<div dir="ltr"><div>Chair,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the updates.</div><div><br></div><div>Joan<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 2:14 PM Benjamin Akinmoyeje <<a href="mailto:benakin@gmail.com">benakin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Chair,<div>Appreciate the update.</div><div>This is a significant change to the pattern of events, and will require some serious shift by all.</div><div><br></div><div>Benjamin</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 7:36 PM Wisdom Donkor <<a href="mailto:wisdom.dk@gmail.com" target="_blank">wisdom.dk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks Chair,<div><br></div><div>Having all the elections once make a lot of sense to me. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-3314628630617071139gmail-m_5540815258896418720gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small"><div><div><b>WISDOM DONKOR</b><br></div><div><font size="1">President & CEO</font></div><div><font size="1">Africa Open Data and Internet Research Foundation</font></div><div><font size="1">P.O. Box CT 2439, Cantonments, Accra | <a href="http://www.aodirf.org" target="_blank">www.aodirf.org</a></font></div><div><font size="1">Tel: +233 20 812 8851</font></div><div><font size="1">Skype: wisdom_dk | Facebook: kwasi wisdom | Twitter: @wisdom_dk </font></div><div>__________________________________________________</div><div><font size="1">Specialization:</font></div><div><font size="1">E-government Network Infrastructure and E-application, Internet Governance, Open Data policies platforms & Community Development, Cyber Security, Domain Name Systems, Software Engineering, Event Planning & Management, <b style="font-size:small"><br></b></font></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:x-small"><u>MEMBER</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:x-small">UN IGF Multi-stakeholder</span><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:x-small"> Advisory Group</span><br></div><div><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace">UN BPF on Policy Option for Connecting and Enabling the Next Billion (CENB)</font></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:x-small">UN BPF on Gender and Access</span></div><div><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace">UN IGF National Regional Initiatives</font></div><div><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace">UN BPF on IOT, Big Data and AI</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><span style="font-size:x-small">Fellow: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, NCSG, NCUC, AFRALO</span><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><span style="font-size:x-small">National SDG Data Roadmaps Advisory Committee, Ghana</span> <span style="font-size:x-small"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace">ICANN, Internet Society, Freedom Online Coalition, </font><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:monospace,monospace">Diplo Foundation,</span></div></div><div><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace">Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition</font></div><div><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace">Ghana Open Government Partnership (OGP) Advisory Committee </font></div><div><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace">World Bank Open Data Working Team,</font></div><div><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace">Africa Open Data Collaborative </font></div><div><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace">Ghana Energy Commission Data Task-force </font></div><div><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace">Linux Accra Users Group</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 3:59 PM Stephanie Perrin <<a href="mailto:stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca" target="_blank">stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">I have a longer, more detailed update on a whole slew of things happening at ICANN, but this note is just to inform you about our upcoming elections. ICANN has now set a policy that we need to book our supported
travellers 4 months prior to meetings. This means, of course, that we need to know who our supported travellers are, which means for the annual meeting in October (this year, ICANN66) we will need to back up our elections significantly, so that we can provide
names to ICANN travel in July. Given this requirement, the NCUC, NPOC and NCSG chairs with the support of the three executive committees decided it made sense to have all our elections at the same time. Hopefully this will make less work for Maryam, less
confusion for members, and a clean and simple check-in process.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">Accordingly, the new election schedule is coming up soon, and will proceed as follows:</font></font></p>
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">May 13 - June 07: check in period<br>
23 May - 06 June: Nomination period<br>
07 June: deadline for nomination acceptance and candidate statement. Check in ends.
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09 June: Voter roll finalized<br>
08/09 June: meet the candidates calls<br>
10 June - 23 June: Voting <br>
24 June: Results </font></font></p>
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<p><font size="+1">We also have a requirement in the NCSG Charter to review membership in connection with the annual pre-election checkin, (Articles 2.2.8-2.2.10) so I am proposing to the NCSG-EC that we update this over the next few weeks in conjunction with
this early check-in this year. While it may seem odd to have our newly elected officers on deck 4 months before they are seated, the previous timing did tend to coincide with summer holidays in the northern regions, and suffer from participation issues.
It will also be very good to have four months to onboard new councilors and Chairs.
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<p><font size="+1">Maryam will be sending out various emails related to the elections shortly, but please do not hesitate to send me any questions you may have.</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Kind regards, <br>
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<p><font size="+1">Stephanie Perrin</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">NCSG Chair<br>
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