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[Stephanie Perrin]

I am sorry to hear this Dorothy, you would be a great Chair and it is a 
shame that lack of Adobe cuts you off from more participation!

Best wishes,

Stephanie Perrin


On 2017-08-01 03:54, dorothy g wrote:
> Dear Wisdom,  Thank you for your confidence in me and your many nice 
> comments, however I cannot take up the position of NCSG chair at this 
> time.  I have a very deep respect for those who have filled the 
> position which is very demanding in terms of its responsibility.  One 
> of the factors influencing this decision is Ghana's absence from the 
> communication platform which is used for many of the meetings. This 
> has affected my participation in meetings and will no doubt continue 
> to do so. I wish all the eventual candidates the best.
>
> best regards
> Dorothy
>
> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 7:39 AM, Wisdom Donkor <wisdom.dk at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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