Douglas +1 On 31 August 2016 at 11:39, Douglas Onyango <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Paulos, > While I agree that more diverse continental representation at ICANN would > be nice, I find your bashing of ICANN's Nomcom not warranted. > > Nomcom's charge is to work in the best interest of the global Internet > community. As such, the diversity provisions they have are only to ensure > that at all times every geographical region is represented on the Board and > nothing more. Any intra-region representation/diversity you may expect is > not for Nomcom to deliver. > > Further, your complaints about Nomcom can be construed as a vote of no > confidence on the new Board members' ability to adequately represent the > continent, which, again, I don't think is justified. While I appreciate > Africa's geographical diversity, I don't see any reason that could render > them incapable of representing the rest of the continent. On the contrary, > the nature of work and safeguards at ICANN won't afford them the > opportunity to advantage one part of the continent at the expense of > another even if they wanted to. > > In the end, instead of pointing one fingure at Nomcom, we should remember > the four point at ourselves. This issue could have been resolved if we sent > more competent candidates from Malawi, Uganda and other countries. This is > what we should do in the future. > > Regards, > > On 31 August 2016 at 04:48, Dr Paulos Nyirenda <[email protected]> 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Members-Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/members-discuss >> > > > > -- > Douglas Onyango, PRINCE 2, ITILv3 > UG: +256 776 716 138 > > _______________________________________________ > AfrICANN mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/africann > > -- Poncelet O. Ileleji MBCS Coordinator The Gambia YMCAs Computer Training Centre & Digital Studio MDI Road Kanifing South P. O. Box 421 Banjul The Gambia, West Africa Tel: (220) 4370240 Fax:(220) 4390793 Cell:(220) 9912508 Skype: pons_utd *www.ymca.gm <http://www.ymca.gm>http://jokkolabs.net/en/ <http://jokkolabs.net/en/>www.waigf.org <http://www.waigf.org>www,insistglobal.com <http://www.itag.gm>www.npoc.org <http://www.npoc.org>http://www.wsa-mobile.org/node/753 <http://www.wsa-mobile.org/node/753>*www.diplointernetgovernance.org
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