<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi all, </div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please find below my candidate statement,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Name, declared region of residence, gender and employment;</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Martin Silva Valent</div><div class="">Argentinean and Italian Citizen, living in Buenos Aires, Argentina.</div><div class="">Male</div><div class="">Lawyer, Bar in Buenos Aires, Partner of Silva.legal (a business law firm, mostly real-estate development, hospitality, and some industrial clients) and Co-founder and Director of Datas (NGO for Activism, Research and Education on Technology Governance). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Any conflicts of interest:</b></div><div class="">none</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Reasons for willingness to take on the tasks of the particular position: </b></div><div class=""> I’ve invested more than five years in working inside ICANN mission fending the Non-commercial Interest, mostly form the NGOs perspective. ICANN has been the main project on my work as an activist, regardless of all my other projects in Internet Governance or Algorithm Governance, and now that I’ve finished my first year in the GNSO Council I finally feel I can deliver the full potential of my collaborations. </div><div class=""> I chose to do this work because I believe that this stakeholder is underrepresented in the Internet Governance ecosystem, and the DNS is one of the few cores or critical resources of the net, by ensuring the DNS stays good for all we are ensuring that other works further the stream can be done with or within internet to make a better society. DNS is not enough but is necessary for the current state of the Internet (as has been since it is beginning).</div><div class=""> I think the main goal of the NCSG is to provide a DNS as open as possible so everyone in the world can do and express their individuality and their communities. This means to create systems that allow expression, privacy, security, and stability, but all these concepts demand further understanding, like the role of identities, language, organizational issues and so on.</div><div class=""> I would say my main work inside ICANN besides the Council mandate is my role as an NCSG leader in the Review of all Right’s Protection Mechanism Working Group, where the right holders of trademark try to make process to protect their rights, and we try to make sure those processes are respectful of the other stakes outside trademark law, so that the process is no abusive or abused.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Qualifications for the position:</b></div><div class="">Besides being a Lawyer that worked for years with Technology Governance issues in the Civil Society, I co-founded an NGO with global outreach, doing research, education, and activism with several organization and universities. Inside ICANN, after 5 years I’ve worked with hundreds of members around the globe inside and outside the NCSG, taking me to lead several processes and works, coaching over a dozen generations of Fellows and living through experiences like the IANA-Transition.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""> • Statement of availability for the time the position requires:</b></div><div class="">As a self-employed person, I manage my own schedules. I’ve already attended all GNSO Council calls and fulfilled my duties.</div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><b class=""> • The nominee’s statement may also include any other information that the candidate believes is relevant: </b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think my skills and personalities are a good complement to the Council team. I am used to working with other, lead and follow. I always put the needs of the community against my own and I feel I am more than ready to take my full potential to the Council Work in such a moment of change for the organization. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am open to questions and comments! So please do reach out.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards, </div><div class="">Martín Silva Valent</div></div></body></html>