Election timeline

[Michael Oghia]

I agree Hvale, does anyone know if anything can be done to remedy this?

Best,
-Michael

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 4:16 AM, valentina pellizzer <
valentina at oneworldplatform.net> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I find very disturbing that a proprietary close platform is preventing
> participation, platform should really not be more important than people,
> their existence is to support enhance and facilitate participation. I find
> it very much disturbing and unjust, really think we cannot as community
> just accept it
> hvale
>
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> ---- On Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:18:34 +0200 Stephanie Perrin<
> stephanie.perrin at MAIL.UTORONTO.CA> wrote ----
>
> 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> 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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