Update on NCSG elections for 2019-2020

[Wisdom Donkor]

Thanks Chair,

Having all the elections once make a lot of sense to me.



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On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 3:59 PM Stephanie Perrin <
stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:

> Dear Members,
>
> I have a longer, more detailed update on a whole slew of things happening
> at ICANN, but this note is just to inform you about our upcoming
> elections.  ICANN has now set a policy that we need to book our supported
> travellers 4 months prior to meetings.  This means, of course, that we need
> to know who our supported travellers are, which means for the annual
> meeting in October (this year, ICANN66) we will need to back up our
> elections significantly, so that we can provide names to ICANN travel in
> July.  Given this requirement, the NCUC, NPOC and NCSG chairs with the
> support of the three executive committees decided it made sense to have all
> our elections at the same time.  Hopefully this will make less work for
> Maryam, less confusion for members, and a clean and simple check-in process.
>
> Accordingly, the new election schedule is coming up soon, and will proceed
> as follows:
>
> May 13 - June 07: check in period
> 23 May - 06 June: Nomination period
> 07 June:  deadline for nomination acceptance and candidate statement.
> Check in ends.
> 09 June: Voter roll finalized
> 08/09 June: meet the candidates calls
> 10 June - 23 June: Voting
> 24 June: Results
>
> We also have a requirement in the NCSG Charter to review membership in
> connection with the annual pre-election checkin,  (Articles 2.2.8-2.2.10)
> so I am proposing to the NCSG-EC that we update this over the next few
> weeks in conjunction with this early check-in this year.  While it may seem
> odd to have our newly elected officers on deck 4 months before they are
> seated, the previous timing did tend to coincide with summer holidays in
> the northern regions, and suffer from participation issues.  It will also
> be very good to have four months to onboard new councilors and Chairs.
>
> Maryam will be sending out various emails related to the elections
> shortly, but please do not hesitate to send me any questions you may have.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Stephanie Perrin
>
> NCSG Chair
>
>
>
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