NomCom - 3 days to go for nominations for leadership positions

[Farell FOLLY]

Thanks Anriette or sharing this.

It is already discriminatory and not-diversity to require candidates to be able to write and speak fluent English. ;)

But indeed many people from the global south are qualified : to make a good idea, make thousands of ideas - diversity helps achieve that in a better and faster way.


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Ekue (Farell) FOLLY
Technology Champion & Chapter Head
Africa 2.0 Foundation.
farell at benin2point0.org 
www.africa2point0.org
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> On 16 Mar 2018, at 05:05, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at APC.ORG> wrote:
> 
> Dear all (apologies for cross posting)
> 
> Please apply or nominate people! And ICANN is actively striving for
> diversity.
> 
> My personal view is that achieving diversity is not difficult. There are
> assumptions that there are not many women with IG knowledge and skills
> and leadership capacity and experience. There are similar assumptions
> about the pool of qualified candidates in the  global South  being
> extremely small.
> 
> I personally do not agree with these assumptions! Do you?
> 
> https://www.icann.org/nomcom2018
> 
> Information about time commitments (how much time do these positions
> need from people who fill them) - Dorothy Gordon asked about this - can
> be found here:
> 
> https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/nomcom2018-positions
> 
> DEADLINE FOR EXPRESSION OF INTERESTS NOMINATIONS 19 MARCH 2018
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Anriette

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