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<h2><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">News
Alert</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-12feb09-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-12feb09-en.htm</a></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Recruitment for
ICANN Leadership Positions: 2009 Nominating Committee</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 11.25pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">12
February 2009</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The 2009 Nominating Committee
began its work in November 2008 following the ICANN Annual Meeting in Cairo,
Egypt, and is actively seeking qualified candidates for the following key
positions within ICANN:</span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Three
members of the ICANN Board of Directors</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Three
members of the At Large Advisory Committee (for the African,
Asia/Australia/Pacific, and Latin American regions)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Two
members of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">One member
of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Those
selected by the Nom Com will take their seats at the end of the 2009 ICANN
Annual Meeting, 30 October 2009 in Seoul, Korea.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Nom
Com will be conducting a workshop and other outreach activities during the
At Large Summit and the ICANN meeting in Mexico City (28 February - 6
March 2009), see <a href="http://mex.icann.org/">http://mex.icann.org/</a>
for more information.</span></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The people selected by the
Nominating Committee will have a unique opportunity to work with accomplished
colleagues from around the globe, address intriguing technical coordination
problems and related policy development challenges with diverse functional,
cultural, and geographic dimensions, and gain valuable insights and experience
from working across these boundaries of knowledge, responsibility and
perspective.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Information on applying is
available at <a href="http://nomcom.icann.org/">http://nomcom.icann.org/</a>.
Prospective candidates are invited to submit their Statements of Interest to
the Nominating Committee by 15 April 2009 23:59 UTC.</span></p>
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