Schedule for the Election of the CSISAC Steering Committee 2020-2021

November 13, 2019

The CSISAC Steering Committee is elected by the CSISAC members to manage the coalition and represent it for a two-year term. The following schedule has been agreed for the election of the Steering Committee members for the 2020-2021 term (always Paris time, CET/ CEST timezone):

2019-11-13 Election call. Census review and nominations ends 2019-11-30 00:00
2019-12-01 Announcement of nominations
2019-12-08 Vote starts
2019-12-15 Announcement of voting results, call for extra SC members
2019-12-22 Proclamation of 2020-2021 SC
2020-01-01 End of transition period.

Any member of the CSISAC can nominate candidates for the Steering Committee, posting a message in the elections internal thread (see the regular updates) with the following information:

- Full name, mail and country/ region of the candidate
- Brief statement on the expected contribution of the candidate
- Short bio, including reference to the most related CSISAC goals

Alternatively, they can send the nomination to liaison@csisac.org with copy to the CSISAC Members mailing list. The list of nominees will be announced once finalised and published in the CSISAC website.

Once the nomination period is over, voters will receive a ballot to select up to five candidates. Consistently with the committment of the CSISAC with diversity, the elected candidates will be able to appoint other CSISAC members to ensure gender, regional and expertise balance. The maximum final size of the Steering Committee is eight members.

The full detail of the Steering Committee election can be found in the document describing CSISAC election process. CSISAC members are asked to nominate candidates and update their contact mail address so they can receive and cast their ballot, until 2019-11-30 00:00 Paris time.

Update 20201028: the post was updated to correctly reflect the term period 2020-2021.