Accepting the nomination/ Statement

Thu May 23 23:23:40 EEST 2024

Thank you Tapani for thinking of me and thank you all for your support.
I accept the nomination.

Please find my statement below:

*Name:** Farzaneh Badii (legally it’s Badiei, but I’d like to go by Badii)*

*Region of residence:* United States, New York City (I am from Iran)

*Gender:* Female

*Employment:* I run DigitalMedusa <https://digitalmedusa.org/>, an
initiative that aims to protect and defend the global, interoperable
Internet.

*Conflict of interest: *None.

Please note that DigitalMedusa advises and consults  commercial
tech-companies, however none so far relate to domain names.

*Reasons for willingness to take on the position:*

The  Noncommercial Stakeholder group’s voice is pivotal in the ICANN space
and generally when it comes to digital governance issues. I want to help
NCSG to advance freedom of expression, access to knowledge, privacy and
generally human rights at ICANN and on the Internet. Helping to elevate the
voice by meaningfully participating in policy development processes at
ICANN is one of my aims. I also believe the GNSO council with the launch of
the new round of New gTLDs application is going to make very important
decisions that could affect the noncommercial stakeholders and access to
domain names and possibly human rights.

Another area that I have been working on is DNS abuse. I am your liaison to
the Contracted Party House on DNS abuse and I think this topic is one of
the most important to follow in the future and monitor how it plays out in
the council. Potentially it is going to have some risks to freedom of
expression, privacy and other rights that we have to consider.

As much as possible we should continue the policy committee’s good work on
updating the members about what is going on in the council and at ICANN and
streamline what they should/can pay attention to and help members to weigh
in on policy issues that matters to them, considering their regional and
community necessities.

At the moment I am monitoring a few issues and as NCSG we are trying to
highlight registrants rights and ask other stakeholders, especially the
government advisory committee to highlight those issues in their
communiques as well. Would be good to elevate NCSG’s voice on those issues
at the council and other communities.

I also want to help NCSG through the council and other means create
meaningful directions for the community to do issue-based, contextualized
and rapid human rights impact assessment which is in the core values of
ICANN.

Last but not least,  I hope that with regular updates and raising awareness
about the important issues NCSG and the council are tackling, we can get
more organizations and individuals interested in Internet infrastructure
related issues.

*Statement of availability for the time the position required:*

While I commit to follow the issues diligently at the council, with your
help I believe we need to prioritize the issues that you want your
representatives  to follow and weigh in on. If elected, I will work with
you and the policy committee to prioritize the issues we want to follow.

I will do my best to attend all the in-person ICANN meetings; however, I
need to disclose that sometimes because of the nature of my job and also
the fact that I still travel on my Iranian passport, I might face
difficulties attending all the three-four meetings. I commit to diligently
attend remotely (I am very experienced in doing that considering I attended
remotely and even chaired some of the meetings since before Covid. I can
also help those who want to attend remotely to do so more effectively). I
will also give ample notice so that others can use my travel slot)

*Additional Information *

I am a recovering academic. Have worked on Internet governance related
issues through research and advocacy for over ten years. I have a PhD in
law from Hamburg university, I have been working on different digital
governance issues through the Internet stack:  issues related to trust and
safety, digital rights and human rights and Internet infrastructure
issues.You can read about some of my thoughts, research and activities here
<https://digitalmedusa.org/>.

Farzaneh

On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 1:45 PM Pascal Bekono <pbekono at gmail.com> wrote:

> I support Farza's nomination for Council
>
> Le jeu. 16 mai 2024 à 23:19, Nazar Nicholas <nnicholaski at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> Dear All
>>
>> I second her nominariin indeed. She is, she can
>>
>> Nazar
>>
>> On Wed, 15 May 2024, 22:42 Ephraim Percy Kenyanito, <hello at ekenyanito.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Happy to second as well!
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Ephraim Percy Kenyanito
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>>>
>>> On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 20:35, Remmy Nweke <remmyn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good luck Farz and thanks Tapani for this nomination. We have worked
>>>> together previously and I am sure she will do well in raising our issues at
>>>> the council.
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>>>> On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 12:57 PM Tapani Tarvainen <
>>>> ncsg at tapani.tarvainen.info> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to nominate Farzaneh Badii for Council
>>>>> in the forthcoming election.
>>>>>
>>>>> Her experience and skills would make her invaluable
>>>>> for NCSG in the council.
>>>>>
>>>>> Farzi, I hope you will accept the nomination.
>>>>>
>>>>> All the best,
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Tapani Tarvainen
>>>>>
>>>>
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