Diversity != Skin Colour el
-- Sent from Dr Lisse's iPad mini 4 > On 2 Sep 2016, at 11:39, SM <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Paulos, > At 01:20 02-09-2016, Dr Paulos B Nyirenda wrote: >> I have been trying to work out and understand whether the ICANN NomCom could >> have done better than this in this selection and I find that there could be >> an inherent problem with diversity considerations within the ICANN NomCom >> >> They say that a picture says more than a thousand words, so, take a look at >> the 2016 ICANN NomCom and assess this ICANN asset for your serves: >> https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/assets/nomcom2016-members-1200x800-12nov15-en.jpg >> . >> This is the group photo available at: https://www.icann.org/nomcom2016 >> >> Is it diverse enough ? > > I compared the image with the ones at > http://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/board-trustees They are similar in > diversity. > >> It is then pertinet to ask if this kind of diversity in ICANN NomCom could >> have led to the unfortunate selection of Board members in the recent NomCom >> announcement. I tend to think so, question is, can they see beyond their >> noses ? > > That is a good question. According to https://atlarge.icann.org/ralos/afralo > the AFRALO Leadership is supposed to reach out to internet users on the > issues in the scope of ICANN. A few minutes ago, I found out that Barrack > Otieno is part of AFRALO. I would like to thank him as he is the only person > who is part of AFRALO who participated in this discussion. I'll also thank > Mike Silber as he is the only ICANN Board member who participated in the > discussion. > >> My understanding is that for these things to get this bad at this level, >> something in the oversight function in ICANN is missing or has gone wrong >> and it should really not be happening in 2016 when we are all very conscious >> of the IANA Transition. > > The persons representing Africa (excluding the persons I mentioned above) do > not seem to consider that the issue which you raised as something to be > concerned about. > > Regards, > -sm > > _______________________________________________ > AfrICANN mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/africann _______________________________________________ AfrICANN mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/africann
