<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I also volunteer for such small team and as a member to the selection committee.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">MartÃn<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 30 Aug 2018, at 19:54, Rafik Dammak <<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com" class="">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am sending this note as ICANN org published an update on the fellowship program</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-08-13-en" target="_blank" class="">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-08-13-en</a>, which is asking SO/AC to:</div><ol class=""><li class="">Provide input for two-year outreach and promotion goals<br class=""></li><li class="">Nominate ICANN Fellowship Program Selection Committee Members for two-year terms<br class=""></li></ol><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For the first item, the council can have a small team of volunteers to work on giving guidance regarding the goals. I am happy to volunteer to lead such an effort and looking forward to hearing of others want to join in order to fill the form (attached). We can use this opportunity to set goals for bringing specific needed expertise and skills as a diversity goal for example for those to participate in PDP WGs. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For the second item, as SO the GNSO should appoint a member to the selection committee and we expressed previously the interest to be involved in such a structure. Usually, we task the SSAC to conduct such process but in this case, we got a time constraint here since the deadline is the 10th September.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Rafik</div></div></div>
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