{"id":44868,"date":"2017-09-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cira.ca\/news\/learn-more-about-candidates-cira-board-directors-0\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T10:57:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T15:57:25","slug":"learn-more-about-candidates-cira-board-directors-0","status":"publish","type":"cira_news","link":"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/en\/resources\/news\/state-of-internet\/learn-more-about-candidates-cira-board-directors-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn more about the candidates for the CIRA board of directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) community will begin casting their votes on September 19 for candidates in CIRA&#8217;s 2017 board of directors election.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ottawa, ON &#8211; September 12, 2017 &#8211; Members of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) community will begin casting their votes on September 19 for candidates in CIRA&#8217;s 2017 board of directors election.<\/p>\n<p>In advance of the vote, CIRA Members can learn more about the candidates and where they stand on issues of importance to Canada&#8217;s internet.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/election-results\">Candidate profiles<\/a> will be live on September 12.<\/li>\n<li>CIRA Members can engage with candidates in the <a href=\"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/2017-campaign-forum\">2017 campaign forum<\/a>. The forum will be accessible from September 12-19, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>An online town hall will take place on the campaign forum on Wednesday, September 13, 2017. Join in from 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. ET\u00a0to engage in a live online Q&amp;A with candidates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CIRA Members are an important part of CIRA&#8217;s governance process and help ensure that a broad range of views are represented in CIRA&#8217;s decision making.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>About CIRA<\/h2>\n<p>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&#8217;s internet community, and represents the .CA registry internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) community will begin casting their votes on September 19 for candidates in CIRA&#8217;s 2017 board of directors election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"slim_seo":{"title":"Learn more about the candidates for the CIRA board of directors - CIRA","description":"Members of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) community will begin casting their votes on September 19 for candidates in CIRA's 2017 board of d"},"footnotes":""},"topic":[1028],"class_list":["post-44868","cira_news","type-cira_news","status-publish","hentry","cira_news_type-cira-news-type-blog","cira_topic-cira-topic-state-of-internet","cira_author-tanya-ocallaghan"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/news\/44868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cira_news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/news\/44868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cira_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/topic?post=44868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}