The ICANN 2015 Nominating Committee
(NomCom) has announced the selection of a nine-man leadership positions within the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), reports ITRealms.
These include three ICANN board of
directors, four members of the At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), two members
of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), and a
member of Council of the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO).
The chairman of 2015 NomCom, Stephane
Van Gelder, said the three members selected for the ICANN board of directors
are Rafael Ibarra from Latin
America/Caribbean Islands; George Sadowsky from North
America and Lousewies van der Laan of Europe.
The
ALAC members, he said, included Timothy Denton of North
America, Kaili Kan representing the Asia/Australia/Pacific
Islands, Leon Sanchez for Latin
America/Caribbean Islands and Dahmani Wafa standing in
for the Africa continent.
For
the GNSO,, Van Gelder said Johan Helsingius was
selected from Europe and Hsu Phen Valerie Tan from Asia/Australia/Pacific
Islands. Whereas ccNSO has Christelle Vaval
from Latin America/Caribbean Islands.
from Latin America/Caribbean Islands.
He
also explained that those selected will take up their positions after the end
of ICANN's Annual General Meeting (AGM) slated during the ICANN Public Meeting
scheduled for 18-22 October 2015 in Dublin, Ireland.
The NomCom, he said, is charged
with recruiting and selecting a portion of ICANN's leadership.
Further, he emphasized that NomCom
is mandated to ensure that ICANN's overall leadership is diverse in geography,
culture, skills, experience and perspective.
The basic criteria, according to Van
Gelder, is that selectees are people of integrity, objectivity, sound judgment,
support decision-making within groups, work effectively in English, understand
ICANN's mission and operation, are committed to its success, have experience in
world affairs, contribute to cultural, professional and geographic expertise,
and could work long and hard, generally as volunteers, for the global public
trust.
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