[Re-send] Candidate Satement - GNSO Council

[Martin Pablo Silva Valent]

Hi all, 

Please find below my candidate statement,

Name, declared region of residence, gender and employment;

Martin Silva Valent
Argentinean and Italian Citizen, living in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Male
Lawyer, Bar in Buenos Aires, Partner of Silva.legal (a business law firm, mostly real-estate development, hospitality, and some industrial clients) and Co-founder and Director of Datas (NGO for Activism, Research and Education on Technology Governance). 

Any conflicts of interest:
none

Reasons for willingness to take on the tasks of the particular position:    
    I’ve invested more than five years in working inside ICANN mission fending the Non-commercial Interest, mostly form the NGOs perspective. ICANN has been the main project on my work as an activist, regardless of all my other projects in Internet Governance or Algorithm Governance, and now that I’ve finished my first year in the GNSO Council I finally feel I can deliver the full potential of my collaborations. 
    I chose to do this work because I believe that this stakeholder is underrepresented in the Internet Governance ecosystem, and the DNS is one of the few cores or critical resources of the net, by ensuring the DNS stays good for all we are ensuring that other works further the stream can be done with or within internet to make a better society. DNS is not enough but is necessary for the current state of the Internet (as has been since it is beginning).
    I think the main goal of the NCSG is to provide a DNS as open as possible so everyone in the world can do and express their individuality and their communities. This means to create systems that allow expression, privacy, security, and stability, but all these concepts demand further understanding, like the role of identities, language, organizational issues and so on.
    I would say my main work inside ICANN besides the Council mandate is my role as an NCSG leader in the Review of all  Right’s Protection Mechanism Working Group, where the right holders of trademark try to make process to protect their rights, and we try to make sure those processes are respectful of the other stakes outside trademark law, so that the process is no abusive or abused.

Qualifications for the position:
Besides being a Lawyer that worked for years with Technology Governance issues in the Civil Society, I co-founded an NGO with global outreach, doing research, education, and activism with several organization and universities. Inside ICANN, after 5 years I’ve worked with hundreds of members around the globe inside and outside the NCSG, taking me to lead several processes and works, coaching over a dozen generations of Fellows and living through experiences like the IANA-Transition.

 • Statement of availability for the time the position requires:
As a self-employed person, I manage my own schedules. I’ve already attended all GNSO Council calls and fulfilled my duties.
 
 • The nominee’s statement may also include any other information that the candidate believes is relevant: 

I think my skills and personalities are a good complement to the Council team. I am used to working with other, lead and follow. I always put the needs of the community against my own and I feel I am more than ready to take my full potential to the Council Work in such a moment of change for the organization. 

I am open to questions and comments! So please do reach out.

Best regards, 
Martín Silva Valent
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