2018 NCSG Election Process and list of Candidates

[Tracy Kadesa]

Dear Stephanie ,

loved reading your statement, your experience is great !

I like that you emphasized respect and inclusion.

Looking forward to your term!



Regards

Tracy Kadesa,
LL.B ,University of Nairobi.
Dip KSL
tracykadesa.wordpress.com
legalwalk.wordpress.com




On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 11:37 PM, Stephanie Perrin <
stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:

> Please find below my candidate statement.  I will send the word version to
> Maryam separately.
>
> *Public Statement of Stephanie Perrin*
>
> *Nominee for the NCSG Chair Position*
>
>
>
> I am Stephanie Perrin, resident of Pakenham, in the Ottawa Valley,
> Ontario, Canada.  I am honoured to be nominated for the position of Chair
> of the NCSG.  I am a privacy and information policy consultant, retired
> from a 30 year career in the federal public service of Canada, where I
> worked for most of that time on privacy and information policy issues in
> the department responsible for telecommunications.  I retired in 2013 and
> completed my doctorate in Information studies at the Faculty of
> Information, University of Toronto, Toronto Canada in 2018.  My
> dissertation was on the contention between ICANN and the data commissioners
> of the world, over the WHOIS directory.  I have been engaged with civil
> society for many years, and am on the Advisory Board of the Electronic
> Privacy Information Center (EPIC).
>
>
>
> I was recruited to come and volunteer as a privacy expert on the Experts
> Working Group on a new directory service for gTLD registration data by
> Kathy Kleiman of NCUC in 2013, and the privacy struggle here was so
> interesting that I became hooked.  The committee I was on worked very
> hard for a year and a half, and I joined the NCSG in 2014 and ran
> successfully for the GNSO Council shortly thereafter.  (I also changed
> the topic of my dissertation to the WHOIS struggle.)  I have worked in a
> great many policy development processes since then, including the WHOIS
> conflicts with law implementation advisory group, the cross community
> working group on policy and implementation, the privacy/proxy services
> working group, and the RDS PDP which has worked strenuously for two years
> on the WHOIS policy and is now suspended.
>
>
>
> I don’t believe that I have any conflicts of interest at the moment.  I
> am not actively seeking business in my consulting practice, and will avoid
> any potential work which might conflict with NCSG and ICANN.  I am
> working with my University on a research project on the utility of
> standards in managing third party access to personal registration data,
> which of course is central to the WHOIS struggle, but I have no economic or
> professional interest in the results of that research. I believe that I
> have been very active since arriving at ICANN, and have the necessary
> background in its policies and procedures to play a useful role as the
> Chair.  As an executive in a large government, I have had the benefit of
> quite a bit of training in administrative procedures, finance, metrics and
> program evaluation, human resources management, and in risk management.  I
> hope some of that background can be useful to our organization, and it
> helps me analyze some of the puzzles we face at ICANN.  Since I worked in
> the Department of Communications for most of my career, and was working
> closely with US and European counterparts during the formation of ICANN, I
> am quite familiar with its history, and the policy driving its creation.
>
>
>
> I have observed the hard work of previous Chairs of NCSG, and of its two
> constituencies, since I arrived at ICANN.  I am grateful that a lot of
> terrific work has been done recently, in stabilizing our Charter and some
> of our policies.  I would like to see further development in our ability
> to train and develop people to take positions of leadership, and to
> contribute meaningfully to the PDPs and cross community working groups.  This
> is a difficult problem; we have had a burnout issue since I arrived at
> ICANN, and the job of participating appears not to be getting any easier,
> as there seems to be more to learn every year.  I came to ICANN with
> quite a deep background, and it still took me over a year to figure out
> what is happening.  We need to work with ICANN to help our members who
> are interested in participating, to develop skills and knowledge.  I plan
> to make this a priority.
>
>
>
> I also think that we spend more time than is necessary in fractious debate
> amongst ourselves and between our constituencies.  We pride ourselves in
> speaking our minds, and I support that 100%, but we can stand to work on
> our diplomatic and empathic skills, in my opinion.  Most of us have
> feelings, and when we volunteer our time we prefer to work with a feeling
> of respect and solidarity towards each other.  I will try to speak
> plainly about what I think, but with respect to all.  I will actively
> encourage others to do the same.  You may call me Grandma if you like,
> that is what I am.  (I believe that disclosure should cover my
> requirement in this candidate’s statement to tell you my gender.)
>
>
>
> I believe in a consultative approach….first of all, I don’t plan to do all
> the work and that includes the thinking!  I would like to know what the
> members think about issues.  If you have ideas about those two priorities
> I just listed, the burnout and development problem, and the solidarity and
> respect issue, please let me know.  My third priority will be to continue
> the excellent progress that has been made on our contributions to the GNSO
> policy process, and make sure that our approach to staffing the policy
> development processes and preparing comments is as good as it can be, and
> that we are doing what we can to support our folks who are doing the work.
>
>
>
> A major part of the NCSG job is administrative, working closely with the
> leaders in NPOC and NCUC.  I hope to build on the ongoing work of
> developing transparent procedures, and furthering the growing harmony
> between the constituencies.  Our outreach efforts must be focused on
> having a meaningful presence, not just scooping up new members who remain
> bewildered about who we are and what we do.  We need people to be engaged
> in the real work of ICANN, managing the DNS, which sadly can be boring and
> tedious at times, not to mention rather technical.  We need to ask
> ourselves and our members why they stay members, or why they leave.  There
> is a growing gulf between the handful of members who are actively working
> as volunteers in the policy processes, and those who may well be interested
> but have no time to take an active role.  For those people, what do they
> need to stay engaged enough to read our email list?  Do they care what
> the EPDP is?
>
>
>
> I believe I have enough time to do this job.  As indicated, I am retired
> and not particularly busy as a consultant.  I am on the EPDP and the
> WHOIS Review team, both of which will demand some of my time.  We have a
> great team on the EPDP, so I am confident that this will not take as much
> of my time as the previous RDS working group did.  I propose to find a
> replacement for myself on the Auction Proceeds CCWG, and the PPSAI IRT,
> where I have been participating during the past year.  I will of course
> be following the GNSO Council meetings closely, but without the homework I
> had to do as a Councilor.
>
>
>
> Please do not hesitate to ask me any questions, or to contact me by email.
>
>
>
> Stephanie Perrin
>
> stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca
>
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> On 2018-07-31 16:19, Maryam Bakoshi wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
>
>
> Please find below the NCSG Election Process and list of Candidates.
>
>
>
> *ALL nominees are required to make a “Public Statement” by Aug 02 2359
> UTC, that includes:*
>
>
>    - Name, declared region of residence, gender and employment;
>    - Any conflicts of interest;
>    - Reasons for willingness to take on the tasks of the particular
> position;
>    - Qualifications for the position;
>    - Statement of availability for the time the position requires; and
>    - Optionally, any other information that the candidate believes is
> relevant.
> Election Process
>
> This is an election with ballots.
>
> ·         The vote will be open from *07 August - 20 August 2018* 23:59
> UTC
>
> ·         A ballot sent to each of the active members, which list will be
> closed on 03 August 2018 23:59 UTC
>
> ·         This ballot will come from tally at icann.org.
>
> ·         Voters will need to select 3 council candidates and 1 NCSG
> Chair candidate.
>
> ·         For the NCSG Chair, the candidate with the most votes will be
> elected.
>
> The selection will *not* occur through acclamation.
>
>
>
> *2018 NCSG Election Candidates*
> I.  2018 - 2019 NCSG Chair
>
> (1 to elect) 1-year term
>
> Nominated Candidate
>
> Nominated By
>
> Accepted Nomination
>
> Geographic Region
>
> Stephanie Perrin
>
> Robin Gross
>
> Yes
>
> NA
>
> Poncelet Ileleji
>
> Akinremi Peter Taiwo
>
> No
>
> AF
>
> David Cake
>
> James Gitau
>
> No
>
> AP
>
>
>
> II.  2018 NCSG GNSO Representatives
>
> (3 to elect) each 2-year terms
>
> Nominated Candidate
>
> Nominated By
>
> Accepted Nomination
>
> Geographic Region
>
> Martin Silva Valent
>
> Arsene Tungali
>
> Yes
>
> LAC
>
> Raoul Plommer
>
> James Gitau
>
> No
>
> EU
>
> Rafik Dammak
>
> Ayden Ferdeline
>
> Yes
>
> AF
>
> Elsa Saade
>
> Tatiana Tropina
>
> Yes
>
> AP
>
>
>
> --
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
>
> *Maryam Bakoshi* | SO/AC Collaboration Services Sr. Coordinator
>
> *ICANN* | Internet Corporation got Assigned Names and Numbers
>
> *S*: Maryam.bakoshi.icann | *T*: +44 7846 471777
>
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