ICANN81 Travel Slot Selection

[Namra Naseer]

Thanks for sharing that, Farzaneh. Important considerations.

Best,
Namra

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 09:08 farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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