Update on NCSG elections for 2019-2020

[Benjamin Akinmoyeje]

Dear Chair,
Appreciate the update.
This is a significant change to the pattern of events, and will require
some serious shift by all.

Benjamin

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 7:36 PM Wisdom Donkor <wisdom.dk at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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