<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class=""><b>Statement of João Carlos Rebello Caribe</b></div><div class=""><b><br></b></div><div class=""><b>Candidate for Latin America & Caribe region representative on the NCUC Executive Committeee</b></div><div class=""><b><br></b></div><div class=""><b><br></b></div><div class=""><b>1. Why do you want to serve on the EC?</b></div><div class=""><br></div><div class="">I want to serve the NCUC in this next term to improve their communication, support to new members and accountability. Many hours are invested in debates by discussion groups, webinars, ICANN meetings and other forums and little is recorded and shared to the general public. I intend to understand this process and propose improvements with stakeholders.</div><div class=""><br></div><div class="">I want to share my experience in grassroot activism and coordination and motivation of large workgroups and debates as I did in the past when I coordinated a group of 13,000 users of Macromedia.</div><div class=""><br></div><div class=""><br class=""><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 class=""><br></div><div class=""><div><span>I am the policy coordinator and the creator of Movimento Mega <<a class="external-link" href="http://movimentomega.org.br/" rel="nofollow">http://movimentomega.org.br/</a>>, a Brazilian collective dedicated to internet policy issues at both national and global levels, Counselor representing Latin America & Caribe Civil Society on NETmundial initiative and creator of Terceira Social Crowdvertasing, a crowdsourced advertising and marketing agency to help small NGOs to spread their word.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Formerly
self-called "Movimento Mega Não", the Movimento Mega was created to
face the crescent internet freedom menaces as well the civil rights and
human rights violations in Brazil through authoritarian bill projects in
the Brazilian Parliament. In 2009 the “Mega Não” become a powerful
platform for mobilization and information against threats to internet
freedom, working from public hearings, lectures, interviews, flash mobs
to blogging collective. </span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>It was the one of
coordinator for the Brazilian Blackout against SOPA on January 18,
achieving membership of over 400 sites in Brazil. In 2011, "Mega Não"
won the Frida Prize, in "freedoms" category, as a project with a
prominent activity in the public and political level to avoid censorship
of the Internet. Prize offered by LACNIC, ISOC and IDRC and delivered
during the LACNIC XVI in Buenos Aires <<a class="external-link" href="http://programafrida.net/libertades2011" rel="nofollow">http://programafrida.net/libertades2011</a>>.
Movimento Mega is also member of ISOC Brazil, The Internet Defense
League, Red Latam, Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality and the NCSG
at ICANN.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>My
background is in engineering and marketing, currently I work as
independent innovation consulting to private sector and on internet
policy processes at national and global levels, with special attention
on how decisions taken at international arenas such as UN affect
national legislation as well everyday people lives. In the last year
both myself and my organization have been working on the Internet
Governance Forum (IGF), International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and
ICANN, particularly in relation to the non commercial users perspective
of the new gTLDs developments. My duties focuses the following
activities: to coordinate the overall Movimento Mega's activities; to
coordinate the political analyses and online content; to coordinate
public hearings and mobilizations; to deliver presentations on internet
policy, security, openness and privacy issues at academic and non
academic events, congress and meetings. I am also member of Diplo
Internet Governance Community.</span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""><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 class=""><br></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">I will dedicate at least six hours a
week, and more when needed to carry out EC tasks. I'm free to join the
calls and/or in person meetings of the EC, when needed. Usually I don't
have limitations to attend online or in person, when these are scheduled
in timely manner.</span></div><div class=""><br></div><div class=""><br class=""><b>4. Communication with the membership is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities?</b></div><div class=""><br></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">I intend to use the default channel of
communication with members trough regular posts on the lists. Also
reaching out to members of NCUC to get their inputs and feedbacks. I
participate in multiple lists that discuss IG and policy making,
including some of LAC and Brazil region, that I must use to share
information and captivate the interest to participate at NCUC. Finally
using social media, through private and public spaces, to build interest
and capacity building for new actors that has affinity with our
constituency agenda.</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><br></span></div><div class=""><br class=""><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? </b></div><div class=""><br></div><div class=""><p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Networking is the key issue to
continue strengthening the NCUC, a civil society stakeholder inside
ICANN's complex structure, once important strengths of the civil society
are directed related to the quantity and quality of capacity building
of the citizens in the subjects of our agenda.</span></p><div>Inside the
ICANN policy we have to work beyond gTLD's debate too, once the
operation of gTLD become ICANN the richest "I"star member, and is
important to discuss now policies and warranties about the use of this
budget to forest Internet development focused in principles and
objectives which respect the Internet ecossistem and the social
development.</div></div><div class=""><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
--<br>João Carlos R. Caribé<br>Consultor <br>Skype joaocaribe<br>(021) 9 8761 1967
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