[NCUC-DISCUSS] My statement

[Grace Githaiga]

Dear NCUC members


I am grateful to Seun,
Ephraim and Avri for seconding this self- nomination, but also request members of NCUC to support my candidacy. If elected, this will be my
second. 


Here is my
statement. 


1.      Why
do you want to serve on the EC?


 My motivation to run
for a second term stems from the fact that I continue to be  interested in civil society engagement in not
only ICANN, but also in Internet governance Issues. The Internet is dynamic and continues to
evolve, and with this dynamism, new issues continue to crop up.  Most of these issues call for concerted
efforts in their management or governance. It is important for Civil Society
(CS) to engage in these issues in order to shape them. It is also important for
Africa to have a strong voice in concerns usually raised by civil society, and
NCUC offers a platform to raise such concerns in ICANN. Toward this end, I will
appreciate the opportunity to serve in NCUC as I have experience in civil
society engagement and will continue to bring in enthusiasm and energy into
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.


I am an Associate
of the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) where I coordinate various Network
debates and events that touch on policy and regulation in Internet governance
matters. I have been involved in organizing the Kenya IGF, East Africa IGF,
Africa IGF and the global IGF that took place in Kenya in 2011. I am an alumni
of DIPLO and have taken the time to consolidate my interests in internet
governance academically and published on the same. Before joining NCUC, I was awarded the ICANN fellowship two times.  


Further,
I have been engaged in the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation on the
Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) for under a year
now, and was one of small group of
civil society actors from around the world that met both the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU) outgoing Secretary General (SG) and the incoming
one during the just ended Plenipotentiary 2014.  We expressed  several issues with one of them being that civil society was ready to support the work of the ITU considering that the
sector has diverse expertise on matters ICTs. We also called for the creation
of a liaison within the ITU that could aid in communication with and the involvement
of civil society in the ITU's work. 


I was fortunate to
attend the Africa IGF in Abuja, where I spoke about NCUC and its importance in ICANN.  Additionally in in the interest of increasing NCUC visibility, I did the same in Nairobi when
ICANN was meeting the business community. In both, I tried to reach out to
potential members and encouraged CS to ‘come home’ by joining NCUC. 


 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?  

 

 I will
dedicate my time as required by the NCUC and in times when not available, I
will endeavor to inform the rest of the EC members in good time. In other
words, I am committing to be available.


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


I belong to
multiple lists that discuss internet governance issues. I will continue to utilize
them to share critical information as well as keep interested stakeholders
apprised on the happenings of NCUC. I also interact with some NCUC members on
social media and this is also another way of keeping them appraised. 


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).


NCUC as a structure
provides a platform where civil society in ICANN can articulate the voices and perspectives of no commercial users (a
reason that draws me to NCUC). It offers representation to civil society or the
non profits and humanizes the technical aspects in communicating users rights. NCUC should
continue to articulate users rights in all aspects, and raise this voice in
ICANN. 


I humbly request you
NCUC members to endorce my candidature by giving me your vote,  and look forward to all of us reinforcing
NCUC efforts in ICANN. 


Regards

Grace
From: william.drake at uzh.ch
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:28:25 +0100
To: ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org
Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Status of Election Candidate Statements

Hi
Unless I’ve missed something in my mail swamp, we have received candidate statements from only 4 of the 10 people nominated for the 2015 EC; they are flagged below with an asterisk:

1.  Chair 						Bill Drake						(nominated by Avri Doria)	2.  EC – Europe					Stefania Milan					(self-nomination)3.  EC – North America		 	*Roy Balleste					(self-nomination)4.  EC – Latin America/ Caribbean 	João Carlos R. Caribé				(self-nomination)5.  EC – Asia/Australia/Pacific		*Walid Al-Saqaf					(nominated by David Cake)							*Imran Ahmed Shah				(self-nomination)							Peter Green (aka Zuan Zhang)		(nominated by Ed Morris)6.  EC - Africa					Grace Githaiga					(self-nomination)							*Lorin Ekpe					(self-nomination)							Hago Dafalla					(self-nomination)

The rest of us need to submit by Sunday 30th or we will not be listed on the ballot.  That includes three nominees with uncontested candidacies; if that situation persists, the election can’t fill the EC and is a bust.  So let’s please find the time to send something.  When we have all statements in we will give the names to ICANN staff to pull the trigger 1 December and the voting will finally be underway.  (next year I’d like to try shortening the cycle a bit)
A reminder on receiving e-ballots: Maryam Bakoshi has been sending messages to the addresses we have in our member data base confirming that they are still valid and should receive a ballot on 1 December.  So far there are still quite a few members who have not responded.  If you have not and wish to participate, please send an email to her Maryam Bakoshi maryam.bakoshi at icann.org so she can check it against the data base.  Please do this as soon as possible. While you’re at it, you might want to double check that you are correctly listed at http://www.ncuc.org/about/members/  as well.  
Thanks,
Bill

_______________________________________________
Ncuc-discuss mailing list
Ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org
http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-discuss 		 	   		  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-discuss/attachments/20141126/78954598/attachment-0002.html>