matter how many there >> are), each individual EURALO member could get 1/50 = 0.02 votes in the >> GA. Then you would have a non-integer vote count, but each individual >> would still be able to cast a personal vote directly. >> >> For the rest, I support the point that this is just for voting - >> participation in discussions happens at the individual level anyway. >> >> P.S. Why aren't we having this discussion on the -discuss list? The ALS >> list should be for communication to ALSes only, and anyway I've already >> seen two non-ALS-representatives on this list as well, so I guess that >> the set of participants is the same. >> > I'm joining Vittorio's statement above. It clearly gives individuals the > right to vote and participate. > Individual user of the Internet are welcome as they are also welcome in > most of the ISOC Chapters. They also can raise their voice as well as > they may have voting rights. > > In order to avoid continue debating in stead of helping individuals in > what they expect we should do, we could already think about the near > future once we have voted en elected the necessary members. Proposal > issue : what would be the most urgent topic to be considered and handled > by the EURALO board ? > > As Vittorio mentioned also, I'm posting this message on the Euro-discuss > list. > > > Rudi Vansnick > Chair ISOC Belgium > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:51:31 +0200 > From: Kleinw?chter, Wolfgang > <wolfgang.kleinwaechter(a)medienkomm.uni-halle.de> > Subject: Re: [EURO-Discuss] Nominations - update II > To: sebastien.bachollet(a)isoc.fr, Discussion for At-Large Europe > <euro-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org>, Discussion for At-Large > Europe <euro-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> > Message-ID: > <2DA93620FC07494C926D60C8E3C2F1A808D365(a)server1.medienkomm.uni-halle.de> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > The proposed procedure (with nine board EURALO members) is fine for me. > I am leaving for the A2K and CFP conferences in NY and Montreal tomorrow > and will be back on Friday, May 4. . > > I didn?t know that Verinice and Desiree did not send any message to the > EURALO list.Prpobably they are not subscribed. I will send immediately > them a message to reply. > > Regards > > wolfgang > > > > > ________________________________ > > Von: euro-discuss-bounces(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org im Auftrag von S?bastien > Bachollet > Gesendet: Mi 25.04.2007 14:13 > An: 'Discussion for At-Large Europe' > Betreff: Re: [EURO-Discuss] Nominations - update II > > > > Dear all, > I support this proposition. > I just want to tell you that I will be in the US from the 1st to the 6th > of > May therefore I would like to be able to have our discussion before. > Thanks > > S?bastien Bachollet > Pr?sident > sebastien.bachollet(a)isoc.fr > www.egeni.org > www.isoc.fr > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : euro-discuss-bounces(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > [mailto:euro-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] De la part de > Vittorio > Bertola > Envoy? : mercredi 25 avril 2007 13:58 > ? : Discussion for At-Large Europe > Objet : [EURO-Discuss] Nominations - update II > > All, > > this is the current status of nominations. The people who did not accept > or reject yet are kindly expected to do so as soon as possible. > (Wolfgang - you wrote that both Veronica and Desiree accepted, but I > find it hard to vote for someone who has never sent a single message to > this mailing list - could you please encourage them to join the list and > send a message of acceptance and self-introduction?) > > For the rest, I would follow Annette's suggestion and start the > discussion on the two slates of candidates and on the number of Board > members. In the revised schedule, voting was expected to start on April > 29th but let's see how the discussion goes - if the discussion is still > alive and productive, I'm also fine with waiting until May 5th for the > vote. > > By the way - assuming that all nominations are accepted, we now have > eight candidates for the Board. If we agreed that whoever is not elected > for the ALAC is added to the Board, we could have a 9-member Board and > the two ALAC members, not reject anyone's desire to contribute, and only > have to vote (if necessary) once. What would you think of this? > > Regards, > > > == Nominations for the ALAC > > Patrick Vande Walle (self-nomination) (accepted) > Sebastien Bachollet (Dessi) (accepted) > Veronica Cretu (Wolfgang) (?) > > Dessi Pefeva (Vittorio) (rejected) > > > == Nominations for the EURALO Board > > Rudi Vansnick (self-nomination) (accepted) > Vittorio Bertola (self-nomination) (accepted) > Dessi Pefeva (Vittorio) (?) > Christoph Bruch (Vittorio, Wolfgang) (accepted) > Desiree Miloshevic (Wolfgang) (?) > Bill Drake (Wolfgang) (accepted) > Jeanette Hofmann (Wolfgang) (accepted) > Andres Oliva (Dessi) (?) > > Wolfgang Kleinwaechter (Vittorio) (rejected) > > -- > vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- > --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <-------- > > _______________________________________________ > EURO-Discuss mailing list > EURO-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss_atlarge-lists.i > cann.org > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.463 / Virus Database: 269.6.0/775 - Release Date: 24/04/2007 > 17:43 > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.463 / Virus Database: 269.6.0/775 - Release Date: 24/04/2007 > 17:43 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > EURO-Discuss mailing list > EURO-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss_atlarge-lists.… > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:32:08 +0100 > From: Desiree Miloshevic <dmiloshevic(a)afilias.info> > Subject: Re: [EURO-Discuss] Nominations - update II > To: Discussion for At-Large Europe > <euro-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> > Message-ID: <462F6668.7060108(a)afilias.info> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hello, > > Greetings to you all. I am subscribed to this mailing list and hereby I > am delighted to confirm my willingness to accept Wolfgang's nomination > for the Euralo Board seat. > > For those of you who do not know me, my bio can be found here: > http://www.afilias.info/contact/desiree_miloshevic > > I look forward to working with you all. > > atb, > > Desiree > -- > > > Vittorio Bertola wrote: >> All, >> >> this is the current status of nominations. The people who did not accept >> or reject yet are kindly expected to do so as soon as possible. >> (Wolfgang - you wrote that both Veronica and Desiree accepted, but I >> find it hard to vote for someone who has never sent a single message to >> this mailing list - could you please encourage them to join the list and >> send a message of acceptance and self-introduction?) >> >> For the rest, I would follow Annette's suggestion and start the >> discussion on the two slates of candidates and on the number of Board >> members. In the revised schedule, voting was expected to start on April >> 29th but let's see how the discussion goes - if the discussion is still >> alive and productive, I'm also fine with waiting until May 5th for the >> vote. >> >> By the way - assuming that all nominations are accepted, we now have >> eight candidates for the Board. If we agreed that whoever is not elected >> for the ALAC is added to the Board, we could have a 9-member Board and >> the two ALAC members, not reject anyone's desire to contribute, and only >> have to vote (if necessary) once. What would you think of this? >> >> Regards, >> >> >> == Nominations for the ALAC >> >> Patrick Vande Walle (self-nomination) (accepted) >> Sebastien Bachollet (Dessi) (accepted) >> Veronica Cretu (Wolfgang) (?) >> >> Dessi Pefeva (Vittorio) (rejected) >> >> >> == Nominations for the EURALO Board >> >> Rudi Vansnick (self-nomination) (accepted) >> Vittorio Bertola (self-nomination) (accepted) >> Dessi Pefeva (Vittorio) (?) >> Christoph Bruch (Vittorio, Wolfgang) (accepted) >> Desiree Miloshevic (Wolfgang) (?) >> Bill Drake (Wolfgang) (accepted) >> Jeanette Hofmann (Wolfgang) (accepted) >> Andres Oliva (Dessi) (?) >> >> Wolfgang Kleinwaechter (Vittorio) (rejected) >> > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > EURO-Discuss mailing list > EURO-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss_atlarge-lists.… > > > End of EURO-Discuss Digest, Vol 6, Issue 20 > ******************************************* > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.10/774 - Release Date: 23.04.2007 > 17:26 >

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] [EURO-ALS] Strawman proposal for the inclusion of individual users within Euralo
by Rudi Vansnick April 25, 2007

April 25, 2007

Vittorio Bertola schreef: > Jeanette Hofmann ha scritto: > >> So, there is actually not much of a difference and individual users have >> the choice between joining an ALS or the amorphous group for individual >> users. Actually, this is not a model for individual participation, it >> just differentiates the structure already there. >> I would like to participate in an individual capacity. >> > > I think that you could interpret Patrick's proposal in a way that might > be more suitable to you: instead than the 50 people electing among > themselves one representative to the GA (which, by the way, is more or > less what the NARALO is doing to incorporate individual user > representation: they will have two GA representatives per ALS plus two > GA representatives of individual NARALO members no matter how many there > are), each individual EURALO member could get 1/50 = 0.02 votes in the > GA. Then you would have a non-integer vote count, but each individual > would still be able to cast a personal vote directly. > > For the rest, I support the point that this is just for voting - > participation in discussions happens at the individual level anyway. > > P.S. Why aren't we having this discussion on the -discuss list? The ALS > list should be for communication to ALSes only, and anyway I've already > seen two non-ALS-representatives on this list as well, so I guess that > the set of participants is the same. > I'm joining Vittorio's statement above. It clearly gives individuals the right to vote and participate. Individual user of the Internet are welcome as they are also welcome in most of the ISOC Chapters. They also can raise their voice as well as they may have voting rights. In order to avoid continue debating in stead of helping individuals in what they expect we should do, we could already think about the near future once we have voted en elected the necessary members. Proposal issue : what would be the most urgent topic to be considered and handled by the EURALO board ? As Vittorio mentioned also, I'm posting this message on the Euro-discuss list. Rudi Vansnick Chair ISOC Belgium

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] Nominations - update
by William Drake April 20, 2007

April 20, 2007

Hi, >Vittorio Bertola vb at bertola.eu >Thu Apr 19 18:11:11 EDT 2007 >Bill Drake (Wolfgang) (?) Thanks Wolfgang for the nomination. I would be happy to stand and to serve if elected. However, I suppose there¹s an antecedent policy question for the group, which is whether it¹s ok that I¹m from the US (I tried to get Italian citizenship, but since my grandparents gave theirs up I didn¹t qualify). I¹ve been living in Geneva for four years though, am pretty familiar with the Euro landscape re: Internet governance and civil society, and am intellectually and politically not your standard gringo, if there is such a thing. So if residency and outlook trump passport I¹ll stand, if not, then not. BTW I¹ve read through the list archive, so while I¹ve not been involved in the process here previously, I think I have a decent sense of what¹s what and could fill in any blanks as I go. For those who don¹t know me, I¹m an academic and work on ICT/Internet global governance issues. With respect to civil society involvements, I¹ve been an active member of the Internet Governance Caucus throughout the WSIS/IGF processes, served as a CS participant on the WGIG and now on the advisory board of the Global Alliance for ICT4D, etc. I also spent three years on the board (with Desiree, also nominated here) and two years as President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, a global NGO that had about 1,000 members, 70 + in Europe (not sure of the numbers now). Given this and other aspects of my background I think I could handle the demands of promoting ALS outreach and involvement. If anyone wants to know more about me, see the URL in my sig file below. Cheers, Bill *********************************************************** William J. Drake drake(a)hei.unige.ch Director, Project on the Information Revolution and Global Governance/PSIO Graduate Institute for International Studies Geneva, Switzerland http://hei.unige.ch/psio/researchprojects/Drake.html ***********************************************************

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Nomination for ALAC European representative
by Dessi Pefeva April 19, 2007

April 19, 2007

I would like to nominate *Sebastien Bachollet* for representing Europe as a member of the At-Large Advisory Committee. Regards, Dessi Pefeva ISOC - Bulgaria

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Nominations
by Vittorio Bertola April 17, 2007

April 17, 2007

All, as nominations start to come, personally I would try to see whether we can agree on a good mix of people that can make everyone happy and confident in the process. For what regards the EURALO Board, I would recommend that the people who were most active in the discussions in the last year volunteer to be part of it. I would like to have one person per each macro-region of Europe (Northern, Western, Central, Southern and Eastern) plus, for regions that have been very active such as Germany and Benelux, perhaps one more, so to have a Board of 6-7 members. Also for ALAC members, I think that a good complement to Annette would be someone from Northern/Western Europe and someone from Eastern Europe, possibly of different gender. Southern Europe has already been well represented in the At Large, so I think that we should pass the turn. What would you think of this? Thanks, P.S. For what regards myself, as I repeatedly said, I do not want to continue as an ALAC member, not because I wouldn't like to continue, but because I think that after four years it's time that new people have a chance to serve. On the other hand, I'd be happy to serve in the EURALO Board if this is considered useful - I have been trying to work for compromise and practical advances on the hot issues such as individual membership and incorporation, and I hope that I could continue to do so and help the process. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------

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Agreeing on the nominations deadline
by Vittorio Bertola April 17, 2007

April 17, 2007

All, I see that the discussion is again getting polarized - with people stacking on the two extreme options. Would the middle ground of April 22 be acceptable to everyone? So that we can close the discussion and start discussing nominations. The only other option is to stick to the process agreed in Lisbon, which is the default if we can't agree to change it. But I really think that if we all are reasonable, then we can find a compromise that is good for everyone. So, does anyone really object to April 22? Thanks, -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] Nominations
by Vittorio Bertola April 13, 2007

April 13, 2007

Dr. Christoph Bruch ha scritto: > Especially the decision on the timetable for nomination and election for the > EURALO board and the ALAC seats which are to be filled via EURALO have been > taken by very few people. Therefore I ask so some flexibility concerning > this issue. Personally I have no problem, but I would adopt a practical approach. If possible, it would be better to close nominations by April 22, if not by the original deadline of April 15, because this would help speeding up the process, making travel arrangements for San Juan, etc. However, if when we get near the deadline (e.g. mid-end next week) people really really need more time, they can ask for it. I am (honestly!) not sure what more time is necessary for, though. Are there people who are not sure yet whether they would like to serve? Or does anyone want to make outreach outside? > According to my understanding no decision has been reached on whether/how > the timetable should be changed. At least no decision was announced. For > that purpose we may need some sort of chairperson or moderator. I would > appreciate I we could agree that Annette again takes this position provided > she is willing. I think that we should rather agree among ourselves, run the election process that was designed, and then we can have a properly (s)elected Board with a Chair. It's actually quicker than discussing who could be a good interim Chair for a period of 3-4 weeks at most. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] Nominations
by Roberto Gaetano April 12, 2007

April 12, 2007

Christoph: > > Also I ask all to keep in mind that EURALO is a rapidly > changing organization. New people attended all meetings since > Frankfurt. This will probably lead to a constant change of > majorities for issues on which we do not have general > consensus. The veterans of the process have to arrange with this. > I see this as a great advantage of EURALO for producing fair processes. When deciding on specific procedural aspects, the majority at the moment of the vote will have incentives to introduce safeguards for the minority, for the simple reason that who is majority today can become minority tomorrow. Roberto

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