[Community-Discuss] [AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN 2016 Nominating Committee Announces Selections - unfortunate Africa distribution

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

This page explains the process rather well https://www.icann.org/nomcom2016

I particularly like this part:Candidate recommendations are encouraged
and can be submitted through an on-line form at
http://nomcom.icann.org/suggest
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Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
twitter.com/lordmwesh




On 31 August 2016 at 12:35, Dr Paulos B Nyirenda <paulos at sdnp.org.mw> wrote:
> On 31 Aug 2016 at 8:32, waudo siganga wrote:
>
>>
>> Paulos - the nomcom only has responsibility to ensure there is at least
>> one board member from the region. The rest are selected by respective
>> SOs/ACs that have their one selection policies and methods.
>
> Correct on the "responsibility" but I was expecting the ICANN NomCom to be much better
> informed and act in a pragmatic manner, I expect much more from a NomCom that just
> satisfying a responsibility.
>
>> But you gave
>> a point which probably can only be addressed by reforming the nomcom.
>
> Agreed, then the NoCom should be reformed, if it does its job this way.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paulos
> ======================
> Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
> NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
> http://www.registrar.mw
>
>
>>
>> W.
>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016, at 04:48 AM, Dr Paulos Nyirenda wrote:
>> > On 30 Aug 2016 at 15:50, Yaovi Atohoun wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi all,
>> > >
>> > > Please read more about the NomCom announcement
>> > > at https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-08-29-en
>> >
>> > I see it as unfortunate that both ICANN board members from the Africa
>> > region in this
>> > ICANN NomCom selection come from North Africa.
>> >
>> > I see it as loss of geographic diversity as well as loss of diversity in
>> > community
>> > representation in this selection and in the resulting ICANN Board
>> > representation.
>> >
>> > I do not blame this on North Africa,  the rest of Africa simply needs to
>> > push for and
>> > move forward into occupying such positions and NomCom needs to look out
>> > for such
>> > disparities.
>> >
>> > It is my hope that this unfortunate ICANN Board distribution is not
>> > because there were
>> > no good applicants from the rest of Africa, did the ICANN NomCom fail to
>> > attract good
>> > enough candidates from the rest of Africa?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Paulos
>> > ======================
>> > Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
>> > NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
>> > http://www.registrar.mw
>> >
>> >
>> >
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