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<h2 style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">ICANN Board
Appoints New GNSO Council Members</span></h2>
<p style="margin-top:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">11
October 2009</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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:</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Mohammed
Rafik Dammak – Tunisia</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Rosemary
Sinclair – Australia</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Debra
Hughes – United States</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A preliminary report from the
30 September Board meeting can be found here - <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/">http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/</a>. </span></p>
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