Request to nominees in upcoming NCUC election

[Alex Gakuru]

Thank you Norbert. I look forward to reading others‘.  Alex.
On Nov 14, 2012 7:09 PM, "Norbert Klein" <nhklein at gmx.net> wrote:

>  On 11/14/2012 5:13 AM, Brenden Kuerbis wrote:
>
> Dear NCUC Membership,
>
> Nominations for the upcoming NCUC Election closed on Oct 31, 2012.  Many
> thanks to the following individuals who have accepted nominations:
>
> The current NCUC Executive Committee has developed a list of questions to
> help the NCUC membership learn more about the nominees. If you have been
> nominated, please take a moment to complete and post to the list answers
> for the following questions...
> *
> *
>
> *1. Why do you want to serve on the EC?*
>
> Good wording - “to serve.” I had been in the NCUC since 1999 – in a way my
> “home environment” in ICANN. I did not send in my name to compete against
> another candidate when I sent in my name – it was to serve our
> non-commercial causes. Only later there was also another good name. I would
> probably not have put forward my name, if there had been another name I
> trust at that time. - I even considered to withdraw when another good name
> appeared on the list – but there were voices saying it is a good sign for
> us to have more than one candidate for a position, so I did not withdraw.
> *
> **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.
> *
>
> I had been before in the NCUC on behalf of a Cambodian NGO, the Open
> Institute, then on the NCUC EC, then on the GNSO, and finally two years on
> the ICANN Nominating Committee, a term limited function. - After caring to
> create the Cambodia Chapter of ISOC – done, and recently having handed over
> leadership after two years – I have again some free time. I saw that there
> were at that time no other candidates to serve in the EC – so I sent in my
> name, considering that I had accumulated some experiences in ICANN over the
> years. - Conflicts of interest? I see none. But I continue to see – almost
> throughout all these years, that the so called “marginal voices” - the
> non-commercial interests, and the small and economically weak sectors of
> the global community, continue to be challenged, to speak up in order not
> to be disregarded.
>
> *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.*
>
> Being “retired” allows me to handle my time quite flexibly. Some concerns
> and limitations in the past were that online meetings were often schedules
> to fit European and US East/West coast time zone preferences – having me
> sometimes online, in Cambodia, between midnight and early morning. Not
> nice, but even that can be handled.
>
> *4. Communication with the membership is critical. How would you keep
> members apprised of your EC-related activities?*
>
> A big concern – and one that has not been well attended to in the past (I
> assume not only in the Asia Pacific region). It is not only a task to keep
> existing membership appraised, but to expand the membership in the region.
> Such challenges have been discussed repeatedly in the past without much
> success, referring to the absence of a full time, or even a part time,
> secretariat (not only in the region – but also related to our global
> existence). While I do not have much hope that we will be able to have such
> a service structure soon, I think this task rests in the responsibility of
> Executive Committee as a whole – and the regional representative have to be
> active.
>
> *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? Be
> concise (200 words maximum).*
>
> *First,* We should cooperate to define the “non-commercial” character of
> NCUC more clearly – looking back on our history it is not just an
> administratively or legally definable role we played. (I remember that for
> years we had internal problems because of a non-commercial sports club in
> our membership, and while a majority of the NCUC members were concerned
> with ICANN policy development, the sports club claimed not to be interested
> similarly.) Our history as NCUC has a track record being sensitive so that
> ICANN should not become carried away by big commercial interests, to stay
> withing the limits of its technically defined mandate, within which we were
> concerned to maintain, if necessary to defend, the freedom of the
> communicating non-commercial society.
>
> *Second,* I cannot see much of a possibility to define our function,
> scale, or role more concisely. We are one element – and a weak one – in the
> wider system of ICANN and the surrounding world of government regulations
> and, at present, also the ITU. I see therefore also for the future more a
> role as a monitor of other’s dynamics, and then as a common effort among
> our membership, how to react and how to respond.
>
> Norbert Klein
> Associate, Open Institute
> Phnom Penh
> Cambodia
>
>
>
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