ICANN81 Travel Slot Selection

[farzaneh badii]

Dear members
I abstained on this decision and the last one. I believe when we have
equally qualified applicants we should consider other criteria such as
gender and region. There was just not enough time for me to advocate for
this so I abstained.


Farzaneh


On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 7:57 AM Johan Helsingius <
00001963cc94b85a-dmarc-request at listserv.syr.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
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