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| Candidate Statement, Olga Kyryliuk, NCUC EC-Europe position
Name: Olga Kyryliuk
Region of residence: Europe
Gender: Female
Employment: CEO & Founder, The Influencer Platform (Ukraine); Independent Researcher & Consultant for the Open Internet for Democracy Initiative, Freedom House, the Council of Europe Office in Ukraine
Conflict of interest: None
Reasons for willingness to take on the position
I’ve been part of the ICANN community since 2017 when I attended my first ICANN58 meeting in Copenhagen as a part of the NextGen Program. Shortly after that I joined NCUC and since then remain an active member, which is proved by my continuous contribution to NCUC outreach activities, participation in working groups, and drafting of public comments. In 2019, I was serving as a member of the selection committee for the ICANN NextGen Program and currently represent NCUC at the NCSG Policy Committee. By now I am quite well aware of the concerns and challenges faced by non-commercial stakeholders within ICANN and am willing to invest my time and expertise to strengthen NCUC’s capacity and voice among other more powerful stakeholders.
I am putting lots of efforts into improving civil society capabilities and facilitating multistakeholder cooperation at the national and regional levels, and would happily add on top of that raising awareness of NCUC and bringing more voices to the community. I am well aware of the specifics of the European IG community and its problems, have extensive professional network including representatives of different stakeholder groups. I highly appreciate the work that has been done on this position before me and will do my best to keep our region actively engaged in NCUC activities. Maintaining regular communication with the members, running outreach activities, fostering member’s active participation in WGs, and PDPs would be a priority for me. I believe it to be extremely important to strive for better diversification of the workload in terms of policy discussions and public comments, which is currently managed by very few people at the extreme of their human capabilities. For that more members should get involved in policy discussions and be able to support the NCUC/NCSG position when needed.
Qualifications for the position
I hold a Ph.D. degree in international law and am CEO and founder of The Influencer Platform – a Ukrainian-based organization that trains and unites stakeholders who stand for digital rights, equal opportunities, communities’ empowerment, and the open Internet. I have over eight years’ experience in issues lying at the intersection of law and technology, including digital rights, data protection, privacy, artificial intelligence, digital sovereignty, and content regulation, as well as four years in rights protection of internally displaced persons. Currently, I’m providing consultancy and expert support to the Freedom House, the Council of Europe, and a range of international companies working all over the world. Prior to establishing my own organization, I’ve been working with the government of Ukraine and the world’s leading humanitarian organizations – the International Committee of the Red Cross and Danish Refugee Council.
I am actively involved in regional and international Internet governance and human rights initiatives, serving on the Executive Committee of the South Eastern European Dialogue on Internet Governance (SEEDIG), and being a founding member of the Internet Freedom Network for Eastern, Central Europe, and Eurasia. Additionally, I’m a regular contributor to the agendas of SEEDIG, EuroDIG, IGF, RightsCon annual meetings, IFLA WLIC, and Internet Freedom Summit, where I’m also presenting as a speaker or a moderator.
Time commitment
I fully acknowledge how time and energy-consuming is to serve on the Executive Committee, especially in such a complex environment as ICANN, but it would be my absolute pleasure to contribute to NCUC development and growth in the upcoming year. I am equally aware that some weeks might be more hectic than others, but I’m part of various IG processes long enough to get used to the huge workload and permanent adjustment to time zones. I believe my legal background and experience in project management would be an asset to perform the duties expected from this position.
Best,
Olga Kyryliuk
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| STATEMENT NCUC EC AFRICA Name: Benjamin Akinmoyeje Region: Africa Gender: Male Employment: Research Student Any conflicts of interest: None 1 Why do you want to serve on the EC? Serving as NCUC EC Africa representative for the last one year has been a learning experience, I have had the privilege to motivate my constituency's engagement. We have seen increased participation of non-English speaking members. We have made some efforts to interpret announcements in french as often as possible. Finally, we succeeded in getting the second edition of Policy writing course for members with English as a second language. Subsequently, I hope to increase the engagement of NCUC in the policy development process assertively. I hope to champion the process of simplifying topical issues for the participation of new members and the group. I hope to improve the visibility of NCUC within ICANN by ensuring a consistent push of the civil society and non-commercial agenda in providing My charge this term will be to consolidate on some of the gains we have made, by increasing NCUC participation and contribution in policy discussion and outreach in Africa. I will endeavor to put NCUC in every IG event in Africa wherever ICANN GSE is present or not. I will work with the other ECs and the chair to improve capacity building and help strengthen the mentee’s and mentor’s engagement in NCUC. The spread of COVID-19 is causing disruption worldwide, forcing conference cancellations, and leaving everyone scrambling for alternative ways of disseminating the work that was to be presented. This has caused an unprecedented demand for digital technologies not only to facilitate containment of the spread of COVID-19 but also to enable business continuity across all continents, including Africa. With this in mind, I will work to make sure the participation of NCUC members across Africa and elsewhere takes part in NCUC discussions. 2. Provide a brief biography of recent experience, associations, and affiliations relevant to serving. I have a specialization in ICT4D and Digital Health with over 10 years’ experience working in international development. I am currently a DAAD postgraduate research scholar at the Namibia University of Science and Technology and Regional Coordinator ofICT4si.org [ict4si.org] .An active member of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of NIGF, Alumni of the first AfriSIG, Alumni of AfriNIC and ICANN fellow, member of ISOC Nigeria and Namibia Chapter. I am a member of Nigeria Coalition of Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), consistently advocating for affordable and inclusive Internet access. I belong to the coalition of Africa Center for Citizens Orientation (ACCO), championing improving access for women and girls to up-to-date ICT education and some existing ICT facilities in Abuja and northern Nigeria. My area of research is Persuasive Technologies for health behavior change and personal informatics. I have over ten years’ experience working as an ICT4D manager in an international NGO and in public health in Nigeria. Participate in the last IGF remotely. Experience within ICANN Fellowship Alumni AfrICANN group Universal Acceptance Technical Working Group - member - participates in regular calls. Cross-Community Working Party - Human Right - member - attend calls and contributes. In collaboration with the NCUC - EC and ICANN Staff organized the Policy Writing course. Developed a blog to enlist members for the webinar Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) in all gTLDs PDP Working Group – member – regularly on call of this WG He is a member of other committees: ISOC IoT SIG, Nigeria ICANN Multi-Stakeholder Group, Member and (Cybersecurity) Alumni Diplo Foundation, ISOC Namibia & Nigeria chapters.3 The EC performs several functional responsibilities for the Constituency. What level of time commitment can you bring to your EC role on a weekly and overall basis? Describe any concerns or limitations on your ability to attend online meetings of the Executive Committee and ICANN Meetings in person. I commit 8 hours or more per week and I am readily available for emergency calls or assignments. I have been committed to the course and development of the visions and missions of NCUC and ICANN. I am a full-time researcher and a student of Informatics. I am dedicated to the service of NCUC. 4 Communication with membership is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities? As a member of EC representing the African region, I have engaged my constituency actively using social media (skype, Facebook, twitter, etc). This has led to some increased interest in engagement and commitment. I hope to scale that up by moving our communication to the mailing lists with regular communication.I will continue to explore more ways to interpret and simplify the topical issues in order to get improved participation from our members. I will use available channels of communications such as emails, newsletters, blogs, and targeted social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Zoom, and Google Meet. Also, I will work with existing NCUC communications strategies and members to advance the work I am doing in the NCUC EC. I hope to drive engagement by linking my EC activities to some of the real-life issues and benefits of NCUC activities to the African users, especially on the issues of Access, Local Content, Human Rights, Development, Privacy, and Multilingual Internet. These issues, when addressed, will ultimately grow the domain name business in Africa. Ultimately reinforcing the stability, security and resilience of the global network I hope to consolidate the gains we made in reducing Gender-gap participation from Africa in NCUC, I will continue to champion increased recruitment of female members. 5 How do you foresee NCUC’s function, scale, or role changing in the future? What areas of ICANN policy, if any, need more attention and why? The PIR - ISOC issue has been a major issue of discussion for the past months, and NCUC’s view in this conversation is critical. With the ongoing Evolving ICANN’s Multistakeholder Model - it is certain NCUC engagement will evolve in the process. With the ongoing Evolving ICANN’s Multi-stakeholder Model - it is certain NCUC engagement will evolve in the process. The pandemic has changed everything, also it will change NCUC’s engagement and functions; we need to evolve to online engagement and advocacy. Our recruitment effort and inclusion of more academia, CSOs, and other non-commercial users from developing countries online is paramount. We need to ensure the noncommercial interest or space is not reduced during the online-only engagement. Post Covid19 era requires innovation to engage our members actively in policy development processes, this challenge is critical. I am committed to help develop solutions to sustaining NCUC members' engagement online. Areas ICANN policy needs attention The great PIR -ISOC sale is a major policy concern moving forward. ICANN Africa Strategy 2021- 2025 will see more NCUC contributions during implementation and hopefully we bring best practice to the region’s DNS market growth. New gTLD Auction Proceeds Cross-Community Working Group: the mechanism to utilize the resources should help improve and grow the Internet where it is lacking, especially in Africa. I look forward to continuing to serve the community to improve the participation of all diverse groups, especially those from developing countries and newcomers to ICANN. Kind regards, Benjamin Akinmoyeje | Card |
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| Name: Hago Dafalla
Region of residence: Africa
Gender: Male
Employment: Faculty of Education, Computer Department, Zawia University, Libya
Conflict of interest: I have no conflicts of interest.1. Why do you want to serve on the EC?
First, in order to represent the best representation of Africa in this position, and secondly in order to serve and possible all stakeholders to exercise good stewardship cemented in human dignity. We need a period of renewal for another blood in the veins of this organization until the election of new people to the benefit of everyone.
To help my continental African and to raise the voice of African in ICANN. To try to support african people in the ICANN community.
I’ve been part of the ICANN community since 2008 when I attended my first ICANN meeting in Egypt, Cairo. I joined NCUC since 2010 then remain an active member, which is proved by my continuous contribution to NCUC outreach activities, participation in ICANN working groups.
I am quite well aware of the concerns and challenges faced by non-commercial stakeholders within ICANN and am willing to invest my time and expertise to strengthen NCUC’s capacity and voice among other more powerful stakeholders.
2. Provide a brief biography of recent experience, associations, and affiliations relevant to serving on the Executive Committee. Describe the relevance of your personal and professional experience to serve on the NCUC Executive Committee, and identify any conflicts of interests you might have.
I am Electronics Engineer (System Administrator and Network) I completed a Master degree in Computer Engineering and Networks. I hold a Ph.D. degree in the Information Technology.
I am actively involved in regional and international Internet governance and human rights initiatives, serving on the Executive Committee of the Arab Dialogue on Internet Governance, and being a member of the Internet Freedom Network for Africa . Additionally, I’m a regular contributor to the agendas of Arab IGF, annual meetings, where I’m also presenting as a speaker or a moderator. I am regional director of East Africa for African ICT Foundation (https//africanictfoundation.org).MY activities: I am participating in many activities: April To May 1996 : Training in E-Mail by Dr. Khursheed, McMaster University, Canada. 11 to 19 July 1998: Network Training workshop for Countries in the Early Stages of Internetworking, Network Navigation and Services Track, Geneva, Switzerland, Using UNIX as Operating System. 20 to 21 July 1998: Developing Countries Networking Symposium, Geneva, Switzerland, Using UNIX as Operating System. 21 to 24 July 1998: INET’98 Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, Using UNIX as Operating System. 26 July 1998 to Now: Internet Society Memberships (ISOC). 12 Oct. to 7 Nov. 1998: Fifth College On Microprocessor-Based Real-Time System in Physics, in the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, Using LINUX as Operating System. -1 To 19 Feb. 1999: Second ICTP-URSI-ITU/BDT School on The Use of Radio for Digital Communication in Developing Countries, in the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP),Trieste, Italy, 7 to 11 May 2001: African Network Operators’ Group (AFNOG) Workshop for Internetworking in Scalable Network Infrastructure, Accra, Ghana. 12 to 13 May 2001: African Network Operators’ Group (AFNOG) Meeting, Accra, Ghana. 8-13 June 2003: African Network Operators’ Group (AFNOG) Workshop for Internetworking In Scalable Internet Services. Kampala, Uganda, Using UNIX as Operating System. 14 to 15 June 2003: African Network Operators’ Group (AFNOG) Meeting, Kampala, Uganda. - ICANN Meeting in Cairo, Egypt 2008. - ICANN Meeting in Sydney, Australia 2009. -ICANN Meeting in Belgium. -ICANN Meeting in Costa Rica. - I am a Member of Locking of a Domain Name Subject to UDRP Proceedings PDP WG Working Group, ICANN. - I served as a Member of The Inter Register Transfer Policy Part C working Group, ICANN. - I am participated in the 3rd Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum On ICT Research, Scandic Marina Congress Centre - Helsinki, Finland ,2010. - I am participated in the 2010 Euro-Africa E-Infrastructures Conference, Scandic Marina Congress Centre -Helsinki, Finland. - I am participated in the 6th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. - I am participated in the AFRINIC Meetings, 2001,2003,2006,2011 and 2012. - I served as NomCom 2011and 2012, AfriNic. - I am participated in the African Peering Coordinate Forum (AFPIF), Peering Coordinators Day, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. - I am participated in the EGM on the Roadmap for Internet Governance in Arab Region, United Nations House, Beirut, Lebanon. - I am participated in the first and second, seventh African Internet Governance Forum. - I am participated in the First and Second Arab Internet Governance Forum. - I am participated in the Internet Governance Forum, Bali, Indonesia, 2013. 3. The EC performs several functional responsibilities for the Constituency. What | Name: Benjamin Akinmoyeje Declared region of residence: Africa Gender: Male Employment: PhD Research Student Any conflicts of interest: None Questions: - Why do you want to serve on the EC? I want to serve on the EC because I want to help promote the voice of the non commercial constituency and advance the cause of the group, I also want to help enhance our visibility especially as the current period requires new means of engagement.
I look forward to continuing to help our community to grow in technical capacity, and to contribute to the PDPs. - Provide a brief biography of recent experience, associations, and affiliations relevant to serving on the Executive Committee. Describe the relevance of your personal and professional experience to serve on the NCUC Executive Committee, and identify any conflicts of interests you might have. Currently a PhD students of Informatics, Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Namibia University of Science and Technology, conducting academic research in the area of persuasive technology and mHealth apps for stress management amongst university students, I am the current EC Africa, and I am part of HR CCWP, part of multiple ICANN71 planning committees, also have contributed to some members training capacity building iniatives, support the social media outreach efforts of the NCUC.
- The EC performs several functional responsibilities for the Constituency. What level of time commitment can you bring to your EC role on a weekly and overall basis? Describe any concerns or limitations on your ability to attend online meetings of the Executive Committee and ICANN Meetings in person. he EC performs several functional responsibilities for the Constituency. What level of time commitment can you bring to your EC role on a weekly and overall basis? Describe any concerns or limitations on your ability to attend online meetings of the Executive Committee and ICANN Meetings in person.
As a research student, I have the privilege of time to participate actively in the ICANN process for up to 10 hours weekly to attend ICANN online meetings, possible area of concern may be the occasional need for quality internet access at meeting hours while I am at home. - Communication with the membership is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities? As the chair and having seen previous ways past chairs have communicated with the community, I hope to emulate their communication style of always keeping members in the loop and also try to improve on it by actively engaging other platforms that technology has provided.
Such as social media platforms like Whatsapp and Twitter. As a chair, the monthly EC meetings will continue to and also devise quarterly calls or virtual town hall meetings for NCUC members.
- How do you foresee NCUC’s function, scale, or role changing in the future? What areas of ICANN policy, if any, need more attention and why? Incumbent candidates should answer in a manner that is both backward and forward-looking, i.e. taking note of their contributions and work in the previous year. NCUC's functions in the future will only expand as the need for protection of the non-commercial individual users of DNS increases, as we begin to see ICANN being drawn to issues such as content moderation, and the EPDP phase 2 , use of AI, free speech (freedom of expression online) and the challenges of digital rights/ Human Rights.There may be a need for NCUC to consolidate with other SGs with similar interests to push a common agenda. In the phase of multiple regulatory laws, and ICANN needs to continue to function, we must continue to voice the non-commercial perspective and the policies that I can develop. More than ever before individual rights to privacy and data protection have been challenged in DNS space, the situation calls for NCUC to be alert to ensure ICANN policies are sensitive to these realities.
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| Name: Olga Kyryliuk
Declared region of residence: Europe
Gender: Female
Employment: Program Manager, ABA ROLI
Conflict of interest: None
Questions: 1. Why do you want to serve on the EC?
ICANN environment is extremely time and energy-consuming, which is especially evident in the non-commercial part of the community. At this stage, I’m ready to contribute my time and expertise to strengthen NCUC from the inside and promote its interests within a broader ICANN community. I believe my legal background and experience in project management would be an asset to perform the duties expected from this role. 2. Provide a brief biography of recent experience, associations, and affiliations relevant to serving on the Executive Committee. Describe the relevance of your personal and professional experience to serve on the NCUC Executive Committee, and identify any conflicts of interests you might have.
I have PhD in International Law and am currently a Chair of the Executive Committee at SEEDIG - South Eastern European Dialogue on Internet Governance. In my daily job working as a Program Manager at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative in charge of the regional Internet freedom advocacy program. Founder and advisor of The Influencer Platform, a Ukrainian-based think-and-do tank. I am actively involved in regional and international Internet governance and human rights initiatives: founding member of the Internet Freedom Network for Eastern, Central Europe, and Eurasia; former open Internet leader of the Open Internet for Democracy Initiative. Provide consultancy and expert support to Freedom House, Council of Europe and a range of international companies working worldwide. During the last eight years, I’m putting lots of efforts into improving civil society capabilities and facilitating multistakeholder cooperation at the national and regional levels. I would happily continue raising awareness of NCUC and bringing more voices to the community. I am well aware of the specifics of the European IG community and its problems, have an extensive professional network, including representatives of different stakeholder groups.
I do not have any conflict of interests that could prevent me from running for the NCUC EC position. 3. The EC performs several functional responsibilities for the Constituency. What level of time commitment can you bring to your EC role on a weekly and overall basis? Describe any concerns or limitations on your ability to attend online meetings of the Executive Committee and ICANN Meetings in person.
Having almost completed one term on the NCUC EC Europe position, I am fully aware of the required time commitment and am ready to dedicate my efforts to the development of the Constituency in the upcoming year. I have neither concerns nor reservations as to attending online and in-person meetings. 4. Communication with the membership is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities?
Same as before, I will keep informing the membership about relevant updates from the EC work and available regional engagement opportunities. I will also strongly support the EC outreach and mentoring activities. 5. How do you foresee NCUC’s function, scale, or role changing in the future? What areas of ICANN policy, if any, need more attention and why? Incumbent candidates should answer in a manner that is both backward and forward-looking, i.e. taking note of their contributions and work in the previous year.
I believe that NCUC has brilliant minds among its members, but, unfortunately, burnout is commonplace. Therefore, it is extremely important for the EC to focus on fostering members’ active participation in WGs, and PDPs. We need to strive for better diversification of the workload in terms of representing the NCUC interests within ICANN, including via public comments and WGs. I would do my best to encourage more members to get involved in policy discussions and public comments drafting. |
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| Statement of availability for the time the position requires: I am fully aware that the work ICANN does is great and requires a great deal of time. For this reason, I pledge to prioritize my responsibilities at ICANN for the benefit of the region. Although it sounds difficult and complicated to do, as a member of the LACIGF Board of Directors, I have struck a balance between my responsibilities as director of a regional organization and a lawyer, so I will make sure to give my commitment to the organization as well. As a woman, an Afro-descendant, a lawyer, all my life I have dealt with multiple tasks at the same time to demonstrate that we are capable, regardless of gender, profession, or race, and this responsibility will not be the exception. | Card |
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| Name: Taiwo Peter Akinremi Region of residence: Africa (AF) Gender: Male Employment: Data Protection and Privacy Specialist (Head, Operations), with Data Analytics Privacy Technology Ltd. Any conflicts of interest: No Why do you want to serve on the EC? - The impact of pandemic has been felt to the level of participation in policy development and discussions which has in turn reduced participation. Volunteer burn-out is another major issue the community is facing. While we have experienced folks (professional background and ICANN experience), the participation and commitment remain low. Outreach requires a new dimension, monthly meetings require a new approach, while member participation calls for rethink.
There are 3 points why I accepted the nomination and 5 points why I am willing to serve as the NCUC EC Africa: - Strong Regional Participation: Regional participation remains critical to the policy development and discussion in the ICANN environment. Because of covid-19 and vaccination issues, ICANN might be moving towards hybrid meetings and it is important for the NCUC EC to gather the momentum to engage in such a hybrid environment. As the Africa region is concerned, I will be working with African colleagues on an equal footing to remain motivated, recruit newbies, engage at different regional conferences such as IFF, IGF, AFRINIC, DRIF etc.
- Leadership: Growing the NCUC community to defend the rights of the noncommercial while helping ICANN to stay on course requires leadership, I mean committed leaders with leadership principles. NCUC leadership is critical to advising ICANN in the areas of DNS, privacy, data protection, human rights, education, and knowledge etc. through PDPs.
- NCUC Administration and Operations: NCUC is the core entity in protecting the interest of the non-commercial users within the ICANN environment. With such a vision, there is a need for an improved NCUC administration and operations. Others are getting louder day by day. It is time for NCUC to fine tune the strategy, rise, and coordinate the interest of the NCUC-user.
- Policy Work: How do we remain active and engage in the policy development process? How do we ensure support for our GNSO Councilor? How do we support the few active members in the NCUC community without allowing them to burn-out? Can we share the workload? Or do our members even have an idea or clarity to what NCUC stands for and be able to defend the same in policy discussions? As you can see, these are questions that will guide the coming NCUC EC to bring value to the table. As the EC Africa, I will be working with the NCUC EC, Councilors, Policy committee, members to take NCUC to the next level.
- Membership Values: Values are what drive membership. NCUC should be value driven once again whereby members are privy to access quality discussions, knowledge sharing and likewise contributes while engaging in policy and different working groups. When there is no value, outreaches yield passive results. As the EC Africa, I will be working with like minds to bring value back to the NCUC community.
Provide a brief biography of recent experience, associations, and affiliations relevant to serving on the Executive Committee. Describe the relevance of your personal and professional experience to serve on the NCUC Executive Committee and identify any conflicts of interests you might have. - I earn my paycheck through providing Nigeria Data Protection Regulation/General Data Protection Regulation compliance service, advice and training. My IT experience and background includes Management/Technical/Audit/Policy that can be traced to the private sector, and non-governmental organizations.
Current Policy Experience within ICANN - NCSG Representative to the GNSO, Standing Selection Committee
- NCUC Representative to the Policy Committee
- Vice Policy Committee-Chair.
NCUC Participation - Monthly meetings participation e.g NCUC, PC etc.
- Public comment drafting.
- Review public comments.
- Assist the PC chair to follow up on public comments and its dissemination.
- Mailing list discussion contribution
Some Related Experience - West Regional Coordinator, African Civil Society on Information Society
- 7TH Rapporteur General of the African Internet Governance Forum
- Program coordinator of Global Network for Cyber-solution
- Nigeria-Lead for Africa Open Data and Internet Research Foundation
- Nomcom Rep Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) and several WGs.
- Founder, Africa Rapporteur Network (Rapporteuring, Translation, Interpretation).
The EC performs several functional responsibilities for the Constituency. What level of time commitment can you bring to your EC role on a weekly and overall basis? Describe any concerns or limitations on your ability to attend online meetings of the Executive Committee and ICANN Meetings in person. - There are no concerns. Yes, there is enough time to devote, as necessary.
Communication with the membership is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities? - Communication modes within the NCUC community includes the use of mailing-lists, regional mailing lists, monthly calls, website, and webinar series. I will leverage the existing channels to frequently update the members. However, its usages call for new strategies to update, and build a vibrant community of non-commercial users.
How do you foresee NCUC’s function, scale, or role changing in the future? What areas of ICANN policy, if any, need more attention and why? Incumbent candidates should answer in a manner that is both backward and forward-looking, i.e. taking note of their contributions and work in the previous year. - In the current global policy discussions, there is no better time than now to protect the interest and privacy of noncommercial users. The covid-19 pandemic has made the world realize the criticality of the internet and its infrastructure. The influence from the global players is growing and that can endanger the noncommercial communications, activities, and their interest on the internet. The function of the NCUC is to continue influencing at the table, on an equal footing to protecting the activities and privacy of noncommercial users of the internet and internet infrastructure e.g. domain name system (DNS).
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| Name: Ines Hfaiedh, Declared Region of residence: Africa, Gender: Female, Employment: Teacher and ICT Implementation in Education Specialist.
Conflicts of Interest : None
Why do you want to serve on the EC?
I wish to serve on the NCUC Executive Committee first to represent my region Africa in the best way possible in the next EC team. I hope to bring back the active participation and discussions that we used to have in the African mailing list, as well as the mentoring initiative that ECs used to perform towards newcomers from their region. I am confident that my academic, civil society, technical and administrative backgrounds in addition to my three year experience as an EC would help me achieve these goals and contribute to the well functioning of the constituency administration.
Provide a brief biography of recent experience, associations, and affiliations relevant to serving on the Executive Committee. Describe the relevance of your personal and professional experience to serve on the NCUC Executive Committee, and identify any conflicts of interests you might have.
I am a teacher and ICT Implementation in Education Specialist. I had the chance to be a recipient of a number of prestigious scholarships and fellowships among which was The Fulbright FLTA Fellowship which enabled me to study and be a Teaching Assistant at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC, USA. I am also a Diplo-certified Curator and Rapporteur and was among the first cohort of Diplo-certified Online Moderators in 2020.
I have joined NCUC since ICANN 55 which was my first experience as a Fellow and had the chance to be back as a Coach several times where I introduced newcomers to NCUC before the actual meeting and during their fellowship sessions. I have been in charge of the Secretariat of the last two editions of ICANN's MEAC SIG (School of Internet Governance) I am a member of ICANN’s Intercultural Awareness Program which we hope to bring back its shine.
I had the chance to be a Guest Speaker and session organiser at IGF 2016-2017-2019 and Booth Lead at IGF 2018 and Rightscon 2019. I was also a guest at several local, regional and international conferences such as the World Bank Group Youth Summit on “Rethinking Education for the next Millennium” and the European Educational Tool Portal has shared my tool of 'Interactive ICT Implementation in Formal and Informal Learning' and selected it for the International Tool Fair in Budapest, Hungary.
The EC performs several functional responsibilities for the Constituency. What level of time commitment can you bring to your EC role on a weekly and overall basis? Describe any concerns or limitations on your ability to attend online meetings of the Executive Committee and ICANN Meetings in person.
I have dedicate about 14 Hours a week and more if there are some more meetings available. I will perform my duties and responsibilities perfectly . Also to increase my contribution in ICANN Meetings in person and online meetings . 4. Communication with the membership is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities? The Communications for the memberships is very important and it can be available through mailing list and regular announcements. 5. How do you foresee NCUC’s function, scale, or role changing in the future? What areas of ICANN policy, if any, need more attention and why? I promise to continue to raise issues with NCUC policy and rules. I need to raise the issues in Cyber security, especially in Social Security ( protections of children from the dangers of Internet). We need to continue engaging more youth people in ICANN Process and to hear their voice and their contributions. We have to continue engaging in the GNSO PDP process. I shall pressure to see new faces in ICANN Board Members especially in developing countries. More about me see my C.V. attached here |
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| Name: Franco Giandana Declared region of residence: LAC Gender and employment: Male - IT-IP Lawyer
* Any conflicts of interest; None. Questions: - Why do you want to serve on the EC?
I have already sat as LAC rep. within the NCUC EC for one term, and I believe this opportunity to be a privilege. Furthermore, I am confident that I with continuing in this role, I will be able to strengthen the NCUC LAC community engagement with the constituency and the ICANN communtiy. Provide a brief biography of recent experience, associations, and affiliations relevant to serving on the Executive Committee. Describe the relevance of your personal and professional experience to serve on the NCUC Executive Committee, and identify any conflicts of interests you might have.
First as an ICANN fellow, and later as the LAC rep. to the NCUC EC, I have developed a sincere interest to the internet governance ecosystem and ICANN. During this whole time, I have met wonderful people that inspires me to do a great job and I believe that, in the path of learning more about ICANN, I will be able to perform better. As an IT-IP lawyer I am involved in other Internet Governance initiatives which I think build my profile as a young profesional involved in the IG world. The EC performs several functional responsibilities for the Constituency. What level of time commitment can you bring to your EC role on a weekly and overall basis? Describe any concerns or limitations on your ability to attend online meetings of the Executive Committee and ICANN Meetings in person.
My level of commitment will be the same as the one I have now, or even bigger. I can put in the amount of time that is needed to conduct this role in the best way possible.Communication with the membership is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities?
I personally know many of the people in the LAC NCUC community, which is a great asset to keeping the community informed. At the same time, I will keep posting information on social media and sending emails. I hope this information is helpful. I wish you all a good day. Kind regards, | Card |
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| NCUC LAC Chair Candidate Statement Nomination: Name: Lia P. Hernández Pérez Region: LAC EC Gender: female Employment: Lawyer, Executive Directress (IPANDETEC Central America) Conflict of interest: None Reasons for willingness to take on the tasks of the particular position: I have been working for several years in Internet Governance, representing Panama and the Central American region. I am convinced that new technologies must be prioritized at the highest levels of civil society, governments, academia and other actors in the social ecosystem in order to make the most of technological discoveries and inventions. However, I do not stop seeing with concern as women and young people we are displaced or not included in high-level discussions, especially those who come from small countries, like all of the Central American region. Qualifications for the position: In academic affairs, I studied a Master in Law of New Technologies and Legal Informatics at the University of Bologna, Italy. Im 2008, I got a scholarship from the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID), to study a Master's Degree in Telecommunications and Information and Communication Technologies Law at the Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain. I have been Professor of Law of the New Technologies of the Master in Management and Knowledge Technology with the University of Panama and the Carlos III University of Madrid. I am author of a large number of articles, monographs, interviews and essays on the Law of New Technologies, specially on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, privacy, data protection, gender, open data and government. From the professional aspect, I have worked as a legal consultant of numerous companies, until I became a founding partner of Legalit Abogados, first firm in Panama specialized in new areas of law such as technology, environment, tourism, etc. Since 2012, with a group of colleagues, we found the Panamanian Institute of Law and New Technologies (IPANDETEC), a non-profit organization that promotes the use and regulation of ICTs and the protection of human rights in the digital environment. After several years of activism, the organization spread operations to the entire Central American region. This organization has a team of professionals and members in each of the countries of the region, producing studies of personal data protection; analysis of cybersecurity strategies in the Central America region, from the perspective of human rights and social inclusion; open data, biometric, encryption and cybercrime observatories. and overall basis? Describe any concerns or limitations on your ability to attend online meetings of the Executive Committee and ICANN Meetings in person.
For the EC responsibilities, I generally do not see time limitations and concerns in performing the required tasks especially that now not only work but our life has shifted a little bit more to an online format. Besides, I enjoy some flexibility to attend meetings in person (if the format is back to in-person) as my job nurtures personal and professional development. During my previous terms, I had managed to organise my time in a way which enabled me to do some extra activities such as webinars for the Africa membership.
Communication with the membership is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities?
I would keep members up-dated on our EC-related activities as well as news, call for comments etc through our NCUC mailing list and webinars when time allows. Also I wish to reactive our Tweeter account which used to be quite active from the part of all ECs. I also hope to keep the members apprised on our events through the NCUC blogs on our website to which I had previously contributed.
How do you foresee NCUC’s function, scale, or role changing in the future? What areas of ICANN policy, if any, need more attention and why? Incumbent candidates should answer in a manner that is both backward and forward-looking, i.e. taking note of their contributions and work in the previous year.
I believe that NCUC has always played a crucial role in defending non-commercial users’ rights. Those who have been here for some time know how our experienced/veterans have been at pains to protect those rights within ICANN’s policy processes and the IANA transition. That said, I am confident that the constituency can still do more in voicing the Non-Commercial Users concerns and defending their interests. I had previously expressed that the real challenge is making the members actually act as multipliers within their respective communities and that was brought to the discussion later by the ICANN board on a joint meeting. I wish that we also keep a spirit of openness and consultation with our membership and keep them in the loop of current discussions for more efficiency in our contributions.
I thank you for this opportunity and looking forward to serving the membership if elected.
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| Name, declared region of residence, gender and employment; Kenneth Herman/North America/Male/Technology Consulting Any conflicts of interest; I am unaware of any conflicts of interest. Please provide a short (one or two paragraphs) answer to the following questions: Why do you want to serve on the EC? After a lengthy career that has a substantial non-profit, community development focus, I believe that the NCUC EC is a natural fit as I gain experience with the ICANN processes. My experience leading multistakeholder, multicultural discussions and decision-making processes on community topics might be useful to the Executive Committee. Provide a brief biography of recent experience, associations, and affiliations relevant to serving on the Executive Committee. Describe the relevance of your personal and professional experience to serve on the NCUC Executive Committee, and identify any conflicts of interests you might have. In a former career as a UN staff member for many years I regularly attended the IGF meetings and the WSIS forums, including in the 2019 WSIS forum presenting in a high-level panel on gender equality in technology, an interest I have pursued as an advisor to a New York-based institution working in that area. With that same organization I have helped to organize events at the UN that bring together international policy specialists with young people to advocate for gender balance in STEM fields. I have also become more immersed in the ICANN processes by self-financing my attendance at ICANN 63 (Barcelona), 64 (Kobe) and 66 (Montreal), with a focus on the non-commercial sessions. I have had my own personal domain since 1998 and have been instrumental in guiding non-profit organizations and individuals to the Internet. For example, I assisted in getting the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition (unscn.org) disentangled from the UN presence on the Internet by establishing their own domain (I did the initial registration and connected them with the appropriate local resources to maintain the Internet presence) and I did the same for a special interest group of returned Peace Corps volunteers to form a country-specific site, also by initiating their registration and ultimate transfer to the appropriate technical support services. The EC performs several functional responsibilities for the Constituency. What level of time commitment can you bring to your EC role on a weekly and overall basis? Describe any concerns or limitations on your ability to attend online meetings of the Executive Committee and ICANN Meetings in person. I do not have any specific concerns or limitations regarding online participation in meetings of the EC, or in-person meetings when they resume. As mentioned, I have self-funded my attendance at many recent ICANN meetings over the past few years. While professional, and other, commitments may at times place limitations, I expect to be able to satisfy any reasonable time commitment required. My expectation is that there will be periods that will require substantial time, perhaps spanning many days over a period of weeks. Communication with the membership is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities? I understand that communication is a necessary element of community engagement, and in addition to the normal networking tools available, I would try to reach out individually to members for their input. How do you foresee NCUC’s function, scale, or role changing in the future? What areas of ICANN policy, if any, need more attention and why? Incumbent candidates should answer in a manner that is both backward and forward-looking, i.e. taking note of their contributions and work in the previous year. As someone who is relatively new to the process, I would not presume to have suggestions that impact the NCUC function, scale or role. That said, I have observed within ICANN (not so much the org, but the greater community) a substantial focus on satisfying the needs of commercial entities, perhaps at the expense of the rights of individuals or other non-commercial stakeholders. As part of the community I hope to strengthen by ability to advocate for a greater non-commercial voice within the entire ICANN ecosystem. Within NCUC, my observation is that there may be some benefit to a stronger human-centred approach to policy in a way that focuses more directly on users, rather than institutions. |
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