antitrust.co.za - ICASA Councillor nominations

Parliament has called for nominations for ICASA Councillors. Individuals as well as organisations may put forward their candidate nominations to parliament. A potential candidate should satisfy the following conditions:

"• Committed to fairness, freedom of expression, openness and accountability .
• Representative of a broad cross-section of the population of the Republic and will possess suitable qualifications, expertise and experience in the fields of, amongst others, broadcasting policy, electronic communication and postal policy or operations, public policy development, electronic engineering, law, marketing, journalism, entertainment, education, economics, finance or any other related expertise or qualifications .
• A South African citizen permanently resident in the Republic"

In nominating a potential candidate, the nominator is required to include the following information:

"Full name and address of the institution and/or individual making the nomination;
The nominee's signed acceptance of the nomination and his/her Curriculum Vitae, providing at least the following information:
• Full name, ID number and gender • Contact address, telephone and telefax numbers, e-mail address • Previous experience, quoting dates and organisations concerned • Academic qualifications."

Alternatively, you could visit the MyADSL thread on this topic, which can be found here.

If you feel as strongly about the state of telecoms in SA as we do, and you want to make a difference by supporting non-Telkom backed candidates, we urge you to participate in this process. Please click 'read more' for the press release and contact details on this.

As far as we are aware, the cut-off date is this Friday (4 August 2006).

REQUESTS FOR PUBLIC INPUT BY PARLIAMENT:

NOMINATIONS: COUNCIL OF THE INDEPENDENT COMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY OF SOUTH AFRICA (ICASA)

Institutions and/or individuals are hereby invited to nominate persons to fill three vacancies on the Council of Icasa, as established in terms of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa Act (No 13 of 2000).

Persons appointed to the Council must be: .
• Committed to fairness, freedom of expression, openness and accountability .
• Representative of a broad cross-section of the population of the Republic and will possess suitable qualifications, expertise and experience in the fields of, amongst others, broadcasting policy, electronic communication and postal policy or operations, public policy development, electronic engineering, law, marketing, journalism, entertainment, education, economics, finance or any other related expertise or qualifications .
• A South African citizen permanently resident in the Republic.

Written nominations must contain the full name and address of the institution and/or individual making the nomination, the nominee's signed acceptance of the nomination and his/her Curriculum Vitae, providing at least the following information: • Full name, ID number and gender • Contact address, telephone and telefax numbers, e-mail address • Previous experience, quoting dates and organisations concerned • Academic qualifications.

The Committee must publish a shortlist of candidates for appointment and present its findings to the National Assembly. The NA must submit to the Minister a list of suitable candidates at least one and a half times the number of councillors to be appointed. The Minister must recommend to the NA, from the list contemplated, persons whom she proposes to appoint to serve on the Council.

Correspondence and enquiries should be addressed to the Secretariat, PC on Communications, for the attention of Rita Schaafsma or Tyhileka Madubela, PO Box 15, Cape Town 8000, tel. (021) 403-3742/3713, e-mail: rschaafsma@parliament.gov.za or tmadubela@parliament.gov.za or fax: (021) 403-2808.

Closing date for nominations: To be confirmed. Issued by Mr G Oliphant, MP: Acting Chairperson: PC on Communications.