[AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN 2016 Nominating Committee Announces Selections - unfortunate Africa distribution

[waudo siganga]

Paulos - the nomcom only has responsibility to ensure there is at least
one board member from the region. The rest are selected by respective
SOs/ACs that have their one selection policies and methods. But you gave
a point which probably can only be addressed by reforming the nomcom.

W.
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016, at 04:48 AM, Dr Paulos Nyirenda wrote:
> On 30 Aug 2016 at 15:50, Yaovi Atohoun wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Please read more about the NomCom announcement 
> > at https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-08-29-en 
> 
> I see it as unfortunate that both ICANN board members from the Africa
> region in this
> ICANN NomCom selection come from North Africa.
> 
> I see it as loss of geographic diversity as well as loss of diversity in
> community
> representation in this selection and in the resulting ICANN Board
> representation.
> 
> I do not blame this on North Africa,  the rest of Africa simply needs to
> push for and
> move forward into occupying such positions and NomCom needs to look out
> for such
> disparities.  
> 
> It is my hope that this unfortunate ICANN Board distribution is not
> because there were
> no good applicants from the rest of Africa, did the ICANN NomCom fail to
> attract good
> enough candidates from the rest of Africa?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paulos
> ======================
> Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
> NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
> http://www.registrar.mw
> 
> 
> 
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