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[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Diversity is an Accountability issue, is it not?

You, the Community, have approved the CCWG Accountability's Work
Stream 1 recommendation and can participate in the Work Stream 2
deliberations, where I think diversity is being discussed.

I do not agree that race should be a consideration.

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On 2016-08-31 14:05, Walubengo J wrote:
> @Mike,
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> As an academic, I might be suffering the same illusion as Paulos :-),
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> I think what he was saying is that the current board
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> ICANN 2016 Nominating Committee Announces Selections - ICANN
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> Is not diverse (should I dare say black?) enough?
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> My academic training seems to agree with this observation.
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> I remember my interest in ICANN was actually provoked by the days when
> Alice, Katim et al were on the board.
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> Without doubting the capability of the incoming members, it is important
> that Nomcom takes the issue racial diversity alot more seriously.  After
> all, that is WHY ICANN is trying to be as 'international' as it can get.
>  Why not begin at the top?
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> walu.
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