Ghana and Adobe, was Re: Election timeline

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Dear Dorothy

A great pity to hear this. There are other excellent candidates, but you
are one too!

What precisely is the issue with Ghana and Adobe?

As an Ubuntu user I have also had my issues with Adobe, but I have
managed to sort them out, mostly.

Is it the call in function that does not work in Ghana? I recall having
been in Adobe meetings with people from Ghana, but perhaps they were not
there at the time.

Please tell us more.

Thanks

Anriette


On 01/08/2017 09:54, 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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Anriette Esterhuysen
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Association for Progressive Communications
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