Accepting nomination Re: [NCSG-Discuss] Council nomination-Wendy Seltzer

[Wendy Seltzer]

Thanks Konstantinos,
I appreciate the support from you and others on the list, and I am
pleased to accept the nomination.

> Once nominated, the nominee is responsible for public acceptance of the nomination and for making a public statement that includes:
> Name, declared region of residence, gender and employment;

Wendy Seltzer; North America; Female; currently employed by Yale Law
School, where I've just begun a fellowship with the Information Society
Project

> Any conflicts of interest;

No conflicts. I am a director of the Tor Project, Inc. and of the World
Wide Web Foundation (US), non-profit organizations working to improve
the privacy and availability of Internet access for all. I founded and
run the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, chillingeffects.org.  None of
these organizations is involved with ICANN, but their interests are
consistent with those of NCSG.

> Reasons for willingness to take on the tasks of the particular position;

The open Internet has served as a tremendous platform for individual and
group expression and innovation, particularly helpful for non-commercial
organizing. ICANN plays an important role in coordinating the addressing
that routes these communications, and non-commercial voices can advocate
that its policies are fair for all Internet users. Effective
multi-stakeholder governance depends on participation of all those
affected by it, and I believe I can help non-commercial Internet users
to participate here.

> Qualifications for the position; and

As a lawyer and academic specializing in Internet law and technology
policy, I study communications technologies and the law around them. I
have represented non-commercial interests in various capacities in
ICANN: as a liaison to the Board, as member of the interim At-Large
Advisory Committee, and on many GNSO working groups. This experience
gives me useful insight into ICANN politics and its broader context. My
experience with Electronic Frontier Foundation and academic groups gives
me a strong connection to the public interest online.

> Statement of availability for the time the position requires.

I have been and continue to be available for the time the position
requires, participating in face-to-face and telephonic meetings, working
groups, and mailing list discussions.

I welcome any questions.  More of my work and bio is available at
http://wendy.seltzer.org/

Thanks!
--Wendy
--
Wendy Seltzer -- wendy at seltzer.org +1 914-374-0613
Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society Project
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
https://www.chillingeffects.org/
https://www.torproject.org/
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/

On 09/07/2011 09:34 AM, Konstantinos Komaitis wrote:
> (apologies for resending the message - forgot to put the nominees' names on the subject line)
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> I am very happy to nominate two great individuals for the GNSO Open Council seats in the forthcoming elections - Wendy Seltzer and Rafik Dammak. Most of you know these individuals their outstanding contributions to non-commercial interests, but for the new members here is a brief outline of their work.
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> Wendy is a Fellow with Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy, previously Fellow with the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado and with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Wendy founded and developed the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse<http://www.chillingeffects.org/>, a project to study and combat the ungrounded legal threats that chill activity on the Internet. Wendy also serves on the Board of Directors of The Tor Project<https://www.torproject.org/>, supporting privacy and anonymity research, education, and technology, and the World Wide Web Foundation, dedicated to empowering people through Web technology. She served on the ICANN<http://www.icann.org/> Board as at-large advisory committee liaison, and is currently terminating her first term as GNSO Councillor. More information about Wendy can be found at: http://wendy.seltzer.org/
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> Rafik is a PhD student at University of Tokyo in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies and member of Sakamura lab. He holds an Msc on Applied Computer Science from university of Tokyo and also former computer engineer. He is working on Ubiquitous Computing with focus on wireless sensor network with Interests on Internet and Web of Things (moslty on Smart energy and Smart Grid, doing my research on Home/Building Energy Management System). He is interested also by freeculture, Access to Knowledge, Open content and Creative Commons, I was Public Co-leader for Tunisian CC License (ceased project). Rafik is currently terminating his first term as an NCSG Councillor appointed by the Board. Rafik has been very active in advocating about non-commercial interests and human rights on the Internet. More information about Rafik can be found at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rafikdammak
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> Thank you
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> KK
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> Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,
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