Dear Seda Aside Jiankang views I also want to add here You mentioned: In response to your question, as per the Voting Method on https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/UASG-Election-Process-2023-onwa...; for the vice chair positions, each voter will be asked to cast their vote for their top three choices. For the Vice-Chair position, election will be done using a simple majority, and top three candidates will be elected. I propose that for the vice chair positions, each voter be asked to vote for their top three choices; however, it should not be mandatory to make at least three selections; if anyone wants to make only one or two selections, they should have the freedom to do so and should not be forced to vote for at least three candidates. The UASG must chose the top two candidates who receive the most votes/support from the UASG community for vice chair, and the third candidate should only be elected if he receives at least 25% of the total votes cast. This cannot be proper if the third candidate receives only a few votes and is unjustly elected against the wishes of the UASG community. Azhar Ibrahim (Vice President) Disclaimer: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. ------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 at 8:51 PM, Seda Akbulut via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

Dear Jiankang,

Thank you for your suggestion on a summary tablee. We kindly encourage UA-Discuss members to go through the candidates’ statements of interests that are diligently prepared by them to know more about them. At this time, we are unable to provide a summary because the communication templates we used have passed through the public comment. UA Coordination WG would review suggestions for future elections.

In response to your question, as per the Voting Method on https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/UASG-Election-Process-2023-onwa...; for the vice chair positions, each voter will be asked to cast their vote for their top three choices. For the Vice-Chair position, election will be done using a simple majority, and top three candidates will be elected.

Should you have further questions please feel free to reach out.

Kind regards,

Seda

From: Jiankang Yao <yaojk@cnnic.cn> Date: 4 April 2023 Tuesday 17:55 To: Seda Akbulut <seda.akbulut@icann.org> Cc: "ua-discuss@icann.org" <ua-discuss@icann.org> Subject: [Ext] Re: [UA-discuss] 2023 UASG Elections and Vice-Chair Candidates

Hi Seda,

Thanks for your message.

One question: How many vice chairs we should select?

One suggestion: could you kindly make a table and summarise the candidates’ information, such as listing the candidates’ company’s name (affiliations), simple expertises of each candidate, current working locations, promise/working aims,…..

If we have such a table, we can easily select the best candidate for the UA.

Best Regards

Jiankang Yao

...

2023年4月4日下午10:21，Seda Akbulut via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org> 写道：

Dear Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Community,

On behalf of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), we are pleased to share the self-nominations of candidates for the 2023 UASG vice-chair election as per the[UASG charter [uasg.tech]](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/uasg.tech/uasg-charter/__;!!PtGJab4!_LIso... Election Process available at[https://uasg.tech/operational-documents/ [uasg.tech]](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/uasg.tech/operational-documents/__;!!PtGJ...).

Candidates (in alphabetical order):

- Abdalmonem Galila - Haixin Duan - Nabil_Benamar - Nitin Walia - U B Pavanaja

Their Statements of Interest (SOI) are attached.

The voting period will start on 7th April 2023, and will end on 17th April 2023. Eligible voters, the subscribers of the UA-Discuss mailing list 48 hours

before the announcing the call for nominations for the election, should expect an email from[eballot.com [eballot.com]](https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/eballot.com/__;!!PtGJab4!_LIsowbBR2VL-Snte... the voting period starts. If you do not receive email from[eballot.com [eballot.com]](https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/eballot.com/__;!!PtGJab4!_LIsowbBR2VL-Snte...), please check your SPAM folder.

If you have any queries, feel free to contact us atinfo@uasg.tech.

Kind regards,

UASG Election Coordination Team

<Abdalmonem_Galila_UASG_ViceChair_Self_Nomination.pdf><Haixin_Duan_UASG_ViceChair_Self_Nomination.pdf><Nabil_Benamar_UASG_ViceChair_Self_Nomination.pdf><Nitin_Wailia_UASG_ViceChair_Self_Nomination.pdf><U_B_Pavanaja_UASG_ViceChair_Self_Nomination.pdf>_______________________________________________ UA-discuss mailing listUA-discuss@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-discuss _______________________________________________ By submitting your personal data, you consent to the processing of your personal data for purposes of subscribing to this mailing list accordance with the ICANN Privacy Policy (https://www.icann.org/privacy/policy) and the website Terms of Service (https://www.icann.org/privacy/tos). You can visit the Mailman link above to change your membership status or configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on.

Dears, My 1st and last reply for this , My work for UASG and its working groups are known clearly since now I joined UASG and to cut it short, you have to go to UASG.tech website and see whom am I for the UA. Sure you have to check UA-Day section as well. Have a nice days. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 5, 2023, at 9:59 AM, Wijayawardhana via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:  First off, I'm pleased to see that many members of the UASG community have stepped forward and offered to serve in leadership roles, representing a variety of cultural backgrounds. All the best to you, everyone. This is especially for Abdalmonem Galila and U.B. Pavanaja, our current UASG Vice Chairs. Thank you both for offering yourselves again as candidates to be the again vice chair of the UASG. We appreciate both of you reiterating your candidature for vice chair of the UASG. Gallia, you still have some proven commitment to UASG and a history of working hard to realise its objectives. Although Pavanaja I haven't noticed much of a contribution from you over the last two years; you weren't frequently present at working group and other meetings. I haven't noticed any noteworthy contributions from your end in the prior UASG leadership attempts to accomplish the UASG mission. Before I cast my vote,I would appreciate knowing your from both of you, your individual top 5 significant contributions to the UASG over the course of your current two year term. What unique contribution have you made individually to remove the current barriers to universal acceptance? What you have done in your region and organization to remove the current barriers to universal acceptance, any success story? Please send a reply with a copy to ua-discuss. Your response could help all UASG community members to make their decision and lead to a lively conversation on the list. I'm hoping to see your responses. Thank you very much! Wijayawardhana ------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 at 7:51 PM, Seda Akbulut via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote: Dear Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Community, On behalf of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), we are pleased to share the self-nominations of candidates for the 2023 UASG vice-chair election as per the UASG charter<https://uasg.tech/uasg-charter/> and Election Process available at https://uasg.tech/operational-documents/. Candidates (in alphabetical order): * Abdalmonem Galila * Haixin Duan * Nabil_Benamar * Nitin Walia * U B Pavanaja Their Statements of Interest (SOI) are attached. The voting period will start on 7th April 2023, and will end on 17th April 2023. Eligible voters, the subscribers of the UA-Discuss mailing list 48 hours before the announcing the call for nominations for the election, should expect an email from eballot.com when the voting period starts. If you do not receive email from eballot.com, please check your SPAM folder. If you have any queries, feel free to contact us at info@uasg.tech<mailto:info@uasg.tech>. Kind regards, UASG Election Coordination Team _______________________________________________ UA-discuss mailing list UA-discuss@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-discuss _______________________________________________ By submitting your personal data, you consent to the processing of your personal data for purposes of subscribing to this mailing list accordance with the ICANN Privacy Policy (https://www.icann.org/privacy/policy) and the website Terms of Service (https://www.icann.org/privacy/tos). You can visit the Mailman link above to change your membership status or configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on.

Hello Wijayawardhana Me Requesting to share your social media connect twitter, Facebook, lankedin or any website. It's important to disclose who you are while asking to know more about other. When you are asking details about Mr. galila , the person who contributed in UASG since many years in different roles. Voters are supposed to vote based on SOI and no candidate can be forced to respond and address each individual query. ICANN or UASG can excuse me if I am not correct. I have been following the UASG work and great progress has happened. Best way to contribute is to stand for leadership and become park or working groups. Hope to meet you in virtual meeting soon. Are you part of any WG ? Steve Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at 1:44 PM, Wijayawardhana via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

Dear Gallia I appreciate your prompt response; nevertheless, I had hoped for a slightly more lucid one. If UASG.TECH had all the information I needed, I wouldn't have needed to ask you both. Anyway, I appreciate you encouraging me to see the Uasg.tech page again because today I have a very different perspective, and I think I understand it now what’s happening till now?

Dear Sarmad and Seda, After visiting https://uasg.tech/about/people/ today, I now think that ensuring a conflict of interest is crucial for every leadership role. I was shocked to learn that many people hold numerous leadership roles within the UASG. How are these leadership positions, such as vice chair of the UASG, chair of one working group, vice chair of another working group, and UA ambassadors, justified? What is happening is that UASG is not abiding by the conflict of interest policies and procedures. How can one person justify holding so many different positions at once? Is there not enough community support for UASG's leadership positions, shortage of right candidates?

Dear Mr. Jain, i hope as a new chair now you will make sure that such blunders dont happen in your term.

Thank you very much! Wijayawardhana

Sent with Proton Mail secure email.

------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at 1:07 PM, Abdalmonem Galila atharwat@tra.gov.eg wrote:

...

Dears, My 1st and last reply for this , My work for UASG and its working groups are known clearly since now I joined UASG and to cut it short, you have to go to UASG.tech website and see whom am I for the UA.

Sure you have to check UA-Day section as well.

Have a nice days.

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 5, 2023, at 9:59 AM, Wijayawardhana via UA-discuss ua-discuss@icann.org wrote:

First off, I'm pleased to see that many members of the UASG community have stepped forward and offered to serve in leadership roles, representing a variety of cultural backgrounds. All the best to you, everyone.

This is especially for Abdalmonem Galila and U.B. Pavanaja, our current UASG Vice Chairs.

Thank you both for offering yourselves again as candidates to be the again vice chair of the UASG. We appreciate both of you reiterating your candidature for vice chair of the UASG. Gallia, you still have some proven commitment to UASG and a history of working hard to realise its objectives. Although Pavanaja I haven't noticed much of a contribution from you over the last two years; you weren't frequently present at working group and other meetings. I haven't noticed any noteworthy contributions from your end in the prior UASG leadership attempts to accomplish the UASG mission.

Before I cast my vote,I would appreciate knowing your from both of you, your individual top 5 significant contributions to the UASG over the course of your current two year term.

What unique contribution have you made individually to remove the current barriers to universal acceptance?

What you have done in your region and organization to remove the current barriers to universal acceptance, any success story?

Please send a reply with a copy to ua-discuss. Your response could help all UASG community members to make their decision and lead to a lively conversation on the list.

I'm hoping to see your responses.

Thank you very much! Wijayawardhana

------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 at 7:51 PM, Seda Akbulut via UA-discuss ua-discuss@icann.org wrote:

Dear Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Community,

On behalf of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), we are pleased to share the self-nominations of candidates for the 2023 UASG vice-chair election as per the UASG charterhttps://uasg.tech/uasg-charter/ and Election Process available at https://uasg.tech/operational-documents/.

Candidates (in alphabetical order):

* Abdalmonem Galila * Haixin Duan * Nabil_Benamar * Nitin Walia * U B Pavanaja

Their Statements of Interest (SOI) are attached.

The voting period will start on 7th April 2023, and will end on 17th April 2023. Eligible voters, the subscribers of the UA-Discuss mailing list 48 hours before the announcing the call for nominations for the election, should expect an email from eballot.com when the voting period starts. If you do not receive email from eballot.com, please check your SPAM folder.

If you have any queries, feel free to contact us at info@uasg.techmailto:info@uasg.tech.

Kind regards, UASG Election Coordination Team

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Dear All, As we have many repeating requests from different members of UASG asking who is who in this mailing list, probably it's the right time for UASG to set a special procedure for all members to download their Statement of Interest before joining the group. It could be done through Google form or any similar tool and all SOI should be published on the uasg.tech with annual update (before each election process). Hope it helps. Maria -----Original Message----- From: UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> On Behalf Of Pongpen Sutharoj via UA-discuss Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 10:03 PM To: Steve Bens <stevejobsietf@protonmail.com> Cc: ua-discuss@icann.org Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] 2023 UASG Elections and Vice-Chair Candidates Hi Steve I am surprised that you dont know Wijayawardhana and asking his identity details, what about you, whats your details as i dont see your active contributions on discuss list. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at 18:21, Steve Bens via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

Hello Wijayawardhana

Me Requesting to share your social media connect twitter, Facebook, lankedin or any website. It's important to disclose who you are while asking to know more about other.

When you are asking details about Mr. galila , the person who contributed in UASG since many years in different roles.

Voters are supposed to vote based on SOI and no candidate can be forced to respond and address each individual query. ICANN or UASG can excuse me if I am not correct.

I have been following the UASG work and great progress has happened. Best way to contribute is to stand for leadership and become park or working groups.

Hope to meet you in virtual meeting soon. Are you part of any WG ?

Steve

Sent with Proton Mail secure email.

------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at 1:44 PM, Wijayawardhana via UA-discuss ua-discuss@icann.org wrote:

...

Dear Gallia I appreciate your prompt response; nevertheless, I had hoped for a slightly more lucid one. If UASG.TECH had all the information I needed, I wouldn't have needed to ask you both. Anyway, I appreciate you encouraging me to see the Uasg.tech page again because today I have a very different perspective, and I think I understand it now what’s happening till now?

Dear Sarmad and Seda, After visiting https://uasg.tech/about/people/ today, I now think that ensuring a conflict of interest is crucial for every leadership role. I was shocked to learn that many people hold numerous leadership roles within the UASG. How are these leadership positions, such as vice chair of the UASG, chair of one working group, vice chair of another working group, and UA ambassadors, justified? What is happening is that UASG is not abiding by the conflict of interest policies and procedures. How can one person justify holding so many different positions at once? Is there not enough community support for UASG's leadership positions, shortage of right candidates?

Dear Mr. Jain, i hope as a new chair now you will make sure that such blunders dont happen in your term.

Thank you very much! Wijayawardhana

Sent with Proton Mail secure email.

------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at 1:07 PM, Abdalmonem Galila atharwat@tra.gov.eg wrote:

...

Dears, My 1st and last reply for this , My work for UASG and its working groups are known clearly since now I joined UASG and to cut it short, you have to go to UASG.tech website and see whom am I for the UA.

Sure you have to check UA-Day section as well.

Have a nice days.

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 5, 2023, at 9:59 AM, Wijayawardhana via UA-discuss ua-discuss@icann.org wrote:

First off, I'm pleased to see that many members of the UASG community have stepped forward and offered to serve in leadership roles, representing a variety of cultural backgrounds. All the best to you, everyone.

This is especially for Abdalmonem Galila and U.B. Pavanaja, our current UASG Vice Chairs.

Thank you both for offering yourselves again as candidates to be the again vice chair of the UASG. We appreciate both of you reiterating your candidature for vice chair of the UASG. Gallia, you still have some proven commitment to UASG and a history of working hard to realise its objectives. Although Pavanaja I haven't noticed much of a contribution from you over the last two years; you weren't frequently present at working group and other meetings. I haven't noticed any noteworthy contributions from your end in the prior UASG leadership attempts to accomplish the UASG mission.

Before I cast my vote,I would appreciate knowing your from both of you, your individual top 5 significant contributions to the UASG over the course of your current two year term.

What unique contribution have you made individually to remove the current barriers to universal acceptance?

What you have done in your region and organization to remove the current barriers to universal acceptance, any success story?

Please send a reply with a copy to ua-discuss. Your response could help all UASG community members to make their decision and lead to a lively conversation on the list.

I'm hoping to see your responses.

Thank you very much! Wijayawardhana

------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 at 7:51 PM, Seda Akbulut via UA-discuss ua-discuss@icann.org wrote:

Dear Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Community,

On behalf of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), we are pleased to share the self-nominations of candidates for the 2023 UASG vice-chair election as per the UASG charterhttps://uasg.tech/uasg-charter/ and Election Process available at https://uasg.tech/operational-documents/.

Candidates (in alphabetical order):

* Abdalmonem Galila * Haixin Duan * Nabil_Benamar * Nitin Walia * U B Pavanaja

Their Statements of Interest (SOI) are attached.

The voting period will start on 7th April 2023, and will end on 17th April 2023. Eligible voters, the subscribers of the UA-Discuss mailing list 48 hours before the announcing the call for nominations for the election, should expect an email from eballot.com when the voting period starts. If you do not receive email from eballot.com, please check your SPAM folder.

If you have any queries, feel free to contact us at info@uasg.techmailto:info@uasg.tech.

Kind regards, UASG Election Coordination Team

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Michele, Me too, and that can even make the process easier if UASG members won't need to make double work but just share the link to already published SOI + probably some additions regarding their interest in UA. Thank you for the idea, Maria From: Michele Neylon - Blacknight <michele@blacknight.com> Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2023 8:01 PM To: Maria Kolesnikova <masha@cctld.ru>; 'ua-discuss' <ua-discuss@icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] 2023 UASG Elections and Vice-Chair Candidates Maria I and others on this list have SOIs on the main ICANN website. Having to maintain a second one would be an overhead for all parties involved. Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains <https://www.blacknight.com/> https://www.blacknight.com/ <https://blacknight.blog/> https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Personal blog: <https://michele.blog/> https://michele.blog/ Some thoughts: <https://ceo.hosting/> https://ceo.hosting/ ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,R93 X265,Ireland Company No.: 370845 I have sent this email at a time that is convenient for me. I do not expect you to respond to it outside of your usual working hours. From: UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org <mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> > on behalf of Maria Kolesnikova via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org <mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org> > Date: Thursday, 6 April 2023 at 17:26 To: 'ua-discuss' <ua-discuss@icann.org <mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org> > Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] 2023 UASG Elections and Vice-Chair Candidates [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Please use caution when opening attachments from unrecognised sources. Dear All, As we have many repeating requests from different members of UASG asking who is who in this mailing list, probably it's the right time for UASG to set a special procedure for all members to download their Statement of Interest before joining the group. It could be done through Google form or any similar tool and all SOI should be published on the uasg.tech with annual update (before each election process). Hope it helps. Maria -----Original Message----- From: UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org <mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> > On Behalf Of Pongpen Sutharoj via UA-discuss Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 10:03 PM To: Steve Bens <stevejobsietf@protonmail.com <mailto:stevejobsietf@protonmail.com> > Cc: ua-discuss@icann.org <mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] 2023 UASG Elections and Vice-Chair Candidates Hi Steve I am surprised that you dont know Wijayawardhana and asking his identity details, what about you, whats your details as i dont see your active contributions on discuss list. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at 18:21, Steve Bens via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org <mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org> > wrote:

Hello Wijayawardhana

Me Requesting to share your social media connect twitter, Facebook, lankedin or any website. It's important to disclose who you are while asking to know more about other.

When you are asking details about Mr. galila , the person who contributed in UASG since many years in different roles.

Voters are supposed to vote based on SOI and no candidate can be forced to respond and address each individual query. ICANN or UASG can excuse me if I am not correct.

I have been following the UASG work and great progress has happened. Best way to contribute is to stand for leadership and become park or working groups.

Hope to meet you in virtual meeting soon. Are you part of any WG ?

Steve

Sent with Proton Mail secure email.

------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at 1:44 PM, Wijayawardhana via UA-discuss ua-discuss@icann.org <mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

...

Dear Gallia I appreciate your prompt response; nevertheless, I had hoped for a slightly more lucid one. If UASG.TECH had all the information I needed, I wouldn't have needed to ask you both. Anyway, I appreciate you encouraging me to see the Uasg.tech page again because today I have a very different perspective, and I think I understand it now what's happening till now?

Dear Sarmad and Seda, After visiting https://uasg.tech/about/people/ today, I now think that ensuring a conflict of interest is crucial for every leadership role. I was shocked to learn that many people hold numerous leadership roles within the UASG. How are these leadership positions, such as vice chair of the UASG, chair of one working group, vice chair of another working group, and UA ambassadors, justified? What is happening is that UASG is not abiding by the conflict of interest policies and procedures. How can one person justify holding so many different positions at once? Is there not enough community support for UASG's leadership positions, shortage of right candidates?

Dear Mr. Jain, i hope as a new chair now you will make sure that such blunders dont happen in your term.

Thank you very much! Wijayawardhana

Sent with Proton Mail secure email.

------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at 1:07 PM, Abdalmonem Galila atharwat@tra.gov.eg <mailto:atharwat@tra.gov.eg> wrote:

...

Dears, My 1st and last reply for this , My work for UASG and its working groups are known clearly since now I joined UASG and to cut it short, you have to go to UASG.tech website and see whom am I for the UA.

Sure you have to check UA-Day section as well.

Have a nice days.

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 5, 2023, at 9:59 AM, Wijayawardhana via UA-discuss ua-discuss@icann.org <mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

First off, I'm pleased to see that many members of the UASG community have stepped forward and offered to serve in leadership roles, representing a variety of cultural backgrounds. All the best to you, everyone.

This is especially for Abdalmonem Galila and U.B. Pavanaja, our current UASG Vice Chairs.

Thank you both for offering yourselves again as candidates to be the again vice chair of the UASG. We appreciate both of you reiterating your candidature for vice chair of the UASG. Gallia, you still have some proven commitment to UASG and a history of working hard to realise its objectives. Although Pavanaja I haven't noticed much of a contribution from you over the last two years; you weren't frequently present at working group and other meetings. I haven't noticed any noteworthy contributions from your end in the prior UASG leadership attempts to accomplish the UASG mission.

Before I cast my vote,I would appreciate knowing your from both of you, your individual top 5 significant contributions to the UASG over the course of your current two year term.

What unique contribution have you made individually to remove the current barriers to universal acceptance?

What you have done in your region and organization to remove the current barriers to universal acceptance, any success story?

Please send a reply with a copy to ua-discuss. Your response could help all UASG community members to make their decision and lead to a lively conversation on the list.

I'm hoping to see your responses.

Thank you very much! Wijayawardhana

------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 at 7:51 PM, Seda Akbulut via UA-discuss ua-discuss@icann.org <mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

Dear Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Community,

On behalf of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), we are pleased to share the self-nominations of candidates for the 2023 UASG vice-chair election as per the UASG charterhttps://uasg.tech/uasg-charter/ and Election Process available at https://uasg.tech/operational-documents/.

Candidates (in alphabetical order):

* Abdalmonem Galila * Haixin Duan * Nabil_Benamar * Nitin Walia * U B Pavanaja

Their Statements of Interest (SOI) are attached.

The voting period will start on 7th April 2023, and will end on 17th April 2023. Eligible voters, the subscribers of the UA-Discuss mailing list 48 hours before the announcing the call for nominations for the election, should expect an email from eballot.com when the voting period starts. If you do not receive email from eballot.com, please check your SPAM folder.

If you have any queries, feel free to contact us at info@uasg.techmailto:info@uasg.tech <mailto:info@uasg.techmailto:info@uasg.tech> .

Kind regards, UASG Election Coordination Team

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I agree with Maria on having a SOI. If you already have a SOI on ICANN like we do, you can just point to that. On 6 Apr 2023 13:25, Maria Kolesnikova via UA-discuss wrote:

Dear All,

As we have many repeating requests from different members of UASG asking who is who in this mailing list, probably it's the right time for UASG to set a special procedure for all members to download their Statement of Interest before joining the group. It could be done through Google form or any similar tool and all SOI should be published on the uasg.tech with annual update (before each election process).

Hope it helps.

Maria

-----Original Message----- From: UA-discuss<ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> On Behalf Of Pongpen Sutharoj via UA-discuss Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 10:03 PM To: Steve Bens<stevejobsietf@protonmail.com> Cc:ua-discuss@icann.org Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] 2023 UASG Elections and Vice-Chair Candidates

Hi Steve

I am surprised that you dont know Wijayawardhana and asking his identity details, what about you, whats your details as i dont see your active contributions on discuss list.

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------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at 18:21, Steve Bens via UA-discuss<ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

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Hello Wijayawardhana

Me Requesting to share your social media connect twitter, Facebook, lankedin or any website. It's important to disclose who you are while asking to know more about other.

When you are asking details about Mr. galila , the person who contributed in UASG since many years in different roles.

Voters are supposed to vote based on SOI and no candidate can be forced to respond and address each individual query. ICANN or UASG can excuse me if I am not correct.

I have been following the UASG work and great progress has happened. Best way to contribute is to stand for leadership and become park or working groups.

Hope to meet you in virtual meeting soon. Are you part of any WG ?

Steve

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------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at 1:44 PM, Wijayawardhana via UA-discussua-discuss@icann.org wrote:

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Dear Gallia I appreciate your prompt response; nevertheless, I had hoped for a slightly more lucid one. If UASG.TECH had all the information I needed, I wouldn't have needed to ask you both. Anyway, I appreciate you encouraging me to see the Uasg.tech page again because today I have a very different perspective, and I think I understand it now what’s happening till now?

Dear Sarmad and Seda, After visitinghttps://uasg.tech/about/people/ today, I now think that ensuring a conflict of interest is crucial for every leadership role. I was shocked to learn that many people hold numerous leadership roles within the UASG. How are these leadership positions, such as vice chair of the UASG, chair of one working group, vice chair of another working group, and UA ambassadors, justified? What is happening is that UASG is not abiding by the conflict of interest policies and procedures. How can one person justify holding so many different positions at once? Is there not enough community support for UASG's leadership positions, shortage of right candidates?

Dear Mr. Jain, i hope as a new chair now you will make sure that such blunders dont happen in your term.

Thank you very much! Wijayawardhana

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------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at 1:07 PM, Abdalmonem Galilaatharwat@tra.gov.eg wrote:

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Dears, My 1st and last reply for this , My work for UASG and its working groups are known clearly since now I joined UASG and to cut it short, you have to go to UASG.tech website and see whom am I for the UA.

Sure you have to check UA-Day section as well.

Have a nice days.

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 5, 2023, at 9:59 AM, Wijayawardhana via UA-discussua-discuss@icann.org wrote:

First off, I'm pleased to see that many members of the UASG community have stepped forward and offered to serve in leadership roles, representing a variety of cultural backgrounds. All the best to you, everyone.

This is especially for Abdalmonem Galila and U.B. Pavanaja, our current UASG Vice Chairs.

Thank you both for offering yourselves again as candidates to be the again vice chair of the UASG. We appreciate both of you reiterating your candidature for vice chair of the UASG. Gallia, you still have some proven commitment to UASG and a history of working hard to realise its objectives. Although Pavanaja I haven't noticed much of a contribution from you over the last two years; you weren't frequently present at working group and other meetings. I haven't noticed any noteworthy contributions from your end in the prior UASG leadership attempts to accomplish the UASG mission.

Before I cast my vote,I would appreciate knowing your from both of you, your individual top 5 significant contributions to the UASG over the course of your current two year term.

What unique contribution have you made individually to remove the current barriers to universal acceptance?

What you have done in your region and organization to remove the current barriers to universal acceptance, any success story?

Please send a reply with a copy to ua-discuss. Your response could help all UASG community members to make their decision and lead to a lively conversation on the list.

I'm hoping to see your responses.

Thank you very much! Wijayawardhana

------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 at 7:51 PM, Seda Akbulut via UA-discussua-discuss@icann.org wrote:

Dear Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Community,

On behalf of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), we are pleased to share the self-nominations of candidates for the 2023 UASG vice-chair election as per the UASG charterhttps://uasg.tech/uasg-charter/ and Election Process available athttps://uasg.tech/operational-documents/.

Candidates (in alphabetical order):

* Abdalmonem Galila * Haixin Duan * Nabil_Benamar * Nitin Walia * U B Pavanaja

Their Statements of Interest (SOI) are attached.

The voting period will start on 7th April 2023, and will end on 17th April 2023. Eligible voters, the subscribers of the UA-Discuss mailing list 48 hours before the announcing the call for nominations for the election, should expect an email from eballot.com when the voting period starts. If you do not receive email from eballot.com, please check your SPAM folder.

If you have any queries, feel free to contact us atinfo@uasg.techmailto:info@uasg.tech.

Kind regards, UASG Election Coordination Team

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Dear Galila, As a leader please go back to your reply to Wijayawardhana and rethink it. The tone does sound right in my opinion. Our common target is achieving the goals of UA. And if one is running for leadership, voter reserve the right to ask all sorts of questions and it incumbent upon the candidate to reply to questions asked in a manner that shows and or projects leadership qualit(ies) Thanks On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 at 10:38 Abdalmonem Galila via UA-discuss < ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

Dears, My 1st and last reply for this , My work for UASG and its working groups are known clearly since now I joined UASG and to cut it short, you have to go to UASG.tech website and see whom am I for the UA.

Sure you have to check UA-Day section as well.

Have a nice days.

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 5, 2023, at 9:59 AM, Wijayawardhana via UA-discuss < ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

 First off, I'm pleased to see that many members of the UASG community have stepped forward and offered to serve in leadership roles, representing a variety of cultural backgrounds. All the best to you, everyone.

This is especially for Abdalmonem Galila and U.B. Pavanaja, our current UASG Vice Chairs.

Thank you both for offering yourselves again as candidates to be the again vice chair of the UASG. We appreciate both of you reiterating your candidature for vice chair of the UASG. Gallia, you still have some proven commitment to UASG and a history of working hard to realise its objectives. Although Pavanaja I haven't noticed much of a contribution from you over the last two years; you weren't frequently present at working group and other meetings. I haven't noticed any noteworthy contributions from your end in the prior UASG leadership attempts to accomplish the UASG mission.

Before I cast my vote,I would appreciate knowing your from both of you, your individual top 5 significant contributions to the UASG over the course of your current two year term.

What unique contribution have you made individually to remove the current barriers to universal acceptance?

What you have done in your region and organization to remove the current barriers to universal acceptance, any success story?

Please send a reply with a copy to ua-discuss. Your response could help all UASG community members to make their decision and lead to a lively conversation on the list.

I'm hoping to see your responses.

Thank you very much! Wijayawardhana

------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 at 7:51 PM, Seda Akbulut via UA-discuss < ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

Dear Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Community,

On behalf of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), we are pleased to share the self-nominations of candidates for the 2023 UASG vice-chair election as per the UASG charter< https://uasg.tech/uasg-charter/> and Election Process available at https://uasg.tech/operational-documents/.

Candidates (in alphabetical order):

* Abdalmonem Galila * Haixin Duan * Nabil_Benamar * Nitin Walia * U B Pavanaja

Their Statements of Interest (SOI) are attached.

The voting period will start on 7th April 2023, and will end on 17th April 2023. Eligible voters, the subscribers of the UA-Discuss mailing list 48 hours before the announcing the call for nominations for the election, should expect an email from eballot.com when the voting period starts. If you do not receive email from eballot.com, please check your SPAM folder.

If you have any queries, feel free to contact us at info@uasg.tech<mailto: info@uasg.tech>.

Kind regards, UASG Election Coordination Team

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