Hello Edward,

If I may ask, what is the expected/required characteristics of these so
called "experts"?

Thanks for the effort

Regards

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kindly excuse brevity and typos.
On 9 Sep 2014 17:23, "Edward Morris" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  Hi everyone,
>
> While ICANN takes public comments on their top down Accountability plan,
> the plan itself moves forward. To their credit, the Public Experts Group
> will be announcing in the next day or so that the deadline for nominations
> of  “experts” for the ICANN Accountability & Governance Coordination Group
> will be extended from tomorrow to at least the end of the month, if not a
> few days longer.
>
> As a reminder, the Call for Candidates can be found here:
>
>  https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-08-28-en
>
> In a top down process that largely is horrid this Call is an opportunity
> for those of us on the bottom of the bottom up process to be heard. I’ve
> been reaching out to people, collecting c.v.’s and trying to put together
> some candidates that would reflect the views of the noncommercial
> community. You’ll be surprised at how many respected professionals have no
> idea what ICANN is or that there even is a field of knowledge called
> internet governance. I’m finding that once educated, though, people are
> generally willing to consider serving.
>
> A special call out to NCSG members in Asia, Latin America and Africa. The
> members of the Public Experts Group are all from the United States and
> northern Europe. It would be particularly useful if you could come up with
> potential “experts” in the delineated categories from your regions and
> submit those names to ICANN.  It would be great to have a bit more
> geographic diversity in the candidate pool.
>
> Thanks for considering.
>
> Ed
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