<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi everyone: this is my statement for the next EC's election. Sorry for this small delay, but I hope it's ok.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Carlos</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="margin:0px"><b>1. Why do you want to serve on the EC?</b></div></div><div style="margin:0px"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px">
<b><br></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px">I served on the EC back in 2009, right after two years serving as GNSO Councilor. At that time, the non-commercial interests were granted extra seats in the Council and there was some expectation to see how far could we foster the non-commercial representation at ICANN. Four years have passed and internet governance issues are slowly shifting from an esoteric perspective to a more broad understanding, thanks mostly to the infringement of a number of fundamental rights by either companies and governments alike. In the same movement, a number of fora end up being created or expanded, some of them more inviting to civil society participation, some of them quite less. In this scenario, I believe ICANN can play an important role, but there is a long road to be taken for that to come out as a viable channel for communicating the demands from civil society. NCUC has been uniting activists, academics, NGOs and users that see in ICANN a forum that could push the multistakeholder model to an improved experience. I see the NCUC's EC is a privileged space to foster debates that are crucial for this changing moment of the internet governance landscape, so that is why I want to serve on the EC for this next term. Another reason for running in this election is to try to advance the debate of a number of IG issues related to ICANN in the Latam region. I believe we have seen some progress in the recent years, but there is a lot to be done, especially with Brazil taking a tentative position to push for a rights-based internet governance. It is too soon to assert what is going to come out of this endeavor, but the NCUC can certainly play a role in engaging in productive discussion and in communicating to other civil society entities (especially those not involved with IG) the importance of engaging in the debate. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px"><b>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.</b></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px">I am the director of the Rio de Janeiro Institute for Technology of Society (ITS). The ITS<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"> is a non-profit think-tank specifically
aimed at dealing with the interplay of technology and all it’s social spheres:
law, politics, economics, culture, development and democracy. </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt">The
ITS is a new entity created as a hub for professors and researchers from different institutions to join forces in advancing the debate in a number of issues, such as internet governance and regulation. </span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px">
<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt">I am lawyer and I teach intellectual property, contracts and internet governance/regulation at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and at the IBMEC University. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt">Last year I've spent five months at Yale's Information Society Project to finish </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt">a book on the concept of abuse of rights in Civil Law, focusing on copyright/trademark and freedom of expression cases. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt">In the recent years I have been involved with a number of internet governance and regulation initiatives such as: (i) the co-creation and implementation of the Marco Civil initiative (the so-called Brazilian Internet Bill of Rights) as a online consultation process; (ii) researching internet governance issues for the Brazilian Internet Observatory, a joint project with the Brazilian Internet Steering </span><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Committee</font><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"> (CGI.br), from 2010-2012; (iii) researching the process of the blocking of Port 25/TCP as an example of a multistakeholder practice coordinated by the CGI.br; (iv) </span><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">organizing</font><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"> of a number of IGF's workshops and events; (v) </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt">participation in the last phase of the ATRT1, replacing Willie Currie as a GNSO representative; (vi) </span><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">writing</font><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"> and researching </span><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">extensively</font><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"> on internet governance and regulation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt">In what concerns the activities related to the "Marco Civil" initiative, </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt">they included: (i) assistance to the
Ministry of Justice in analyzing the comments received through the online
consultation platform; (ii) lecturing about the initiative on national and
international seminars; (iii) presenting
the initiative to foreign authorities, such as the European Parliament or the
Organization for American States, or in foreign universities; (iv) presentations on public
hearings in Brasilia, both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate;
(v) engaging in public debates about the Bill of Law, authoring OP-Eds in
newspapers and magazines on issues like intermediary liability, privacy
protection and net neutrality.</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="margin:0px"><div style="margin:0px"><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;margin:0px">
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<b>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. </b></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><div style="margin:0px"><b><br></b></div><div style="margin:0px">I am available to join the calls and meetings of the EC. My only fixed commitments are the classes that I teach, but knowing in advance the dates of ICANN meetings make it easier to prepare for that. I have been following ICANN for ten years now and I am quite used to the dynamics of traveling and finding the time for calls. <b> </b></div>
<div style="margin:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px"><b>4. Communication with the membership is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities?</b></div></div></div></div><div><div style="margin:0px">
<br></div><div style="margin:0px">Through regular posts on the lists and reaching out to members of the constituency to have their inputs and feedback heard on a regular basis. I believe the quantity and quality of the report back to the constituency from EC members is improving in the last years, but I would be happy to help out fostering those communication channels. </div>
<div style="margin:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px"><b>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).</b></div>
</div><div style="margin:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px">There is always a huge workload related to administrative and procedural issues to be discussed in ICANN, especially in what concerns the activities of the GNSO. In the lats years the whole community has been focusing for obvious reasons on the new gtld program. NCUC has been active in a number of issues pertaining this topic, especially the need for a human rights impact assessment on the introduction of new gtlds. The next years will bring to NCUC not only the challenges of the new gtlds implementation, but a larger question concerning the ICANN role in the internet governance landscape. If ICANN will truly stand out for the defense of a multi - equal? - stakeholder model, it will be for groups such as the NCUC to provide an expert and informed analysis on the process and the outcomes of such struggle. Securing an independent and effective channel to communicate non-commercial demands in the ICANN ecosystem has been one the missions of the NCUC. The next years may turn out to be sort of a trying times for civil society to figure out how to better represent itself and stand for its values in a complex multistakeholder environment. I may be overly broad here, but I believe NCUC can play an important role in this scenario. </div>
<div style="margin:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px"><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Diretor </div><div>Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS)</div>
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