Re: [ga] ALAC Announces Delegates to ICANN's Nominating Committee

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
stakeholders/users,

  I would have to ask the ALAC committee, what was the criterion for
these "Selections"?  Why were not any and all of the stakeholders/user
able to make these "Selections" by vote?  And how is making such
"Selections" representative of openness and transparency as well as
broadly excepted democratic process?


Danny Younger wrote:

>    http://alac.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-25feb05.htm
>
>
> At-Large Advisory Committee Announces 2005 Delegates to ICANN's
> Nominating Committee
>
> ICANN's Interim At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) has selected five
> volunteers from five different regions of the world to serve as
> members of ICANN?s 2005 Nominating Committee (NomCom). The NomCom will
> appoint members of ICANN's Board of Directors, the GNSO Council, the
> ccNSO Council, and the ALAC.
>
> The 2005 At-Large delegates to the Nominating Committee are:
>
>    Adam Peake, Asia/Australia/Pacific region delegate
>    Jeanette Hofmann, Europe region delegate
>    Jose Ovidio Salgueiro, Latin America/Caribbean region delegate
>    Alan Davidson, North America region delegate
>    Simbo Ntiro, Africa region delegate
>
> Information on the delegates is included below.
>
> The ALAC widely solicited volunteers and relied on the user groups
> designated as ?At-Large Structures? in each region for
> recommendations. The ALAC selected these five delegates from several
> diverse, accomplished volunteers. The NomCom?s members, including 12
> voting delegates in addition to the 5 appointed by the ALAC, will
> serve one-year terms.
>
> Please contact <committee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> with questions relating to
> this announcement.
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> Biographies of 2005 At-Large delegates to the Nominating Committee:
>
>    Adam Peake works at the Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM),
> a research institute located in Tokyo. He has been living in Japan
> since 1989 and joined GLOCOM in April 1993. His interests are the
> intersection of public policy and the Internet, and promoting
> information and communication technologies in society. He participated
> in the G8 DOT Force where GLOCOM was the Japanese NPO representative.
> Peake also has co-led GLOCOM's work on the World Summit on the
> Information Society (WSIS), including GLOCOM's role as facilitator of
> NGO/Civil Society participation in the Asia and Pacific Regional WSIS
> Conference, January 2003. He is a coordinator of the WSIS Civil
> Society Internet Governance Caucus, and a member of the Public
> Interest Registry Advisory Council. Prior to 1989, he was employed at
> British Telecom as a project manager working on the interconnection of
> Other Licensed Operators (cellular radio, radio paging and competitive
> telephony carriers).
>    Jeanette Hofmann has a PhD in political science, and holds a
> temporary position as professor in the Department of Political Science
> for Politics and Communication at the University Duisburg-Essen. She
> is program leader for Internet Governance at the Wissenschaftszentrum
> Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) (Social Science Research Center
> Berlin) continuing research of the project group "Kulturraum Internet"
> which she co-founded in 1994. She is a co-coordinator of the WSIS
> Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus, and a member of the WSIS
> German Civil Society Coordination Group. As such, she has been a
> representative of this group in the German Government Delegation to
> the World Summit on the Information Society. In 2003 she was a member
> of the editorial group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)´s
> ?problem statement? working group, and has co-authored one of the
> Internet drafts of this working group. Since 2003 she has been a
> member of the Committee for Communication!
>  and
>  Information of the German Chapter of UNESCO (Deutsche
> UNESCO-Kommission e.V.), and since 2002, a member of the academic
> advisory board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education. In 2001 she
> participated in the international NGO and Academic ICANN Study (NAIS)
> group which was formed to explore public participation in ICANN. In
> 2000 she was a member nominated candidate for the ICANN election. She
> has done research on the IETF and the development of IPv6, on ICANN
> and the DNS. At present she leads a study on ENUM. Hofmann served as a
> voting member of the 2004 Nominating Committee selected by the At
> Large Advisory Committee.
>    Jose Ovidio Salgueiro, has been a law professor and an attorney
> with Volpe Ardizzone & Salgueiro in Venezuela since 1990. He has
> served as a Member of the Board of Directors of Banco Guayana, as an
> Advisor of the Superintendent of Electronic Signatures of Venezuela,
> and as the Academic Director of the Venezuelan Association on
> Informatics Law. He is the co-writer of the Data Messages and
> Electronic Signature Law of Venezuela and its regulations. Salgueiro
> is a member of the staff of Informatics Law Community Alfa-Redi, and
> has taught numerous courses on e-commerce and informatics law. He is a
> graduate of the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, School of Law, in
> Caracas, Venezuela, and has done post graduate work in commerical law
> at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain, and Universidad Católica
> Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela.
>    Alan Davidson is Associate Director at the Center for Democracy and
> Technology (CDT), a Washington D.C. non-profit group working to
> promote civil liberties and human rights on the Internet and other new
> digital media. He works broadly on issues relating to Internet policy
> including free speech and censorship, copyright, and Internet
> governance. Davidson is currently leading a major new initiative at
> CDT focused on the public interest issues surrounding copyright and
> digital rights management. Last year, he was a Visiting Scholar at the
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Program in Science,
> Technology, and Society. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown
> University's Communications, Culture, and Technology Program. Davidson
> served as a voting member of the 2004 Nominating Committee selected by
> the At Large Advisory Committee.
>    Simbo Ntiro is a management consultant at WorldAhead Consulting
> Network, and an independent management consultant focused on digital
> opportunities and ICT4Dev for Tanzania?s development. He participated
> in the G8 DOT Force representing Tanzania?s civil society caucus, and
> participates in the UN ICT Task Force and is active on a number of
> working groups implementing the Genoa Plan of Action and supporting
> achieving the UN?s MDGs. In addition, he is part of the Tanzanian
> technical team that prepared its involvement in the Geneva WSIS event
> in December 2003, having attended PrepCom3. He is a member Tanzania?s
> Ministry of Communications and Transport National ICT Task Force that
> drafted the first National ICT Policy, and the Implementation Task
> Force that prepared implementation plans for the National ICT Policy
> following participating in drafting the policy itself. He sits on the
> Board of Directors of SchoolNet Africa, a pan-African NGO
> headquartered in South Africa and is o!
> n the
>  Finance Committee of the Board. SchoolNet Africa is charged with
> continent-wide interventions in the education system focused on
> deploying ICT to improve learning systems and is currently in
> negotiations with NEPAD to become the implementing agency for NEPAD?s
> eSchools Initiative. Simbo is a member of the Consultative Group of
> Experts Committee established by NEPAD?s eAfrica Commission. Ntiro
> served as a voting member of the 2004 Nominating Committee selected by
> the At Large Advisory Committee.
>

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