<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear Robin, all.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks all for the endorsements and more especially from the young people and those from the global south as this are two constituencies that I am blessed to be part of.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div>Please find my somewhat long and detailed statement below. To respond to Bill, thanks for your endorsement and I <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">do ascertain that</div> I have the energy and bandwidth to provide great ideas in defending user rights and advancing policy and advocacy engagements in this respect.<br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt" id="docs-internal-guid-54911eb7-c380-7acd-74ca-a25d02cbbd99"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Name: Ephraim Percy Kenyanito</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Region of residence: Africa</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Nationality: </span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" id="docs-internal-guid-54911eb7-c390-0069-8583-04aae5942764">Kenyan</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Gender: Male</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Personal statement and IG-related work:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">I am a Policy Fellow working with the Policy team for </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Access (</span><a href="https://www.accessnow.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(43,130,173);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.accessnow.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(43,130,173);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> )</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(9,21,242);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">where I focus on the connection between internet policy and human rights and specifically works on Internet Governance Reforms. Since joining Access, I have extensively supported Access in analyzing and contributing to international and national African policy positions at major internet governance fora, including the recent NetMundial meeting, the International Telecommunication Union, and the African Union Convention on Cybersecurity, among others and have assisted to extend and defend rights of users through ICANN Civil Society related events.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">I a member of the interim steering committee for the Youth Coalition on Internet Governance (a Dynamic Coalition of the IGF). I am also an affiliate at the Internet Policy Observatory (IPO) (</span><a href="http://globalnetpolicy.org/about/ipo-affiliates/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://globalnetpolicy.org/about/ipo-affiliates/</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> ) (created by the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Being only 21 years in July 2013, I was the youngest fellow of the African School on Internet Governance, held in South Africa and run by Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and NEPAD (the technical body of the African Union). In the mean time, I am scheduled to graduate from Law School in 2015 and I am also a Global Civics Student at the Global Civics Academy (</span><a href="http://www.globalcivics.net/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">www.globalcivics.net</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> ) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Prior to Access and Internet Policy Observatory, </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">I have worked with Transparency International (Kenya Chapter) in the Advocacy and Legal Advisory Centre (ALAC Eldoret Office) programme as a Law Student Intern for two years. The programme offers free legal advice to victims and witnesses of corruption and at the same time empower members of the Kenyan public to advocate for transparency and accountability in management of public affairs and is active in advocating for Freedom of Information and Data Protection Laws in Kenya.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" id="docs-internal-guid-54911eb7-c391-bdfb-f618-0989afdb9252">Post IGF 2011 in Nairobi Kenya, Transparency International-Kenya has played active role in using ICTs in human rights, to the point of organizing a hack-a-thon which brings developers together to through a weekend marathon of developing apps that can be used in human rights work. The programme also </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">uses a toll free call centre, social media and FM radio programmes to empower and promote community participation in monitoring public service delivery.</span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">I am a previous attendee at IGF at (as an on-site participant and remotely) both at the global and African regional level and more recently in the last IGF 2014 Istanbul, I engaged assertively </span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" id="docs-internal-guid-54911eb7-c382-2d66-95b5-95568adbc101">as an on-site</span></div><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> panellist<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div> on the following sessions:</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Developing countries participation in global IG- </span><a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2014/index.php/proposal/view_public/114" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,128);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2014/index.php/proposal/view_public/114</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Youth Coalition on Internet Governance- </span><a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/147-igf-2014/1861-igf-2014-youth-coalition-on-internet-governance-meeting" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,128);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">www.intgovforum.org/cms/147-igf-2014/1861-igf-2014-youth-coalition-on-internet-governance-meeting</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Net Neutrality Main Session- </span><a href="https://igf2014.sched.org/event/11c53224e232d7f3298247f3ec624e44" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,128);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://igf2014.sched.org/event/11c53224e232d7f3298247f3ec624e44</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> I am a member of a number of academic, end-user and activist mailing lists, and I plan to feed to consult report back about MAG discussions regularly. I plan to also write regular blog posts in assisting with this purpose. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">As a 22 year old youth, I believe that the youth are not leaders of tomorrow but of today and involving youth in IG processes ensures that there is no generational gap as regards to Internet Policy advancement. </span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" id="docs-internal-guid-54911eb7-c388-b179-7820-8f107e4017d2">I have often believe that young people ought to be at the forefront in advancing democratic and positive institutional reform. </span></div>My position is consistent with Civil Society views such as BestBits on the need for diversity in terms of age (<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div>b<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div><a href="http://estbits.net/2014-mag-nominations/">estbits.net/2014-mag-nominations/</a> ) and Internet Governance Caucus that “..Targeting youth groups or the younger generation of professionals will have, in the long run, an effective impact..” (<a href="http://igcaucus.org/answers-cstd-questionnaire-improvements-igf-19-november-2010" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,128);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://igcaucus.org/answers-cstd-questionnaire-improvements-igf-19-november-2010</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> )</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">This gap on youth involvement in IG has repeatedly been identified during subsequent, IGFs and more recently in IGF 2014, attendees pointed out that youth are about 3% minority in the IGF community (September 5</span><span style="font-size:10px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:super">th</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> 2014 11.00 Taking Stock</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>/ Emerging issues), which is consistent with 23 November 2010 IGF MAG Meeting (<a href="http://igf.wgig.org/cms/mag/102-igf-2010/transcripts2010" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,128);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://igf.wgig.org/cms/mag/102-igf-2010/transcripts2010</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> ) where it was stated, “...I think that we should have an opportunity to provide it -- to provide opportunities for youth representation from African countries, Asian, former USSR, other countries, to make it the IGF's better mandate...”</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">My views for IGF reform are that Civil Society needs to take a more prominent role in the IGF decision making and this is outlined at this BestBits statement: </span><a href="http://bestbits.net/igf-2014-submission/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,128);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><http://bestbits.net/igf-2014-submission/></span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> and in this IG- Caucus 2010 statement that is still relevant to-date: </span><a href="http://www.unctad.info/upload/CSTD-IGF/Contributions/M1/CSIGC.pdf" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,128);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://www.unctad.info/upload/CSTD-IGF/Contributions/M1/CSIGC.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Bio</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Ephraim is a Policy Fellow working with the Policy team for </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Access (</span><a href="https://www.accessnow.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(43,130,173);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.accessnow.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(43,130,173);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> )</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(9,21,242);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">where he focuses on the connection between internet policy and human rights and specifically works on Internet Governance Reforms. At Access, Ephraim has enthusiastically and extensively supported Access in analyzing and contributing to international and national African policy positions at major internet governance fora, including the recent NetMundial meeting, the International Telecommunication Union, and the African Union Convention on Cybersecurity, among others. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">He is a member of the interim steering committee for the Youth Coalition on Internet Governance (a Dynamic Coalition of the IGF) and is a global member of ISOC and served as a member of 2014's Kenya Internet Governance Forum Steering committee (</span><a href="http://kenyaigf.or.ke/index.php/about-kigf/kigf-team" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,128);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://kenyaigf.or.ke/index.php/about-kigf/kigf-team</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">). He is also an affiliate at the Internet Policy Observatory (IPO) (</span><a href="http://globalnetpolicy.org/about/ipo-affiliates/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://globalnetpolicy.org/about/ipo-affiliates/</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> ) (created by the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Being only 21 years in July 2013, he was the youngest graduate of the African School on Internet Governance, held in South Africa. He also has training in Internet Policy and Media Law from University of Oxford and University of Pennsylvania. In the mean time, he is scheduled to graduate from Law School in 2015 and is also a Global Civics Student at the Global Civics Academy (</span><a href="http://www.globalcivics.net/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">www.globalcivics.net</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> ) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Ephraim has participated in ICANN as a member of Non Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) (</span><a href="http://www.ncuc.org/about/members/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">www.ncuc.org/about/members/</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> ) and as a member of the ICANN Fellowship alumni network. He has participated in all the 2014 ICANN Civil Society related events and has been volunteering part of his free time as an Independent expert at ICANN's</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(9,21,242);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Implementation Advisory Group for Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice (IAG-CCT)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(9,21,242);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (</span><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-10-24-en" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(9,21,242);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-10-24-en</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(9,21,242);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> ) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">and as a member of the Translation and Transliteration PDP Working group (</span><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/tatcipdp/6+Membership+and+Mailing+List+Archive" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://community.icann.org/display/tatcipdp/6+Membership+and+Mailing+List+Archive</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> )</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Since 2012, Ephraim is also been an Author and Translator through various online publications such as </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Global Voices Online</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(43,130,173);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (</span><a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/ephraim-kenyanito/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(43,130,173);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/ephraim-kenyanito/</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(43,130,173);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, (an international network of </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">bloggers</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, translators, and citizen journalists that follow, report, and summarize what is going on in the blogosphere in every corner of the world.) Ephraim also write through </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The Daily Journalist </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(43,130,173);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">(</span><a href="http://thedailyjournalist.com/author/ephraimkenyanito/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(43,130,173);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">http://thedailyjournalist.com/author/ephraimkenyanito/</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(43,130,173);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> ) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">and through a personal blog, “</span><a href="http://thediaryofaglobalcitizen.wordpress.com/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The Diary of a Global Citizen</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">”</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(9,21,242);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (</span><a href="http://thediaryofaglobalcitizen.wordpress.com/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(9,21,242);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://thediaryofaglobalcitizen.wordpress.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(9,21,242);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">). Previously he was a Reporter and Multimedia Team member at European Journalism Centre’s</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(9,21,242);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">“</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">ThinkBrigade Project</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">.”</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(9,21,242);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (</span><a href="http://www.thinkbrigade.org/author/ephraim.k/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(9,21,242);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://www.thinkbrigade.org/author/ephraim.k/</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(9,21,242);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> )</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,10);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Ephraim has also been carrying out various African Regional Integration projects with the East African Community Secretariat (Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania) and was an Intern at the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Trade. He also has a passion for Democratic Governance Issues and has been involved in research and promotion of Governance Issues through projects facilitated by Transparency International, MercyCorps (International) and Centre for Law and Research International (CLARION) among other diverse-range of social development organizations.</span></p><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div><p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);font-size:13pt"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);font-size:13pt"></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div>--<p>Best Regards,<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important;float:none"></span></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"></div><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)">Ephraim Percy Kenyanito</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)"></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br>Website: </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(136,136,136)"><a href="http://about.me/ekenyanito" target="_blank">http://about.me/ekenyanito</a></span><br><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(136,136,136)"></span><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)">@ekenyanito<br></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)">PGP: E6BA8DC1</span></span></div></div></div><p></p></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 September 2014 11:19, Seun Ojedeji <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Well noting stops both from happening....he's got the muscle ;)<br><br></div>Cheers!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:40 AM, William Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com" target="_blank">wjdrake@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi<div><br></div><div>Personally, I’d have preferred to see Ephraim getting more involved with us in ICANN, but if he'd prefer for IGF to be his time sink I’d certainly support him as well. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Bill<div><div><br>
<br><div><div>On Sep 29, 2014, at 7:04 AM, Patricia Gnilane Senghor <<a href="mailto:patricia.senghor@GOOGLEMAIL.COM" target="_blank">patricia.senghor@GOOGLEMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello everyone,<br><br>I also support Ephraim Percy Kenyanito 's nomination for the Africa Region.<br><br></div>Best,<br><br>Patricia<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Sherly Haristya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sherly.haristya@gmail.com" target="_blank">sherly.haristya@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I also support the nomination of Ephraim. Thanks.<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Sherly</div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Benjamin Akinmoyeje <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benakin@gmail.com" target="_blank">benakin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div>I am excited to support Ephraim Percy Kenyanito 's nomination for the Africa Region.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>All the best Ephraim.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you</div><span><font color="#888888">Benjamin</font></span></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Wisdom Donkor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wisdom.dk@gmail.com" target="_blank">wisdom.dk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I wish to endorse the following nomination<span><br><br>Name: Ephraim Percy Kenyanito<br><br>Region of residence: Africa<br><br>Nationality: Kenya<br><br></span><span>On Thursday, September 25, 2014, Seun Ojedeji <<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I wish to submit the following nomination<br>><br>> Name: Ephraim Percy Kenyanito<br>><br>> Region of residence: Africa<br>><br>> Nationality: Kenya<br>><br>> Gender: Male<br>><br></span>> Ephraim brings a youth from developing countries perspective. He is a member of the interim steering committee for the Youth Coalition on Internet Governance (a Dynamic Coalition of the IGF). He is an Internet Governance Reform Fellow at Access (<a href="http://accessnow.org/" target="_blank">accessnow.org</a>) and an affiliate at the Internet Policy Observatory (IPO) (created by the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania)<span><br>><br>> He is a previous attendee at IGF at both the global and African regional level and more recently in Istanbul, he has engaged assertively as a panelist on Developing countries participation in global IG, Youth and Net Neutrality issues in developing countries.<br>><br>> In addition, he is a fellow of the African School on Internet Governance in South Africa (run by APC and NEPAD).<br>><br>> Ephraim brings with him a wealth of experience on engaging with various stakeholders from the developing world perspective.<br>><br>> Regards<br>> sent from Google nexus 4<br>> kindly excuse brevity and typos.<br><br></span>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>WISDOM DONKOR<br></div><div>Sosftware / Network Engineer<br></div>Web/Open Government Platform Portal Specialist<br><div><div>National Information Technology Agency (NITA) <br></div><div>Post Office Box CT. 2439, Cantonments, Accra, Ghana</div><div>Tel; +233 20 812881</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:wisdom_dk@hotmail.com" target="_blank">wisdom_dk@hotmail.com</a><br></div><div><a href="mailto:wisdom.donkor@data.gov.gh" target="_blank">wisdom.donkor@data.gov.gh</a><br></div><div><a href="mailto:wisdom.dk@gmail.com" target="_blank">wisdom.dk@gmail.com</a><br></div><div>Skype: wisdom_dk</div><div>facebook: facebook@wisdom_dk<br></div><div>Website: <a href="http://www.nita.gov.gh/" target="_blank">www.nita.gov.gh</a> / <a href="http://www.data.gov.gh/" target="_blank">www.data.gov.gh</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.isoc.gh/" target="_blank">www.isoc.gh</a> / <a href="http://www.itag.org.gh/" target="_blank">www.itag.org.gh</a> <br><br></div></div></div><br>
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<i><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)">Seun Ojedeji,<br style="color:rgb(0,102,0)"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)">Federal University Oye-Ekiti<br style="color:rgb(0,102,0)"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)">web: </span><a href="http://www.fuoye.edu.ng" target="_blank">http://www.fuoye.edu.ng</a><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)">Mobile: <a value="+2348035233535">+2348035233535</a></span><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)"></span><br></i><i><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)">alt email:<a href="http://goog_1872880453" target="_blank"> </a><a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@fuoye.edu.ng" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@fuoye.edu.ng</a></span></i><br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The key to understanding is humility - my view !<br></blockquote></blockquote></font><br></div>
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