[council] Reminder: Apply Now to Join the ICANN Board, the Councils of GNSO and ccNSO, and the ALAC

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Reminder: Apply Now to Join the ICANN Board, the Councils of GNSO and ccNSO, 
and the ALAC

13 November 2009
Updated 1 March 2010

ICANN's Nominating Committee (NomCom) invites Statements of Interest and 
candidate recommendations from the Internet community for key leadership 
positions to fulfill ICANN's technical and policy coordination role. Interested 
individuals are invited to submit a Statement of Interest to the 2010 NomCom 
for the following positions:

 *   Three members of the Board of Directors of ICANN
 *   Two At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) representatives (one each from the 
European and North American regions)
 *   One member of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization 
(GNSO)
 *   One member of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting 
Organization (ccNSO)

The NomCom is an independent committee tasked with selecting a majority of the 
members of the Board of Directors and other key positions within ICANN's 
structure. ICANN is an internationally organized, public benefit, non-profit 
corporation dedicated to: preserving the operational security and stability of 
the Internet; promoting competition; achieving broad representation of global 
Internet communities; and supporting the development of policies appropriate to 
its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes.

Individuals selected by NomCom will have a unique opportunity to work with 
accomplished colleagues from around the globe, address the Internet's 
intriguing technical coordination problems and policy development challenges 
with diverse functional, cultural, and geographic dimensions, and gain valuable 
insights and experience from working across boundaries of knowledge, 
responsibility and perspective.

Those selected will gain the satisfaction of making a valuable public service 
contribution towards the continued function and evolution of an essential 
global resource. Considering the broad public interest, those selected will 
work to achieve the goals towards which ICANN is dedicated in order to 
facilitate the Internet's critically important societal functions.

Current Board members who have been selected by the NomCom include: Harald 
Tveit Alvestrand, Steve Crocker, Dennis Jennings, Gonzalo Navarro, Rajasekhar 
Ramaraj, George Sadowsky, Jean-Jacques Subrenat and Katim Touray.

Statements of Interest for the positions described above can be submitted 
through an on-line application form at http://forms.icann.org/cgi/soi.cgi or by 
contacting nomcom2010@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:nomcom2010@xxxxxxxxx>.

More information regarding the NomCom can be found at http://nomcom.icann.org/. 
Applications will be considered in confidence and should be received by 2 April 
2010 for full consideration. Selections will be announced in early September 
2010. Successful candidates will take up their positions following ICANN's 
Annual Meeting in December 2010.

Candidate recommendations, questions or comments may also be emailed to 
nomcom2010@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:nomcom2010@xxxxxxxxx> .
A NomCom Workshop will be held at the 37th ICANN Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya on 
10 March 2010. More opportunities to meet NomCom members in person are 
announced on the NomCom webpage; http://nomcom.icann.org/

Background on Nominating Committee:

The Nominating Committee is designed to function independently from the ICANN 
Board, Supporting Organizations, and Advisory Committees. NomCom members act 
only on behalf of the interests of the global Internet community and within the 
scope of the ICANN mission and responsibilities assigned to it by the ICANN 
Bylaws.

NomCom members contribute understanding of the broad interests of the Internet 
community as a whole, and knowledge and experience of specific Internet 
constituencies who have appointed them.

The challenge for the NomCom is to integrate these perspectives and derive 
consensus in its selections. Although appointed by Supporting Organizations and 
other ICANN entities, individual NomCom members are not accountable to their 
appointing constituencies.

Members are accountable for adherence to the ICANN Bylaws and for compliance 
with the rules and procedures established by the Nominating Committee.

Successful candidates are not remunerated, although direct expenses incurred in 
the course of duty will be reimbursed. Fluency in English is a requirement for 
all positions. These positions may involve significant international travel, 
including personal presence at periodic ICANN meetings, as well as regular 
telephone and Internet communications.

Recent ICANN Meetings have been held in Brazil, Portugal, Puerto Rico, the 
United States, India, France, Egypt, Mexico, Australia and South Korea. 
Meetings during 2010 are scheduled for Nairobi in Kenya, Brussels in Belgium 
and Latin America. The diverse locations facilitate participation across the 
world's Internet community; an aspect of growing importance as ICANN's recently 
signed Affirmation of Commitments emphasizes ICANN's accountability to the 
community.

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Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://gnso.icann.org