<h2 style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Reminder: Apply
Now to Join the ICANN Board, the Councils of GNSO and ccNSO, and the ALAC</span></h2>
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November 2009<br>
Updated 1 March 2010</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ICANN's Nominating Committee
(NomCom) invites Statements of Interest and candidate recommendations from the
Internet community for key leadership positions to fulfill ICANN's technical
and policy coordination role. Interested individuals are invited to submit a
Statement of Interest to the 2010 NomCom for the following positions: </span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<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"">Three
members of the Board of Directors of ICANN </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"">Two At
Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) representatives (one each from the
European and North American regions) </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"">One member
of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) </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"">One member
of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The NomCom is an independent
committee tasked with selecting a majority of the members of the Board of
Directors and other key positions within ICANN's structure. ICANN is an
internationally organized, public benefit, non-profit corporation dedicated to:
preserving the operational security and stability of the Internet; promoting
competition; achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and
supporting the development of policies appropriate to its mission through
bottom-up, consensus-based processes. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Individuals selected by
NomCom will have a unique opportunity to work with accomplished colleagues from
around the globe, address the Internet's intriguing technical coordination
problems and policy development challenges with diverse functional, cultural,
and geographic dimensions, and gain valuable insights and experience from
working across boundaries of knowledge, responsibility and perspective. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Those selected will gain the
satisfaction of making a valuable public service contribution towards the
continued function and evolution of an essential global resource. Considering
the broad public interest, those selected will work to achieve the goals
towards which ICANN is dedicated in order to facilitate the Internet's
critically important societal functions. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Current Board members who
have been selected by the NomCom include: Harald Tveit Alvestrand, Steve
Crocker, Dennis Jennings, Gonzalo Navarro, Rajasekhar Ramaraj, George Sadowsky,
Jean-Jacques Subrenat and Katim Touray. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Statements of Interest for
the positions described above can be submitted through an on-line application
form at <a href="http://forms.icann.org/cgi/soi.cgi">http://forms.icann.org/cgi/soi.cgi</a>
or by contacting <a href="mailto:nomcom2010@icann.org">nomcom2010@icann.org</a>.
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">More information regarding
the NomCom can be found at <a href="http://nomcom.icann.org/">http://nomcom.icann.org/</a>.
Applications will be considered in confidence and should be received by 2 April
2010 for full consideration. Selections will be announced in early September
2010. Successful candidates will take up their positions following ICANN's
Annual Meeting in December 2010. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Candidate recommendations,
questions or comments may also be emailed to <a href="mailto:nomcom2010@icann.org">nomcom2010@icann.org</a> . </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">A NomCom Workshop will be held at
the 37th ICANN Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya on 10 March 2010. More opportunities
to meet NomCom members in person are announced on the NomCom webpage; <a href="http://nomcom.icann.org/">http://nomcom.icann.org/</a></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Background on
Nominating Committee: </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Nominating Committee is
designed to function independently from the ICANN Board, Supporting
Organizations, and Advisory Committees. NomCom members act only on behalf of
the interests of the global Internet community and within the scope of the
ICANN mission and responsibilities assigned to it by the ICANN Bylaws. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NomCom members contribute
understanding of the broad interests of the Internet community as a whole, and
knowledge and experience of specific Internet constituencies who have appointed
them. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The challenge for the NomCom
is to integrate these perspectives and derive consensus in its selections.
Although appointed by Supporting Organizations and other ICANN entities,
individual NomCom members are not accountable to their appointing constituencies.
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Members are accountable for
adherence to the ICANN Bylaws and for compliance with the rules and procedures
established by the Nominating Committee. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Successful candidates are not
remunerated, although direct expenses incurred in the course of duty will be
reimbursed. Fluency in English is a requirement for all positions. These
positions may involve significant international travel, including personal presence
at periodic ICANN meetings, as well as regular telephone and Internet
communications. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Recent ICANN Meetings have
been held in Brazil, Portugal, Puerto Rico, the United States, India, France,
Egypt, Mexico, Australia and South Korea. Meetings during 2010 are scheduled
for Nairobi in Kenya, Brussels in Belgium and Latin America. The diverse
locations facilitate participation across the world's Internet community; an
aspect of growing importance as ICANN's recently signed Affirmation of
Commitments emphasizes ICANN's accountability to the community.</span></p>
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