Election season is upon us once again!

According to NCUC's charter, we elect all of the NCUC Executive  
Committee regional representatives and chair each year.

All terms are 1-year and begin at the conclusion of the December  
ICANN meeting in Cartagena.

SIX NCUC ELECTIONS:

NCUC Executive Representatives (current rep):
1. Africa (Alex Gakuru)
2. Asia (David Cake)
3. Europe (Konstantinos Komaitis)
4. North America (Brenden Kuerbis)
5. South America (Carlos Affonso Pierra de Souza)

All of the above existing regional Executive Committee reps are in  
their 1st term and are eligible for re-election (should they chose to  
stand).

6.  NCUC Chair (Robin Gross)

In my 2nd term as NCUC Chair, I'm eligible for re-election, but I've  
decided not to run for re-election as it is an opportunity for new  
leadership to emerge and non-commercial users to grow its leadership  
base more deeply and broadly.

*Tentative Proposed Schedule*:

11 October: Nominations Open
24 October: Nominations Close
26 October: NCSG Open Policy Meeting (candidate discussion - final  
ballot)
28 October: Elections Begin
11 November: Elections End
11 December: Term Begins

*Note: I've asked ICANN for technical help in holding these online  
elections as they are getting bigger and more unwieldy for us to  
manage as the membership grows and I haven't heard back yet.  So this  
is a very TENTATIVE schedule and pending those discussions with ICANN.

As with the 2 GNSO Council seats, both self-nominations and  
nominations of others are acceptable.  Nominations should be made to  
this public list and accepted before the close of the nominating  
period to be eligible for the ballot.

Let the NCUC Executive Committee nominations begin!!

Thank you,
Robin


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