Candidate Statement - NCSG Chair - Bruna Martins dos Santos

[Bruna Martins dos Santos]

Dear all,


Please find below my candidate statement for the position of NCSG Chair.
Apologies for the late submission!


Name: Bruna Martins dos Santos

Region of residence:  Brazil, Latin America

Gender:  female

Employment:  Policy and Advocacy Strategist at Coding Rights

Conflicts of Interest:  none that I am aware of

Reasons for willingness to take on the position:

I believe that, as a stakeholder group, we could reach higher levels of
participation once the right bridging between incoming members and PDP
active members is done. For that specific point, and in regards to what has
already been discussed, I had the honor to follow up on the great work
performed by previous chairs of NCUC and to help shape efforts such as the
NCUC Policy Writing course and offer our members the right tools for
participating and feeling more confident in finding the right places and
opportunities to contribute with our SG.

Having spent the past 2 years in leadership positions at NCUC, I was able
to have a comprehensive view of the challenges our members might face when
engaging with our Stakeholder Group, as well as some of the intricacies of
our groups. In light of being an avid advocate for ICANN's Multistakeholder
model and Civil Society participation on it, as well as NCSGs relevance to
the model, I would love the challenge of trying to help find solutions for
some of the participation gaps we face nowadays and enable new members to
engage with the many challenging policy discussions the Policy Committee
coordinates.


Qualifications for the position:

I hold a BA in Law with experience in Internet Regulation, Human Rights and
International Law and experience in policy making processes regarding the
Internet that started back in 2011 while I had the chance to work at the
drafting team of the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet.
Ever since then, I have worked for the brazilian government until 2016, as
a legal advisor on social matters - including the construction of the
initial draft of our Data Protection Law and the regulatory decree of Marco
Civil da Internet. After that, I have been with Coding Rights since the
beginning of 2018, helping coordinate advocacy efforts around Human Rights
in the Digital Age and Internet Governance related debates at the local,
regional and global level and our engagement as key constituents at the
roundtable designated for debating recommendations 3A/B of the High-Level
Panel on Digital Cooperation, participation in missions to the UN Human
Rights Council during sessions n. 37th and 38th, and recent discussions on
the Brazilian Data Protection Law and with passing new regulation to
include the creation of our National Data Protection authority in it.

Moving on to ICANN, I have been involved with our Stakeholder group since
2017 when I joined as a member after remotely following our discussions for
years. I am also the current Chair of the Non-Commercial Stakeholders
Constituency and have been working together with the NCSG leadership ever
since. Previous to that, I was also the elected Latin America and Caribbean
Executive Committee representative and vice-chair in the 2018 edition of
the EC.  Besides the leadership positions, I have been contributing to
NCSG's Public comments, having volunteered for a few of them and being one
of the penholders for NCSG provided policy comments to the PDPs Community
Comment #2 and the Initial and Supplemental reports of the WG.


Statement of availability for the time the position required:

I confirm that I have the required availability to focus on the needed
discussions and processes where the NCSG chair is required. Despite working
full time I have managed to successfully complete my terms both as NCUC EC
LAC and NCUC Chair with a fair amount of weekly dedication to the chair
duties - with some extra time for public comments.

Additional information:

I also happen to be one of the co-coordinators of Internet Governance
Caucus, a fora for advocacy debates and representation of civil society
contributions in Internet governance processes that was created in the
context of the World Summit on the Information Society and to foster
coordination between Civil Society actors to participate in that and many
other processes. Apart from ICG, I am one of the co-facilitators of the
Internet Governance Forum Best Practice Forum on Gender and Access, a space
that I have contributed to ever since 2016.

Thank you all for the attention!

best,

-- 
*Bruna Martins dos Santos *

Skype ID: bruna.martinsantos
@boomartins
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