[governance] New IGC officials (volunteers)

[Wisdom Donkor]

Dear Arsene, Analia, All members,

Thank you all for having the believe in me and for taken time out from your
busy schedules to vote for me. This is a win for all of us, the community
needs all of us to push forward the agenda, mission and visions of this
great groups of ours.
I kindly accept the offer and promise serve with the best of my abilities
within the period.

I am currently away in New York attending the global Open data for
agriculture and nutrition Summit. I will respond appropriately to the mail
when I return in Ghana.

God bless us all.


On Friday, September 16, 2016, Arsène Tungali <arsenebaguma at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> First, I would like to take this opportunity to thank my colleague Analia
> for coordinating elections for the 2nd IGC Representative on the CSCG
> (Civil Society Coordination Group). I would like to also thank the 30+
> members who voted for this election. We are over 500 on this list, i don't
> know why other members chose not to vote. If there is any particular
> reason, please do reach out to us (Analia and I) for discussion on how we
> can best serve you.
>
> I would like to congratulate *Wisdom Donkor* for being elected and for
> the other colleagues who stepped in and wanted to serve. There will be
> other opportunities to serve our group. *Wisdom will serve for two years
> (September 2016 to September 2018), I will be serving with him on the CSCG
> for one more year (I will step down from this role in September 2017, to
> welcome the new IGC Co-coordinator who will be replacing Analia).*
>
> Second, you will be reminded that I sent in a call for expression of
> interest to help the Co-cos manage the IGC website. We received 3 names:
> Akinremi Peter (Nigeria), Kwasi Opare (Ghana) and Iyedi Goma (Congo) and
> they were requested to send in their SOI no later than August 17th. I
> received only one SOI and so we decided that *Akinremi Peter will be
> serving for this position starting very soon*.
>
> I would like to thank Jeremy Malcolm for the great support, looking after
> the website for more than two years now. He is working with Akinremi to
> explain everything about this important role. We are lucky to have people
> like you in this group. We hope to see some more innovation on the IGC
> website.
>
> This all said, please join me again in welcoming our two new colleagues
> who are taking roles within the IGC: Wisdom (on the CSCG) and Akinremi (for
> the IGC website).
>
> Best regards,
> Arsene
> ------------------------
> **Arsène Tungali**
> Co-Founder & Executive Director, *Rudi international
> <http://www.rudiinternational.org>*,
> CEO,* Smart Services Sarl <http://www.smart-serv.info>*, *Mabingwa Forum
> <http://www.mabingwa-forum.com>*
> Tel: +243 993810967
> GPG: 523644A0
> *Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo*
>
> 2015 Mandela Washington Felllow
> <http://tungali.blogspot.com/2015/06/selected-for-2015-mandela-washington.html>
> (YALI) - ISOC IGF Ambassador
> <http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/education-and-leadership-programmes/next-generation-leaders/igf-ambassadors-programme/2015Ambassadors>
> <http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/education-and-leadership-programmes/next-generation-leaders/igf-ambassadors-programme/2015Ambassadors>-
>
> Blogger <http://tungali.blogspot.com> - ICANN Fellow
> <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-07-18-en>. The
> HuffingtonPost UK
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/liza-bel/drc_b_8958150.html>
>


-- 
*WISDOM DONKOR (S/N Eng.)*
E-government and Open Government Data Platforms Specialist
National Information Technology Agency (NITA)/
Ghana Open Data Initiative Project.
ICANN Fellow / Member, UN IGF MAG Member, ISOC Member,
Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) Member, Diplo Foundation Member,
OGP Open Data WG Member, GODAN Memember, ITAG Member
Email: wisdom_dk at hotmail.com
wisdom.donkor at data.gov.gh
wisdom.dk at gmail.com
Skype: wisdom_dk
facebook: facebook at wisdom_dk
Website: www.nita.gov.gh / www.data.gov.gh
www.isoc.gh / www.itag.org.gh
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