Dear all, by now I had the chance to speak with Karen Banks from APC (UK) and Wolf Ludwig from comunica.ch (Switzerland) who both are willing to serve on the EURALO board. I would like to nominate those two as I think they will be a real asset for our new organisation. Both are well known in the internet community, have a lot of knowledge on ICANN issues and are willing to work on getting individual users involved in ICANN's decision making processes. I add Karen's CV here. Wolf, you all know as he has been working from the very first meeting on the succesfull setting up of our EURALO. He will send in his CV soon. Below you will find the updated list of nominations. All the best Annette Karen Banks is a networking pioneer who has worked with ICTs and their application as a tool for social change since 1990. Between 1990 and 1997 she maintained an international gateway called 'GnFido' at GreenNet, a small non-profit ISP in London, and founding member of the Association For Progressive Communications. The gateway used simple 'store-and-forward' technology (fidonet and uucp) providing in many cases, the only means of cheap, efficient electronic communications to thousands of individuals, NGOs, Acadamics, Researchers and quasi-governmental departments in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. In 1993, along with women colleagues from the Association For Progressive Communications (www.apc.org), she formed the APC Women's Networking Support Programme which led an all women team of 40 to the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, where they provided email and web access to over 10,000 delegates. She coordinated the APC WNSP from 1996 to 2004. She coordinated APC's participation in the WSIS process and continues to coordinate APC's participation in post WSIS activities such as the Internet Governance Forum. She leads APC's work in the CRIS (Communication Rights in the Information Society) campaign and has recently taken up position as Network Development Manager for APC after coordinating APC's Women's Networking Support Programme for 8 years and coordinating APC's internet rights work globally, and in Europe from 1998-2001. She remains a Director of GreenNet and is currently a trustee of Privacy International, an international privacy rights and civil liberties watchdog based in the UK, member of the civil society working group on the Commonwealth Action Programme for the Digital Divide. She is currently a member of the ICANN Nominating Committee, was a member of the WSIS Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) and was awarded the Anita Borg Social Impact Award with the APCWNSP in 2004. URLS: APC <http://www.apc.org/>www.apc.org APC Women's Networking Support Programme <http://www.apcwomen.org/>www.apcwomen.org Anita Borg Institute Awards: <http://www.anitaborg.org/pressroom/pressreleases_04/ghc_award_winners.html>http://www.anitaborg.org/pressroom/pressreleases_04/ghc_award_winners.html WSIS WGIG Profile: <http://www.net-gov.org/wgig/banks.php>http://www.net-gov.org/wgig/banks.php GnFido: (http://www.gn.apc.org/anniversary/fido.html) This is the current status of nominations: == Nominations for the ALAC Patrick Vande Walle (self-nomination) Sebastien Bachollet (Dessi) (accepted) Veronica Cretu (Wolfgang) (accepted) Dessi Pefeva (Vittorio) (rejected) == Nominations for the EURALO Board Rudi Vansnick (self-nomination) Vittorio Bertola (self-nomination) Dessi Pefeva (Vittorio) (?) Christoph Bruch (Vittorio, Wolfgang) (accepted) Desiree Miloshevic (Wolfgang) (accepted) Bill Drake (Wolfgang) (accepted) Jeanette Hofmann (Wolfgang) (accepted) Andres Oliva (Dessi) (?) Karen Banks (Annette) (?) Wolf Ludwig (Annette) (?) Wolfgang Kleinwaechter (Vittorio) (rejected)