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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">I am sorry to hear
this Dorothy, you would be a great Chair and it is a shame
that lack of Adobe cuts you off from more participation!</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">Best wishes,</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">Stephanie Perrin</font></font><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Wisdom, Thank you for your confidence in me
and your many nice comments, however I cannot take up the
position of NCSG chair at this time. I have a very deep respect
for those who have filled the position which is very demanding
in terms of its responsibility. One of the factors influencing
this decision is Ghana's absence from the communication platform
which is used for many of the meetings. This has affected my
participation in meetings and will no doubt continue to do so. I
wish all the eventual candidates the best.
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<div>best regards</div>
<div>Dorothy</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 7:39 AM, Wisdom
Donkor <span dir="ltr"><<a
href="mailto:wisdom.dk@gmail.com" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">wisdom.dk@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear All,
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<div><span style="font-size:15px">Thank you Chair for the
excellent work during the period. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:15px">1. I wish to take this
opportunity to nominate Dorothy K. Gordon for NCSG
chair.</span></div>
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<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="m_-148316597802342660gmail-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"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">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"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">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>
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</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="m_-148316597802342660gmail-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"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">UNDP</a></div>
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src="cid:part5.93C11BE6.CBBCCC21@mail.utoronto.ca"
class="" width="300" height="237"><br>
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<div>I believe with her exemplary leadership and skill i
believe she will be a plus to the community.</div>
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<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>
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<div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Kind regards,</span></div>
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On Tuesday, August 1, 2017, Tapani Tarvainen <<a
href="mailto:ncsg@tapani.tarvainen.info"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">ncsg@tapani.tarvainen.info</a>>
wrote:<br>
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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>
<br>
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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