{"id":44906,"date":"2017-03-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cira.ca\/news\/dates-announced-election-board-and-2017-annual-general-meeting\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T10:57:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T15:57:35","slug":"dates-announced-election-board-and-2017-annual-general-meeting","status":"publish","type":"cira_news","link":"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/en\/resources\/news\/state-of-internet\/dates-announced-election-board-and-2017-annual-general-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Dates announced for election of the board and the 2017 annual general meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ottawa, ON \u2013 March 16, 2017 \u2013 <\/strong>The Canadian Internet Registration Authority&#8217;s (CIRA)\u00a02017 board of directors election process will begin on May 30, 2017 with a call for applications.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ottawa, ON \u2013 March 16, 2017 \u2013 <\/strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/\">Canadian Internet Registration Authority&#8217;s (CIRA)<\/a> 2017 board of directors election process will begin on May 30, 2017 with a call for applications.<\/p>\n<p>Online voting for election candidates will begin at CIRA&#8217;s annual general meeting (AGM) on September 19, 2017 at the Infinity Convention Centre in Ottawa and will run until September 26, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>This year, CIRA Members will elect four board members.<\/p>\n<p>CIRA&#8217;s election process provides Canadians and CIRA Members the opportunity to take a leadership role in advancing the Internet in Canada and to ensure .CA continues to be an accessible, secure and trusted Canadian resource.<\/p>\n<p>All CIRA Members will be invited by email to vote and attend the AGM. Further details will be posted on CIRA&#8217;s website as they become available.<\/p>\n<h2>About the Canadian Internet Registration Authority<\/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<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa, ON \u2013 March 16, 2017 \u2013 The Canadian Internet Registration Authority&#8217;s (CIRA)\u00a02017 board of directors election process will begin on May 30, 2017 with a call for applications.\u00a0<\/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":"Dates announced for election of the board and the 2017 annual general meeting - CIRA","description":"Ottawa, ON \u2013 March 16, 2017 \u2013 The Canadian Internet Registration Authority's (CIRA)\u00a02017 board of directors election process will begin on May 30, 2017 with a c"},"footnotes":""},"topic":[1028],"class_list":["post-44906","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\/44906","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\/44906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cira_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/topic?post=44906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}