Congratulations to the winners (and all of us voters:) Edward, you remind me of a hope re-kindling and re-energizing person at a recent meeting. Told me that she's learned at her masters classes that Rights Advocacy is a never-ending discourse therefore not meant for the faint hearted. New team, You have our backing! thanks, On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Edward Morris <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > Hi everybody, > > > Wow. > > > I’d like to thank Robin, Brenden and the staff at ICANN for all their hard > work in running this election. If the democracies of the world were able to > conduct elections as clearly and smoothly as this group did we’d all be > better off. Thanks again. > > > To my fellow candidates: I’m used to running campaigns, I’m not used to > being the person out front. It takes a special person, myself excluded, to > take that risk and run for office. Thank you for doing so. Regardless of > the result, this Constituency needs everyone working together if we’re > going to have success and I hope all are willing. We have a lot of work to > do and we need the energies and talents of each and every member to get it > done. With Bill’s leadership there is so much we can accomplish. > > > I never thought the goal of my year, were I successful, on the EC would be > to give hope to Avri. Through her energy, intelligence, hard work and > passion she has given so much to all of us. Yes, recent events have given > all of us much pause to thought. But...we need to remember why we are all > doing this, we need to remember those whose interests we have pledged to > represent: the billions of noncommercial internet users throughout this > world. The day the internet becomes no more than a platform for commerce is > the day the internet as we know it dies. We have a compelling story to tell > and the best of all reasons to tell it: to save the open, free, innovative > internet for ourselves and future generations. > > > Thanks to everyone for their support and I’ll do my best to justify your > confidence in me. > > > Edward Morris > > > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Brenden Kuerbis < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Dear NCUC Members, >> >> Please find below the results of the 2012 NCUC Executive Committee >> election (complete report file attached): >> >> Chair >> 130 01 Bill Drake >> 10 02 Abstain >> >> Africa >> 42 03 Wilson Abigaba >> 21 04 Hago Dafalla >> 21 05 Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu >> 54 06 Abstain >> >> Asia/Australia/Pacific >> 66 07 Norbert Klein >> 65 08 Mary Wong >> 11 09 Abstain >> >> Europe >> 45 10 Nuno Garcia >> 54 11 Tapani Tarvainen >> 22 12 Rudi Vansnick >> 17 13 Abstain >> >> Latin America/Caribbean islands >> 124 14 Carlos A. Afonso >> 16 15 Abstain >> >> North America >> 103 16 Edward Morris >> 37 17 Abstain >> >> Congratulations to our newly elected Executive Committee! Thanks to all >> the Nominees and Members who participated, and also Glen de Saint Géry and >> ICANN for facilitating the election. I wish the new EC a successful and >> productive term in 2013. >> >> Regards, >> >> --------------------------------------- >> Brenden Kuerbis >> Internet Governance Project >> http://internetgovernance.org >> > >