Nomination of Farzaneh Badii for the seat of NCSG Chair

[farzaneh badii]

Thank you, Ayden, for nominating me for the NCSG Chair position, and
thank you everyone for your support. I accept the nomination. Sorry for the
delay in my response. This was for two reasons; firstly, I needed time to
think about it, and secondly, as I am currently the chair of the NCUC I did
not want to just accept the nomination without a statement that clearly
stipulated my reasons.

I think as the Noncommercial Stakeholder Group we need to be strategic in
our overall involvement with policy development at ICANN. Being strategic
is not just a fancy term that I throw out there. I actually mean something
by that. We need to help our members and NCSG representatives on the GNSO
Council to develop policy at ICANN and to be able to meaningfully
contribute to the process. We need to be at the top of the game. We need to
be better in policy advocacy. We have the means, and we have great members
who have suitable backgrounds and qualifications that can help us to
advance noncommercial interests and address noncommercial concerns at
ICANN.

I believe members of the NCSG should find it easy to get involved with
policy making, to understand what the NCSG does, and to be able to help our
GNSO Councilors with their decisions. You should also be able to challenge
the decisions made by your leaders and representatives. Experienced members
at the NCSG should not be left alone in their efforts to
advance noncommercial interests at ICANN. New members should not feel lost
when they want to get involved with policy making.

We should also make joining the NCSG to advance policy at ICANN more
attractive for those who care about similar issues. The NCSG should be the
prominent venue where noncommercial interests are advanced at ICANN.

If elected as the NCSG Chair, I will work with you towards building the
NCSG more. We should explore the resources and means accessible to us to
make the NCSG stronger. I have gained some experience in managing and
securing resources which will help us with this. I would also like to work
more on NCSG internal governance. We need to come up with internal
operating procedures, update our wiki page, inform you about the leaders’
decisions and conducts, brief you on most important decisions periodically,
and overall, tell you more about what is going on within NCSG leadership.

These are the reasons I would like to run in this election for the position
of Chair of the NCSG. I have plans and feel totally committed to bringing
you three things: strong internal governance, support and capacity building
for policy making at ICANN, and increased outreach opportunities.

Best regards,

Farzaneh

Farzaneh

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to nominate Dr Farzaneh Badii for the seat of NCSG Chair.
>
> Most of us will already know Farzaneh — and if you do not, I encourage you
> to reach out to her some time. She is respected across the ICANN community
> for a number of reasons: for her very substantive contributions within
> working groups, for her in-depth knowledge of ICANN and the broader
> Internet governance landscape, and her skills in analysis and
> rapporteurship. But I think newer members know Farzaneh for a very
> different reason; for her desire to share her knowledge, to coach, to
> mentor, to help. That has been my experience, and I do not believe it to be
> an isolated one.
>
> Indeed, if we explore Farzaneh’s legacy from her term as NCUC Chair, we
> can see that she focused strongly on capacity building, hosting numerous
> newcomer webinars to bring new members into the fold and causing a paradigm
> shift in how we have all come to see the onboarding of new NCUC members.
> She sought to further legitimise the constituency, first embarking on a
> website redesign and rebrand, then reaching out to other stakeholder groups
> to invite collaboration where it was appropriate. She completed a
> revolutionary review of the NCUC Bylaws, and led the development of the
> constituency’s first-ever Operating Procedures.
>
> Her significant legacy from chairing the NCUC is one of achievement,
> transparency, and structural and procedural change. But it was also a
> glimpse into her as a person. She has shown herself to be dependable [I
> often wonder if she sleeps, because no matter what time of day or night I
> contact Farzaneh, I know I’ll get an immediate response], optimistic, and
> calm when the pressure is on. And she backs this up with legal knowledge,
> experience in mediation, and political acumen.
>
> We were lucky to have Farzaneh at the helm of the NCUC. We’d be even
> luckier to have her chairing the NCSG. I have every confidence that she has
> the right knowledge, experience, and commitment to grow the NCSG.
>
> Indeed, she already has been — take a look at the Special Budget Requests
> that were granted for the NCSG this coming financial year, and you’ll note
> that one of the most significant - a huge $66,000 windfall for us to launch
> a “capacity building program for NCSG, NCUC and NPOC to enable the NCSG
> members to effectively participate in policymaking at ICANN from various
> WGs to CCWGs” was drafted by Farzaneh. This is in addition to the $20,000
> she secured for the NCUC for a policy practicum, travel slots for the
> Internet Governance Forum in Geneva, and an additional employee to join
> Constituency Travel to facilitate visas, among other instances where she’s
> backed up her words with resources.
>
> Farzaneh, I sincerely hope you will accept this nomination.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Ayden Férdeline
> linkedin.com/in/ferdeline <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline>
>
>
>
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