Mehta:

Welcome to the UASG! It is good to have more people who are interested in helping make globally inclusive domain names and email addresses accepted universally. And, I personally am glad to see another Canadian posting here.

> Is it possible to view the candidate profiles on any site?

Not yet. There are not yet any candidates. This email thread is a call for nominations. Once the nominations are all received, I expect you will see candidate profiles posted.

> What is the purpose of the election?

To elect the top leaders of this group, the Universal Acceptance Steering Group. For more information about the duties of these leaders, and the election process, look at the Operational Documents section of the UASG website <https://uasg.tech/operational-documents/>. Download and read the first three documents there, which have "UASG Election" and "2023" in their links.

If you have questions about the candidates or issues, you are welcome to post questions (as separate threads, with distinct Subject: lines) to ua-discuss@icann.org .

Best regards,
     —Jim DeLaHunt, Vancouver, Canada

On 2023-03-02 15:26, Mehta Youngs via UA-discuss wrote:
Is it possible to view the candidate profiles on any site? What is the purpose of the election? Apologies, I am new. Here to follow the development of full unicode domain naming, and I didn't know any election or what powers are being bestowed, or even if there are any controversial issues within this working group. If anyone wants to proselytize to me, feel free. 

Mehta 

+1 306 244 2650

Saskatoon, Canada

On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 7:31 AM Seda Akbulut via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

Dear Universal Acceptance (UA) Community Members,

Universal Acceptance Working Group (UASG) is announcing the call for nominations for its leadership positions. Interested candidates should send a self-nomination with a Statement of Interest (SOI) to the email: UAprogram@icann.org before 23:00 UTC on 3 March 2023 for Chair position, and on 31 March 2023 for Vice-Chair position.

The SOI should include the following information:

  1. Name of the nominee
  2. The position contesting for (UASG Chair or UASG Vice-Chair) 
  3. A short bio of the nominee, covering current position and the company being worked for, relevant UA experience, motivation, expression of interest and any other relevant information.

 The final list of candidates and their Statements of Interests (SOI) will be published on 6 March 2023 for Chair position, and on 4 April 2023 for Vice-Chair position.

Open Positions for Election

- One Chair of the UASG

- Vice-Chairs of the UASG (up to three positions)


The UASG Structure 

The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) is overseen by one chair and two to three vice-Chairs, called the UASG leadership team. The UASG leadership team will be appointed for a two-year term with the possibility of one reappointment, i.e., the chair and vice-chairs can serve for a period of two years and no more than four in each position. 

For more information about the timeline and self-nominations, please find attached documents. To see the current UASG Administrative Group, visit https://uasg.tech/about/people/.

Best Regards,

Seda Akbulut
Universal Acceptance (UA) Program Manager
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

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