[Chapter-delegates] ISOC Board of Trustees Election Results

[Charles Oloo]

Thanks Gihan for the updates and congratulaions to Walid Al-Saqaf
<https://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/other/walid-al-saqaf>  and  Alice
Munyua <https://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/other/alice-munyua>


Charles Oloo



On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Gihan Dias <gihan at uom.lk> wrote:

>  Dear Chapter Delegates,
>
> On behalf of the Internet Society’s Elections Committee, I wish to extend
> our appreciation and thanks to all of the nominees and candidates for the
> Board of Trustees Election 2015. We are honoured that such well-qualified
> individuals offered to serve on the Internet Society Board.
>
> The election concluded on 6th April and the results have been certified
> by the Elections Committee.
>
> CHAPTERS
>
> In the chapters election we had four candidates for the open Trustee seat. Walid
> Al-Saqaf <https://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/other/walid-al-saqaf>
> received 34 votes out of the 88 votes cast Each of the other candidates
> (and abstentions) received less than this number of votes. A list of all
> Chapters eligible to vote in the election, indicating which Chapters
> exercised their voting privilege, is available here
> <http://connect.internetsociety.org/communities/community-home/librarydocuments/viewdocument/?DocumentKey=6cd10bba-8775-43c9-b15e-f88fb047c2b4>
> .
>
> ORGANISATIONS
>
> In the Organisation membership election there were three candidates for
> one Trustee seat. Alice Munyua
> <https://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/other/alice-munyua> received
> 92 weighted votes out of 232 weighted votes cast. Each of the other
> candidates (and abstentions) received less than this number of votes. In
> this election, the vote of each organisational member has a weight of
> between 1 and 6 based on the membership category.
>
> It may be of further interest that in the 2015 Election, 88 out of 105
> Chapters (84%), and 74 out of 119 Organisation Members (62%) voted.
>
> We now move into the challenge period. Challenges can be lodged between
> now and 21:00 UTC on 17th April 2015, by email to the President of the
> Internet Society, Kathy Brown <brown at isoc.org> with a recital of the
> reasons for the challenge. The President, after consultation with the
> Chairs of the Nominations and Elections Committees and the members of the
> Board of Trustees, shall advise the author of the challenge of the Board's
> decision within 4 days following the end of the challenge period.
>
> The Challenge Response Period ends on Tuesday, 21 April 2015, the date on
> which the results will be finalized and officially announced.
>
>
>
>  Gihan Dias
>
> Chairman, Elections Committee
>
>
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