Candidate Statement - NCSG Chair - Bruna Martins dos Santos

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On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 3:03 AM Bruna Martins dos Santos <
bruna.mrtns at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!
>
> *------- *
>
> *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.
>
>
> --
>
> *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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