2018 NCSG Election Process and list of Candidates

[Amin Hacha]

Dear Stephanie
Thank you for sharing with us this interesting statement.
Thank you for working hard and making a difference, and best wishes to you.
Regards,
Amine Hacha
LCA
Beirut - Lebanon

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 7:59 PM Tracy Kadesa <kadesatracy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Stephanie ,
>
> loved reading your statement, your experience is great !
>
> I like that you emphasized respect and inclusion.
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> Looking forward to your term!
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> Regards
>
> Tracy Kadesa,
> LL.B ,University of Nairobi.
> Dip KSL
> tracykadesa.wordpress.com
> legalwalk.wordpress.com
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> 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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