Nomination of Stephanie Perrin as the next NCSG Chair

[KASWESHA]

Dear Stephanie, Thank you for accepting the nomination. Count yourself
elected and accept my early congratulation.

James.




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On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org>
wrote:

> +1 Arsène
>
>
> On 24/07/2018 16:22, Arsène Tungali wrote:
> > I was worried and did not know that you would accept this, Stephanie.
> >
> > I am very glad you did and I would like to thank you for that.
> >
> > I look forward to the elections and I wish you (and anyone else who
> > will be applying) the best of luck and i look forward to working with
> > the new Chair once elected.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Arsene
> >
> > 2018-07-24 16:04 UTC+02:00, Stephanie Perrin
> > <stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca>:
> >> Hi Everyone,
> >>
> >> First, a great big thank you to Robin for nominating me for this
> >> position, and to all the kind folks who have supported that nomination!
> >> I have been holding back on accepting until I saw the list of the EPDP
> >> team, because I feel that my first duty was to make sure we did not
> >> falter on the effort to get privacy fixed in the WHOIS.  Now that the
> >> team has been announced, I can say with great confidence that we have a
> >> terrific group there, and that while there will be lots of work, we can
> >> count on each other to share the load.  Thanks to everybody who came
> >> forward to apply for that group, and to the many who have offered to
> >> support in our strategic backroom and wiki presence.  This is a great
> >> opportunity to learn, for those who are relatively new to NCSG, and want
> >> to understand policy development and what we are usually up against in
> >> our struggles here at ICANN.
> >>
> >> I am honoured by the nomination for NCSG Chair, and will happily accept
> >> it.  This is a big job; I have been watching Farzi, Tapani, Rafik and
> >> Robin doing this job since I arrived at ICANN 5 years ago, and I am
> >> impressed at the dedication that they have shown, and the improvements
> >> to our processes, procedures, and membership outreach.  When I say I am
> >> standing on the shoulders of giants I am not kidding, I would not be
> >> submitting my candidacy for this position if there had not been a whole
> >> lot of work done to make the job easier and more organized, over the
> >> past five or six years.   Joan and Renata have done a terrific job in
> >> the past year in building our relationships within the constituencies
> >> and in membership outreach, and I know there is a strong desire on the
> >> part of both constituencies and leadership to work together effectively
> >> for the common good. There is still a lot of work to do, and I will
> >> outline some of my ideas for what I think ought to be our priorities
> >> when I send my candidate statement, but I wanted to get this acceptance
> >> of the nomination out there today, and thank you all for the opportunity
> >> to run in this election.
> >>
> >> Stephanie Perrin
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2018-07-18 16:54, Robin Gross wrote:
> >>> Friends,
> >>>
> >>> I’d like to nominate *Stephanie Perrin* for the next NCSG Chair.
> >>>  Stephanie has represented NCSG on the GNSO Council for the last four
> >>> years and has fought tirelessly to defend Internet users’ privacy
> >>> rights in the policy development process.  She’s been a major
> >>> game-changer for privacy discussions at ICANN since she joined NCSG,
> >>> and before that she had a long and distinguished career defending
> >>> online privacy rights in the Canadian government and elsewhere.  I
> >>> first met Stephanie in 2001 when she was awarded the "Pioneer Award"
> >>> from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for her work advancing
> >>> Internet privacy rights, so she’s been dedicated to this cause for a
> >>> long time.
> >>>
> >>> Stephanie will be term-limited out of her current seat on the GNSO
> >>> Council in this election, so we’d be very fortunate for her to
> >>> transition into the role of NCSG Chair this fall and continue to
> >>> represent us in that new capacity.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you,
> >>> Robin
> >
>
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