<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The slate of nominees for the 2016 ISOC Board of Trustees election is now final. One petition was filed for the Chapters election; however, the petition failed to receive the required number of signatures by the deadline. The final slates are as follows:<br><br>Chapters (one seat open)<br>Olga Cavalli<br>Mohamed El Bashir<br>Andrey Kolesnikov</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Organizations (two seats open)<br>John Laprise<br>Desiree Miloshevic<br>Harish Pillay<br> <br>Voting representatives can expect to receive e-ballots from the ISOC Elections Committee by email on<span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">Monday, 21 March</span></span> and will have until <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">15:00 UTC</span></span> on Wednesday, 20 April to cast votes.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Biographical information on all the candidates is available here:<br><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/2016-board-trustees-nominees" target="_blank">http://www.internetsociety.org/2016-board-trustees-nominees</a><br><br>The Elections Committee will again hold a Candidate Forum for Chapters on Connect, enabling you to ask questions of the candidates. Watch for an email from Elections Committee Cha<span style="font-size:12.8px">ir Hans Peter Dittler, shortly, with information details on the forum and voting.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>This announcement concludes the work of the Nominations Committee. The Committee thanks all of the nominees that expressed interest and willingness to serve on the Internet Society Board of Trustees.</div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Narelle Clark</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Chair</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">ISOC BoT Nominations Committee</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div>
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