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AFRINIC members and the community are hereby informed that electronic voting is now open for the AFRINIC Board and Governance Committee elections. Both services are accessible through the MyAFRINIC portal to AFRINIC members in good standing.

Members will be able to vote and use the electronic voting provision via the MyAFRINIC portal.

The Candidate Slate for both elections is available at:

Board: https://www.afrinic.net/participate/election-process/bod-candidates-slate-2021 

Governance Committee: https://www.afrinic.net/participate/election-process/govcom-candidates-slate-2021 

 

Electronic Voting

Only a registered administrative contact of your organization can vote electronically. The admin-contact can also assign the voting right (through MyAFRINIC) to another registered contact.

How to vote

Eligible voters are reminded that since the AGMM is being held virtually, all voting will de-facto be held electronically.

Members can cast their votes through their ‘registered contact’ (also known as ‘Administrative Contact’) or by proxy.

Online Voting (e-voting)

If you are the registered Administrative Contact of your organisation, you have been assigned by default the voting right which grants you the privilege to cast your vote electronically. You could also assign that right (through MyAFRINIC) to another registered contact of your organisation to vote on your behalf.

To vote electronically, please follow the following steps:

a. Log on to MyAFRINIC at https://my.afrinic.net/login;
b. Navigate to ‘Election’ and ‘Access Election Centre’;
c. Select the election in which you wish to participate;
d. Choose the option ‘Vote Online’.

To assign the online voting right to another registered contact of your organisation:

a. Log on to MyAFRINIC at https://my.afrinic.net/login ;
b. Navigate to ‘My Account' and ‘User Administration’;
c. Check the ‘Voter Role’ to a corresponding listed contact

Electronic voting will be closed during the AGMM on 4 June 2021 at (10:40 UTC). The proxy appointment will close 5 days prior to the elections on 29 May 2021.

 

 

 

 

At the AFRINIC Special General Members Meeting (the “Assembly”) held on 30 November 2016, the Assembly constituted the Governance Committee (the “Committee”).

The Committee’s ToRs are as follows - https://afrinic.net/govcom#tor.

At the outset, we find it important to highlight that the Committee’s mandate is limited to providing such advice to the AFRINIC CEO, the board of directors, the AFRINIC membership and the community on matters of governance, or such other matter consistent with the aforesaid ToR (section 3 of the ToR refers).

The Committee’s membership is as follows - https://afrinic.net/govcom

Consistent with the aforesaid ToR, the Committee had been requested, inter-alia, to review AFRINIC’s current Code of Conduct. The review exercise is ongoing, and a Call for Comments was launched on 31 March 2021 and closed on 30 April 2021 - https://afrinic.net/20210331-call-for-comments-on-afrinic-community-code-of-conduct.

The Committee’s last major assignment involved the review of AFRINIC bylaws carried out in consultation with the Community. Special Resolutions were proposed at AFRINIC Annual General Members' Meeting held online on 18 September 2020. Fourteen of the Special Resolutions obtained the required minimum 75% majority vote - https://afrinic.net/bylaws.

The Governance Committee looks forward to continuous beneficial engagement with its stakeholders.

 

Chairperson
Governance Committee