ICANN's Chehade Welcomes Election of Zhao as ITU Secretary General
The election of China’s Houlin Zhao as ITU secretary-general was applauded by ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade, in an ICANN news release Thursday (http://bit.ly/1DFCco4). Zhao’s support was “punctuated by the fact that he obtained 152 votes of the 156 countries that…
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were present and voting in the election,” he said. Chehade said he has a "shared belief" with Zhao’s predecessor, Hamadoun Toure, that the "Internet has an increasingly important role in global socioeconomic development ... We are enthused at the prospect of continuing those efforts with Houlin Zhao." Zhao will take over Jan. 1, when Toure's term ends.