[npoc-voice] Apply Now for ICANN's Leadership Positions

[Eduardo Monge <eduardo.monge@xxxxxxxxx>]

For your information:

Apply Now for ICANN's Leadership Positions
Apply Now to Join the ICANN Board, the Councils of GNSO and ccNSO, and the ALAC
7 November 2012

Source: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-07nov12-en.htm

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 Nominating 
Committee for the following positions:

 *   Three members of the Board of Directors of ICANN
 *   Three At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) representatives (one each from 
the Africa, Asia/Australia/Pacific Islands and Latin America/Caribbean Islands 
regions)
 *   Two members 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 eight members of 
the Board of Directors and other key positions within ICANN's structure. ICANN 
is a not-for-profit, public benefit 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 the 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: Cherine 
Chalaby, Bertrand de la Chapelle, Steve Crocker, Olga Madruga-Forti, Erika 
Mann, Gonzalo Navarro, George Sadowsky, and Judith Duavit Vazquez.

Statements of Interest for the positions described above can be submitted 
through an on-line application form at (http://nomcom.icann.org/apply) or by 
contacting nomcom2013@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:nomcom2013@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 1 May 
2013 for full consideration. Selections will be announced in early September 
2013. Successful candidates will take up their positions following ICANN's 
Annual Meeting in November 2013.

Candidate recommendations are encouraged and can be submitted through an 
on-line form at http://nomcom.icann.org/suggest, and questions or comments may 
also be submitted to nomcom2013@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:nomcom2013@xxxxxxxxx>.

Fluency in English is a requirement for all positions. These positions may 
involve significant international travel, including personal presence at 
periodic ICANN Public Meetings, as well as regular telephone and Internet 
communications. Reasonable direct expenses incurred in the course of service 
will be reimbursed. Each Board Member may also choose to receive compensation 
in accordance with the resolution passed by the Board on 8 December 2011, but 
is not required to do so. (See 
http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-08dec11-en.htm#3.)

Background

The NomCom 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 bodies, individual NomCom members are not accountable to their 
appointing bodies.

NomCom members are accountable for adherence to the ICANN Bylaws and for 
compliance with the rules and procedures established by the NomCom.

Recent ICANN Public Meetings have been held in Senegal, Costa Rica, Czech 
Republic and Canada. Meetings during 2013 are scheduled for Beijing, China; 
Durban, South Africa; and in the Latin America/Caribbean region.