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<div>Hi everyone,</div>
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<div>While ICANN takes public comments on their top down Accountability
plan, the plan itself moves forward. To their credit, the Public Experts
Group will be announcing in the next day or so that the deadline for
nominations of “experts” for the ICANN Accountability
& Governance Coordination Group will be extended from tomorrow to at
least the end of the month, if not a few days longer.</div>
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<div>As a reminder, the Call for Candidates can be found here:</div>
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<div><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-08-28-en">
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-08-28-en</a></div>
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<div>In a top down process that largely is horrid this Call is an
opportunity for those of us on the bottom of the bottom up process to be
heard. I’ve been reaching out to people, collecting c.v.’s and
trying to put together some candidates that would reflect the views of the
noncommercial community. You’ll be surprised at how many respected
professionals have no idea what ICANN is or that there even is a field of
knowledge called internet governance. I’m finding that once educated,
though, people are generally willing to consider serving.</div>
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<div>A special call out to NCSG members in Asia, Latin America and Africa.
The members of the Public Experts Group are all from the United States and
northern Europe. It would be particularly useful if you could come up with
potential “experts” in the delineated categories from your
regions and submit those names to ICANN. It would be great to have a
bit more geographic diversity in the candidate pool.</div>
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<div>Thanks for considering.</div>
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<div>Ed</div>
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