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

[Poncelet Ileleji]

Douglas +1

On 31 August 2016 at 11:39, Douglas Onyango <ondouglas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Paulos,
> While I agree that more diverse continental representation at ICANN would
> be nice, I find your bashing of ICANN's Nomcom not warranted.
>
> Nomcom's charge is to work in the best interest of the global Internet
> community. As such, the diversity provisions they have are only to ensure
> that at all times every geographical region is represented on the Board and
> nothing more. Any intra-region representation/diversity you may expect is
> not for Nomcom to deliver.
>
> Further, your complaints about Nomcom can be construed as a vote of no
> confidence on the new Board members' ability to adequately represent the
> continent, which, again, I don't think is justified. While I appreciate
> Africa's geographical diversity, I don't see any reason that could render
> them incapable of representing the rest of the continent. On the contrary,
> the nature of work and safeguards at ICANN won't afford them the
> opportunity to advantage one part of the continent at the expense of
> another even if they wanted to.
>
> In the end, instead of pointing one fingure at Nomcom, we should remember
> the four point at ourselves. This issue could have been resolved if we sent
> more competent candidates from Malawi, Uganda and other countries. This is
> what we should do in the future.
>
> Regards,
>
> On 31 August 2016 at 04:48, Dr Paulos Nyirenda <paulos at sdnp.org.mw> 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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