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

[Mohamed EL Bashir]

Congratulation Rafik and good luck .

Mohamed

Rafik Dammak wrote:
> Salut,
>
> Merci beaucoup Anne-Rachel. j'espere  etre a l'hauteur et pouvoir 
> representer les interets notre region au GNSO.
> certainement je serai heureux de pouvoir compter sur vous tous.
>
> Thank you very much Anne-Rachel, I hope to be able to advocate and 
> defend our region interests in GNSO.
> I will be glad to be able to count on everybody 
>
>
> Rafik
>
> 2009/10/13 Anne-Rachel Inné <annerachel at gmail.com 
> <mailto:annerachel at gmail.com>>
>
>     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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