<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div><br></div></div></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div>On 5/21/17, 3:56 AM, "Boubakar Barry" <<a href="mailto:boubakarbarry@gmail.com">boubakarbarry@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div></div><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 6:22 AM, Walubengo J <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20712" dir="ltr">Interesting...academic papers, technical capabilities?</div><div id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20712" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20712" dir="ltr">All nice and good to have.</div><div id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20712" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20712" dir="ltr">But remember board positions are LEADERSHIP rather than academic or technical positions. </div><div id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20712" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20712" dir="ltr">Asking candidates to provide for example 3 published papers in refereed journals or certifications in Cisco, Unix or Security may miss the point since you are not hiring an 'EMPLOYEE'. In other words, having academic publications is good but not a reliable predictor of an effective board member.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Has this ever been required for being a candidate for AfriNIC Board member? </div></div></div></div></blockquote></span><div><br></div><div>No but maybe its time we did after 10 years in a complex evolving environment we should.</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br><br>No! So let's not exaggerate things and create unnecessary and time wasting discussions.</div></div></div></div></blockquote></span><div><br></div><div>On the contrary we might be loosing more valuable time </div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br><br>But fact is that AfriNIC deserves to have highly qualified women and men in its Board. </div></div></div></div></blockquote></span><div><br></div><div>Fully agreed </div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br><br>Playing down education will certainly not serve AfriNIC and our continent. It would rather send bad signals to our youth; something like: just find your way through the "system".<br></div><div><br></div><div>Boubakar<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20712" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20712" dir="ltr">walu</div><div class="gmail-m_-896762532563202710qtdSeparateBR" id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20713"><i id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_21342">Disclaimer: Speaking In my own capacity.</i><br><br></div><div class="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yahoo_quoted" id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20757" style="display:block"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px" id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20756"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px" id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20755"> <div dir="ltr" id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20754"> <font id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20753" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20752" size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Ish Sookun <<a href="mailto:ish@lsl.digital">ish@lsl.digital</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:sm%2Bafrinic@elandsys.com" target="_blank">sm+afrinic@elandsys.com</a> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> <a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" target="_blank">rpd@afrinic.net</a><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, May 19, 2017 7:27 PM<span class="gmail-"><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [rpd] Board Election 2017: Final Candidate Slate<br> </span></font> </div><div><div class="gmail-h5"> <div class="gmail-m_-896762532563202710y_msg_container" id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20758"><br><div dir="ltr" id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20759">Hi SM,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 19/05/17 17:31, sm+<a shape="rect" href="mailto:afrinic@elandsys.com" id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495259740086_20761" target="_blank">afrinic@elandsys.com</a> wrote:<br clear="none">> What information would you like to have?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I am particularly interested in the work accomplished & contribution to<br clear="none">community by the candidates. That being said, I'd like to read the<br clear="none">papers, authored or co-authored, by candidates.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">IMHO a curriculum vitae is not much a metric to measure technical<br clear="none">capabilities.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Regards,<div class="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yqt8189441807" id="gmail-m_-896762532563202710yqtfd77708"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Ish Sookun<br clear="none"><br clear="none">______________________________<wbr>_________________<br clear="none">RPD mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:RPD@afrinic.net" target="_blank">RPD@afrinic.net</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd" target="_blank">https://lists.afrinic.net/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/rpd</a><br clear="none"></div></div><br><br></div> </div></div></div> </div> </div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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