Candidate Statement - NCSG Chair - Bruna Martins dos Santos

[Bruna Martins dos Santos]

Dear all,

Please find below my candidate statement for NCSG Chair. In case anyone has
any questions, I would be more than happy to chat.

Ps. Good luck to all our candidates in the current leadership elections!

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*Candidate Statement - NCSG Chair*

*Name: *Bruna Martins dos Santos
*Declared region of residence:* LAC - currently residing in Brasilia,
Brazil
*Gender:* Female
*Employment:* Data Privacy Brazil Research

Conflicts of Interest:  none


Reasons for willingness to take on the position:

I want to continue working on behalf of our community improvement. The past
year has proved to be incredibly challenging for civil society worldwide
due to the pandemic and the majority of us shifting our attention to a more
local level approach on advocacy and emergencies. With some chance of our
world going back to normality I am highly interested in helping us reach
higher levels of participation once the right bridging between incoming
members and PDP active members is done. On that specific point, I had the
honor to follow up on the great work by previous chairs of the GNSO`s
Non-commercial community and to help shape efforts such as Policy Writing
courses. In order for us to improve NCSG membership at ICANN, I believe our
stakeholder group needs to go back to working on improving the offer of the
right tools to allow our members to feel more confident in finding the
right places and opportunities to contribute.

Having spent the past 3 years in leadership positions at NCUC and NCSG, 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 being reelected
for a second term and continuing 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. Currently I hold the position of Advocacy Coordinator at
Data Privacy Brazil Research, helping coordinate advocacy efforts around
data protection and Internet Governance debates at the local, regional and
global level.

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. Ever since, I have served as NCUC Chair, Vice-Chair and NCUC EC
representative for the LAC region, and currently hold the position of NCSG
Chair. Besides the leadership positions, I have contributed to NCSG's
policy work, having volunteered for being one of the pen holders for some
of the provided input to the New gTLDs Subsequent Procedures WG Comments
and am an alternate at the EPDP Phase #2.

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 time dedicated to the chair
duties, and the same is likely to happen with my current first term as the
NCSG Chair.

Additional information:

Apart from my work at ICANN I am also one of the co-coordinators of
Internet Governance Caucus, have acted as one of the key constituents at
the roundtable designated for debating recommendations 3A/B of the
High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation, and help coordinate the Internet
Governance Forum's Best practice Forum on Gender and Digital Rights.


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*Bruna Martins dos Santos *

Advocacy Coordinator | Data Privacy Brazil Research
<https://www.dataprivacybr.org/en/>

Member | Coalizão Direitos na Rede <https://direitosnarede.org.br/>
Chair | Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group at ICANN
<https://gnso.icann.org/en/about/stakeholders-constituencies/ncsg>
Co-Coordinator | Internet Governance Caucus  <https://igcaucus.org/>

Twitter: @boomartins <https://twitter.com/boomartins> // Skype:
bruna.martinsantos
bruna at dataprivacybr.org and bruna.mrtns at gmail.com
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