[NCUC-DISCUSS] Candidate statement from Mikhail Komarov

[Mikhail Komarov]

Dear Colleagues,

As occasionally I nominated myself to be at the NCUC EC from Europe:

here is first of all my background - I'm 27 y.old, I live in Moscow,
Russia. I got BSc in IT, BA in Management, MSc in IT and PhD in IT.
Currently I'm associate professor, deputy head for international relations
at the School of Business Informatics at the National Research University
Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia)(the most liberal and one of the
top universitites in Russia),
I'm also academic head of the MSc programme in "E-Business".
I got my small company as well and I know how to deal with "business
things".
I'm also a public person - serve as PA for different public people in
Russia from Parliament and Council of Federation, I'm also an expert for
the special commision on development of Information society in Russia and
trying to introduce some best practices I get from the IGFs and some other
Internet soceity-related meetings where I participate.
I've been participating at the IGF for 4 years and for 3years I've been
co-organizers of different workshops there which I truly believe were
successfull in terms of further implementation of their results.
I'm also a speaker at different international and russian events related to
the Internet development, Business informatics and Standardization of
innovations in IT.

I truly believe that experience I can get out of serving at the EC will
definetely help me with further development of some policies and
introducing some activities in the area of Internet in Russia and CIS on
the levele of Civil Society and Technical Community at the same time. As I
nominated to be at the European level - (I actively collaborate with
colleagues from Finland, Estonia, Austria and Germany) - I guess I will try
to being deeply involved in collaboration with colleagues from all the
European countries, even though I truly believe is it very tough process
(thus I asked if there is EC representative from Russia and CIS and not for
the whole Europe).

I'm a young person and have to work hard in order to think about my future
"prospective" retirement and in general to work for living ( :-)) , thus I
work 40h a week (usually even more). But I usually find time for the things
I'm interested in, in terms of commitment of time - I believe I can spend
from 5 to 8 hours per week on EC. In terms of attending meetings in person
- for me it is matter of funding as my University cant fund my
participation in those activities as it is not related to any university's
activites :-( Thus - if there is som funding available for in person
paritcipation at different events and meetings - I commit my participation
and I'm sure I can arrange my schedule in order to participate at the
events and meetings.

I guess that Social Networks really help to communicate as well as e-mails
- thus I will think about Facebook activities and communication via e-mail.
I think that society should be actively involved in control of almost all
areas of ICANN policy - why? because most of the time those areas have
connection (direct or indirect) to the society and our lifestyle in either
short-term or long-term prospective. Scoeity should be involved in domain
zone allocation as further society will use those domains and so on.
I guess now the most important topic is the situation with that "transfer
of ICANN" which was postponed this summer but which should be performed
anyway.

I won't go to any concrete steps so far as I think that all the steps will
be introduces together with the community and initiative should go from the
community level focusing on the problems community has.

I know I have small chances being elected as I didn't have possibilities to
participate in such a nice e-mail discussions about some topics, but I
participated in some polls, signed several manifests and corrected some
documents which were shared via e-mail list during 2015.

Thank you very much and I'm looking forward for any answers, comments and
of course - results.

p.s. sorry for typos

With best wishes,
Mikhail Komarov

You can find some of my bio here:
www.hse.ru/en/staff/mkomarov
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