NomCom

[Raymond Mamattah]

Hello Wolfgang, great work done by the committee. Thanks for the regular
update, it is very useful as most of us are learning a lot more about what
goes on in NomCom behind the scenes. More grease to your elbow.

Raymond Mamattah
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On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 11:32 AM Wolfgang Kleinwächter <
wolfgang at kleinwaechter.info> wrote:

> Dear NCUcer,
>
> this is my last report as the NCUC Rep. from the NomCom 2020.
>
> You have seen already the final nominations. As you know, the NomCom
> operates under the principle of confidentiality so I can not add any
> specific background.
>
> However, in the NomCom we are looking for a maximum of transparency with
> regard to procedure. So I can tell you, that we did have seven days en
> suite virtual meetings with all NomCom members sitting in different time
> zones from California to the Far East. Every day the 14 voting NomCom
> members, the NomCom Leadership team and ICANN NomCom Staff were linked
> together for about eight hours in front of a screen (S2S). We did have ten
> online interviews with the shortlisted candidates for the ICANN Board and
> the PTI Board. We did not have interviews with the shortlisted candidates
> for ALAC, CNSO and GNSO. Each online interview was about one hour. We
> prepared the interview with a one hour internal discussion, where two
> NomCom deep divers presented the candidate and NomCom members discussed
> their strengths and weaknesses. After the interview we did have another one
> hour discussion where we evaluated the performance of the candidate. In
> parallel, each NomCom member made his/her individual rating of the
> interviewed candidate in a special personalized matrix.
>
> After six days of interviews, we did have another full day for the final
> selection meeting. We did reach agreement on the nomination for all the
> seven positions, as you have seen now in the official announcement.
>
> It was a risky but exciting journey through those virtual proceedings. The
> courage of the leadershipo team to ignore sceptical warnings was finally
> justified. Special kudos has to go to ICANN staff, which organized this one
> week virtual meeting with all the online interviews without any
> communication problems. At the end, NomCom 2020 produced a lot of new
> experiences and lessons learned. Covid 19 is bad. But it offers also
> oppportunities to enter new territory. And the NomCom 2020 did it.
>
> Once again thanks for your support and trust. As you know, I will continue
> as NCUC Rep in the NomCom 2021. Lets wait and see what we learned from
> 2020. I will report back as soon as something is worth to be reported.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
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