NomCom

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Thanks for the report Wolfgang.. and for all your earlier reports.
NomCom work is demanding and doing it under these circumstances must
have been so much more demanding. From my own experience on NomCom I
know how important the face to face gatherings were... so very
challenging to work without them. Thank you to you and well done to NomCom.

Anriette

Anriette Esterhuysen - anriette at apc.org//anriette at gmail.com
Chair, United Nations Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group
www.intgovforum.org

Senior advisor global and regional internet governance
Association for Progressive Communications
www.apc.org//afrisig.org

On 2020/10/05 12:32, Wolfgang Kleinwächter 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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