[Important ] 2014 NCSG Annual Election Results

[Edward Morris]

Hi everyone,

My apologies for this delayed response. I just returned from travels in 
parts of the world where, as Norbert often reminds us, internet access is a 
luxury not readily available to the lone individual. I’m proud to be part 
of a group of individuals who want that to change: the NCSG.

Thanks to Rafik for doing such a great job running this election. It’s not 
an easy job and, frankly, is a rather thankless one. Rafik was always there 
when I had a question about the process, and I had many, with prompt 
responses that proved to be accurate. I was pleasantly surprised that one 
man could do such a good job. Thanks again Rafik.

To those who voted for me: thank you. It’s both humbling and shocking to 
have your name placed on a ballot and see people actually vote for you. 
I’m not sure I’ll ever get used to that. I’ll do my best to honor your 
confidence in me by doing the best job I possibly can. I’ll never be as 
smart as Wendy (face it, none of us are :) ), as talented as Joy or as 
charming and effective as Maria, just to name a few of those who have 
preceded me in this position, but I can promise you that no one will outwork 
me. That’s one variable I can control.

I am so excited to be able to work with my fellow “newbies”: Stephanie 
and Marilia. Congratulations to both of you! Thanks to Sam for waging such a 
positive and thoughtful campaign: I’ll need your help and input going 
forward; we all do.

To our incumbent Counselors – David, Avri and Amr – it’s an honour to 
be joining you on Council. I’m certainly going to need your guidance as I 
try to sort out how things on Council actually work. My informational needs 
are nothing new for Avri: I’ve been bugging her with questions since we 
met in the basement of a cafeteria in a converted monastery in Germany 
several years ago. She’s always been willing to provide answers, no matter 
how dumb my questions were, to her great credit.

We have a lot of work to do, both within our PC and within the Council. We 
need more people to be involved, that needs to be a priority. Nuno is 
absolutely correct: we need to close the distance between the GNSO and the 
community. Amr has suggested that folks can join a WG to get more involved. 
He’s right. Another way would be for folks to help out in writing public 
comments. That’s something I’ve been doing and I’m happy to help out 
anyone who wants to give it a try. Hopefully we’ll heed Stephanie’s call 
and get things a bit more organized on the PC so we can help people engage 
in both activities.

Thanks again everyone. Time to get to work.

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at GMAIL.COM>
To: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:25:23 +0900
Subject: [Important ] 2014 NCSG Annual Election Results

Dear NCSG Members:

The NCSG annual election results are back and attached to this email.

Congrats to the NCSG's 4 elected GNSO Councilors: Stephanie Perrin (2 years 
term), David Cake (2 years term), Edward Morris (2 years term) and Marilia 
Maciel (1 year term). I am also re-elected for 1 year-term as NCSG chair.

A deep thanks to the other candidates, the nominators, and everyone who 
checked-in, voted in the election.  And also we couldn't have held the 
election without the tireless assistance of Glen de Saint Gery from ICANN 
staff. Special thanks to our departing councillors for their work and 
representing NCSG within the GNSO council: Klaus Stoll, Maria Farell and 
Magaly Pazello .

The term for these positions begins at the conclusion of the ICANN meeting 
in Los Angeles (17 October).

Voters can check their individual ballot ID against the list of votes cast 
(attached) to verify that their vote was counted correctly.

Finally, all election details are summarized in this page 
https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Elections-2014 

Best Regards,

Rafik Dammak

NCSG chair
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