Candidate statement (GNSO Council): Tatiana Tropina

[Tatiana Tropina]

Dear NCSG members,


Please find below my candidate statement.


I would like to thank Michael Oghia again for nominating me and express my
gratitude to all those who expressed their support. Your words of
encouragement were very important for me. Thank you very much.


*Candidate Statement, Tatiana Tropina, nomination: GNSO Council *


*Name:* Tatiana Tropina

*Region:* Europe

*Gender:* Female

*Employment:* Senior Researcher, Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and
International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany

*Conflict of interest:* None


*Reasons for willingness to take on the tasks of the particular position: *


The main – actually, the ultimate – reason why I am willing to take this
particular position is that I want the Noncommercial stakeholders to have a
strong voice and a strong representation in the GNSO policy-making
processes. And here I am not talking about the number of seats on GNSO
Council that belongs to NCSG and allows us to vote. I want NCSG to have a
stronger voice in deliberations, in advocating for our interests, in
bringing our values to the ICANN policy-making outcomes.


I am also willing to do my best to make the NCSG members informed and to
ensure a broader participation of the membership in policy-making
processes. I see the areas where we can put more efforts, like the channels
of communication between NCSG membership and councillors, the work of the
NCSG policy committee, the involvement of the broader NCSG membership in
the policy making. I also want NSCG to further strengthen collaboration
with other stakeholder groups – because we don’t exist in a vacuum and we
can have good alliances on some issues while fighting on the others and
standing firm on protecting the noncommercial interests. I am ready to work
hard on this.


To sum up, I would like to direct my efforts to:

-        making NCSG always vocal, visible at present at the Council

-        informing NCSG membership on the policy processes, building
capacity and engagement

-        collaborating and communicating with the stakeholders when we can
have common ground or common positions on the issues.

*Qualifications for the position:*


During the past 8 years of my career, I have been focusing mostly on two
things: policy-making and capacity building. Before getting involved in the
domain name issues, I was focusing mostly on cybersecurity and cybercrime –
also on capacity building in this field for different stakeholder groups –
and then I became more engaged with the broader issues of Internet
governance.


I am not a veteran at ICANN, but probably not a newcomer either. I joined
NCUC in 2015 and jumped in with both feet. I started with participating in
the CCWG-Accountability Workstream 1 and CCWP for Human Rights and became a
member of the NCSG Policy Committee. After the start of Workstream 2, I
have been very active in the Human Rights subgroup and was one of the
penholders in the small team that worked on the actual drafting of the
Framework of Interpretation for the Human Rights bylaw. I am also active in
the Jurisdiction subgroup, and I tried to help with drafting SO/AC
accountability subgroup report (well – only a section or two but was happy
to provide my input!). I am active in the CCWG on Internet Governance and,
again, was a part of drafting team for the CCWG charter amendments. Yes, I
am trying to make a point here – for me, participation is real.
Participation means grabbing a pen (ok, a keyboard) and being vocal.


Last year I was elected as a European representative for the NCUC executive
committee. Again, I have a track record of my participation: from outreach
(some of you might remember out outreach in Copenhagen, EuroDIG and other
venues) to taking part in different procedural and administrative tasks. I
took an active part in drafting procedural rules and in addressing the
ICANN's comments to NCUC bylaws. I participated in budget request drafting,
and in drafting IGF proposals together with other NCUC members – and we
secured our presence at IGF 2017 because our proposal was selected.


What fascinated me about ICANN in the beginning of my involvement and still
fascinates me is that the more you are willing to take part, the more input
you provide – the more of actual results, the real impact of your work on
policy or accountability processes you can see. It is very inspiring and
rewarding. I think this one of the factors that keep us, volunteers, going
on. I believe that NCSG can benefit from my qualification and my
willingness to work if I am elected to the GNSO council. I am vocal, I am
present, I am ready to put my volunteer time and expertise in the
policy-making and capacity building to see the real impact on policy.


*Statement of availability for the time the position requires:*


I know how much involvement the GNSO Council position requires. I think the
track of my volunteer activity at ICANN and other IG spaces speaks for
itself: I am ready to put long hours into ICANN-related commitments. As I
have quite flexible working hours and schedule, there has never been a
problem to devote time to ICANN and I can fully commit to GNSO work.


Last but not least: I wish good luck to all the other candidates – they are
excellent!


Warm regards,


Tatiana
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