<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear Tapani, thank you for this.<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471248764697_119232">All the best. <br></span><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471248764697_119211"><br><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471248764697_119222"><span>Zakir<br> </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471248764697_119185" class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471248764697_119205" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471248764697_119204" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471248764697_119203" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471248764697_119202" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471248764697_119201" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471248764697_119200" size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tapani Tarvainen <ncsg@TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 16, 2016 11:03 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Candidate Statement 2016 - Tapani Tarvainen<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471248764697_119225" class="y_msg_container"><br>Name, declared region of residence, gender and employment:<br><br>Dear all,<br><br>Here's my candidate statement for the NCSG Chair election.<br><br><br><br>Name, declared region of residence, gender and employment:<br><br> Tapani Tarvainen, Europe, male, chief engineer at Jyväskylä University,<br> Finland.<br><br><br>Any conflicts of interest:<br><br> None.<br><br><br>Reasons for willingness to take on the tasks of the particular position:<br><br> NCSG has an important part to play in keeping the Internet free by<br> influencing ICANN's policies. And we have several gifted and<br> competent people working on those policies.<br><br> But in order to get their work done they also need administrative<br> support - bureacracy if you will.<br><br> I see the role of Chair in NCSG as an administrative one:<br> keeping the bureaucracy working and well-oiled so that the<br> people working on substantive issues can get on with their<br> work with minimal administrative hurdles.<br><br> That also explains my approach to administration: I believe it<br> should be mostly invisible, and the Chair and Executive Committee<br> should generally do their job in the background, keeping away from<br> the limelights.<br><br> That's what I've been doing the past year and at least NCSG<br> has not totally collapsed yet, so I guess I could've done worse.<br><br> Although admittedly when I started as the Chair last year I was, in<br> retrospect unsurprisingly, too optimistic about what I could get<br> done and how fast. But that is the way of things: they always take<br> longer than expected.<br><br> A few things I've got on on the agenda, either going on or<br> planned for the coming year:<br><br> * New membership management system is well on the way, indeed<br> I hope it to by up and running before the Hyderabad meeting.<br><br> * An independent website for NCSG is also coming along as part<br> of the same project.<br><br> * The Finance Committee has been reactivated, although later than<br> I'd hoped, so they haven't been able to do much yet, but<br> I trust they'll do more in the coming year.<br><br> * More NCUC-NPOC joint activities and continuing to improve<br> the relations between our two constituencies.<br><br> * Conducting a review of constituencies as our charter requires<br> us to do every two years.<br><br> * Establishing and documenting procedures for various things<br> the Executive Committee needs to do, like member removal.<br><br><br>Qualifications for the position:<br><br> Been there, done that. :-)<br><br> I won't bore you with my resume: let it suffice to say that<br> I have an extensive experience in dealing with and administering<br> various civil society organizations. Now including the NCSG.<br><br><br>Statement of availability for the time the position requires:<br><br> Yes: I have agreed with my employer, Jyväskylä university, that I<br> can continue to use some working hours to Chair the NCSG. I have<br> also decreased my activities in Effi, so I think I will have enough<br> time to handle the duties of our stakeholder group's Chair.<br><br><br>-- <br>Tapani Tarvainen<br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>