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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Raymond Mamattah via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 12 October 2022 at 09:13<br>
<b>To: </b>Shaked Ayelet <shakedayelett@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Jeffrey Joseph via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [UA-discuss] Request for feedback: Election Process and a Timeline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Great suggestion from Shaked, but I will disagree with the point to allow more than one person from an organization to take leadership role.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If this is allowed it's possible these people could influence decisions to favour such an entity. In the interest of diversity I suggest we stick to the No more than one person from
the same entity. This is done in some other ICANN constituencies as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I also suggest we stick to the two years term for no more than two terms. Because to change it to a three year term for possible reelection for three times means the leadership could
be in place for a whole nine (9) years. This is not laudable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">I however support the idea of bringing in the great knowledge of the past executives and the pioneers. Maybe they could form an advisory role.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Raymond Mamattah<br>
Accra, Ghana <br>
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It is time for all of us to ask the UASG leadership to review the organization's charter because we have already lost a great number of qualified individuals who helped build UASG in the past, including Ram Mohan, DON, Dennis, Edmon Chung, Richard Merdinger,
Mark Svancarek, and Dusan Stojicevic. <br>
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Sad part is that due to the restrictions of the current charter, many of these persons who were the UASG’s strong pillars are no longer involved or active in the UASG group.
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As per me the current charter has a lot of problems which i am highlighting as below:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Number of people in leadership</b>: Present: One Chair and two to three Vice-Chairs. Purposed: The minimum current requirements of UASG leadership is One chair and at least Three Vice chairs should be always in position.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Term</b>: Present: Two-year terms with the possibility of one reappointment so Chairs and Vice-Chairs serve for a period of no less than two years and no more than four. Purposed: This should have been in line to ICANN Board charter at least three-year term
for maximum 3 consecutive times.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Candidates</b>: The restriction that no more than one applicant from the same company may be a member of the UASG Admin Team should also be eliminated because it was not included in either the original charter of the UASG or the charter of ICANN. This restriction
deters qualified individuals from applying and nominating themselves, particularly from major corporations like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, verisign, Afilias etc. Let the community determine whether or not they want more members of the same groups
on the admin team when candidates are chosen through community vote. Nevertheless, in the interest of diversity if required we can have policy that No more than one candidate from the same company may run for the same seat/position i.e. Not more than one person
should participate in election for chair and Not more than one person should participate in election for Vice chair from the same organization.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Involvement of All previous UASG leadership/admin team</b>: To keep them engaged and continue supporting the continuing work of UASG, a dedicated working group of all former veterans who were members of the leadership and administrative team should be established.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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All are urged to evaluate the current charter and the UASG election procedure, and support the present UASG leadership to consider implementing the following proposals as essential changes to the current charter in response to UA community suggestions before
moving ahead for new elections.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Thanks.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 12:58 PM Seda Akbulut via UA-discuss <<a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org" target="_blank">ua-discuss@icann.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Dear UASG members,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">UASG Leadership has developed a generic Election Process and a Timeline that can be used for future UASG Leadership elections.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The Draft Election Process and the Timeline are now published at </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UASG-Election-Process-Draft.pdf" target="_blank">https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UASG-Election-Process-Draft.pdf</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">,
that is also accessible from <a href="https://uasg.tech/" target="_blank">https://uasg.tech/</a>.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Kindly review the election process and the timeline, and provide your feedback through the webform
<a href="https://forms.gle/9aD2hFZxqrYcnHUc7" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/9aD2hFZxqrYcnHUc7</a>
</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red">by 30 October 2022.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red"> </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">After 30 October, UASG leadership team will take into account the input received and finalize the UASG Election Process and Timeline. The final process will then be published at <a href="https://uasg.tech/" target="_blank">https://uasg.tech/</a>.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">We look forward to your feedback.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Best regards,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Seda Akbulut</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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