{"id":44946,"date":"2016-09-13T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cira.ca\/news\/learn-more-about-candidates-cira-board-directors-1\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T10:57:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T15:57:41","slug":"learn-more-about-candidates-cira-board-directors-1","status":"publish","type":"cira_news","link":"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/en\/resources\/news\/state-of-internet\/learn-more-about-candidates-cira-board-directors-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn more about the candidates for the CIRA Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ottawa, September 14, 2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Members of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) community will begin casting their votes on September 22 for candidates in the Canadian Internet Registration Authority&#8217;s (CIRA) 2016 Board of Directors election.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ottawa, September 14, 2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Members of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) community will begin casting their votes on September 22 for candidates in the Canadian Internet Registration Authority&#8217;s (CIRA) 2016 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>Candidate profiles will be live at <a href=\"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/election-results\">https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/election-results<\/a> on September 15.<\/li>\n<li>CIRA Members can engage with candidates in the 2016 campaign forum. The forum will be accessible from September 15-22. \u00a0<strong>Updated<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>Commenting in the <a href=\"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/forum\/613\">campaign forum<\/a>\u00a0is now closed.\u00a0.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6\">An online town hall will take place on the campaign forum on Thursday, September 15. Join in from 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. (ET) to engage in a live Q&amp;A with candidates.<\/span><\/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.<\/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>Ottawa, September 14, 2016\u00a0\u2013 Members of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) community will begin casting their votes on September 22 for candidates in the Canadian Internet Registration Authority&#8217;s (CIRA) 2016 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":"Ottawa, September 14, 2016 \u00a0\u2013 Members of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) community will begin casting their votes on September 22 for candid"},"footnotes":""},"topic":[1028],"class_list":["post-44946","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\/44946","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\/44946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cira_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-saas.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/topic?post=44946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}