[Npoc-discuss] Following Due Processes in Committee Positions at NPOC - My Statement

[Poncelet Ileleji]

Dear NPOC Members,

Good morning I please wish to write this email on following due processes
in all we do serving our constituency.  Am writing this in my current
capacity as Policy Chair for NPOC, which ends next week and am not
contesting again for that position.  As you all might have noticed I am,
consisting for the Chair position of NPOC in this our election cycle.

However my point I wish to highlight is the selection and operation of a
Policy Committee which is coming in place before the election cycle is
over.  The two candidates for Policy Chair namely Remmy Nweke and David
Cake, am not certain they were consulted on the creation of a policy
committee prior to any of them taken up the position if elected as our
policy chair after the election cycle.

Having spent 22 years of my professional life in an organisation the YMCA
which has existed globally since 1844 I know the values that due processes
in board selection and committee selection play, they don’t happen when an
incumbent term is not over and when a new person to chair a position has
not been elected infact I do not think it happens in any Not for Profit. As
a founding member organisation of NPOC I have not seen this happen before
since our existence as an ICANN Constituency or even in our sister
constituency NCUC.

Based on the above even though I was informed by our Vice Chair about the
setup of a policy committee which is required by our charter and I tried to
reach out to members during my time as policy chair, it’s the process of
doing it that was not done rightly.  The process must involve the incoming
chair as he has to work with that committee.  My tenure ends next week so I
can’t have any input on this; however I feel due process was not followed,
probably it’s because it’s an election cycle season but I leave members to
use their own prerogative to judge.

The members of this newly created  NPOC policy committee are not known to
me, I hardly have seen any of them in any policy meeting of NCSG PC as
observers, the main attendants of NCSG Policy meetings from NPOC are
myself, Juan, our councillor Martin and Sam La Franco and in some cases our
former Chair Klaus.

Based on this fact with all due respect to members of this newly elected
NPOC Policy committee, who are you?  When have your association with NPOC
started?  Where is your Statement of Interest (SOI) as required by ICANN in
serving in any working group?  These are questions pertinent to any serious
organisation that believes in following due process.

I leave you all to judge if the right processes where followed prior to a
new chair of Policy coming in?.  Let’s follow proper procedures / processes
and let those in this new Policy committee explain who they are? when did
their affiliation start with NPOC?, how long have they known and understood
ICANN processes as a true multi stake holder representative
organisation?  where
bottom top approach is the procedure.  These are relevant questions in
moving NPOC forward we need to do things rightly?  I will also like to know
if any other committee within NPOC has been constituted before their new
Chairs come in after our election cycle.

In Conclusion I will like to state I wish to be removed from the mailing
list of NPOC Policy committee created, as I strongly feel due process was
not followed as a new chair is coming in by next week and he should be the
right person to decide and advice on NPOC Policy direction and nominate
those who should serve with him in the policy committee from our membership
base.  This hastily constituted Policy committee  happening even prior to
our Charter review process been complete is not right at all and most
importantly new chairs are not yet in place  Its best to members to
decipher whether due process was followed or not.



Kind Regards



Poncelet


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