Nomination of Farzaneh Badii for the seat of NCSG Chair

Wed Aug 16 10:02:22 EEST 2017

As a very novice member of the group, I should say that Farzaneh's plan
seems perfect and really motivational for us!

Good Luck Dear!

Warm Regards,
Sogand

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 7:15 PM Stephanie Perrin <
stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:

> I think these are all really great goals Farzi.  We need to do better on
> our mentoring process, we need better structures to help new people engage,
> without burdening our experts too much.  This is in my view a key issue in
> capacity building that we need to address.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Stephanie Perrin
>
> On 2017-08-15 10:50, Mahdi Taghizadeh wrote:
>
> 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>*
>
>
> --
Warm Regards,

-Sogand
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