Re: [npoc-voice] NPOC Election Results

[Sam Lanfranco <lanfran@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear NPOC Colleagues,

I want to thank all who voted. With my election to Chair of the NPOC 
policy committee I am going to prepare a short discussion paper (max 2 
pages) about a strategy for handling the policy agenda within NPOC.
NPOC is a young organization and as such lessons learned play a large 
role in how it revises structures and processes, both within its 
existing ICANN Charter, and for any future Charter revisions. It is part 
of NPOC's mandate to communicate with its membership base with regard to 
ongoing ICANN and Internet governance discussions within ICANN, and 
solicit participation in that process via comments, feedback, and 
participation in ICANN Working Groups. I want to redouble NPOCs efforts 
on that front, but I want to do more.
The Internet ecosystem is increasingly wide and deep and can impact on 
the mission, vision and work of the not-for-profit civil society sector 
in a number of ways. It can do so at a number of levels, ranging from 
the global DNS and gTLD focus of ICANN down to regional, national and 
local issues.
I will propose enlarging NPOC's mission within its existing Charter, in 
collaboration with others, to encompass two things: (a) wider and deeper 
stakeholder knowledge and engagement in Internet governance and policy 
issues; and (b) work in collaboration with others on Internet ecosystem 
issues and priorities as identified bottom up by not-for-profit members 
of NPOC.
In short, NPOC will say both:

 *   "These are the ICANN-centric Internet Governance issues for which
   NPOC members need to have a say"

 * "What are the broader Internet Ecosystem and Governance issues which
   concern NPOC members?".


Sam Lanfranco
NPOC Policy Committee Chair


On 28/06/2014 5:34 PM, Cintra Sooknanan wrote:
> Dear NPOC members
> It is my pleasure to inform you that based on the results of the NPOC 
> elections, the new executive is as follows:
> Chair- Rudi Vansnick
> Vice Chair- Lori Schulman
> Policy Committee Chair- Sam Lanfranco
> Communications Committee Chair- Olivie Kouami
> Membership Committee Chair- vacant
> Secretary- vacant
> Please join me in congratulating the new executive and wishing them a 
> productive year ahead.
> Kind regards
> Cintra Sooknanan
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