<div class="gmail_quote"><br><div id=":2bw">The deadline to put in our votes in the ISOC Board of Trustees election is 6pm EDT on Friday.<div><br></div><div>As you can see below there are 3 'chapter' candidates for us to choose from. They are all strong candidates.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Alain is an experienced engineer, a member of SSAC, and brings missing African representation to the board, important as the Internet grows in the region.</div><div><br></div><div>Nick has a proven record, through his earlier work as director of At-Large with ICANN, of working with the bottom-up process. He was also responsible for remote participation in meetings. Based in Geneva, he's now working for Google on copyright issues - including the setting up of an international music rights registry - and I am already talking to him about interacting with ISOC-NY on that front - we have a keen interest in Intellectual Property matters.. He's on facebook.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Marcin has long been active in Chapter affairs, and ISOC-PL is an exemplar of how a Chapter can interact with local government.He's a veteran of ISOC affairs.</div><div><br></div><div>If one looks at the candidate forum <a href="http://isoc.org/wp/elections11/" target="_blank">http://isoc.org/wp/elections11/</a> Nick has the strongest responses yet he has nothing to offer on the crucial <a href="http://isoc.org/wp/elections11/?p=30#comments" target="_blank">Q9. Chapters and organizational members </a> He has taken the trouble to provide <a href="http://ashtonhart.typepad.com/blog/2011/04/nomination-for-election-as-a-trustee-of-the-internet-society.html" target="_blank">a separate manifesto</a> on his blog. I like his response on <a href="http://isoc.org/wp/elections11/?p=20#comments" target="_blank">Q4 Education</a>, that more work has to be done in educating policymakers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Marcin does have an answer on Q9, even if not too concrete but, at the same time, has not gotten it together to post a bio (he has offered his linked in profile elsewhere <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcincieslak" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcincieslak</a> ) He is strong is in his call for extending ISOC's work on promoting open standards in <a href="http://isoc.org/wp/elections11/?p=26#comments" target="_blank">Q7</a> and talks about infrastucture in <a href="http://isoc.org/wp/elections11/?p=28#comments" target="_blank">Q8</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Alain has posted a bio but not posed a single answer. Googling brings up his linked in profile <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alain-aina/6/26/106" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alain-aina/6/26/106</a></div>
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