NCUC Organizational News 13.01.13

Fri Jan 18 07:48:13 CET 2013

Hi !
I'm also glad to be here, learning a lot from the list.
I'm an IT activist from Africa and will love to serve in this forum.
Warmest greetings ftom Lome - Togo.
Cheers !
-Olevie-


2013/1/18, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) <nmutungu at gmail.com>:
> Hallo again,
> I am Grace Mutung'u.  I joined NCUC a while back while a member of ICT
> Consumers Association of Kenya,  which I 've since left.
> I am a lawyer by profession and I live and work in Kajiado and Kiambu
> counties in Kenya. I am a member of ISOC, ISOC Ke and a Diplo alumnus.
> I am currently working with the Kenya Human Rights Commission on a
> project on devolution.
> I have been following the discussions on the list and learning a lot.
> I am quite an  active contributor to my local lists so my resolution
> this year is to be more active on this list:-)
> I look forward to keeping this resolution and being of service to the list.
>
> 2013/1/15, Anthony Nweke <anthony.nweke at gmail.com>:
>> Greetings,
>>
>>
>>>> My name is Anthony Nweke. I'd like to volunteer for service on the
>>>> Finance Committee. I am from Nigeria but currently reside temporarily
>>>> in
>>>> Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. I recently completed an MBA at the
>>>> University of Aberdeen so hope the skills I've learnt will enable me to
>>>> help the Committee. I also have a bachelors degree in Communications
>>>> Engineering. And prior to coming to the UK I spent over 5 years working
>>>> for the greatest indigenous e-Payments and Information Technology firm
>>>> in
>>>> Nigeria (Interswitch Limited) in various fields including Business
>>>> Development, International Field Support, Infrastructure/Technology
>>>> Management, Training and Consulting.
>>>>
>>>> I have just been admitted into the NCUC, so I am excited and really
>>>> looking forward to spending some valuable time volunteering for ICANN.
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Anthony
>>
>>
>> On 13 Jan 2013, at 16:27, William Drake <william.drake at UZH.CH> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> One of the things I'd like to happen going forward is regular monthly
>>> reporting back to NCUC members by the EC on any noteworthy
>>> organizational
>>> and policy matters.  We don't have a mechanism in place yet to
>>> coordinate
>>> a collective effort on this, so I'll get it started with a few notes on
>>> recent developments.
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. New Executive Committee
>>>
>>> On 3 December the 2012 election results were announced. Our new EC
>>> includes
>>>
>>> Chair:  Bill Drake  <william.drake at uzh.ch>
>>> Africa:  Wilson Abigaba  <wilson at isoc.ug>
>>> Asia/Australia/Pacific: Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net>
>>> Europe: Tapani Tarvainen  <ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info>
>>> Latin America/Caribbean: Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca>
>>> North America: Edward Morris <edward.morris at alumni.usc.edu>
>>>
>>> Since the 13th (post-WCIT) the EC has begun to get organized and by the
>>> end of January we should have more to report on various items.  In the
>>> meanwhile, members who want to know what's being discussed, provide
>>> input,
>>> offer to help with tasks and so on can always visit the EC list archive
>>> http://mailman.ctyme.com/pipermail/ec-ncuc/ and be in touch here or via
>>> the addresses above, as appropriate.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2.  Appointments to NCSG Committees
>>>
>>> Due to the delayed election timing the new EC came in already behind
>>> schedule on some housekeeping items.  One of the first things we needed
>>> to
>>> get done was to fill these slots so NCSG internal and GNSO work could
>>> proceed without hiccups.  Accordingly, the EC has made the following
>>> appointments until the 2013 annual meeting:
>>>
>>> a.  NCSG EC https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-EC
>>> Rafik Dammak
>>> Milton Mueller [both continuing]
>>> b.  NCSG PC  https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-PC
>>> Mary Wong
>>> Avri Doria [replacing Brenden and Konstantinos]
>>> c.  NCSG FC  https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-FC
>>>
>>> Milton Mueller [continuing]
>>>
>>>
>>> 3.  Functional Work Teams
>>>
>>> In my candidate statement
>>> https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1211&L=NCSG-DISCUSS&F=&S=&P=38527
>>> I argued that it'd make sense to have
>>>> A more active EC team in which each member has defined responsibilities
>>>> entailing at least one or two hours of individual work per week beyond
>>>> reading email.  I’d love it if EC members would each take the lead on
>>>> coordinating specific functional tasks and assemble work teams of
>>>> interested members to deal with items like:
>>>> o   In-reach and engagement of existing members, updating of the
>>>> membership list
>>>> o   outreach to potential new members (it’d also be nice if each
>>>> regional
>>>> representative could bring on a few folks from their regions per year)
>>>> o   e-platform improvement and updating
>>>> o   external communications/publicity
>>>> o   finance (dealing with the ICANN budget process, external
>>>> fundraising
>>>> for initiatives, etc.)
>>>>
>>>> Or something like this…to be discussed… This is the kind of functional
>>>> division of labor I’ve seen work better in other civil society
>>>> organizations and coalitions, including ones I’ve led, and some
>>>> evolution
>>>> in that direction could be helpful.  What plainly has not worked well
>>>> is
>>>> for everything to just default to one maxed out volunteer.
>>>
>>>
>>> Nobody has argued against this sort of approach and some folks on and
>>> off
>>> the EC have expressed interest in helping with particular tasks.  So now
>>> we'd like to begin to constitute teams/groups/whatever we want to call
>>> them on the five tasks above, plus one other I forgot to mention, the
>>> very
>>> overdue and urgent task of revising our Charter (ideally by the summer
>>> for
>>> a vote prior to the next EC vote).  Conversations have been underway in
>>> the EC and beyond to get some folks on board each to start, and so far
>>> there have been expressions of interest/willingness to be involved from
>>> the following folks (apologies to anyone I've forgotten, or conversely
>>> who's surprised to be listed based on prior conversations). Oh, and I
>>> should add that while from a coordination and info flow standpoint it'd
>>> usually be easiest if EC members were the coordinators, this doesn't
>>> rule
>>> out the possibility of experienced, plug n play non-EC people serving is
>>> these capacities, as is reflected below.
>>>
>>>
>>>  In-reach/member engagement
>>> TBD  [Coordinator]
>>> Edward Morris
>>> Rafik Dammak
>>> Bill Drake
>>>
>>> Outreach/new member recruitment
>>> Edward Morris  [Coordinator]
>>> Bill Drake
>>>
>>> E-platforms
>>> Wilson Abigaba   [Coordinator]
>>> Edward Morris
>>> Tapani Tarvainen
>>> David Cake
>>> Brenden Kuerbis
>>> Bill Drake
>>>
>>> Communications/PR
>>>
>>> Mary Wong  [Coordinator]
>>> Bill Drake
>>>
>>>
>>> Finance
>>> Milton Mueller  [Coordinator]
>>> Brenden Kuerbis
>>> Maria Farrell
>>> Bill Drake
>>>
>>> Charter Revision
>>>
>>> Bill Drake  [Coordinator]
>>> Edward Morris
>>>
>>> Obviously, we need more EC and regular members to populate these groups,
>>> share the workload, and get things moving.  Pretty much any amount of
>>> time
>>> and energy beyond zero will make a difference and be much appreciated,
>>> so
>>> please consider getting involved.  Reply on list or privately, as you
>>> like.
>>>
>>>
>>> 4.  Web Spaces/E-Platforms
>>>
>>> Once we have teams associated with each of these functions, we should
>>> put
>>> them on the web and set up communication channels for them to work.
>>> This
>>> goes to some of the larger e-platform questions we've been contemplating
>>> in the EC.  Clearly, NCUC's public ning site needs some serious
>>> rethinking/refreshing and we may even want to consider moving to another
>>> platform down the line.  But in the meanwhile, I'd argue it would make
>>> sense to refresh the list of groups there http://ncuc.org/groups by a)
>>> creating spaces for the new teams and list the people associated with
>>> them; b) deciding whether the teams should work there or on listservs
>>> etc;
>>> and c) if possible, for institutional memory purposes, create a space on
>>> the site called Previous Groups and dump all the old ones there, rather
>>> than simply deleting them.
>>>
>>> Again, nothing we do now to get started locks us into a final decision
>>> about the website.  If all the web wizards decide a Ning is not the best
>>> for us and want to migrate to some other platform, we can deal with that
>>> then.  But for now let's get some web presence going so people know
>>> we're
>>> alive and they can join and participate.
>>>
>>> Just to repeat again in case any members are unaware, NCUC's web
>>> presence
>>> is rather spread around and in need of more consistency and maintenance,
>>> e.g.
>>>
>>> 1.  NCUC.org  [the public face…unfortunately most content quite dated,
>>> especially member pages etc]
>>>
>>> 2.  NCUC @ GNSO's public pages
>>> http://gnso.icann.org/en/about/stakeholders-constituencies/ncsg/ncuc [in
>>> process of revision]
>>>
>>> 3.  NCUC @ Confluence
>>> https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8945848
>>> [Confluence is the ICANN provided workspace]
>>>
>>> A meta-question to consider is whether we want to continue to maintain
>>> both NCUC.org and Confluence with some bits of parallel content,
>>> redefine
>>> the division of labor between them etc…
>>>
>>>
>>> I think that's enough for one message…
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>>> ***************************************************
>>> William J. Drake
>>> International Fellow & Lecturer
>>>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>>>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
>>>   www.williamdrake.org
>>> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
>>>   ICANN, www.ncuc.org
>>> william.drake at uzh.ch
>>> ****************************************************
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Grace L.N. Mutung'u (Bomu)
> Kenya
> Skype: gracebomu
> Twitter: @Bomu
> Website: http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profile/GraceMutungu
>


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