Dear All

It is time for all of  us  to ask the UASG leadership to review the organization's charter because we have already lost a great number of qualified individuals who helped build UASG in the past, including Ram Mohan, DON, Dennis, Edmon Chung, Richard Merdinger, Mark Svancarek, and Dusan Stojicevic.

Sad part is that due to the restrictions of the current charter, many of these persons who were the UASG’s strong pillars are no longer involved or active in the UASG group.

As per me the current charter has a lot of problems which i am highlighting as below:

Number of people in leadership: Present: One Chair and two to three Vice-Chairs. Purposed: The minimum current requirements of UASG leadership is One chair and at least Three Vice chairs should be always in position.

Term: Present: Two-year terms with the possibility of one reappointment so Chairs and Vice-Chairs serve for a period of no less than two years and no more than four. Purposed: This should have been in line to ICANN Board charter at least three-year term for maximum 3 consecutive times.
 
Candidates: The restriction that no more than one applicant from the same company may be a member of the UASG Admin Team should also be eliminated because it was not included in either the original charter of the UASG or the charter of ICANN. This restriction deters qualified individuals from applying and nominating themselves, particularly from major corporations like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, verisign, Afilias etc. Let the community determine whether or not they want more members of the same groups on the admin team when candidates are chosen through community vote. Nevertheless, in the interest of diversity if required we can have policy that No more than one candidate from the same company may run for the same seat/position i.e. Not more than one person should participate in election for chair and Not more than one person should participate in election for Vice chair from the same organization.

Involvement of All previous UASG leadership/admin team: To keep them engaged and continue supporting the continuing work of UASG, a dedicated working group of all former veterans who were members of the leadership and administrative team should be established.

All are urged to evaluate the current charter and the UASG election procedure, and support the present UASG leadership to consider implementing the following proposals as essential changes to the current charter in response to UA community suggestions before moving ahead for new elections.

Thanks.
Shaked Ayelet

On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 12:58 PM Seda Akbulut via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

Dear UASG members,

 

UASG Leadership has developed a generic Election Process and a Timeline that can be used for future UASG Leadership elections.

The Draft Election Process and the Timeline are now published at https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UASG-Election-Process-Draft.pdf, that is also accessible from https://uasg.tech/.

 

Kindly review the election process and the timeline, and provide your feedback through the webform https://forms.gle/9aD2hFZxqrYcnHUc7 by 30 October 2022.

 

After 30 October, UASG leadership team will take into account the input received and finalize the UASG Election Process and Timeline. The final process will then be published at https://uasg.tech/.

 

We look forward to your feedback.

 

Best regards,

 

Seda Akbulut

(on behalf of UASG Leadership team)

 

 

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