[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC Election 2013, Next Steps: Nominations List and Candidate Statements

[Imran Ahmed Shah]

Dear All Fellows,
 
With reference to NCUC Election 2013, please find herewith my Candidate Statement/ NCUC Nomination for the Election of EC – Asia and the Pacific. I hope you will support me. Your review comments are important for me.
 
Name Imran Ahmed SHAH
City of Residence:  Lahore   
Country of Residence:  Pakistan
Nationality(ies)       Pakistan 
Stakeholder Group.  Civil Society Pakistan
Region:  Asia-Pacific Group
 
Job Title(s)/ Organization(s):
Member  : Internet Governance Caucus (since 2009)
Member : Best Bits
Member : Diplo Internet Governance Community
Member : ICANN’s NCUC (since 2009)
Member : ICANN’s Fellowship Alumni (since 2009)
Member : Internet Society
Member (on behalf of Civil Society) & Executive Coordinator (Punjab): ICT Experts Panel
National Technology Foresight Committee
Founding President: Internet Governance Forum of Pakistan
Founding President: Urdu Internet Society/ Linguistic Internet Council
Founding / Contributor: Think Tank: Brains for Innovative Research Development & Strategic Studies

My profile is also available on Diplo Internet Governance Community Blog 
url http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profiles/blogs/nomination-for-igf-mag-2014 

Candidate Statement for NCUC Nomination for EC Asia and Pacific:
 
1. Why do you want to serve on the EC?

I would like to serve for the Internet Users Constituency, supporting developing economies in formation of new Internet layers for non-English linguistic communities. I am very much concerned with the Localized Internet, IDN TLDs and new gTLDs that may increase digitally divided segments significantly. I has been advocating for the Excellence in IDN base Internet Layers to avoid the intensification of digitally divided communities. I am forming a Global Consortium for Civilized Internet for Next Generation/ Innocent Minds and have successfully conducted a workshop on Governance for the Internet of Kids, Teenagers and Youngsters at APrIGF 2013 Seoul Conference http://igfpak.org/?p=410. I believe that I would be a quite relevant representative of Asia and the Pacific non-commercial Communities and Civil Societies representative at ICANN’s NCUC.

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.

IAS Statement: MY BIOGRAPHY and Recent Experience and Association information is as follows:

I belongs to a small city of Pakistan and have MBA (MIS) degrees. Professionally I am a technologist and serving ICT Industry since last 22 years. I have creative mind and have interest in innovative Research & Development and also offering consultancy services in related fields.

I am also serving in community as a Civil Society representative. When I applied my dynamic visionary skill to analyze National & Global Polices in Public Interest and tried to resolve the issues by preparing recommendations I found my abilities very successful in critical analysis, in forecasting about problems and developing the solutions to resolve barriers & obstacles. I have devoted nature which encouraged me to dedicate my spare time voluntarily to contribute in National & Global Policies Development processes, since many years. I established Linguistic Internet Council to unite Linguistic Internet User Communities and to form Linguistic Internet Layers with excellence. I also founded Urdu Internet Society (UISoc.org). On my nomination, UISoc representative also have served ICANN’s Independent Expert for Security, Stability and Resiliency of the DNS Review Team.

I had been trying to convince ISOC Global to form state less global chapters for Linguistic Internet User Communities. In 2008-9 this proposal was rejected after a thorough review by ISOC, but recently, I have raised the same concern at APrIGF 2013 Seoul meeting requesting ISOC board to allow ISOC Global Chapters for Linguistic Internet Communities (non-English users) when ISOC is completed 20+ years with chapters for English users.

I am actively participating in the discussions about the Global Internet Governance issues on various platform including WSIS/IGF, IGC, APrIGF, MDG/UN-GAID/ Diplo Internet Governance. Following the WSIS Tunis agenda, I  founded “Pakistan IGF (IGFPAK.org)”in 2010. I have conducted IGFPAK-2011 Conference and engaged about 6 experts panels from different stakeholder sectors. I also organized IGF Remote Hubs 2011 & 2012 at International Islamic University, Islamabad. On behalf of UISOC & IGFPAK I have facilitating rejuvenation exercise of ISOC Pakistan Chapters and providing a common Hub isoc.org.pk. I am also member of ICT Experts Panel and Executive coordinator for National Technology Foresight Committee (representing Civil Society).

Since 2006 I am also involved in ICANN Policy Development Process as public participation. I successfully convinced ICANN to remove 2-letters limitations of IDN ccTLD name script in Fast Track Program. I also read my papers for gTLDs conflict resolution at public forum of ICANN 36th Seoul Meeting. I am also promoting Information Security Professional and highlighting their support for workforce improvements and the nominees successfully recognized by the ISC2 Board and has won Asia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Awards (ISLA) since last three years.

I am very much concerned with the Localized Internet, IDN TLDs and new gTLDs that may increase digitally divided segments significantly. I has been advocating for the Excellence in IDN base Internet Layers to avoid the intensification of digitally divided communities. I am forming a Global Consortium for Civilized Internet for Next Generation/ Innocent Minds and have successfully conducted a workshop on Governance for the Internet of Kids, Teenagers and Youngsters at APrIGF 2013 Seoul Conference http://igfpak.org/?p=410.
Summary is available at url: Governance for the Internet of Kids, Teenagers and Youngsters
I discussed about the awareness and mechanism of Online Security & Safety, Privacy & Human Rights for protection of users and definition about the safe and clean contents identification and delivery to the age base Internet users groups and constituencies. I also highlighted the obligations for Source Provides for abuse Internet Contents (such as pornography, hacking and phishing) and need for the global legislation against them. I requested to unite all global organizations who are working on the same theme for the safety & protection of kids from Online Threats, on a single platform to share their experience and deliver it to the Internet Communities jointly and globally. I support for the innovative ideas like dotKID(S), or dotBaby, Internet Address for each newborn baby, Separate Internet Devices, Browsers, search engine databases, Web/Mobile Apps for the age-base users like Kids, Teenagers and Youngsters. I inviteted Enhanced Cooperation among
 Internet Users Constituencies and all stakeholders to ensure that the standardization of code of ethics ‘بنیادی ضابطہ اخلاق’ is properly implemented according to the fundamental needs of the Internet Communities.

I submit my nomination for “NCUC EC – Asia and the Pacific” election.

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. 

IAS Statement: To serve NCUC as EC – Asia and the Pacific I can spare 8-10 hours weekly and have ability to attend Online Meetings of the Executive Committee and ICANN Meetings in person.

4. Communication with the membership is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities?

IAS Statement: I will keep the members informed on weekly/monthly and periodically about the NCUC activates and/or whenever receive any query from the members. I will reduce the communication gap between community members and will keep them involved / participating with their point of view as well as policy development process.

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).

I foresee that NCUC can perform a pivot role as balancing factor in the Global Policies Development processes being the representation as a Civil Society with the membership of Non Commercial Constituencies/ Community Members. NCUC has been involved in Multi Stakeholders global discussions and exploring relationship between Internet governance policies, public interest and engagement of noncommercial stakeholders. Internet Governance issues and their implications for human rights, development and the democratic process is a key objective. It already has important role to elect GNSO Council representatives and ICANN’s Board.

Thanking you and Best Regards

Imran Ahmed Shah


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> From: William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com>
>To: "ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org" <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org> 
>Cc: Imran Ahmed Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com> 
>Sent: Wednesday, 20 November 2013, 20:14
>Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC Election 2013,	Next Steps: Nominations List and Candidate Statements
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>Hi
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>The nomination period is now closed.  Here then are the current nominations:
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>PositionNomineesNominator
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>1.  Chair  Bill DrakeDavid Cake (12.11.13)
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>2.  EC – EuropeStefania MilanSelf (12.11.13)
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>3.  EC - AfricaHago DafallaSelf (08.11.13)
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>Grace Githaiga Rafik Dammak (18.11.13)
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>4.  EC – Asia and the PacificPeter Green (aka Zuan Zhang 张 钻)Self (10.11.13)
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>Imran Ahmed ShahSelf (09.11.13)
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>Walid Al-SaqafBrenden Kuerbis (18.11.13)
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>Pranesh PrakashSelf (19.11.13)
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>5.  EC – North AmericaRoy Balleste Brenden Kuerbis (13.11.13)
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>6.  EC – Latin AmericaCarlos Affonso Pereira de Souza Carlos Afonso (11.11.13)
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>Many thanks to all who have participated in this process to date, including of course the colleagues who’ve decided not to continue.  We now move to the second stage of the process, which runs from today November 20 to December 3.   During this time, candidates should indicate whether they accept their nominations, and if so, submit statements here on the listserv responding to the standard set of questions we’ve used in recent years.  These are as follows:
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>1. Why do you want to serve on the EC?
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>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.
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>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. 
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>4. Communication with the membership is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities?
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>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).
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>I suppose that for incumbent candidates these should be answered in a manner that is both backward and forward looking.
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>Ok, back to ICANN BA…
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>Best,
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>Bill
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>**********************************************************William J. Drake
>International Fellow & Lecturer
>  Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>  University of Zurich, Switzerland
>Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, 
>  ICANN, www.ncuc.org
>william.drake at uzh.ch (w), wjdrake at gmail.com (h),
>  www.williamdrake.org
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