<p>Thank you Norbert. I look forward to reading others‘. Alex.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 14, 2012 7:09 PM, "Norbert Klein" <<a href="mailto:nhklein@gmx.net">nhklein@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 11/14/2012 5:13 AM, Brenden Kuerbis
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Dear NCUC Membership,<br>
<br>
Nominations for the upcoming NCUC Election closed on Oct 31,
2012. Many thanks to the following individuals who have accepted
nominations:<br>
<br>
The current NCUC Executive Committee has developed a list of
questions to help the NCUC membership learn more about the
nominees. If you have been nominated, please take a moment to
complete and post to the list answers for the following questions...<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><u><i>1. Why do you want to serve on
the EC?</i></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Good wording - “to serve.” I had
been in the NCUC since 1999 – in a way my “home environment” in
ICANN. I did not send in my name to compete against another
candidate
when I sent in my name – it was to serve our non-commercial
causes.
Only later there was also another good name. I would probably not
have put forward my name, if there had been another name I trust
at
that time. - I even considered to withdraw when another good name
appeared on the list – but there were voices saying it is a good
sign for us to have more than one candidate for a position, so I
did
not withdraw. <br>
<i><u><br>
</u></i><i><u>2. Provide a brief biography of recent
experience, associations, and affiliations relevant to serving
on the
Executive Committee. Describe the relevance of your personal
and
professional experience to serve on the NCUC Executive
Committee, and
identify any conflicts of interests you might have.</u></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">I had been before in the NCUC on
behalf
of a Cambodian NGO, the Open Institute, then on the NCUC EC, then
on
the GNSO, and finally two years on the ICANN Nominating Committee,
a
term limited function. - After caring to create the Cambodia
Chapter
of ISOC – done, and recently having handed over leadership after
two years – I have again some free time. I saw that there were at
that time no other candidates to serve in the EC – so I sent in my
name, considering that I had accumulated some experiences in ICANN
over the years. - Conflicts of interest? I see none. But I
continue to see –
almost throughout all these years, that the so called “marginal
voices” - the non-commercial interests, and the small and
economically weak sectors of the global community, continue to be
challenged, to speak up in order not to be disregarded.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><u><i>3. The EC performs several
functional
responsibilities for the Constituency. What level of time
commitment
can you bring to your EC role on a weekly and overall basis?
Describe
any concerns or limitations on your ability to attend online
meetings
of the Executive Committee and ICANN Meetings in person.</i></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Being “retired” allows me to handle
my time quite flexibly. Some concerns and limitations in the past
were that online meetings were often schedules to fit European and
US
East/West coast time zone preferences – having me sometimes
online, in
Cambodia, between midnight and early morning. Not nice, but even
that
can be handled.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><u><i>4. Communication with the
membership is
critical. How would you keep members apprised of your
EC-related
activities?</i></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">A big concern – and one that has not
been well attended to in the past (I assume not only in the Asia
Pacific region). It is not only a task to keep existing membership
appraised, but to expand the membership in the region. Such
challenges have been discussed repeatedly in the past without much
success, referring to the absence of a full time, or even a part
time, secretariat (not only in the region – but also related to
our global
existence). While I do not have much hope that we will be able to
have such a service structure soon, I think this task rests in the
responsibility of Executive Committee as a whole – and the
regional
representative have to be active. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><u><i>5. How do you foresee NCUC’s
function, scale, or role changing in the future? What areas of
ICANN
policy, if any, need more attention and why? Be concise (200
words
maximum).</i></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><i>First,</i> We should cooperate to
define
the “non-commercial” character of NCUC more clearly – looking
back on our history it is not just an administratively or legally
definable role we played. (I remember that for years we had
internal
problems because of a non-commercial sports club in our
membership,
and while a majority of the NCUC members were concerned with ICANN
policy development, the sports club claimed not to be interested
similarly.) Our history as NCUC has a track record being sensitive
so
that ICANN should not become carried away by big commercial
interests, to stay withing the limits of its technically defined
mandate, within which we were concerned to maintain, if necessary
to
defend, the freedom of the communicating non-commercial society. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><i>Second,</i> I cannot see much of a
possibility to define our function, scale, or role more concisely.
We
are one element – and a weak one – in the wider system of ICANN
and the surrounding world of government regulations and, at
present,
also the ITU. I see therefore also for the future more a role as a
monitor of other’s dynamics, and then as a common effort among our
membership, how to react and how to respond.<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Norbert Klein<br>
Associate, Open Institute<br>
Phnom Penh<br>
Cambodia<br>
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