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<p>Dear NCUC members,</p>
<p>Please find below my candidate statement. Thank you for taking
the time to read it! If you have any further questions, I would be
happy to answer either via email or on the call tomorrow.</p>
<b>===Candidate Statement, Tatiana Tropina, nomination: NCUC EC
European seat======</b><br>
<p>Name: Tatiana Tropina, Region of residence: Europe, Gender:
Female, Employment: Senior Researcher, Max-Planck Institute for
Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany. <br>
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<p>Conflict of interest: No. <br>
<br>
<b>1 Why do you want to serve on the EC?</b><br>
I want to contribute to the engagement of NCUC members into the
ICANN processes and to the administrative functioning of the NCUC;
and further effective governance at the NCUC. I believe that for
strong representation of the non-commercial users at ICANN we need
to ensure NCUC’s transparency, visibility and credibility. I have
been actively engaged in NCUC’s activities in the past year, so I
believe that the EC position is the next logical level to
strengthen my involvement in serving the non-commercial
interests. I would also like to ensure that NCUC members are
getting informed about and engaged in ICANN policy processes. <br>
<br>
<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><br>
<br>
I am a lawyer by training. I got my legal degree (and later a PhD
degree with the thesis on cybercrime) from the Far-Eastern Federal
University in Vladivostok, Russia. I also have a master’s degree
in ICT policy and management from Strathclyde University Business
School in Glasgow, UK. I have been living and working in several
countries: Russia, United Kingdom, Switzerland and Germany, and my
work experience includes private industry – I worked as a telecom
lawyer for several companies in Russia, I have experience in
academia, international organisations and private consultancy. I
am currently based in Freiburg, Germany and work for Max-Planck
Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. In this
capacity, I am involved in different cybersecurity projects, but
my interests are much wider because I am trying to approach the
issues from a broader perspective of Internet Governance. <br>
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<p>Apart from my main work, I am engaged in different IG-related
activities, many of them are on a voluntary basis. I have been
involved as a focal point in EuroDIG and SEEDIG processes, I have
been a faculty member of the European Summer School on Internet
Governance since 2011. I am participate as a trainer in different
capacity building programs. I carried out various projects for
international organisations such as Word Bank, UNODC, ITU and
others. Last but not least, I am actively engaged in some of the
ICANN processes: I participated in the CCWG-Accountability
Workstream 1 (and currently – WS2), CCWP for Human Rights; I am
currently a member of the NCUC Policy Committee. <br>
<br>
<br>
<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><br>
<br>
In the past year, I have been already able to demonstrate my
commitment to NCUC, I work at least several hours a week to
fulfil my voluntary commitments to the CCWG-accountablity and
other processes. I clearly understand that the EC position will
require time and I am willing to make such a commitment, including
travelling to the ICANN meetings. I have a flexible work schedule,
and my current job allows me to take voluntary obligations.
Furthermore, I travel a lot for work and I am very well connected
at different IG-related fora in Europe: this will perfectly allow
me to carry out the necessary outreach and give NCUC more
visibility. <br>
<br>
<b>4 Communication with the membership is critical. How would
you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities?</b><br>
This is an easy question because I don’t have to suggest anything
extremely innovative but rather continue the efforts that have
been made: the current EC representative for Europe, Farzaneh,
established (in my opinion) great channels and patterns for
communications with the NCUC members. I will try to further
strengthen this: the members can expect quarterly regional reports
and reports from the events that NCUC took part in. Furthermore, I
will inform NCUC members about different calls for proposals and
funding for the European and other IG-related events so we can
have more presence and engagement outside of ICANN, too. <br>
<br>
<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? Incumbent candidates should answer in a
manner that is both backward and forward looking, i.e. taking
note of their contributions and work in the previous year.</b><br>
<br>
In the last couple of years NCUC and its membership have been able
to contribute a lot (and substantively!) to different ICANN
policy-development processes and also in the process of
transition. We have to leverage these achievements, build upon
them and strengthen both NCUC “from within” (outreach,
transparency, effective governance and more involvement of the
current membership in the policy-making) and also in the ICANN and
IG context: visibility, credibility, representation of the
non-commercial interests at the ICANN. The latter, in my opinion,
should focus “policy-wise” on privacy issues, human rights and
their consideration in any PDP processes “by default” and the new
challenges of the shadow content regulation. Last but not least, I
believe NCUC can further contribute into the diversity, gender
balance and the greater representation of non-commercial users in
ICANN processes. <br>
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<p>Warm regards</p>
<p>Tanya <br>
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