APRALO Leadership Team Selections
The following positions required a suitable Regional Leader to be appointed to serve in the 2015-2017 APRALO Leadership Team (AP-LT)
1. An ALAC Representative for 2 year term ending in November 2017
2. A Vice Chair to serve a 2 year term ending in November 2017
*Please note that the following positions will also be appointed:
NomCom Selectee for the Asia-Pacific Region will also be appointed for the 2015-2016 Term.
The Secretariat will be appointed for the 2015-2016 Term. This is a discretionary appointment.
RELEVANT RULES OF PROCEDURES
The following extract of our new Rules of Procedure are relevant to this process:
*Section D: Selections, Elections and Appointments*
*28. General Provisions*
28.1 According to the ICANN by-laws, the APRALO appointments, and selections should be made wherever possible by Consensus, but failing that, elections can always be used and the methodology for such is outlined in these RoP.
28.2 Elections and selections can take place by electronic mail, online ballot, written ballot, or any other convenient and accurate means that are deemed to provide appropriate degree of confidentiality.
* 29 Procedures for the Selection of Leaders and the APRALO Leadership Team*
*29.1 Ordinary Leadership selections*
29.1.1 Ordinary selections of the APRALO Chair and Vice Chair(s) shall be held so as to have the new selections prior to the start of the end of June each year. The selection should preferably be completed at least three weeks prior to the start of the June/July ICANN Meeting to facilitate travel arrangements IF the selectee is expected to attend that ICANN Meeting. They are expected however to attend the ICANN Meeting were the ICANN AGM is held and where they will effectively 'take their seats' for the roles that are appointed to.
CRITERIA FOR CANDIDATES
- Participation in APRALO and ALAC meetings and activities.
- Knowledge of ICANN's structure and functions, including knowledge of its SO/ACs.
- Willingness to spend the time that is expected of NomCom members (noting that there are weekly calls of over 2 hours each week)
- Ability to retain confidential information
- Good analytical skills. Human resources background is considered useful.
Nominations:
Self-nominations are welcome. Self-nominations are deemed to also act as formal acceptance of 'nomination'.
The following APRALO Leadership Team positions will be open:
1. An ALAC Representative for 2 year term ending at the end of the AGM in November 2017 - Maureen currently serves in this role. She is eligible for re-selection.
2. A Vice Chair to serve a 2 year term ending in October 2017 - Satish currently serves in this role. He is eligible for re-selection.
Nominations for APRALO Representative to the ALAC (AGM 2015-AGM 2017)
| Role Previously Held By | Nominations for APRALO Representative to the ALAC term Oct 2015- Nov 2017 | Nominated By | Supported By | Date Nominee Accepted | Nominee's Statement | Result |
| Maureen Hilyard (eligible for re-election) | Maureen Hilyard | APRALO Leadership Team | Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Holly Raiche, Siranush Vardanyan, Gunela Astbrink, Pua Hunter, Ali AlMeshal, Jahangir Hossain, Rafid Fatani, Aris Ignacio, Lianna Galstyan | 21 April 2015 (APRALO monthly call) | Thank you to the ALSes of APRALO for the support that has been given to me during my two year term on the ALAC. It has been a busy time with APRALO, ALAC, ALAC Leadership Team and ccNSO meeting activities on top of a hectic day job as project manager for Cook Islands Government development projects. During my term, my working group participation has included the development of Rules of Procedure for both ALAC and APRALO, the establishment of MOUs with both APNIC and APTLD, the Metrics and Capacity Building Working Groups and relationship building with the RALO Secretariats. I was also on the BMSPC which ran the election of the ALAC member to the Board and am on the newly initiated At Large Review Working Party. I hosted two APRALO leaders (Holly and Ali) on Rarotonga for our PacINET, and participated with Satish in the APRICOT event in Japan - both were CROPP events. I am very grateful for the APRALO Leadership Team that I work with, and I have enjoyed meeting and working with the members of our APRALO ALSes at our General Assemblies. If I am the choice for APRALO to the ALAC for another term, then I will continue do my best to achieve any new goals and objectives that we set for our Asian, Australasian and Pacific Islands region and our ALS members. |
Nominations for APRALO Vice-Chair Position (AGM 2015-AGM 2017)
| Role Previously Held By | Nominations for APRALO Leadership (AP-LT) role Proposed: | Nominated By | Supported By | Date Nominee Accepted | Results |
| Satish Babu (eligible for re-election) | Satish Babu | APRALO Leadership Team | Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Maureen Hilyard, Holly Raiche, Siranush Vardanyan, Gunela Astbrink, Pua Hunter, Ali AlMeshal, Jahangir Hossain, Yashar Hajiyev, Rafid Fatani, Aris Ignacio, Lianna Galstyan | 05 May 2015 |
APRALO Secretariat Position is a discretionary appointment:
(APRALO ROPs V 1.4 following the original Operating Principles)
| Role Previously Held By | Nominations for APRALO Leadership (AP-LT) role Proposed: | Nominated By | Supported By | Date Nominee Accepted | Results |
| Pavan Budhrani (eligible for re-election) | Pavan Budhrani | APRALO Leadership Team | Holly Raiche, Siranush Vardanyan, Gunela Astbrink, Pua Hunter, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Ali AlMeshal, Jahangir Hossain, Yashar Hajiyev, Rafid Fatani, Aris Ignacio, Lianna Galstyan | 06 May 2015 |
ALAC Voting Delegates to the NomCom for 2015-2016
See criteria for Selection of NomCom Candidates - see: Article VII- Section 4 ICANN By Laws
Role Previously Held By | Nomination | Nominated by / Supported By | Date Accepted | Nominee's Statement (optional) | Regional Candidate(s) Recommended to the ALAC | ALAC Appointed Delegates to the NomCom |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satish Babu (not eligible for re-selection) | Gunela Astbrink | Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Maureen Hilyard | 21 April 2015 (APRALO monthly call) | |||
Amir Qayyum | Amir Qayyum, Siranush Vardanyan | 09 May 2015 | I am associated with Internet since early nineties, as a user and a technical person. I did my Masters and PhD from France, and also worked as a researcher at the renowned lab: INRIA Rocquencourt, France. It always gives me a refreshing feeling when I see myself as part of a large connected community! I am ICANN Fellowship alumni, and got involved into ICANN activities since 2012, through the local ISOC Chapter. I am currently the Chair Executive Council of ISOC Islamabad Chapter, which is one of the registered ALS in ICANN/APRALO. I am quite much involved in capacity building activities (IPv6, DNSSEC, etc.) with ISOC, APNIC and ICANN's Middle-East regional team, and conducted numerous training workshops, informational seminars and general awareness talks on ICANN's activities and policy, APNIC's technical stuff and ISOC's Internet Governance theme. Being a professor and researcher at a university, I enjoy working on networking protocols (I am also a co-author of the RFC 3626), and often involve my students to build working solutions for various societal issues. In this regard, I lead many funded R&D projects in the domain of wired and wireless networks for social applications, funded by ISOC USA, Govt of France in ICT-Asia program and also in PHC program, Govt of Pakistan through its ICT R&D Fund, and by the local industry too. I am also serving since 2011 as the Chair IEEE Computer Society Islamabad Chapter, and since 2007 as the Founding Director, Center of Research in Networks and Telecom (CoReNeT - www.corenet.org.pk). Being a French alumni, I am also the founding member of the Board of Directors and the Vice-President of Pak-France Alumni Network (PFAN - www.pfan.org.pk). With my technical and research experience, active involvement in Internet organizations and associations, a large connected circle of friends, colleagues and students, and a strong motivation and enthusiasm to serve the community, I feel that I can contribute in ICANN as a NomCom member from APRALO. Hoping to serve the community better. |
