<div dir="auto">Dear Farzaneh,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div style="font-size:inherit"><div style="font-size:inherit">
<p>Thank you for all the great work and dedication you have shown for NCSG and the community. Your efforts on transparency, human rights, and accessibility have been truly valuable.</p>
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<p>I fully support your candidacy and wish you the best of luck!</p>
</div></div>Br,,,</div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 17 May 2026 at 20:20, farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:00001deb507b73c5-dmarc-request@listserv.syr.edu">00001deb507b73c5-dmarc-request@listserv.syr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hi 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 am accepting the GNSO council nomination and please find my statement below:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I am based in North America, and originally from Iran. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I have been active at NCSG for a long time, been on GNSO council since 2025, and the policy committee chair since 2026, and here are some of the initiatives I have led at NCSG: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">1. Establishing human rights impact assessment sessions at ICANN: this started some years ago and then we frequently held HRIA sessions on different topics at ICANN.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">2. Advocating for proportionality, reasonableness, transparency at the council: I have been involved with drafting teams and small teams in the council infusing NCSG's human rights values and access to domain names from the beginning. I also drafted the first retroactive human rights impact assessment of transfer policy and helped with the first official Latin Diacritics human rights impact assessment. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">3. I also led the work on GAC communique human rights impact assessment that I will continue in my own capacity. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">4. RDRS transparency and law enforcement conversations: I facilitated incorporating transparency features for law enforcement requests in RDRS and facilitated sessions with NCSG on authentication. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">There is a lot of work to be done in the next few years in terms of bringing more transparency and accessibility, remedy and protecting access to domains and freedom of speech to ICANN and its policies. And there is a lot of unfortunate resistance. With the help of Rafik and others we have been able to make tangible improvements. Voting for me means I can help advance this work further as the world is increasingly turning its back on freedom of speech, access, transparency and generally human rights! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I founded <a href="https://digitalmedusa.org/" target="_blank">DigitalMedusa</a> five years ago to provide people with unfettered access to technology. I work with a host of commercial and noncommercial entities and receive grants for my work. When I receive funding to work on a domain name governance issue I update my SOI. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">If you have any questions about my work or candidacy, please do let me know. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Best regards, </div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div></div>
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