Nomination period extended to Sunday (today) 23.59 PST
Mamadou LO
alfamamadou at HOTMAIL.COM
Mon Jun 1 16:44:13 EEST 2020
Hello all
I would like to stress my support to the nomination of Kwasi Wisdom at the GNSO Council. Having worked with Wisdom both in the Icann fellowship program and the IGF MAG allow me to state that he could be a great asset in the council. Coming from Africa, he may also bring some diversity and fresh ideas in building policies within ICANN.
Best,
Mamadou
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@Wisdom is in the race now. Then you got my support. The race is getting interesting and see you stepping up is a good sign.
Best of luck
Benjamin
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On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 7:04 PM Raymond Mamattah <mamattah.raymond at gmail.com<mailto:mamattah.raymond at gmail.com>> wrote:
Beautiful and rich profile. Congratulations in advance.
Raymond Mamattah
Accra, Ghana.
On Mon, Jun 1, 2020, 4:49 PM Wisdom Donkor <wisdom.dk at gmail.com<mailto:wisdom.dk at gmail.com>> wrote:
Date: 1 June 2020
CANDIDATE STATEMENT for GNSO COUNCIL MEMBER
Candidate Name: Wisdom Kwasi Donkor
Citizenship: Ghana
Gender: Male
Language: English
Any Conflict of Interest: None
It is an honor to be considered for election to the position of GNSO council member, and I accept the Nomination. I will take this opportunity to provide brief information about my background, my history with ICANN and my views and vision for the GNSO over the next 12 months. I will make myself available to answer any questions you may have.
Looking back over the past few years, I must acknowledge the significant contributions of all that have serve on the GNSO council (past and present) their incredible contributions and support to the communities is very much appreciated. Without the Council’s outstanding leadership team and staff support, the work of the communities would be infinitely more difficult.
Last year has seen a significant amount of policy work by the GNSO community with regard to the finalization of the EPDP recommendations and works of the RPM, PDP workings groups and many other working groups that are all nearing conclusion this year. However, I believe there is still an amount of work to be done or pass significant milestones. 2020 brought about many challenges not only to ICANN but also to the entire IG community where physical meetings was affected by the covid-19 restrictions and protocols. The situation I believe brought about the slash of working time, which I think have left tremendous amount of work that needs to be managed and concluded on time. With this in mind and understanding of the work of GNSO, I look forward to working with each of you to advance the course of GNSO community and its policy development processes and improvement of its works and to contribute my knowledge and experiences to the broader ICANN communities.
I have serve on the UN IGF MAG for three years (2016 - 2018), Africa Union Internet Governance Forum (AFIGF) (2017 - 2018), ECOWAS West Africa Internet Governance Forum (WAIGF) 2016 - date and many other working groups across Africa and beyond. With my engagements at this level, got me the needed experience and understand of IG policy work within the entire internet ecosystems. I have also coordinated many internet related projects and policy activities across different sectors of development (public, private, NGO’s etc).
Having worked with government (National Information Technology Agency (NITA) an Agency under the Ministry of Communications of Ghana, mandated to regulate the ICT sector until my resignation in 2017, Undertook several policy developmental projects and programs that brought about the implementation and deployment of several internet related projects across Ghana such as the construction of the national data center infrastructure, e-government network infrastructure, e-government application, laying of fiber optic cables across Ghana, community network projects, cyber security emergency response, and the re-delegation of the dot GH registry and its internal politics and subsequently the establishment of the Ghana Domain Name Registry (GDNR). All of these gave me that needed experience and understanding of the entire internet infrastructure and ecosystem.
After my resignation from Government In 2017, I founded Africa Open Data and Internet Research Foundation (AODIRF) and Africa Geospatial Data and Internet Conference (AGDIC). This organisation are African base non-governmental organization that is championing policies on open data, ICTs, Geospatial technologies, internet governance and community development, training and capacity building and supporting and carrying out innovative projects and programs across Africa. I am currently the President and CEO of the organisation which I set up along with one other business, this organizations has grown and is doing well and has position itself as a leader of change in the continent of Africa. To reach this position requires leadership and organisational skills with the aspirations and ambitions of succeeding at all level of development.
I have a degree in Computer Science, Diploma in Computer Science, Diploma in Business Computing, Master’s Degree in Human Resource Planning and Development (HRP&D) and other professional qualification. With my leadership skills, knowledge and experiences put together, I believe will gives me the needed technical understanding to contribute meaningfully to the GNSO community.
Taken into consideration the work of GNSO Council, I am very much aware of the time commitment as a GNSO Councilor and wish to give in part of my time to the course of GNSO.
I have been an ICANN Fellow, coach and booth lead for many ICANN meeting and have good understanding of ICANN functions, the multistakeholder model. I have helped organise several ICANN policy forums and workshops in Ghana and other part of Africa. I have also coached and mentored several ICANN Fellows and individual across other part of the Africa and the world.
WISDOM DONKOR
President & CEO
Africa Open Data and Internet Research Foundation
P.O. Box CT 2439, Cantonments, Accra | www.aodirf.org<http://www.aodirf.org> / www.afrigeocon.org<http://www.afrigeocon.org>
Tel: +233 20 812 8851
Skype: wisdom_dk | Facebook: kwasi wisdom | Twitter: @wisdom_dk
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Specialization:
E-government Network Infrastructure and E-application, Internet Governance, Open Data policies platforms & Community Development, Cyber Security, Domain Name Systems, Software Engineering, Event Planning & Management,
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:32 PM Wisdom Donkor <wisdom.dk at gmail.com<mailto:wisdom.dk at gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear Peter, all,
This came as a surprise to me, ontop of the hour comes a nomination. Thank you very much for the kind words and the confidence you have in me.
On this note, I do accept your kind nomination.
Regards,
On Sunday, May 31, 2020, Akinremi Peter Taiwo <compsoftnet at gmail.com<mailto:compsoftnet at gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear all,
With reference to the clarification made by Robin Gross, I would like to remind the community that a strong participation on the GNSO Council is a must irrespective of regional consideration and gender. I would like to nominate Wisdom Donkor as he is more than qualified for the GNSO Council representative. Wisdom has demonstrated enough his potentials and leadership skills over the years within ICANN and Internet Governance communities. He has a deep understanding of DNS, technology and Internet, open data, community development and empowerment and human resource planning and development.
In addition, he has been an ICANN Fellow, coach and Booth lead for many years; he has a deeper understanding of ICANN functions and processes and very active member of NCUC and NCSG and thus contributes to many ICANN working groups and policy discussions. Wisdom helped organize several ICANN workshops and forums in Ghana and other part of the world. He has also mentored many ICANN Fellows and many individual across Africa.
Aside that, I know he is also an active member of the following Advisory Committees:
• National SDG’s Data Road Maps Advisory Committee. December
• ECOWAS, West Africa Internet Governance Forum Advisory Committee.
• AU, Africa Internet Governance Advisory committee
• Ghana Statistical Service Geospatial Working Committee
• International AID Transparency Initiative Task force working committee.
• Ghana Energy Access Data Task Force Committee. October,
• Ghana Open Government Partnership (OGP) Advisory Committee.
• Ghana Internet Governance Forum planning committee
• Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition.
I believe he will be a very good addition to the work of the GNSO Council and I hope he would accept this nomination.
Regards
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On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 7:47 PM Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org<mailto:robin at ipjustice.org>> wrote:
Thanks, Stephanie. I hope we have clarified that the NCSG EC does not have authority to extend constituency election deadlines, and a mistake of wording done in haste is the only reason why this error was made. I hope the nominees, membership, and constituency leaders will understand that we are sorry for our mistake and we did not intend to overstep our bounds.
To be completely clear: It is only the nomination period for the NCSG election that we have extended until 23:59 PST, tonight, Sunday, 31 May.
Also, we will hold ASAP a 2nd “Meet the Candidates Call” for any new NCSG nominations and any candidates who were previously nominated but not able to participate in the first “Meet the Candidates” call.
I hope this clarification together with Stephanie’s can put this unfortunate wording mistake behind us and we can move forward with nominating additional NCSG candidates at once and encouraging new leadership and fresh engagement within NCSG.
Best,
Robin
On May 31, 2020, at 11:16 AM, U Of T <stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca<mailto:stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca>> wrote:
Please listen to the recording/transcript of the candidates meeting on Friday before rushing to judgement, folks. In bringing the matter to the EC, I was just trying to respond to concerns raised at that meeting. G iven the voting goes on from the 3rd to the 17th, and the charter is silent on this particular point, extending for two days without altering the rest of the schedule seems to me a decision the NCSG is entitled to make. Otherwise, we close the election short one seat, and then open up a call for candidates for the EC to appoint.
The inclusion of NCUC in this announcement was a most unfortunate error.
While I recused myself from the decision and had nothing to do with the announcement, it was my action in referring the matter to the EC that started the ball rolling downhill. Now, lets try to restore peace and welcome new nominees as they come forward!
Stephanie Perrin
Sent from my iPhone
On May 31, 2020, at 13:56, Tatiana Tropina <tatiana.tropina at gmail.com<mailto:tatiana.tropina at gmail.com>> wrote:
Sorry all, I think it was 4 candidates for 3 seats last year, miscalculation! :) typing too fast on my iPhone (sorry for all the typos as well -- "steering the pot", will be in my collection of silly typos). Apologies!
On Sun, 31 May 2020 at 19:49, Tatiana Tropina <tatiana.tropina at gmail.com<mailto:tatiana.tropina at gmail.com>> wrote:
Stephanie, all,
Apologies, but I have to ask this question: how did the late refusal exactly influences the fact that people didn't nominate each other or didn't come forward? Or is it necessary to have the same number of candidates as seats? Are we talking about elections? This is a serious question for us to consider: why does this happen and why is this even being framed in those words?
I think that this is very unfortunate that we didn't have enough nominations. It's very unfortunate that people didn't volunteer and come forward. Last year we did have 5 candidates for 4 seats, and I would say that it's very sad that the argument now resembles something like "we had the same number of candidates as seats and the late refusal prevented people from further nominations". We are talking about the Council. It's a place where we are actually supposed to defend NCSG positions a lot and not to be shy to come forward.
It's so sad that this year we don't have the same number of nominations. However, I do not see how exactly the argument about the late refusal is connected to not being able to the Council candidates to be nominated.
I don't want to steer the pot by asking questions anymore. What I want to say now, as someone who is on the Council: NCSG members, we need you. We need those who can deliver. We want you to come forward and nominate yourself or be nominated, this year or next year, or in the next 5 years. We need people who can work and who can deliver. Please if you want to work - come forward and don't be afraid. If you are ready to work, you will get all help from the existing councillors.
Cheers,
Tanya
On Sun 31. May 2020 at 19:22, U Of T <stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca<mailto:stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca>> wrote:
I recused myself from this decision because i am a candidate for council, but i did report to the EC the concerns raised at the candidates’ meeting about the late refusal on one nomination, which left us with not enough candidates to fill the positions. However, I must agree with Bruna and Tapani that any decision regarding the NCUC rests in the hands of the NCUC EC, certainly not the NCSG EC.
Stephanie Perrin
Sent from my iPhone
> On May 31, 2020, at 11:14, Tapani Tarvainen <ncsg at tapani.tarvainen.info<mailto:ncsg at tapani.tarvainen.info>> wrote:
>
> Hi Tatiana,
>
> Actually, if we want to pick nits, the charter does not have a process
> for this specific case.
>
> It only specifies that the EC should appoint in case a councillor
> "is unable to finish his or her term" - the case where there's
> no councillor to even begin the term is not mentioned.
>
> Now I won't argue that the EC should not do so anyway, there's really
> no alternative if enough candidates aren't available during the
> election, but nonetheless it would also be at least slightly bending
> the rules.
>
> On the other hand the charter does explicitly make the EC responsible
> of the election schedule, so while I do dislike changing things like
> that in the middle of the process, it is not against the charter text.
>
> So while neither option is really pretty, I don't see any serious
> legalistic argument against either, and I'm happy to let the EC decide
> which is best.
>
> As for NCUC, there you and Bruna are absolutely correct, decision there
> belongs to NCUC, not NCSG EC.
>
> Tapani
>
>> On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 04:55:19PM +0200, Tatiana Tropina (tatiana.tropina at GMAIL.COM<mailto:tatiana.tropina at GMAIL.COM>) wrote:
>>
>> I am also not convinced about the process of this extension. The council
>> seat can be filled by an appointment made by NCSG EC and the NCSG Charter
>> has a process for this. The new candidates won’t take part in meet the
>> candidates call. Why is there a need to bend the rules to fill in the
>> places if there is a process in place to fill them via EC?
>> Bruna also rightly pointed out that NCUC is a constituency that could have
>> been at least consulted.
>> Warm regards,
>> Tatiana
>>
>>> On Sun 31. May 2020 at 16:43, James Gannon <lists at icann.guru<mailto:lists at icann.guru>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah I’m not sure why we are deviating from the Charter here?
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On 31 May 2020, at 15:34, Bruna Martins dos Santos <bruna.mrtns at gmail.com<mailto:bruna.mrtns at gmail.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am sorry, everyone. I understand that NCUC does not have any candidates
>>> for EC NA at the moment, but I really wish you had respected the
>>> constituency independence in setting its own electoral deadlines instead of
>>> announcing it on the list without the NCUC EC acknowledgement.
>>>
>>> I will speak with NCUC EC and get back to you on this.
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 11:21 AM Tapani Tarvainen <
>>> ncsg at tapani.tarvainen.info<mailto:ncsg at tapani.tarvainen.info>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes. There are four councillor positions and only three candidates at
>>>> the moment, and NCUC North American representative has no candidate.
>>>>
>>>> See
>>>>
>>>> https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Elections-2020
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomuserconst/Elections+2020
>>>>
>>>> Tapani
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 05:11:27PM +0300, Raoul Plommer (
>>>> plommer at GMAIL.COM<mailto:plommer at GMAIL.COM>) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, as far as I know, the NCUC North American seat and one councillor
>>>>> seat are still without a candidate. Perhaps someone can correct me if
>>>> I'm
>>>>> wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>> -Raoul
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 31 May 2020 at 17:07, Raymond Mamattah <
>>>> mamattah.raymond at gmail.com<mailto:mamattah.raymond at gmail.com>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Raoul,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What has necessitated this extension? Are there some positions that
>>>> do not
>>>>>> have applications? If yes, kindly share that with us.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> Raymond Mamattah
>>>>>> Accra-Ghana
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, May 31, 2020, 1:51 PM Raoul Plommer <plommer at gmail.com<mailto:plommer at gmail.com>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The NCSG EC has decided to extend the nomination period for the NCSG
>>>> and
>>>>>>> NCUC elections a little, practically with 17 hours 10 minutes,
>>>> starting
>>>>>>> right now.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -Raoul
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Tapani Tarvainen
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Bruna Martins dos Santos *
>>>
>>> Skype ID: bruna.martinsantos
>>> @boomartins
>>>
>>>
>
> --
> Tapani Tarvainen
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Taiwo Peter Akinremi
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WISDOM DONKOR
President & CEO
Africa Open Data and Internet Research Foundation
P.O. Box CT 2439, Cantonments, Accra | www.aodirf.org<http://www.aodirf.org> / www.afrigeocon.org<http://www.afrigeocon.org>
Tel: +233 20 812 8851
Skype: wisdom_dk | Facebook: kwasi wisdom | Twitter: @wisdom_dk
__________________________________________________
Specialization:
E-government Network Infrastructure and E-application, Internet Governance, Open Data policies platforms & Community Development, Cyber Security, Domain Name Systems, Software Engineering, Event Planning & Management,
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