[AfriNIC-announce] Postponement of the e-voting system for 2012 Board election

[Adiel Akplogan]

Dear colleagues,

We are sorry to announce that the e-voting system will NOT be used for the 
upcoming Board election.

Following consultations and discussions among the Board, the NomCom and 
staff, it was felt that the online voting mechanism should be further interrogated 
by the community before it is deployed.

Although a lot of time and effort has already gone into AFRINIC’s endeavour 
to integrate the e-voting system into MyAfriNIC, there is need to subject it 
further tests to ensure it is well understood, sufficiently transparent and secure 
to be used in all confidence. The system is ready and will be released in few 
days for a wide-scale test.

This postponement will give us more time to conduct a wide-scale test and to 
further engage the community in this change.

We take this opportunity to apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, 
but be rest assured that we are committed to making the proposed system well 
understood, sufficiently transparent and secure to be used in all confidence.

If you are not planning to come to Serekunda, you can still appoint a proxy as 
per the election guideline. The form will be available from MyAfriNIC but can 
also be directly downloaded from:

http://www.afrinic.net/elections/process/aflgl-pxy2012.pdf

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Please do not hesitate to contact us should you need any further clarification.

Sincerely.

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Adiel A. Akplogan 
Chief Executive Officer
AfriNIC, www.afrinic.net