<div dir="auto">Hello Maureen, <div dir="auto">I have not seen you answer the important questions raised Raymond.. </div><div dir="auto">I'd rather suggest that the regional Vice Chairs have internal democracy to rotate leadership amongst themselves to forestall a region having edge over others due to hosting rights. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The Tenure rotation SOP should determine by these set of leaders. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Congratulations to Shreepeed. Go to see an ICANN fellow taking up this leadership task. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Caleb Ogundele <br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Caleb Ogundele<br><br>________________<br><br>Sent with thumbs from a small screen mobile device. <br><br>Pelase exsuce typos adn errosr.</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 21, 2020, 6:15 PM Raymond Mamattah <<a href="mailto:mamattah.raymond@gmail.com">mamattah.raymond@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Well noted, Maureen. <div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">Regards, Raymond</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 21, 2020, 5:05 PM Maureen Hilyard <<a href="mailto:maureen.hilyard@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">maureen.hilyard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thank you for your suggestions Raymond. I think that the current covid situation has encouraged us to do something different. <div><br></div><div>The Asia-Pacific is one of the also-rans when it comes to ICANN meetings, and this is our first opportunity since ICANN60 in Abu Dhabi (2017) to hold a meeting in our region. It is unfortunate that in the circumstances it is a virtual meeting and that we wont get another opportunity until at least 2022, but we want to make the most of it. </div><div><br></div><div>The rotating leadership gives more people a chance to test their leadership capacity and enables others in the wider community to see how people perform when they are given a real responsibility. The social media working group is an area where people can use their imagination to support the communication of what is important to At-Large and ICANN and at the same time to be creative about how they do this including more diverse ways of including more about the region and its people and culture as well as the ICANN side of the working group's role. </div><div><br></div><div>Your contributions will be of great assistance to them, especially in regards to promoting the meeting in the AFRALO region.</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks for your input</div><div>Maureen </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 6:22 AM Raymond Mamattah <<a href="mailto:mamattah.raymond@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">mamattah.raymond@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hello Maureen,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Greetings from Accra, Ghana. Hope you are keeping well in the pandemic.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have some concerns with the email sent and I need some clarification. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If I understand the email correctly, the regional chair will be chosen from the region that is hosting the next ICANN. If so then it will mean in a year there will be 3 different regional chairs, that's if the meetings are not in the same region. In my view, having 3 different regional chairs in a year will be too much of disruption.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Secondly, as you are aware some regions, like Africa are not privileged to be hosting ICANN meetings. For example, Mexico was supposed to host ICANN67, they again are hosting ICANN70. Again it was recently announced that they are hosting another meeting again. So my thought is if the chairs are being rotated on who hosts the next ICANN meeting some regions will get more chairs than the others. Africa specifically will be the looser.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My suggestion is that, yes the regional chairs can be rotated but not based on the next ICANN meeting hosting. Rather it should be well indicated that each region becomes the chair irrespective of which region is hosting the meeting. And being a chair should be for a year, rather than about 3 months, since we have 3 meetings in a year.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards</div><div dir="auto">Raymond Mamattah</div><div dir="auto">At-Large Ambassador</div><div dir="auto">Accra, Ghana.</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 21, 2020, 3:11 PM ICANN At-Large Staff <<a href="mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">staff@atlarge.icann.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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