<div dir="auto">Good evening,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you Dr. Badii for this nomination and your kind words! I accept the nomination. Below is also my candidate statement. Looking forward to this voting process!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you very much,</div><div dir="auto">Have a great day,</div><div dir="auto">David Morar</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><p class="p1" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody;font-weight:bold">Name</span><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">: David Morar</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody;font-weight:bold">Region of residence</span><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">: United States (North America) / Romania (Europe)</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody;font-weight:bold">Gender</span><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">: male</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody;font-weight:bold">Employment</span><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">: PostDoctoral Fellow, New York University</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody;font-weight:bold">Conflict of Interest</span><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">: I have an advising relationship with the Internet Infrastructure Coalition, but will recuse myself in either/both capacities on any issues that would imply or even remotely seem to be any conflict of interest</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;min-height:20px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody;font-weight:bold">Reasons for willingness to take on the position</span><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">:</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">Professionally, I have been an academic for more than a decade, studying, to an extent at arms length, important topics, structures, institutions, always finding ways to deeply understand them, but rarely fully committing myself to their practice. My area of expertise, technology policy and governance provided ample opportunities to do so, but I’ve always felt that I would be better suited as an observer, with whatever level of participation felt appropriate. I became an ICANN Fellow in March 2017, at ICANN58 in Copenhagen and things changed a little bit with each new fellowship (March 2018 at ICANN61 in Puerto Rico, and then March 2019 at ICANN64 in Kobe). I made one another small step when I joined the NCSG EC and started to truly understand the importance of the real world application of everything I’ve been studying, from the theories of multistakeholderism, to the concepts of technical internet governance. This doesn’t mean that it would be easy, or that theory fell neatly into place when dealing with reality, but that’s what made it fascinating. As part of the EC, I got to witness the amazing work that Bruna Santos, our current chair put in, and it made me eager to do more. It made me want to work harder within and for the NCSG. Building on Bruna Santos’ work, I want to help enable NCSG to have a strong presence and participate in all aspects of policy-making and governance at ICANN and to advocate for the values it treasures such as freedom of expression, privacy, access and other values. I aim to also help NCSG members to get involved with the policy discussions and come up with a solid outreach plan that can help with capacity building and maintaining and increasing the diversity of NCSG especially from less represented regions and demographics. Being a part of the policy making conversations in Europe and the US has renewed my thinking that the way forward is through an engaged public being at the table when important decisions are made, and this position would be the right way that I can make sure that happens in the internet governance space. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;min-height:20px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody;font-weight:bold">Qualifications for the position:</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">My work has been, as previously noted, mostly in the academic space, having worked on a PhD on multistakeholderism in Internet Governance. I have been active in the internet governance space and count myself lucky to have been awarded three-time participation in the ICANN Fellowship program (which is celebrating its 15th year this year!), which kickstarted my career in internet governance! The ICANN Fellowship connected me to world class colleagues and mentors, brought me life-long friendships and most importantly put me on a fast track within the IG world. Since then I have been an active participant (and panelist) at the Global IGF and IGF-USA, as well as part of capacity building endeavors like the CYBERSSIG and NASIG. Beyond these direct connections to the IG world, </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">and including my time as part of the NCSG EC, I have had substantial career working on internet governance and policy topics, as a two time Google Policy Fellow, a research fellow, and a visiting scholar on three continents (Europe, North and South America), as well as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Communication Technology (JoCTEC). My work has appeared in op-eds with the Wall Street Journal and San Francisco Chronicle, and publications with the Brookings Institute and the Internet Governance Blog, among others. I am equipped not only with the subject matter expertise on the issues I’ve spent years analyzing, but also with the skill of being able to quickly and substantially understand new areas of work. My two years spent on the Board of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management afforded me great insights into working with those at the top of an international organization, which, coupled with learning from Ms. Santos’ time as chair on how to directly and properly engage with other stakeholder groups, the board and the org positions me for success! </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;min-height:20px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s1" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody;font-weight:bold">Statement of availability for the time the position required:</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="s2" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">As an academic I am very much built to successfully divide my time between my responsibilities. I will be cycling off a few of my academic positions and fellowships at the end of summer, so I will be even more available to pursue the work of Chair of NCSG.</span></p></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 13:55 farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hello everyone,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I would like to nominate Dr. David Morar for the NCSG chair position. David has worked on NCSG issues behind the scenes so far as a member of NCSG Executive Committee, so he understands the dynamics and the very challenges that a chair has to deal with.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <br>David is a versatile scholar. He has studied many aspects of Internet governance from Content Moderation to Internet infrastructure. You can read about him here: <a href="https://davidmorar.com/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">https://davidmorar.com/</a> and not to be confused with the Romanian Football Player :)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">David has also been an ICANN fellow, a popular one so he got selected 3 times. He is from Romania (based in the US) and understands very well the problems developing countries are dealing with when it comes to Internet governance. <br><br>I also believe that David is going to help us participate at ICANN strategically since he wrote his PhD thesis about multistakeholder Internet governance.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I hope David accepts this nomination. </div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>David Morar, PhD<div><div></div></div></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/morar" target="_blank">@morar</a></div><div><a href="http://davidmorar.com/" target="_blank">davidmorar.com</a></div></div></div>