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[Sonigitu Ekpe]

+1 to the nominations.

Sonigitu Ekpe

On 1 Aug, 2017 08:39, "Wisdom Donkor" <wisdom.dk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Thank you Chair for the excellent work during the period.
>
> 1. I wish to take this opportunity to nominate Dorothy K. Gordon for NCSG
> chair.
>
> *Dorothy K. Gordon* is a technology activist and development specialist.
> She was the founding director-general of the Advanced Information
> Technology Institute-  Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT(AITI-KACE
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AITI-KACE>). She left the center in 2016.
> She is a former Board Member of Creative Commons
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons> 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.
>
> Gordon has worked in technology and development for over 25 years. She
> worked as a Senior Deputy Resident Representative at the UNDP
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNDP>
>
>
> ​
> I believe with her exemplary leadership and skill i believe she will be a
> plus to the community.
>
> 2. I also nominate  Marilia Macie, Stefania Milan and Martin Silva Valent
> to continue their term.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, August 1, 2017, Tapani Tarvainen <ncsg at tapani.tarvainen.info>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Elections are upon us soon. Voter check-in process has already been
>> started, as I hope you all have noticed, and the key dates for the
>> election are as follows:
>>
>> July 31  nomination period begins
>> Aug  13  nomination period ends
>> Aug  17  voter roll finalized, check-in ends
>> Aug  18  deadline for nomination acceptance
>> Aug  19  deadline for candidate statements
>> Aug  21  voting begins
>> Sep   3  voting ends
>> Sep   4  results announced
>>
>> My apologies for delay in sending this, as nominating period is in
>> effect starting right now.
>>
>> Up for election are:
>>
>> NCSG Chair, currently Tapani Tarvainen, not eligible for re-election;
>>
>> 2-year Council seat, currently Marilia Maciel, eligible for one more term;
>>
>> 2-year Council seat, currently Stefania Milan, eligible for one more term;
>>
>> 2-year Council seat, held by Martin Silva Valent as temporary replacement
>>        for Amr Elsadr, who resigned from the council;
>>
>> 1-year Council seat, held by Tatiana Tropina as temporary alternate
>>        for Edward Morris, who also resigned from the council.
>>
>> The council seats will be allocated so that 2-year terms will go to
>> the three with highest vote counts and the 1-year term to the fourth,
>> although regional and gender balance requirements may change the
>> order; I will send a separate message about those.
>>
>> Note that the deadline given in the check-in request message was not
>> final, it's just the time after which we'll assume you didn't get it
>> and send a new one, or later try to reach you with other means. (A new
>> message was just sent today to those who didn't respond last week.)
>> The final deadline for check-in is when we finalize the voter roll,
>> August 17.
>>
>> For our latest new members, I'm afraid you cannot vote or nominate
>> candidates as our charter limits that to those who've been active
>> members for at least 30 days. A bit surprisingly though you can,
>> however, run for office if someone else nominates you.
>>
>> --
>> Tapani Tarvainen
>>
>
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