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Vote to elect new CIRA board directors

Members of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) community will begin casting their votes today for candidates in the CIRA 2017 board of directors election.
By Tanya O'Callaghan
Senior Manager, Communications

Members of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) community will begin casting their votes today for candidates in the CIRA 2017 board of directors election.

Election runs online from September 19-26

Ottawa, ON – September 19, 2017 – Members of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) community will begin casting their votes today for candidates in the Canadian Internet Registration Authority’s (CIRA) 2017 board of directors election. The vote period starts today at 12:30 p.m. ET and ends at 12:30 p.m. ET on September 26, 2017.

CIRA Members play an important role in choosing the leadership that will guide CIRA through the next three years of its mandate.

Learn more about the candidates

CIRA Members can learn more about each candidate before casting their votes by reading the candidates’ statements. You can also interact with candidates in CIRA’s campaign forum.

Voting for election candidates

This year, CIRA Members will have the opportunity to cast their votes to elect 4 candidates—3 from the nomination committee slate and 1 from the Members slate.

Voting will take place online at vote.cira.ca.

The election results will be published on https://www.cira.ca/election-results on or before September 29, 2017.

Information about CIRA’s board of directors election and how to vote is available at www.cira.ca/election.

About CIRA

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) manages the .CA top-level domain on behalf of all Canadians. A Member-based organization, CIRA also develops and implements policies that support Canada’s Internet community, and represents the .CA registry internationally.

About the author
Tanya O'Callaghan

Tanya is CIRA’s Vice-president, Community Investment, Policy and Advocacy. A former journalist, Tanya has worked in the not-for-profit sector for nearly 20 years and currently leads CIRA’s community investment, policy and advocacy group. She is also a founding member of the multi-stakeholder committee behind the Canadian Internet Governance Forum and is a frequent speaker and moderator on a range of communications and digital issues.

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