Ghana and Adobe, was Re: Election timeline

[Wisdom Donkor]

Dear Anriette,

I felt sad reading her mail that she she cant take up the position.
I still have hope that despite her busy schedules and how important
Internet, open data, gender for that matter girls in ICT and science,
bridging the digital gap etc are to her heart and making sure the less
privileged and the vulnerable find their place within the labour force in
the developing world is much desire for her to take up the horns to stir up
the affairs of NCSG.


Dorothy please we need you, the world needs you, everyone needs you.

Cheers,



*WISDOM DONKOR (S/N Eng.)*
E-government and Open Government Data Platforms Specialist
ICANN Fellow / Member, UN IGF MAG Member, ISOC Member,
Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) Member, Diplo Foundation Member,
OGP Open Data WG Member, GODAN Memember, ITAG Member
Email: wisdom.dk at gmail.com
Skype: wisdom_dk
facebook: facebook at wisdom_dk
Website: www.data.gov.gh
www.isoc.gh / www.itag.org.gh

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org>
wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------
> Anriette Esterhuysen
> Director - global policy and strategy
> Association for Progressive Communications
> anriette at apc.org
> www.apc.org
> IM: ae_apc
>
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