<div dir="ltr">Dear All,<div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px">Thank you Chair for the excellent work during the period. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px">1. I wish to take this opportunity to nominate Dorothy K. Gordon for NCSG chair.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div><b style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Dorothy K. Gordon</b><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> is a</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> technology activist and development specialist. She was the founding director-general of the Advanced Information Technology Institute- Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT(</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AITI-KACE" class="gmail-mw-redirect" title="AITI-KACE" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">AITI-KACE</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">). She left the center in 2016. She is a former Board Member of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons" title="Creative Commons" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Creative Commons</a><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"> and currently serves on its Advisory Council, Ms Dorothy has serve on several advisory board across Africa and the world. She is one person in many field and the champion of gender and girls in ICT. </span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Gordon has worked in technology and development for over 25 years. She worked as a Senior Deputy Resident Representative at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNDP" class="gmail-mw-redirect" title="UNDP" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">UNDP</a></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_j5t97gyn0_15d9cac78d3b5a38" width="300" height="237"><br></div><div>I believe with her exemplary leadership and skill i believe she will be a plus to the community.</div><div><br></div><div>2. I also nominate <span style="font-size:12.8px">Marilia Macie, </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Stefania Milan and </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Martin Silva Valent to continue their term.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Kind regards,</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>On Tuesday, August 1, 2017, Tapani Tarvainen <<a href="mailto:ncsg@tapani.tarvainen.info" target="_blank">ncsg@tapani.tarvainen.info</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<br>
<br>
Elections are upon us soon. Voter check-in process has already been<br>
started, as I hope you all have noticed, and the key dates for the<br>
election are as follows:<br>
<br>
July 31 nomination period begins<br>
Aug 13 nomination period ends<br>
Aug 17 voter roll finalized, check-in ends<br>
Aug 18 deadline for nomination acceptance<br>
Aug 19 deadline for candidate statements<br>
Aug 21 voting begins<br>
Sep 3 voting ends<br>
Sep 4 results announced<br>
<br>
My apologies for delay in sending this, as nominating period is in<br>
effect starting right now.<br>
<br>
Up for election are:<br>
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NCSG Chair, currently Tapani Tarvainen, not eligible for re-election;<br>
<br>
2-year Council seat, currently Marilia Maciel, eligible for one more term;<br>
<br>
2-year Council seat, currently Stefania Milan, eligible for one more term;<br>
<br>
2-year Council seat, held by Martin Silva Valent as temporary replacement<br>
for Amr Elsadr, who resigned from the council;<br>
<br>
1-year Council seat, held by Tatiana Tropina as temporary alternate<br>
for Edward Morris, who also resigned from the council.<br>
<br>
The council seats will be allocated so that 2-year terms will go to<br>
the three with highest vote counts and the 1-year term to the fourth,<br>
although regional and gender balance requirements may change the<br>
order; I will send a separate message about those.<br>
<br>
Note that the deadline given in the check-in request message was not<br>
final, it's just the time after which we'll assume you didn't get it<br>
and send a new one, or later try to reach you with other means. (A new<br>
message was just sent today to those who didn't respond last week.)<br>
The final deadline for check-in is when we finalize the voter roll,<br>
August 17.<br>
<br>
For our latest new members, I'm afraid you cannot vote or nominate<br>
candidates as our charter limits that to those who've been active<br>
members for at least 30 days. A bit surprisingly though you can,<br>
however, run for office if someone else nominates you.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Tapani Tarvainen<br>
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