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. But you gave a point which probably can only be addressed by reforming the nomcom.
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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > AfrICANN mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/africann _______________________________________________ AfrICANN mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/africann
