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 ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya twitter.com/lordmwesh On 31 August 2016 at 12:35, Dr Paulos B Nyirenda <[email protected]> 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 >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 _______________________________________________ AfrICANN mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/africann
