<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks Anriette or sharing this.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is already discriminatory and not-diversity to require candidates to be able to write and speak fluent English. ;)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But indeed many people from the global south are qualified : to make a good idea, make thousands of ideas - diversity helps achieve that in a better and faster way.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16 Mar 2018, at 05:05, Anriette Esterhuysen <<a href="mailto:anriette@APC.ORG" class="">anriette@APC.ORG</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Dear all (apologies for cross posting)<br class=""><br class="">Please apply or nominate people! And ICANN is actively striving for<br class="">diversity.<br class=""><br class="">My personal view is that achieving diversity is not difficult. There are<br class="">assumptions that there are not many women with IG knowledge and skills<br class="">and leadership capacity and experience. There are similar assumptions<br class="">about the pool of qualified candidates in the global South being<br class="">extremely small.<br class=""><br class="">I personally do not agree with these assumptions! Do you?<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.icann.org/nomcom2018" class="">https://www.icann.org/nomcom2018</a><br class=""><br class="">Information about time commitments (how much time do these positions<br class="">need from people who fill them) - Dorothy Gordon asked about this - can<br class="">be found here:<br class=""><br class="">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/nomcom2018-positions<br class=""><br class="">DEADLINE FOR EXPRESSION OF INTERESTS NOMINATIONS 19 MARCH 2018<br class=""><br class="">Cheers<br class=""><br class="">Anriette<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>