[Ncsg-discuss] Accepting nomination and my statement

[Wisdom Donkor]

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On Sun, 17 May 2026, 6:20 pm 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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