[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC 2015 Election—Candidacy Statement of Zuan Zhang ( Peter Green)

[Seun Ojedeji]

Nice writeup, and I wish you all the best.

That said, does ICANN officially use Google docs? I thought it's usually
the confluence. Do let me know when/if you like to build a team for the
FOSS based document management system.

Regards

Sent from my Asus Zenfone2
Kindly excuse brevity and typos.
On 22 Nov 2015 19:22, "PeterGreen" <seekcommunications at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear NCUCers,
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> Please find below my candidacy statement as one of the incumbent members
> on the EC.
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> *1. Why do you want to serve on the EC?*
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> In 2016, we may witness a truly globalized ICANN that is accountable to
> the whole multi-stakeholder community. For the ICANN multi-stakeholder
> governance model, the AP region is relatively new, especially the Chinese
> community with 700 million Internet users. It is a much different culture.
> There are voices to hear for ICANN.
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> I want to continue my work on the EC representing AP region, serving as a
> bridge to enable communication between NCUC/ICANN and the AP region.
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> For the 2014-2015 term, I have made some progress. I expect to do more.
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> I want to keep going and make my work in NCUC better and make the EC
> running better and stronger.
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> Serving on the EC, I aim to promote more diversity in geographical,
> linguistic and cultural terms in Asia-Pacific region.
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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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> For me, the NCUC is a place to get things done first and foremost, not
> talk about things.
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> During the past year:
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> a) I worked with others to create non-English language NCUC brochures. Now
> there are eight versions in diverse languages. The Chinese version was the
> first one that’s completed. Please see: http://www.ncuc.org/brochure/.
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> b) To facilitate travel support for NCUC members, I took to compose a new
> draft NCUC Travel Support Policy, which was finalized by Bill and fellow EC
> members. Then we had our first recipient, Benjamin Akinmoyeje from Nigeria,
> who was funded to attend ICANN 52.
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> c) When Bill was unable to run the process for selecting NCUC Appointee
> for the 2016 NomCom, because he was a candidate and asked for recusal, I
> took control and led the selection process on behalf of my fellow
> candidates.
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> d) Uploaded the NCUC video to the most famous Chinese video website—YOUKU(
> 优酷) to promote NCUC in China for the first time.
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> Please see: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTM3NTMwMjE0NA==.html.
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> e) Finished the documentation of NCUC Appointments and Allocation of NCUC
> Travel Slots. So anyone especially new NCUC members could get to know NCUC
> through lists in the documentation.
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> In January, 2015, along with fellow incumbent EC members, I participated
> in the 2nd
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> Non-Contracted Parties House (NCPH) intersessional meeting, which helps us
> build cooperation with the CSG party and do outreach work in Washington.
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> In June 2015, I finished working in Translation and Transliteration of
> WHOIS Contact Information PDP Working Group, which was started in December,
> 2013.
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> In July, 2015, I joined the Universal Acceptance working group to make IDN
> domain names work better in future.
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> From March to November 2015, I participated in several workshops with the
> Chinese community regarding IANA stewardship transition and enhancing ICANN
> accountability and submitted comments in the comment period on behalf of my
> employer.
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> In addition, since March, 2015, I became a member of ISOC Taiwan Taipei
> Chapter.
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> I do not have any conflict of interest.
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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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> Having served as the AP representative on the EC for a complete term, I
> could contribute approximately 10 to 15 hours per week and could continue
> to do so, even more hours if the work demands.
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> I have no problem for remote participation of conference calls.
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> My employer is open for me to participate in ICANN meetings in person if
> external funding is available, but I may not be able to arrange funds by
> myself.
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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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> In mid-2015, Walid, our former Coordinator of the Membership Affairs Team,
> finished the NCUC Member Engagement Survey. Currently, we have not yet
> taken full stock of the results of the survey.
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> For me, most of the new members do not know what is going on in NCUC and
> would quite long to know activities of NCUC. Often when they have
> questions, they are flooded with answers that lack in CONTEXT.
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> They need answers and words with related context.
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> So I am inclined to have communication with target members who are having
> difficulty in understanding activities of NCUC.
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> I propose to establish the NCUC Head Coach mechanism for new NCUC members.
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> By the Head Coach, I mean NCUC appoints two qualified persons to coach new
> members to enable them understand NCUC as soon as possible.
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> Besides, I have the Fellow-Alumni Mailing list to share and disseminate
> information.
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> In our localized Chinese community, we use the most popular social media
> app—WECHAT-- to inform people instantly.
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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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> There will be a big change in the EC next year. Stefania and Roy both will
> not be coming back. I will bring pertinence that the EC truly needs. Among
> the things I hope to do in the next year:
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> a) Push for work to be done on non propriety software. The use of Google
> Docs marginalized those of us in countries where it is hard to access or
> banned. I have written a Letter for ICANN to Address the Google Docs
> Platform, hoping ICANN could come up with a technical solution.
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> b) Continue to grow the NCUC in AP. As you see, we have a diverse base of
> members from AP. However, there is potential to enlarge. NCUC is much new
> in China. We have only several members from China. In the coming year, I
> expect to cooperate with the ICANN Beijing Engagement Center as well as
> Adam Peake—the Civil Society Engagement Coordinator in ICANN to host a
> series of workshops in China to have more Chinese members. I need to make
> it done.
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> c) Follow up on a very important PDP-- the Next Generation WHOIS PDP. This
> PDP will address issues for an unprecedented model of WHOIS data worldwide,
> which also exposes privacy risks. We need to take much care of that from
> the civil society.
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> d) Continue to work in the Universal Acceptance working group. Since the
> introduction of new gTLDs, users do not have much knowledge of the IDN
> domain names due to some technical issues. With the work of the UA working
> group, we may have much better applications of IDN names worldwide.
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> The fact that each year we have so many candidates for the EC position
> demonstrates the growth we’ve had here during my time on the EC.
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> I am excited about working under Rafik’s leadership. He’s done a great job
> for the NCSG and I’m sure he’ll do the same for the NCUC –that’s why I
> nominated him.
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> There is far more to do where I expect to earn your support and continue
> to work for you.
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> If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
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> Best Regards
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> Zuan Zhang
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> 张钻
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> Peter Green
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