ICANN81 Travel Slot Selection

[Johan Helsingius]

Dear NCSG members,

Unfortunately Stephanie Perrin had to cancel her travel to Istanbul
for ICANN81, thus making one more travel slot available. The NCSG
EC has unanimously decided to allocate that slot to Ken Herman.

On behalf of the NCSG EC,

	Julf

On 16/08/2024 13:48, Johan Helsingius wrote:
> Dear NCSG members,
> 
> We received 11 Motivation Letters for the two ICANN81 travel slots.
> With so many good candidates, the EC had intense discussions about the
> candidates, and tried to come up with clear and objective selection
> criteria. We took into account experience, NCSG policy contributions,
> participation in NCSG policy calls and previous ICANN meetings, as well
> as geographical, cultural and gender balance issues. On the last point
> we had to concede failure, a fact that troubled several of us, but in
> the end the range of other criteria won over gender balance.
> 
> In the end, we arrived at the consensus decision to approve the
> travel slots for Bolutife Adisa and Frank Anati. We want to emphasize
> that it was a hard decision to make, as there were many good applicants.
> 
> We strongly encourage the other applicants to reapply if travel slots
> become available for ICANN82 - and it is of course still possible that
> one or more of the Councillors or EC members who plan to travel have
> to change their plans and one more slots become available.
> 
> On behalf of the NCSG EC,
> 
> 	Julf