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Election
Committee |
New Postings from
the Election Committee |
The Election Committee has posted
two new
Recommendations on Election Procedures concerning ballot access
for Member Nominated candidates.
Public comment is
invited.
The Election Committee has posted
Draft Recommendations
on Election Procedures. The deadline for
public comment is
July 8, 2000.
The Election Committee has posted a
Call for Proposals for an Online
Voting System. The deadline for proposals is July
5, 2000.
The Election Committee has been chartered by ICANN
to fulfill an important role in the planning and execution of ICANN's At
Large Membership elections for
the year 2000. The charter reads as follows:
"There shall be an At-Large Election Committee
responsible for recommending to the Board for its approval procedures
regarding the At Large elections, including campaigning, voting,
measures to prevent fraud, etc. The committee will also be responsible
for oversight and monitoring of those processes. The committee shall
operate to the extent practical in an open and transparent manner,
giving due regard to protecting the confidentiality of private
information of ICANN At-Large members, proprietary information of
election companies, and other matters (such as certain information
regarding anti-fraud measures) that should be kept confidential to
promote the committee's mission."
The Election Committee will thus be giving advice to
the ICANN Board about the procedures, rules, and operations of the At
Large elections, including monitoring and oversight. In particular, the
Election Committee will be focusing on the following
deliverables:
- A technical and functional specification for the
online election/voting system.
- A public call for proposals from potential
vendors of the election/voting system.
- An evaluation of proposals, with a recommendation
to the Board as to the best proposal, necessary budget, and timetable
for implementation.
- Advice with regard to (a) the petition process;
(b) the campaign process, including rules for candidates; (c)
independent election monitoring and oversight; (d) fraud detection and
prevention; (e) ballot security; (f) data privacy.
The Committee plans to post on this page a series of
drafts and recommendations for public review and comment. The Committee
plans to complete its work in time for the ICANN's Board's meetings in
Yokohama (15-16 July, 2000). Input to the committee should be sent care
of mailto:election@icann.org.
Members of the Election
Committee |
Greg Crew - Chair
Greg
Crew is currently Chairman of the
Australian Communications Industry Forum Ltd., Chairman of the
Australian Information Technology Engineering Centre Ltd., and a
non-executive director of ERG Ltd. (Perth) and of Silicon Wireless
Ltd. (California). He was Chief Executive Officer of Mercury
Communications Ltd. (UK) (1993-95) and Chief Operating Officer of
Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd. (1991-93). He was one of the nine
initial Directors of ICANN. He lives in
Australia.
Charles Costello
Charles Costello became
director of the Carter Center's
Democracy Program in December 1998. Previously, he was director of
the Center for Democracy and Governance at the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) since shortly after its creation in
1994. From 1993-94, he headed the USAID mission in post-conflict El
Salvador, overseeing programs to help demobilize forces, support
reformed political institutions, and rebuild civil society. At USAID
since 1975, he also had headed USAID missions in Ecuador and Guatemala
and served in Kenya and Bolivia. A former Peace Corps volunteer in
Guatemala and staff member in Colombia, he earned a bachelor's degree
from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from the University of
California at Berkeley. He lives in the United
States.
Lorrie Faith Cranor
Dr.
Lorrie Faith Cranor is a Senior Technical
Staff Member in the Secure Systems Research Department at AT&T Labs-Research Shannon
Laboratory in Florham Park, New Jersey. She is chair of the Platform
for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) Specification Working Group and
co-chair of the P3P Interest Group at the World Wide Web Consortium.
Her research has focused on a variety of areas where technology and
policy issues interact, including online privacy, electronic voting,
and spam. Dr. Cranor received her doctorate degree in Engineering
& Policy from Washington
University in St. Louis in 1996. She lives in the United
States.
Patrik Fältström
Patrik
Fältström works at Tele2/Swipnet. He works on
technologies involving everything from directory services, indexing
technologies, electronic mail and DNS, especially internationalization
issues. He is one of two area directors of the Applications Area of
the Internet Engineering Task
Force, and is a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group.
He has been involved in Internet standardization since 1989. Since
1994 he has been helping the Swedish Tax Authorities to deliver live
election results over the Internet to newspapers and radio and tv
stations. He lives in Sweden.
Ken Fockler
Ken Fockler is the President of
Tenac Consulting, a company he founded in 1997 after the wrap up of
CA*net Networking Inc., where he was President from 1992 to 1997. He
is a Director of ICANN, chosen by the Address Supporting Organization.
He lives in Canada.
Hans Kraaijenbrink
Hans Kraaijenbrink is a member
of the Executive Board of ETNO, the European Telecommunications
Network Operators association, located in Brussels. He is also
Manager, European Policy and Regulation with Royal KPN N.V., the
Netherlands where he is responsible for European and international
regulatory strategic affairs. He was one of the nine initial Directors
of ICANN. He lives in the Netherlands.
Nguyen Huu Dong
Nguyen Huu Dong is Senior Political Affairs
Officer at the Department for Political Affairs of the United Nations.
Since 1998, he has been General Coordinator for a UNDP project on
assistance to electoral observers in Mexico. Beginning in 1989, he has
been involved in UN electoral missions in Nicaragua, Haiti, El
Salvador, Eritrea, South Africa, Nigeria, and East Timor. He has been
a member of UN need assessment missions for electoral missions to El
Salvador, Eritrea, Mozambique, South Africa, Guyana, Nicaragua,
Liberia, Yemen, Burkina Faso, Mali, Haiti, the Central African
Republic, Western Sahara, Mexico, Guinea, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe. He
has been a member of UN electoral follow-up and report missions to
Djibouti and the Seychelles. He has been coordinator of international
electoral observation in Ethiopia (1992) and Nigeria (1999). He holds
degrees from the Université de Lausanne (B.A.), the Université de
Paris-Sorbonne (M.A.), and the Université de Paris-V/Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Ph.D.). He lives in Mexico City and New
York.
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