[NCUC elections] NCUC South American EC nomination

[DeeDee Halleck]

I second that!
DeeDee

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza <
caffsouza at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone:
>
> I would like to nominate Carlos Afonso, from NUPEF (Brazil), for the
> NCUC's EC as representative for South America. Most of you know him, I
> am quite sure, but let's do it properly: Carlos is a longtime member
> of NCUC and councillor for the third sector in the Brazilian Internet
> Steering Committee (CGI.BR). He is a co-founder of APC (back in 1990)
> and has played an important role in implementing and democratizing
> access to the internet in Brazil. For his contribution to the
> fostering of Internet in the Latin America and the Caribean region,
> LACNIC has granted him the Trajetoria Award in 2010. Carlos' technical
> expertise is only rivaled by his (sometimes awkward) sense of humor.
> He is not my Dad. I am confident that Carlos Afonso will be a great
> representative for the region (as he has been in the past) and able to
> provide expert advice in a number of key issues for NCUC in the coming
> year.
>
> More about NUPEF: http://www.nupef.org.br/?q=node/80
> More about Carlos:
> http://icannwiki.com/index.php?title=Carlos_Afonso&diff=prev&oldid=32577
> More about the Trajetoria award:
> http://lacnic.net/pt/anuncios/2010_trayectoria.html
> A video on the CGI.br's Principles of Internet Governance:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E1rKnZ9-6U
>
> As a retiring SA EC councillor for this term, let me just say that it
> has been a pleasure to act on the EC. This year we have managed to put
> up a great event in ICANN's San Francisco meeting, creating a good
> opportunity for communicating (and debate) some of the relevant
> non-commercial internet users demands. I hope we manage to keep up the
> constructive debate on 2012, improving the non-commercial
> representation in the internet governance fora.
>
> Best,
> Carlos Affonso
>



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