<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></div><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">First
off, I'm pleased to see that many members of the UASG community have stepped
forward and offered to serve in leadership roles, representing a variety of
cultural backgrounds. All the best to you, everyone. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:#202124;background:white;font-weight:normal"><o:p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:#202124;background:white;font-weight:normal"><o:p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">This
is especially for Abdalmonem Galila and U.B. Pavanaja, our current UASG Vice
Chairs.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></h3><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;background:white"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background: white; line-height: normal;">Thank
you both for offering yourselves again as candidates to be the again vice chair
of the UASG. We appreciate both of you reiterating your candidature for vice
chair of the UASG. Gallia, you still have some proven commitment to UASG and a
history of working hard to realise its objectives. Although Pavanaja I haven't
noticed much of a contribution from you over the last two years; you weren't
frequently present at working group and other meetings. I haven't noticed any
noteworthy contributions from your end in the prior UASG leadership attempts to
accomplish the UASG mission.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:#202124;background:white"><o:p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;background:white"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background: white; line-height: normal;">Before
I cast my vote,I would appreciate knowing your from both of you, your
individual top 5 significant contributions to the UASG over the course of your current
two year term.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:#202124;background:white"><o:p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;background:white"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background: white; line-height: normal;">What
unique contribution have you made individually to remove the current barriers
to universal acceptance?</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:#202124;background:white"><o:p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;background:white"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background: white; line-height: normal;">What
you have done in your region and organization to remove the current barriers to
universal acceptance, any success story?</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:#202124;background:white"><o:p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;background:white"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background: white; line-height: normal;">Please
send a reply with a copy to ua-discuss. Your response could help all UASG
community members to make their decision and lead to a lively conversation on
the list.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:#202124;background:white"><o:p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;background:white"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background: white; line-height: normal;">I'm
hoping to see your responses.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:#202124;background:white"><o:p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p><div class="protonmail_signature_block" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton"><span style="color: rgb(12, 12, 20); font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal;">Thank you very much!
Wijayawardhana</span>
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On Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 at 7:51 PM, Seda Akbulut via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Dear Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Community,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">On behalf of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), we are pleased to share the self-nominations of candidates for the 2023 UASG vice-chair election as per the
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://uasg.tech/uasg-charter/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">UASG charter</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> and Election Process available at
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://uasg.tech/operational-documents/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://uasg.tech/operational-documents/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Candidates (in alphabetical order):</span></p>
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<li style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Abdalmonem Galila</span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Haixin Duan</span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Nabil_Benamar</span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Nitin Walia</span></li><li style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">U B Pavanaja
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Their Statements of Interest (SOI) are attached.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">The voting period will start on 7th April 2023, and will end on 17th April 2023. Eligible voters, the subscribers of the UA-Discuss mailing list 48 hours</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">before the announcing the call for nominations for the election, should expect an email from eballot.com when the voting period starts. If you do not receive email from eballot.com,
please check your SPAM folder.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">If you have any queries, feel free to contact us at
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:info@uasg.tech" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">info@uasg.tech</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Kind regards,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">UASG Election Coordination Team
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