[WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: ICANN Nominating Committee Issues a Formal Call for Statements of Interest

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

ICANN can always use more Civil Society.

a.


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>
> Please note that the 2006 ICANN Nominating Committee Issues a  
> Formal Call for Statements of Interest.
> http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-18apr06.htm
>
> Marina del Rey, CA - April 18, 2006 - ICANN's Nominating Committee  
> invites Statements of Interest from the Internet community as it  
> seeks qualified candidates to assist in ICANN's technical and  
> policy coordination role. Interested individuals are invited to  
> submit a Statement of Interest to this year's Committee for the  
> following positions:
>
> Three members of the ICANN Board of Directors
>
> One member of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting  
> Organization (GNSO)
>
> One member of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting  
> Organization (ccNSO)
> Two members of the At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC)
>
> ICANN's Nominating Committee (NomCom) is an independent committee  
> tasked with selecting a majority of the members of ICANN's Board of  
> Directors and other positions within ICANN's Supporting  
> Organisations. ICANN is an internationally organised, public  
> benefit, non-profit corporation dedicated to: preserving the  
> operational security and stability of the Internet; promoting  
> competition; achieving broad representation of global Internet  
> communities; and supporting the development of policies appropriate  
> to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes.
>
> Individuals selected by the Nominating Committee will have a unique  
> opportunity to work with accomplished colleagues from around the  
> globe, address the Internet's intriguing technical coordination  
> problems and policy development challenges with diverse functional,  
> cultural, and geographic dimensions, and gain valuable insights and  
> experience from working across boundaries of knowledge,  
> responsibility and perspective.
>
> Those selected will gain the satisfaction of making a valuable  
> public service contribution towards the continued function and  
> evolution of an essential global resource. Considering the broad  
> public interest, nominees will work to achieve the goals towards  
> which ICANN is dedicated in order to facilitate the Internet's  
> critically important societal functions.
>
> Current Board members who have been selected by the Nominating  
> Committee include: Vint Cerf (Chairman), Susan Crawford, Hagen  
> Hultzsch, Joichi Ito, Veni Markovski, Hualin Qian, Njeri Rionge,  
> and Vanda Scartezini (see, http://www.icann.org/general/board.html).
>
> Statements of Interest for the positions described above can be  
> submitted through nomcom.submissions at icann.org.
>
> More information regarding the Nominating Committee can be found at  
> http://www.icann.org/committees/nom-comm/. Applications will be  
> considered confidentially and should be received by 16 July 2006  
> for full consideration. Selections will be announced before 31  
> October 2006. Successful candidates will take up their positions  
> following ICANN's Annual Meeting in Sao Paolo, Brazil in December  
> 2006.
>
> Questions or comments may be emailed to ICANN at nomcom- 
> comments at icann.org.