<div dir="auto">Amazing, congratulations to you all. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">All the best. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ben<br><div dir="auto"><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">----<br><br><br>    </div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 1, 2023, 10:31 AM <a href="mailto:info@irpcharter.org">info@irpcharter.org</a> <<a href="mailto:info@irpcharter.org">info@irpcharter.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Dear all,</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">The IRPC SC and co-chair election results are in! Thank you for waiting while we took note of your important comments and feedback! 466 ballots were sent out and a total of 66 (two incomplete) were submitted. This is around 14% of our membership and just above the 10% threshold for participation. All candidates have been endorsed as follows:</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><b>Do you endorse Christiana Longe’s candidature for Steering Committee Member (2023-2025)? </b></div>
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<td valign="top" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px;border-color:#9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a;padding:1.0px 5.0px 1.0px 5.0px"><div style="margin:0px;text-align:right;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">3.03%</div>
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<td valign="top" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px;border-color:#9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a;padding:1.0px 5.0px 1.0px 5.0px"><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">4</div>
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<td valign="top" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px;border-color:#9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a;padding:1.0px 5.0px 1.0px 5.0px"><div style="margin:0px;text-align:right;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">6.06%</div>
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<td valign="top" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px;border-color:#9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a;padding:1.0px 5.0px 1.0px 5.0px"><div style="margin:0px;text-align:right;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">0.00%</div>
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<td valign="top" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px;border-color:#9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a;padding:1.0px 5.0px 1.0px 5.0px"><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">2</div>
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<td valign="top" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px;border-color:#9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a;padding:1.0px 5.0px 1.0px 5.0px"><div style="margin:0px;text-align:right;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">3.03%</div>
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<td valign="top" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px;border-color:#9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a;padding:1.0px 5.0px 1.0px 5.0px"><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><b>Gross percentage</b></div>
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<td valign="top" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px;border-color:#9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a;padding:1.0px 5.0px 1.0px 5.0px"><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">14</div>
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<td valign="top" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px;border-color:#9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a;padding:1.0px 5.0px 1.0px 5.0px"><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><b>Gross percentage</b></div>
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<td valign="top" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px;border-color:#9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a;padding:1.0px 5.0px 1.0px 5.0px"><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">57</div>
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<td valign="top" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px;border-color:#9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a;padding:1.0px 5.0px 1.0px 5.0px"><div style="margin:0px;text-align:right;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">86.36%</div>
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<td valign="top" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px;border-color:#9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a;padding:1.0px 5.0px 1.0px 5.0px"><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">3</div>
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<td valign="top" style="border-style:solid;border-width:1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px;border-color:#9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a #9a9a9a;padding:1.0px 5.0px 1.0px 5.0px"><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">2</div>
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</table><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Congratulations to our new Steering Committee Members Christiana and Richard and our new co-chair Santosh!</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><b>The new Steering Committee:</b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><ul><li>Christiana Longe, Civil Society, Nigeria (2023-2025)</li><li>Dennis Redeker, Academia, Germany (2022-2024)</li><li>Jacob Odame-Baiden, Civil Society, Ghana (extended term) (2023-2025)</li><li>Minda Moreira, Civil Society, Portugal (outgoing co-chair) (2023-2025)</li><li>Richard Kafui Amanfu, Technical community, Ghana (2023-2025)</li></ul></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><b>Co-chairs</b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><ul><li>Raashi Saxena, Civil Society, India (2022-2024)</li><li>Santosh Sigdel, Civil Society, Nepal (2023-2025)</li></ul></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">I would like to take this opportunity to thank Marianne, June, Meri and Mohamed for their outstanding work as IRPC SC members. And a special thank you to IRPC member Tapani for his unwavering support and for helping with the smooth running of the election process.</div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"> </p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Thank you for submitting your comments and for the kind words of support! We also took note of very valuable feedback regarding the composition of the Steering Committee: regional diversity, the low number of candidates and suggestions for improvement and how candidates’ statements should highlight more clearly their commitment to the IRPC and potential contribution to the promotion of digital human rights in the Internet Governance community and beyond during their terms. </div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">For those who would like to be more involved in the coordination of the IRPC work we are looking forward to receiving your nominations next year!</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Very best wishes,</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Minda</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">IRPC SC Elections Officer 2023</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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