<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">I trust this email finds you well.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">In the name of the ISOC 

<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Nominations Committee</span>, am pleased to announce the final slates of
nominees for the 2018 ISOC Board of Trustees elections. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">The ISOC 

<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Nominations Committee</span>

 received many responses to the call
for applications, with the following regional and gender distribution of
candidates:<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><b>Total applications received: 26</b><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><u>Regional distribution:</u><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Africa: 7<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Asia Pacific: 1<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Europe: 4<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Latin America and Caribbean: 6  <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">North America: 8<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><u>Gender distribution: </u><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Female: 3<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Male: 23<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">The Nominations Committee chose a slate of 3
candidates for each election slate. </span>One nominee, Stefano Trumpy, was added to the
Chapters slate after he launched a successful petition. Therefore, the final
slates consist of 3 candidates for the Organization Members election, and 4 candidates
for the Chapters election. <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">The final slates are as follows. The candidates for
each election slate are listed in alphabetical order by last name.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Organizations (one seat available)<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">– Tejpal Bedi<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">– Robert Pepper<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Chapters (one seat available)<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">– Walid Al-Saqaf<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">– Matthew Rantanen<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">– Stefano Trumpy<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">– Roberto Zambrana<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Biographical information on all the candidates is
available here:<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/elections/2018/nominees/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration:none">https://www.internetsociety.<wbr>org/board-of-trustees/<wbr>elections/2018/nominees/</span></a><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Voting representatives can expect to receive
e-ballots from the ISOC Elections Committee by email on Thursday, 8 March and
will have until 15:00 UTC on Monday, 9 April to cast votes.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">This announcement concludes the work of the ISOC
Nominations Committee. The Committee thanks all of the nominees that expressed
interest and willingness to serve on the Internet Society Board of Trustees.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Best regards<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 7.3pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:13.7pt;background:white;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Olga Cavalli<span></span></span></p>

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