<div dir="ltr"><div>Fully Supported + 1<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="monospace">Poncelet O. Ileleji<br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace">Jokkolabs Banjul - Lead</font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace">Sait Matty Road, Bakau, Adjacent to Swedish Consulate</font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace">KMC, The Gambia</font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace">P O Box 4496 Bakau,KMC, The Gambia</font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace">Skype: pons_utd</font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace">Tel Direct Office: +220 4495115</font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace">Tel Mobile/Whatsapp: +220 9912508<br></font></b></div><div><a href="http://www.jokkolabs.co" target="_blank"><b><font face="monospace">www.jokkolabs.net</font></b></a></div><div><b><font face="monospace">LinkedIn: Jokkolabs Banjul<br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace">Facebook: Jokkolabs Banjul</font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace">Twitter: @jklBanjul</font></b></div><div><b><font face="monospace"><br></font></b></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 3:03 AM Bruna Martins dos Santos <<a href="mailto:bruna.mrtns@gmail.com">bruna.mrtns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><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><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Dear all, </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Please find below my candidate statement for NCSG Chair. In case anyone has any questions, I would be more than happy to chat. </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Ps. Good luck to all our candidates in the current leadership elections! </font></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">------- </font></b></div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><div><br></div>Candidate Statement - NCSG Chair</font></b><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Name: </b>Bruna Martins dos Santos </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Declared region of residence:</b> LAC - currently residing in Brasilia, Brazil </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Gender:</b> Female </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Employment:</b> Data Privacy Brazil Research <br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><span id="gmail-m_-3461512844474233903gmail-docs-internal-guid-a30e3054-7fff-e859-a7fa-ba4c2d730847"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Conflicts of Interest: </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> none</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span id="gmail-m_-3461512844474233903gmail-docs-internal-guid-ec0494c2-7fff-d43e-1474-54c87bcc1805"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reasons for willingness to take on the position:</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I want to continue working on behalf of our community improvement. The past year has proved to be incredibly challenging for civil society worldwide due to the pandemic and the majority of us shifting our attention to a more local level approach on advocacy and emergencies. With some chance of our world going back to normality I am highly interested in helping us</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> reach higher levels of participation once the right bridging between incoming members and PDP active members is done. On that specific point, I had the honor to follow up on the great work by previous chairs of the GNSO`s Non-commercial community and to help shape efforts such as Policy Writing courses. In order for us to improve NCSG membership at ICANN, I believe our stakeholder group needs to go back to working on improving the offer of the right tools to allow our members to feel more confident in finding the right places and opportunities to contribute.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Having spent the past 3 years in leadership positions at NCUC and NCSG, I was able to have a comprehensive view of the challenges our members might face when engaging with our Stakeholder Group, as well as some of the intricacies of our groups. In light of being an avid advocate for ICANN's Multistakeholder model and Civil Society participation on it, as well as NCSGs relevance to the model, I would love the challenge being reelected for a second term and continuing to help find solutions for some of the participation gaps we face nowadays and enable new members to engage with the many challenging policy discussions the Policy Committee coordinates. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Qualifications for the position:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I hold a BA in Law with experience in Internet Regulation, Human Rights and International Law and experience in policy making processes regarding the Internet that started back in 2011 while I had the chance to work at the drafting team of the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet. Ever since then, I have worked for the brazilian government until 2016, as a legal advisor on social matters - including the construction of the initial draft of our Data Protection Law and the regulatory decree of Marco Civil da Internet. Currently I hold the position of Advocacy Coordinator at Data Privacy Brazil Research, helping coordinate advocacy efforts around data protection and Internet Governance debates at the local, regional and global level. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Moving on to ICANN, I have been involved with our stakeholder group since 2017 - when I joined as a member after remotely following our discussions for years. Ever since, I have served as NCUC Chair, Vice-Chair and NCUC EC representative for the LAC region, and currently hold the position of NCSG Chair. Besides the leadership positions, I have contributed to NCSG's policy work, having volunteered for being one of the pen holders for some of the provided input to the New gTLDs Subsequent Procedures WG Comments and am an alternate at the EPDP Phase #2. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Statement of availability for the time the position required: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I confirm that I have the required availability to focus on the needed discussions and processes where the NCSG chair is required. Despite working full time I have managed to successfully complete my terms both as NCUC EC LAC and NCUC Chair with a fair amount of time dedicated to the chair duties, and the same is likely to happen with my current first term as the NCSG Chair. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Additional information: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Apart from my work at ICANN I am also one of the co-coordinators of Internet Governance Caucus, have acted as one of the key constituents at the roundtable designated for debating recommendations 3A/B of the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation, and help coordinate the Internet Governance Forum's Best practice Forum on Gender and Digital Rights. </span></p></span><br></font></div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-- <br></font><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><i><font face="arial, sans-serif">Bruna Martins dos Santos <br></font></i></b><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"></font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Advocacy Coordinator | <a href="https://www.dataprivacybr.org/en/" target="_blank">Data Privacy Brazil Research</a></font></font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><font color="#000000">Member | <a href="https://direitosnarede.org.br/" target="_blank">Coalizão Direitos na Rede</a> <br>Chair</font></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> | <a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/about/stakeholders-constituencies/ncsg" target="_blank">Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group at ICANN</a><br></span><font size="2"><font color="#000000">Co-Coordinator</font></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> | <a href="https://igcaucus.org/" target="_blank">Internet Governance Caucus </a><br></span><font size="2"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></font></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font size="2">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/boomartins" target="_blank"><font color="#1155cc">@</font>boomartins</a> // </font></font><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36)">Skype: bruna.martinsantos</span></font></div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:bruna@dataprivacybr.org" target="_blank">bruna@dataprivacybr.org</a> and <a href="mailto:bruna.mrtns@gmail.com" target="_blank">bruna.mrtns@gmail.com</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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