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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > AfrICANN mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/africann > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2016.0.7752 / Virus Database: 4649/12916 - Release Date: 08/31/16 > _______________________________________________ AfrICANN mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/africann
