Nomination of Farzaneh Badii for the seat of NCSG Chair

[Mahdi Taghizadeh]

Good luck, Farzi 👍

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:23 PM farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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>
>>
>>
>> --



*Mahdi Taghizadeh*
*http://mahdi.ws <http://mahdi.ws>*
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