[AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN Board Appoints New GNSO Council Members

[Anne-Rachel Inné]

Bravo Rafik! Felicitations et merci d'avoir postule. Bon courage et tu peux
compter sur nous tous pour te soutenir.

AR

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-11oct09-en.htm
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 ICANN Board Appoints New GNSO Council Members

11 October 2009

At its 30 September Board meeting, the ICANN Board of Directors appointed
three individuals to serve as Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG)
representatives on the new Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO)
Council:

   - Mohammed Rafik Dammak – Tunisia
   - Rosemary Sinclair – Australia
   - Debra Hughes – United States

The Board's Structural Improvements Committee (SIC) considered applications
from a talented and diverse group of volunteers, conducted extensive due
diligence, carefully reviewed the applicants, and recommended to the full
Board the slate of three candidates to serve on the GNSO Council for the
next two years. Under the terms of the NCSG transitional charter approved by
the Board on 30 July 2009, three of the six NCSG representatives on the new
GNSO Council were to be selected/appointed by the Board of Directors.  The
newly structured GNSO Council will hold its first meeting in Seoul, South
Korea on 28 October 2009.

The three individuals were recommended by the SIC based on the combination
of their skills, experience, background, knowledge, passion and ability to
help build non-commercial participation and contribute to the work of the
GNSO. The committee paid particular attention to the candidates’ ability to
contribute to diversity of geographic representation on the Council.

Collectively, the appointees bring a wide range of skills and experience to
the new Council. Mr. Dammak is a research student in Interdisciplinary
Information Studies at Sakamura Laboratory, University of Tokyo where he is
conducting research on ubiquitous computing. He is an active participant in
IETF, IGF, the Creative Commons community and several ICANN projects that
have served to focus his attention on technology, IDNs and community
participation matters. His work in the IGF has been directed towards issues
involving public participation capabilities and he has many productive
relationships throughout Africa and the Middle East.

Ms. Hughes is currently Senior Counsel for the American Red Cross (ARC), the
world’s largest humanitarian organization, where she advises the
organization on various matters related to consumer privacy and consumer
protection. She also works closely with the ARC’s information technology and
information security teams to manage on-line matters and other Internet
issues and she has broad career experience serving non-profit organizations.


Ms. Sinclair is the Chair of the International Telecommunications Users
Group (INTUG) and Managing Director of the Australian Telecommunications
Users Group (ATUG). She is a member of the group responsible for recently
creating the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network and has
committed much of her recent efforts to high-speed broadband deployment in
Australia and in other parts of the Asia/Pacific region.

The ICANN Board has approved a comprehensive set of recommendations to
improve the structure and operations of the GNSO. At its core, the objective
of the GNSO review process has been to identify ways to improve the
inclusiveness and representativeness of the GNSO's work while increasing the
effectiveness and efficiency of the policy development process. The
restructuring of the GNSO Council is only one of several major components of
the independent review/restructuring effort.

This improvement effort is part of ICANN's own ongoing commitment to evolve
and improve all of its activities, and follows extensive independent review
efforts and extensive public consultation.

A preliminary report from the 30 September Board meeting can be found here -
http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/.
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