Nomination period extended to Sunday (today) 23.59 PST
Wisdom Donkor
wisdom.dk at GMAIL.COM
Sun May 31 17:32:22 EEST 2020
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> 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
> ᐧ
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 7:47 PM Robin Gross <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>
>> 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>
>> 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>
>> 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>
>>> 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> 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) 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>
>>>> 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>
>>>> >>> 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> 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) 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>
>>>> >>>>> 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>
>>>> >>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
> --
> Best regards
>
> *Taiwo Peter Akinremi*
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