<div dir="auto">Fully supported +1</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 27 May 2021, 22:57 Akinremi Peter Taiwo <<a href="mailto:compsoftnet@gmail.com">compsoftnet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Dear NCUC Members, </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The subject matter refers.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Name:</b> Taiwo Peter Akinremi <span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Region of residence:</b> Africa (AF)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Gender:</b> Male <span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Employment:</b> Data Protection and Privacy Specialist
(Head, Operations), with Data Analytics Privacy Technology Ltd.<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <b>Any conflicts of
interest:</b> No<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Why do you want to serve on the EC?</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li>The impact of pandemic has been felt to the level
of participation in policy development and discussions which has in turn reduced
participation. Volunteer burn-out is another major issue the community is
facing. While we have experienced folks (professional background and ICANN experience),
the participation and commitment remain low. Outreach requires a new dimension,
monthly meetings require a new approach, while member participation calls for
rethink.</li></ul><p></p><p><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>There are 3 points why I accepted the nomination and 5
points why I am willing to serve as the NCUC EC Africa:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li>Strong Regional Participation: Regional
participation remains critical to the policy development and discussion in the
ICANN environment. Because of covid-19 and vaccination issues, ICANN might be
moving towards hybrid meetings and it is important for the NCUC EC to gather
the momentum to engage in such a hybrid environment. As the Africa region is
concerned, I will be working with African colleagues on an equal footing to
remain motivated, recruit newbies, engage at different regional conferences such
as IFF, IGF, AFRINIC, DRIF etc.</li><li>Leadership: Growing the NCUC community to defend the rights
of the noncommercial while helping ICANN to stay on course requires leadership,
I mean committed leaders with leadership principles. NCUC leadership is critical
to advising ICANN in the areas of DNS, privacy, data protection, human rights, education,
and knowledge etc. through PDPs.</li><li>NCUC Administration and Operations: NCUC is the
core entity in protecting the interest of the non-commercial users within the ICANN
environment. With such a vision, there is a need for an improved NCUC
administration and operations. Others are getting louder day by day. It is time
for NCUC to fine tune the strategy, rise, and coordinate the interest of the <b>NCUC-user.</b></li><li>Policy Work: How do we remain active and engage
in the policy development process? How do we ensure support for our GNSO Councilor?
How do we support the few active members in the NCUC community without allowing
them to burn-out? Can we share the workload? Or do our members even have an
idea or clarity to what NCUC stands for and be able to defend the same in policy discussions?
As you can see, these are questions that will guide the coming NCUC EC to bring
value to the table. As the EC Africa, I will be working with the NCUC EC, Councilors,
Policy committee, members to take NCUC to the next level.</li><li>Membership Values: Values are what drive membership.
NCUC should be value driven once again whereby members are privy to access quality
discussions, knowledge sharing and likewise contributes while engaging in
policy and different working groups. When there is no value, outreaches yield
passive results. As the EC Africa, I will be working with like minds to bring value
back to the NCUC community. </li></ul><p></p><p><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b> 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>.<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li>I earn my paycheck through providing Nigeria Data Protection
Regulation/General Data Protection Regulation compliance service, advice and
training. My IT experience and background includes Management/Technical/Audit/Policy
that can be traced to the private sector, and non-governmental organizations. </li></ul><span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Current Policy Experience within ICANN</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li>NCSG Representative to the GNSO, Standing
Selection Committee</li><li>NCUC Representative to the Policy Committee</li><li>Vice Policy Committee-Chair.</li></ul><p></p><p><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>NCUC Participation</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span>Monthly meetings participation e.g NCUC, PC etc.</li><li><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span>Public comment drafting.</li><li>Review public comments.</li><li>Assist the PC chair to follow up on public
comments and its dissemination.</li><li><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span>Mailing list discussion contribution</li></ul><p></p><p><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Some Related Experience</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li>West Regional Coordinator, African Civil Society
on Information Society</li><li>7<sup>TH</sup> Rapporteur General of the African
Internet Governance Forum</li><li><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span>Program coordinator of Global Network for Cyber-solution</li><li>Nigeria-Lead for Africa Open Data and Internet Research
Foundation</li><li>Nomcom Rep Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) and
several WGs.</li><li>Founder, Africa Rapporteur Network (Rapporteuring,
Translation, Interpretation).</li></ul><p></p><p><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b> 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></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li>There are no concerns. Yes, there is enough time
to devote, as necessary.</li></ul><p></p><p><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Communication with the membership is critical. How would
you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities?</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li>Communication modes within the NCUC community
includes the use of mailing-lists, regional mailing lists, monthly calls,
website, and webinar series. I will leverage the existing channels to
frequently update the members. However, its usages call for new strategies to
update, and build a vibrant community of non-commercial users.</li></ul><p></p><p><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <b>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></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li>In the current global policy discussions, there is
no better time than now to protect the interest and privacy of noncommercial users.
The covid-19 pandemic has made the world realize the criticality of the
internet and its infrastructure. The influence from the global players is
growing and that can endanger the noncommercial communications, activities, and
their interest on the internet. The function of the NCUC is to continue
influencing at the table, on an equal footing to protecting the activities and
privacy of noncommercial users of the internet and internet infrastructure e.g. domain
name system (DNS). </li></ul><p></p><p><span></span></p>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Best regards</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#666666"><b>Taiwo Peter Akinremi</b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#999999" face="arial, sans-serif">------ ------ ------- </font><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:arial,sans-serif">------ ------ ------- </span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:arial,sans-serif">------ ------ ------- </span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:arial,sans-serif">------ ------ ------- </span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:arial,sans-serif">------ ------ ------</span><font color="#999999" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1"> IT Manager/Advisory</font></div><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>Phone</b>; +2348187476292, +2347063830177 <b>Skype</b>: <span><span><span>akinremi</span></span></span><span><span><span>.</span></span></span><span><span><span>taiwo</span></span></span></span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1"><b>Email:</b> <a href="mailto:info@compsoftnet.com.ng" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">info@compsoftnet.com.ng</a> <b>Website:</b> </font><a href="http://www.compsoftnet.com.ng" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><font size="1">www.compsoftnet.com.ng</font></a></div><div>___________________________________________</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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