<div dir="ltr">Interesting observation. I hope to see many of the qualified people (men and women) I know  in the IG space make it to the final cut.<div><br></div><div>Hanane Boujemi</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Farell FOLLY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:farell@benin2point0.org" target="_blank">farell@benin2point0.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Thanks Anriette or sharing this.<div><br></div><div>It is already discriminatory and not-diversity to require candidates to be able to write and speak fluent English. ;)</div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 16 Mar 2018, at 05:05, Anriette Esterhuysen <<a href="mailto:anriette@APC.ORG" target="_blank">anriette@APC.ORG</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_1831399879502776183Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Dear all (apologies for cross posting)<br><br>Please apply or nominate people! And ICANN is actively striving for<br>diversity.<br><br>My personal view is that achieving diversity is not difficult. There are<br>assumptions that there are not many women with IG knowledge and skills<br>and leadership capacity and experience. There are similar assumptions<br>about the pool of qualified candidates in the  global South  being<br>extremely small.<br><br>I personally do not agree with these assumptions! Do you?<br><br><a href="https://www.icann.org/nomcom2018" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/<wbr>nomcom2018</a><br><br>Information about time commitments (how much time do these positions<br>need from people who fill them) - Dorothy Gordon asked about this - can<br>be found here:<br><br><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/nomcom2018-positions" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/<wbr>resources/pages/nomcom2018-<wbr>positions</a><br><br>DEADLINE FOR EXPRESSION OF INTERESTS NOMINATIONS 19 MARCH 2018<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Anriette<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>