Update on NCSG elections for 2019-2020

[Joan katambi]

Chair,

Thanks for the updates.

Joan

On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 2:14 PM Benjamin Akinmoyeje <benakin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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