[NCUC-DISCUSS] Ines Hfaiedh. Nomination as NCUC Chair

Fri May 24 17:26:12 CEST 2024

Dear friends and colleagues,

Thank you all, I feel blessed by this wonderful support. Please find my
statement of interest for the NCUC Chair position.

Name: Ines Hfaiedh
Declared Region of residence: Africa
Gender: Female
Employment: Teacher and Educational Counsellor
Conflicts of Interest : None

I hope to take on the position of NCUC Chair because I believe after eight
years of joining the constituency and holding the position of Africa
Representative for some terms over these few years within the Executive
Committee, I have gained some solid experience and knowledge in
administrative matters, putting up together agenda items and contacting
speakers for online and onsite meetings, and more understanding of ICANN
dynamics. I believe this experience over the years allows me to now move on
to the next level and be able to run the constituency while seeking advice
and guidance from the community and the previous chairs.
For many years, I have worked and volunteered at diverse civil society
organisations and/or platforms and learned a lot, taking baby steps here
and there. I now trust that my background in enabling multi stakeholder
discussions and decision-making based on compromise together with an online
and personal knowledge of a large proportion of the ICANN community is an
asset for the next NCUC chair.
I am also aiming at contributing to the good running of the constituency in
terms of members' engagement and active participation.  I am confident that
my academic, civil society, technical and admin backgrounds in addition to
my previous experience as an Executive Committee member would help me
achieve these goals and contribute to the well functioning of the
constituency.
I wish to represent NCUC in the best way possible in the ICANN ecosystem,
building contact and communication channels with the previous chairs and
experienced members. In addition, I hope to keep welcoming and assisting
newcomers to navigate NCUC in particular and the ICANN world in general
while learning from them and working on their suggestions.

Some background about me: I am a teacher and Educational Counselor. I am a
specialist in ICT Implementation in Education. I had the chance to be a
recipient of a number of prestigious scholarships and fellowships among
which the Fulbright TA during which I was a Teaching Assistant at the
Catholic University of America in Washington DC.
I am also a Diplo-certified Curator and Rapporteur and was among the first
cohort of Diplo-certified Online Moderators. I also assisted UNDP New York
in creating a course on Ecosystem restoration for government officials in
Africa.
I have also been in charge of the Secretariat of two editions of ICANN's
MEAC SIG (School of Internet Governance) and am a member of ICANN’s
Intercultural Awareness Program.
I had the chance to be a Guest Speaker and session organiser at a number of
local, regional and global IGFs and a guest at several international
conferences dealing with ICT Implementation in education, human rights,
accessibility and digital inclusion.

Starting from September, I should be even more flexible after my official
promotion as Educational Counsellor, with an exclusive focus and time
allocation to counselling which would considerably reduce my weekly
workload.
I enjoy some flexibility in my regular day to day job which allows/allowed
me so far to attend in person targeted meetings and events to fulfill my
tasks as EC Africa and sometimes on a personal funding.
So I can say that I can commit the adequate time for the role of NCUC Chair.

Communication is indeed key in the role of NCUC Chair. During my term as
NCUC Africa Representative, I used the NCUC Africa mailing list in order to
keep members updated on our EC-related activities as well as news, call for
comments and recently seeking suggestions on topics for the NCUC members
session in the upcoming ICANN meeting in Kigali, Rwanda.
 I have also contributed to our NCUC website some years ago by migrating
parts of the old NCUC Website to the new, and by writing some reports and
blogs on different events or initiatives especially taking place in the
African continent.
 Besides, "Readouts" taking place online post icann meetings have been a
great opportunity for our NCUC members to have the most important pieces of
information and updates about policy discussions at NCUC and NCSG levels
through inviting keynote speakers.
This is in addition to taking part in outreach activities onsite at
meetings, networking with community members and introducing NCUC to fellows
and newcomers in general.

I do not foresee a change in NCUC role as it has always been pivotal in
policy discussions, this is something I hope to preserve and strengthen
even more by enhancing engagement through reviving the mentorship program
that we used to have at NCUC level.
This program used to assist newcomers onboard on policy discussions with
the help and assistance of experienced members.
In this regard, I hope to reactivate the policy course with more updated
policy topics to the benefit of the membership. (This course was run mainly
online a few years ago)
NCUC members at different levels have been playing a crucial role in
defending non-commercial users’ rights.  I believe that the constituency
can do even more in voicing the Non-Commercial Users concerns and defending
their interests especially on the topic of DNS Abuse and strengthening
the ICANN multistakeholder model. I also hope that we can keep a spirit of
consultation and openness with our membership and keep them informed of
current discussions in order for them to have an impact on the current
discussions.

I thank you for this opportunity and look forward to serving you again,
this time I hope as NCUC Chair .

Le lun. 20 mai 2024 à 09:45, romina florencia Cabrera <
romicabrera83 at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Thanks
>
> El lun, 20 de may. de 2024 5:15 a. m., Narine Khachatryan <
> ms.narine.khachatryan at gmail.com> escribió:
>
>> +1 to Ines Hfaiedh, as a  NCUC Chair.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> On Thu, 16 May 2024, 20:18 Hfaiedh Ines, <hfaiedh.ines2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you very much all for all your support will be following with the
>>> SOI.
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 16, 2024, 09:38 Shavkat Sabirov <ssabirov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> I fully support the nomination of Hfaiedh Ines as NCUC Chair candidate!
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Shavkat Sabirov
>>>> Internet Association of Kazakhstan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> чт, 16 мая 2024 г. в 06:02, <jharsianti15 at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> I give my support to Ines as NCUC chair candidate.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Juliana
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>
>>>>> On 14 May 2024, at 18.34, Raymond Mamattah <mamattah.raymond at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am happy to support Ines' nomination as the NCUC Chair.  She has
>>>>> served diligently well in the African representative role and she has all
>>>>> the qualities to be a good chair.
>>>>>
>>>>> Furthermore, as a way of encouraging more ladies to be active in the
>>>>> ecosystem, I am very confident she becoming the Chair will ginger on other
>>>>> younger ladies to actively engage in the ecosystem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Raymond Mamattah
>>>>> [image: linkedin]
>>>>> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymond-selorm-mamattah/> [image:
>>>>> facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/selorm.mamattah> [image: twitter]
>>>>> <https://twitter.com/RMamattah>
>>>>> Accra, Ghana
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 7:00 AM Hfaiedh Ines <hfaiedh.ines2 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear friends and colleagues,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I hope this email finds you well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As you might have noticed, the elections in NCUC have started with a
>>>>>> nomination period.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is humbly that I nominate myself for the position of NCUC Chair
>>>>>> after 8 years of joigning NCUC as a member and serving the community at
>>>>>> some terms as NCUC Africa Representative.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will follow up soon with a detailed statement of interest and will
>>>>>> be available to answer questions during the "Meet the Candidates" when
>>>>>> scheduled.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best wishes to everyone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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