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NCSG Monthly Policy Committee Meeting!

Date: 09th December 2014

Time: 1300 - 1500 UTC

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New NCUC Representatives to NCSG PC

The NCUC is proud to announce the appointment of two top-notch representatives to the NCSG Policy Committee, effective immediately.  

Joy Liddicoat leads the human rights work of member org the Association for Progressive Communications http://www.apc.org/en/user/Joy.  Joy served two years as NCSG rep to the GNSO Council.  

Joy is the Project coordinator for Internet Rights are Human Rights for the Association for Progressive Communication, a NCUC organizational member.  Joy is lawyer who's been a long-time activist on human rights on the Internet and beyond, and she's also involved in DNS issues and well attuned to the ICANNsphere.  At present she also serves Director of the Domain Name Commission, InternetNZ, the non-profit multistakeholder body responsible for managing .nz and related Internet issues in New Zealand, so she brings to the table an understanding of public interest aspects of the ccTLD space as well.  A strong human rights orientation has generally been lacking in ICANN and the GNSO, so she'd be filling an important gap.  At the same time, it would be good to further engage in NCSG the APC, which as probably everyone knows is the probably the largest NGO, a multinational network, doing civil society activism around Internet and ICT issues.  

More about Joy here <http://nz.linkedin.com/pub/joy-liddicoat/11/233/745>http://nz.linkedin.com/pub/joy-liddicoat/11/233/745 and APC here <http://www.apc.org>http://www.apc.org.

Mattew Shears currently participates here as an alternate rep of NCUC member org IP Justice.  In his day job, Matt leads the Global Internet Policy and Human Rights work of the Center for Democracy and Technology https://cdt.org/staff/matthew-shears/. (CDT is applying to join NCUC/NCSG as an organizational member) Previously he served as the Internet Society’s Public Policy Director, in which context he shaped ISOC’s positions and represented it in a variety of global Internet governance institutions.  Matt long has been extremely active as a civil society participant in the ITU, WSIS+10, CSTD, IGF and related settings, and more recently has gotten deeply involved in ICANN’s IANA and accountability processes.  He is also very active in civil society and related coalitions, e.g. ISOC, Best Bits, the Internet Governance Caucus, etc.

Both Joy and Matt are highly visible, leading civil society advocates working at the intersection of Internet governance and human rights policy, which as you know is the focus on a new initiative in ICANN that we are pushing in collaboration with other stakeholders.  And both are maestro text drafters in multiple CS coalitions, which of course will come in handy on the NCSG PC.  So I couldn’t be happier that they’ve decided to volunteer their energies in support of NCUC and NCSG at this important time.

Welcome to you both!

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