[Ncsg-discuss] Accepting nomination and my statement

[Sara Ali]

Dear Farzaneh,

Thank you for all the great work and dedication you have shown for NCSG and
the community. Your efforts on transparency, human rights, and
accessibility have been truly valuable.


I fully support your candidacy and wish you the best of luck!
Br,,,

On Sun, 17 May 2026 at 20:20, farzaneh badii <
00001deb507b73c5-dmarc-request at listserv.syr.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am accepting the GNSO council nomination and please find my statement
> below:
>
> I am based in North America, and originally from Iran.
>
> I have been active at NCSG for a long time, been on GNSO council since
> 2025, and the policy committee chair since 2026,  and here are some of the
> initiatives I have led at NCSG:
>
> 1. Establishing human rights impact assessment sessions at ICANN: this
> started some years ago and then we frequently held HRIA sessions on
> different topics at ICANN.
> 2. Advocating for proportionality, reasonableness, transparency at the
> council: I have been involved with drafting teams and small teams in the
> council infusing NCSG's human rights values and access to domain names from
> the beginning. I also drafted the first retroactive human rights impact
> assessment of transfer policy and helped with the first official Latin
> Diacritics human rights impact assessment.
> 3. I also led the work on GAC communique human rights impact assessment
> that I will continue in my own capacity.
> 4. RDRS transparency and law enforcement conversations: I facilitated
> incorporating transparency features for law enforcement requests in RDRS
> and facilitated sessions with NCSG on authentication.
>
> There is a lot of work to be done in the next few years in terms of
> bringing more transparency and accessibility, remedy and protecting access
> to domains and freedom of speech to ICANN and its policies. And there is a
> lot of unfortunate resistance. With the help of Rafik and others we have
> been able to make tangible improvements. Voting for me means I can help
> advance this work further as the world is increasingly turning its back on
> freedom of speech, access, transparency and generally human rights!
>
> I founded DigitalMedusa <https://digitalmedusa.org/> five years ago to
> provide people with unfettered access to technology. I work with a host of
> commercial and noncommercial entities and  receive grants for my work. When
> I receive funding to work on a domain name governance issue I update my
> SOI.
>
> If you have any questions about my work or candidacy, please do let me
> know.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Farzaneh
>
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