[Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Borad Elections

[Noah]

Dear Ahmed

First and foremost, welcome on-board this community mailing list since I am
seeing you post for the first time ever and I hope you will continue to
engage in various discussions as a member of the community now.

So, I have been catching up with email and I would like to also contribute
to the discussion by stating a few things in reference to people being
*biased* in general.

Let me introduce myself first. I personally work for AS37100 a member of
AfriNIC, I was popularly elected by the community as a volunteer to the
AfriNIC ASO - AC and my term ends next year in 2020, I am a secretary
general of an ISP association in my country of residence, and I am
generally involved within the AFRICAN internet community as a volunteer
with various non-profit organizations because voluntary work is fulfilling.
However, whatever I say here often is from a personal point of view unless
I state otherwise.

I am telling you all this because, with all my years of engagement in this
community, I have always spoken in my own personal capacity that is why I
use my own personal email address. Nothing I say is ever a representation
of any of the organization I am affiliated with, though so often, my
affiliations have been used by some members of this community to attack my
personal character, sometime as far as going after my employment just
because of my personal views on various matters pertaining the African
Internet Community. What I am trying to say is that, Wafa as a community
member, just like me, so often speaks on her own personal capacity and I
believe she has since clarified this to you and the community.

Therefore, I doubt its "*bias*"as you put it ...... and my view of that
email from her to you is basically an elections campaign for a candidate
and candidates of her choice and in the end, her efforts seems to have paid
off as some of the candidate she was supporting for the Northern Africa
seat Dr.Habib ended up getting the highest votes ever of all candidates in
the entire board elections. I was on the ground in Kampala and Habib did
well also in terms of campaigning, so did other candidates and I can
understand why he was Wafa's choice and and her strategy for the Northern
Africa candidate for board election did indeed work. That is what good
mobilization in campaigns does.

In fact just in the same elections, there was a very well coordinated
campaign that involved among other things, mudslinging of a specific
candidate by some members of the various constituencies within the
community and this also perfectly OK. Folks can go as far as using print
media and sometime private lobbying through mailing lists and chat rooms.
Its the nature of politicking and campaigns are tough and sometimes they
get ugly, after all, not all candidates are supposed to be liked by the
entire electorate yet politicking still goes on. This is basically pure
politics 101 and its perfectly acceptable and normal and as they say,
politics is part of daily life and so many of us in this community have
been party to this and its nothing new.

I submit to you that, being a member of, say, the AfriNIC appeals
committee, or ASO-AC or GC ...you name it, does not stop someone from
having their own *subjective* *views* nor does it stop them from being
involved in community politics at a personal level. Remember above and
beyond, we are all part of the Internet community before our various
affiliations and after being party to these affiliations, we continue to be
members of the internet community and remain in this community.

What really matters is respect for each other and how we treat each other
even when we disagree because in the end, its through this politics that we
progress as we continue to individually contribute, improve and resolve
some of our challenges.

Cheers and I look forward to more engagement with you Mr.Ahmed.

Noah


On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 2:17 PM Ahmed Fadl <ahmed.fadl at 57357.org> wrote:


> Hi Wafa,

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> Thanks for your email.

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> I, among other members of AFRINIC in Egypt, received the following email

> from you many times.

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> I wondered at that time why should I vote for these candidates specially

> for those in Eastern and Southern regions while each one was the sole

> candidate in his region. I quote this from your email "Ladies and

> Gentlemen, in the context of our strategy ...." what is your strategy and

> who are you ?

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> If you are talking about biasing the community, So, do you consider your

> email as a "member of the appeal committee; ASO / AC excom member and Ex

> Chair of Governance Committee '(GC) at AFRINIC." fall under what ?

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> I sent this mail many time but I don’t know why I can’t find this mail on

> community

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> Thanks,

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> Ahmed Fadl

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> *From:* wafa Dahmani [mailto:wafatn7604 at gmail.com]

> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 19, 2019 1:05 PM

> *To:* wafa Dahmani <wafatn7604 at gmail.com>

> *Subject:* AFRINIC Borad Elections

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> Dear,

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>  My name is Wafa Dahmani from Tunisia, an active member of the African

> community and more specifically AFRINIC: member of the appeal committee;

> ASO / AC excom member and Ex Chair of Governance Committee '(GC) at AFRINIC.

> I contact you to solicit your votes for the following candidates:

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> Board of Directors:

> North Africa (seat 1)

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>    - Habin Youssef

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> West Africa (seat 2)

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>    - Ly Ousmane

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> South Africa (seat 5)

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>    - Mpisane Vika William

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> East Africa (seat 6)

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>    - Nkusi Robert Ford

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> Non-regional (seat 7)

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>    - Eshun Benjamin Adzenyamebeye

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> Election Number Resource Organization Number Council

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>    - Mustapha Ben Jemaa

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> Election Policy Development Working Group

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>    - Komi Elitcha

>    - Sami Hassan

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> Election Governance Committee

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>    - Daniel Nanghaka

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> Ladies and Gentlemen, in the context of our strategy  and in order to

> preserve AFRINIC's interests for Africa and to be able to choose the right

> candidates for North Africa in the long term, it is desirable to join all

> our efforts and vote for these candidates who presents the best choice for

> an adequate board

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> the de facto vote online through your interface with AFRINIC is very

> simple for all categories except the policy development Working group where

> we want you to mobilize your teams on the spot to vote for our candidates

> We strongly solicit your support

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> Thank you

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> Wafa Dahmani

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> member AFRINIC Appeal Committee

> Global IGF MAG member

> ASO / AC excom member

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