Candidate statement Stephanie Perrin

[Joan katambi]

Well said Stephanie and continue with this great leadership.
+1 for you again.

Kind regards
Joan

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 8:12 PM Stephanie Perrin <
stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:

> *Stephanie Perrin Declaration of Candidacy for NCSG Chair* *2019-2020*
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> I would like to thank Tapani Tarvainen for nominating me for another term
> as Chair of NCSG, and thanks to all those who have signaled their support.
> It is an honour to serve you all, and I do feel that I have only got
> started.
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> My name is Stephanie Perrin, I live in Canada, I am a woman and I am
> retired from 35 years service in the Canadian federal government, where I
> worked extensively on Data Protection issues in the Communications and IT
> departments, including the drafting of the Canadian private sector law.   I
> took a leave of absence from the government to work as Chief Privacy
> Officer for Zero Knowledge Systems in 2000, and in 2003 set up my own
> consulting company, Digital Discretion Inc.  I returned to government to
> work as Director of Research and Policy in the Office of the Privacy
> Commissioner of Canada from 2005-7, and retired from Service Canada in
> 2013.   I currently do a bit of privacy consulting, through Digital
> Discretion.
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> Given that my work always involves research and the implementation of law
> dedicated to the promotion of human rights and protection of privacy, it
> would be a rare occasion for me to have a conflict in any paid or volunteer
> work that I engage in, with the goals, activities and objectives of NCSG.
> I am well versed in the declaration of conflicts, and will do so should
> such an occasion arise.
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> It is a truism that those who work as public servants often underestimate
> what they have learned in their tasks, in terms of management experience,
> policy expertise, understanding of public interest and stakeholder
> differences, and risk management.  After 6 years of volunteering at ICANN
> largely to promote its adherence to privacy law, I have realized that there
> are other aspects of management that I might usefully contribute to our
> enterprise here.  I hope to do so over the coming year, focusing on
> metrics of our engagement, improved assistance to members to contribute,
> more policies governing our conduct, and procedures to clarify how we
> operate.  In particular, I have worked on and hope to bring to our
> discussions:
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> ·      Risk management and the concept of maturity models and growth in
> capability
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> ·      Ethics and respect for a gender neutral, multicultural workplace
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> ·      Financial management
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> ·      Transparency and open government
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> ·      Training and development
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> These are all areas I have worked in and received training in over the
> years.  My resume is available on request.  I received a PhD from the
> University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies in 2018, and I have
> an MA and BA in English literature.  I have a certificate in risk
> management from the Sprott School of Management.  I speak english and
> french.
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> I have been donating about 30 hours a week to ICANN over the past few
> years.  I am retired (sort of) and can afford to contribute this time,
> but I recognize it is extremely hard for younger people with careers and
> families to look after to contribute this amount of time.  We need to
> figure out better ways to distribute the workload, but I am certainly
> willing to give another year of work at this level.
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> I consider the multistakeholder model to be one of the more promising
> forms of governance in the information society, but I cannot say it is
> working at peak performance level.  It is one of my goals to help improve
> how we do this, and it appears that this will be a critical year to focus
> on this issue, as ICANN.org has announced its intention to renovate the MS
> model.  I hope you will elect me leader during this critical time, and I
> also hope that you will join in a rigorous effort to influence the outcome
> of this change of state at ICANN.
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> Finally I would like to thank Maryam Bakoshi for all she does to support
> me, the leadership team, and all of us, as our dedicated staff member.
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> Stephanie Perrin
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