Nomination to MAG

Mon Sep 29 17:44:16 EEST 2014

Dear Robin, all.

Thanks all for the endorsements and more especially from the young people
and those from the global south as this are two constituencies that I am
blessed to be part of.

Please find my somewhat long and detailed statement below. To respond to
Bill, thanks for your endorsement and I
do ascertain that
I have the energy and bandwidth to provide great ideas in defending user
rights and advancing policy and advocacy engagements in this respect.

Name: Ephraim Percy Kenyanito

Region of residence: Africa

Nationality:
Kenyan

Gender: Male

Personal statement and IG-related work:

I am a Policy Fellow working with the Policy team for Access (
https://www.accessnow.org/ ), where I focus on the connection between
internet policy and human rights and specifically works on Internet
Governance Reforms. Since joining Access, I have extensively supported
Access in analyzing and contributing to international and national African
policy positions at major internet governance fora, including the recent
NetMundial meeting, the International Telecommunication Union, and the
African Union Convention on Cybersecurity, among others and have assisted
to extend and defend rights of users through  ICANN Civil Society related
events.

I a member of the interim steering committee for the Youth Coalition on
Internet Governance (a Dynamic Coalition of the IGF). I am also an
affiliate at the Internet Policy Observatory (IPO) (
http://globalnetpolicy.org/about/ipo-affiliates/ ) (created by the Center
for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication
at the University of Pennsylvania).

Being only 21 years in July 2013, I was the youngest fellow of the African
School on Internet Governance, held in South Africa and run by Association
for Progressive Communications (APC) and NEPAD (the technical body of the
African Union). In the mean time, I am scheduled to graduate from Law
School in 2015 and I am also a Global Civics Student at the Global Civics
Academy (www.globalcivics.net )

Prior to Access and Internet Policy Observatory, I have worked with
Transparency International (Kenya Chapter) in the Advocacy and Legal
Advisory Centre (ALAC Eldoret Office) programme as a Law Student Intern for
two years. The programme offers free legal advice to victims and witnesses
of corruption and at the same time empower members of the Kenyan public to
advocate for transparency and accountability in management of public
affairs and is active in advocating for Freedom of Information and Data
Protection Laws in Kenya.

Post IGF 2011 in Nairobi Kenya, Transparency International-Kenya has
played active role in using ICTs in human rights, to the point of
organizing a hack-a-thon which brings developers together to through a
weekend marathon of developing apps that can be used in human rights work.
The programme also uses a toll free call centre, social media and FM radio
programmes to empower and promote community participation in monitoring
public service delivery.

I am a previous attendee at IGF at (as an on-site participant and remotely)
both at the global and African regional level and more recently in the last
IGF 2014 Istanbul, I engaged assertively
as an on-site
 panellist

on the following sessions:

Developing countries participation in global IG-
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2014/index.php/proposal/view_public/114

Youth Coalition on Internet Governance-
www.intgovforum.org/cms/147-igf-2014/1861-igf-2014-youth-coalition-on-internet-governance-meeting

Net Neutrality Main Session-
https://igf2014.sched.org/event/11c53224e232d7f3298247f3ec624e44 I am a
member of a number of academic, end-user and activist mailing lists, and I
plan to feed to consult report back about MAG discussions regularly.  I
plan to also write regular blog posts in assisting with this purpose.

As a 22 year old youth, I believe that the youth are not leaders of
tomorrow but of today and involving youth in IG processes ensures that
there is no generational gap as regards to Internet Policy advancement.
I have often believe that young people ought to be at the forefront in
advancing democratic and positive institutional reform. 
My position is consistent with Civil Society views such as BestBits on the
need for diversity in terms of age (

b

estbits.net/2014-mag-nominations/ ) and Internet Governance Caucus that
“..Targeting youth groups or the younger generation of professionals will
have, in the long run, an effective impact..” (
http://igcaucus.org/answers-cstd-questionnaire-improvements-igf-19-november-2010
)

This gap on youth involvement in IG has repeatedly been identified during
subsequent, IGFs and more recently in IGF 2014, attendees pointed out that
youth are about 3% minority in the IGF community (September 5th 2014 11.00
Taking Stock

/ Emerging issues), which is consistent with 23 November 2010 IGF MAG
Meeting (http://igf.wgig.org/cms/mag/102-igf-2010/transcripts2010 ) where
it was stated, “...I think that we should have an opportunity to provide it
-- to provide opportunities for youth representation from African
countries, Asian, former USSR, other countries, to make it the IGF's better
mandate...”

My views for IGF reform are that Civil Society needs to take a more
prominent role in the IGF decision making and this is outlined at this
BestBits statement:  <http://bestbits.net/igf-2014-submission/>
<http://bestbits.net/igf-2014-submission/> and in this IG- Caucus 2010
statement that is still relevant to-date:
http://www.unctad.info/upload/CSTD-IGF/Contributions/M1/CSIGC.pdf

Bio

Ephraim is a Policy Fellow working with the Policy team for Access (
https://www.accessnow.org/ ), where he focuses on the connection between
internet policy and human rights and specifically works on Internet
Governance Reforms. At Access, Ephraim has enthusiastically and extensively
supported Access in analyzing and contributing to international and
national African policy positions at major internet governance fora,
including the recent NetMundial meeting, the International
Telecommunication Union, and the African Union Convention on Cybersecurity,
among others.

He is a member of the interim steering committee for the Youth Coalition on
Internet Governance (a Dynamic Coalition of the IGF) and is a global member
of ISOC and served as a member of 2014's Kenya Internet Governance Forum
Steering committee (http://kenyaigf.or.ke/index.php/about-kigf/kigf-team).
He is also an affiliate at the Internet Policy Observatory (IPO) (
http://globalnetpolicy.org/about/ipo-affiliates/ ) (created by the Center
for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication
at the University of Pennsylvania).

Being only 21 years in July 2013, he was the youngest graduate of the
African School on Internet Governance, held in South Africa. He also has
training in Internet Policy and Media Law from University of Oxford and
University of Pennsylvania. In the mean time, he is scheduled to graduate
from Law School in 2015 and is also a Global Civics Student at the Global
Civics Academy (www.globalcivics.net )

Ephraim has participated in ICANN as a member of Non Commercial Users
Constituency (NCUC) (www.ncuc.org/about/members/ ) and as a member of the
ICANN Fellowship alumni network. He has participated in all the 2014 ICANN
Civil Society related events and has been volunteering part of his free
time as an Independent expert at ICANN's Implementation Advisory Group for
Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice (IAG-CCT) (
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-10-24-en ) and as a member of
the Translation and Transliteration PDP Working group (
https://community.icann.org/display/tatcipdp/6+Membership+and+Mailing+List+Archive
)

Since 2012, Ephraim is also been an Author and Translator through various
online publications such as Global Voices Online (
http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/ephraim-kenyanito/ ), (an
international network of bloggers, translators, and citizen journalists
that follow, report, and summarize what is going on in the blogosphere in
every corner of the world.) Ephraim also write through The Daily Journalist
(http://thedailyjournalist.com/author/ephraimkenyanito/ ) and through a
personal blog, “The Diary of a Global Citizen
<http://thediaryofaglobalcitizen.wordpress.com/>” (
http://thediaryofaglobalcitizen.wordpress.com/ ). Previously he was a
Reporter and Multimedia Team member at European Journalism Centre’s
“ThinkBrigade
Project.” (http://www.thinkbrigade.org/author/ephraim.k/ )

Ephraim has also been carrying out various African Regional Integration
projects with the East African Community Secretariat (Arusha, United
Republic of Tanzania) and was an Intern at the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign
Affairs & International Trade. He also has a passion for Democratic
Governance Issues and has been involved in research and promotion of
Governance Issues through projects facilitated by Transparency
International, MercyCorps (International) and Centre for Law and Research
International (CLARION) among other diverse-range of social development
organizations.

--

Best Regards,

*Ephraim Percy Kenyanito*
Website: http://about.me/ekenyanito
@ekenyanito
PGP: E6BA8DC1

On 29 September 2014 11:19, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well noting stops both from happening....he's got the muscle ;)
>
> Cheers!
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:40 AM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Personally, I’d have preferred to see Ephraim getting more involved with
>> us in ICANN, but if he'd prefer for IGF to be his time sink I’d certainly
>> support him as well. :-)
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> On Sep 29, 2014, at 7:04 AM, Patricia Gnilane Senghor <
>> patricia.senghor at GOOGLEMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I also support Ephraim Percy Kenyanito 's nomination for the Africa
>> Region.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Patricia
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Sherly Haristya <
>> sherly.haristya at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I also support the nomination of Ephraim. Thanks.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Sherly
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Benjamin Akinmoyeje <benakin at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I am excited to support Ephraim Percy Kenyanito 's nomination for the
>>>> Africa Region.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> All the best Ephraim.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you
>>>> Benjamin
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Wisdom Donkor <wisdom.dk at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I wish to endorse the following nomination
>>>>>
>>>>> Name: Ephraim Percy Kenyanito
>>>>>
>>>>> Region of residence: Africa
>>>>>
>>>>> Nationality: Kenya
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, September 25, 2014, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > I wish to submit the following nomination
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Name: Ephraim Percy Kenyanito
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Region of residence: Africa
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Nationality: Kenya
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Gender: Male
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Ephraim brings a youth from developing countries perspective. He
>>>>> is a member of the interim steering committee for the Youth Coalition on
>>>>> Internet Governance (a Dynamic Coalition of the IGF). He is an Internet
>>>>> Governance Reform Fellow at Access (accessnow.org) and an affiliate
>>>>> at the Internet Policy Observatory (IPO) (created by the Center for Global
>>>>> Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication at the
>>>>> University of Pennsylvania)
>>>>> >
>>>>> > He is a previous attendee at IGF at both the global and African
>>>>> regional level and more recently in Istanbul, he has engaged assertively as
>>>>> a panelist on Developing countries participation in global IG, Youth and
>>>>> Net Neutrality issues in developing countries.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > In addition, he is a fellow of the African School on Internet
>>>>> Governance in South Africa (run by APC and NEPAD).
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Ephraim brings with him a wealth of experience on engaging with
>>>>> various stakeholders from the developing world perspective.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Regards
>>>>> > sent from Google nexus 4
>>>>> > kindly excuse brevity and typos.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> WISDOM DONKOR
>>>>> Sosftware / Network Engineer
>>>>> Web/Open Government Platform Portal Specialist
>>>>> National Information Technology Agency (NITA)
>>>>> Post Office Box CT. 2439, Cantonments, Accra, Ghana
>>>>> Tel; +233 20 812881
>>>>> Email: wisdom_dk at hotmail.com
>>>>> wisdom.donkor at data.gov.gh
>>>>> wisdom.dk at gmail.com
>>>>> Skype: wisdom_dk
>>>>> facebook: facebook at wisdom_dk
>>>>> Website: www.nita.gov.gh / www.data.gov.gh
>>>>> www.isoc.gh / www.itag.org.gh
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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