[NCUC-EC] Statement of Interests NCUC Appointees at the NCSG EC

[Bruna Martins dos Santos]

Dear all,

Below follows Monika Zalnieriute's SOI, who submitted it today as discussed
on this thread
<https://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-ec/2018-December/010149.html>. I
understand that the ones who have voted might feel submitting new votes, *I
ask all to please chime in until december 6th. *

best,
B
Zalnieriute, Monika

para eu, Maryam

Dear Chair and the members of the NCUC EC,





I am writing to re-apply for the position on the NCSG Executive Committee,
where I have been representing NCUC for the past two years.





*My experience and activities at NCUC and NCSG *



I have been involved in the NCUC and NCSG since 2014, both in policy,
administrative and outreach work and activities:



*a)    **On policy level,* my work mainly has been focusing on the human
rights issues related to ICANN’s policies and procedures, with some special
focus on data protection and privacy & WHOIS and RAA and freedom of
expression and new gTLDs. This work has started with the writing of the report
on ICANN & Human Rights[1]
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_9104333971675996630__ftn1> commissioned
by the Council of Europe, then working with the NCUC member organization
Article 19 in producing another 2 reports on ICANN and Human Rights,[2]
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_9104333971675996630__ftn2> which in
turn have provided a platform for the creation of the Cross-Community
Working Party on ICANN’s Corporate and Social Responsibility to Respect
Human Rights, as well as GAC’s Working Group on International Law and Human
Rights.



In addition to this work, I have also been working on data protection, RAA
& WHOIS issues externally outside ICANN – in trying to attract attention
and involvement of privacy watchdogs in ICANN’s policy making processes.
E.g., together with NCUC colleague Stephanie Perrin we have attended
meetings of the *International Working Group on Data Protection in
Telecommunications* where we have discussed data protection and privacy
issues with the Data Protection Commissioners. This line of work seeking to
involve Data Protection Commissioners in ICANN’s privacy and data
protection issues have been gaining a momentum, with the coming into force
of the GDPR.



In addition to data protection and privacy, currently I am also working on
the three academic articles and a policy report on the UDRP procedures and
due process & freedom of expression issues for the upcoming review of the
UDRP in the part 2 of the RPM PDP. Kathy Kleiman and Robin Gross have been
very generous in providing initial feedback. This work is ready for
presenting to NCUC colleagues to comment and discuss best strategy how to
use it in the PDP in a way most beneficial to the NCUC interests, and I am
planning to share it after a the end of Year break.





*b)  **On administrative level,* I have been serving on the NCSG EC for the
past two years, and with our colleagues from NPOC have been regularly
overseeing the new membership applications, overseeing the NCSG elections
and nominating alternates for the GNSO councillors. We have also drafted
document on the NCSG member removal procedures, as well as have been
engaged in election reform work.





*c)    **On outreach and awareness raising level,* I have been actively
promoting and raising awareness about the NCUC and our activities at
various academic and multistakeholder conferences related to Internet
policy and digital rights, such as, e.g., Cybercrime, Cybersecurity
Conference in Delhi in November 2018, the APrIGF in Vanuatu August 2018,
AuIGF, the CPDP in Brussels in January 2016, and the APrIGF in Taipei in
July 2016. At such conferences and fora, not only I have been actively
networking and spreading the information about NCUC generally, but have
also convened and moderated specific panels on NCUC focus areas of work,
such as, e.g., data protection and privacy and WHOIS and RAA, free speech
and new gTLDs; inviting NCUC members to speak at those events and connect
with broader Internet/privacy communities. E.g, in the CPDP conference in
January in Brussels in 2016, there were 4 other NCUC members on the
‘Internet Infrastructure & Human Rights’ panel: Stefania Milan, Stephanie
Perrin, Niels ten Oever and Corrine Cath. Together with Farzaneh Badii and
Rafik Dammak we also convened a special outreach session at ICANN’s office
at that occasion.



In addition to organizing several such panels well as various discussions
and roundtables, a special issue on ‘Internet Architecture and Human
Rights’ of the journal 'Policy & Internet,' published by Oxford Internet
Institute, is in the workings and will be published in print in 2019
(separate articles published earlier online): co-edited by me and NCUC
member and former GNSO Councillor, Dr. Stefania Milan, and which includes
contributions from our NCUC members Milton Mueller and Farzi Badii
(accepted), Niels ten Oever (accepted), and hopefully Stephanie Perrin (not
yet confirmed)



As next year, the APrIGF will be held in Russia, in addition to actively
participating and convening panels at the main APrIGF event, with some
academic colleagues working on Internet Governance, we are planning the
academic pre-conference, the focus of which will be academic input to the
Internet policy and the NCUC work. Hopefully, the pre-conference will allow
to attract more academics from the Asia-Pacific region to join NCUC and our
work on the DNS policy.





*Experience carrying out NCSG EC tasks*



I have been serving on the NCSG EC for the past two years and in addition
to experience of carrying out routine tasks, such as membership
applications, these two years have also provided opportunity for some rarer
experience of dealing with internal disagreements/different interpretations
of rules regarding the NCSG elections (in particular, NOTA rules), and some
subsequent appeals and processes to solve such appeals. On top of the
routine task and supervision of the election, I have also been involved in
drafting of the document for the NCSG member removal procedures, election
reform work, as well as the creation of the new NCSG member database.





*Things I want to do to improve our representation on NCSG EC.*



During my term on the NCSG EC, in order to improve representation of the
NCUC members on the NCSG EC, I am determined to:



1.)  Improve communication, transparency and accountability of the NCSG EC
towards:



a)    *NCUC members: *I will prepare and release general informational
summary reports of the NCSG EC teleconferences held monthly to the NCUC
members listing the agenda of issues discussed and decisions that have been
made; this should allow for increased transparency and accountability of
the NCSG EC towards our members.



b)    *NCUC EC:  *Improve communication between NCSG EC (NCUC's reps there)
and NCUC EC and Chair: draft regular e-mail to the NCUC EC on important
issues discussed in the NCSG EC (discussing more strategic issues/decision
to be made in the future for the NCUC than in the informational summaries
to all the members) and potentially propose an online meetings/calls
between NCUC members on the NCSG EC and NCUC EC when needed.





2.)  Work on creating and documenting the processes that have been
sometimes been dealt with in an *ad hoc* manner within NCSG, such as NCSG
members removal procedures and elections.





*My Availability and Willingness to Participate*



I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Law at the UNSW Sydney and in
addition to ongoing research into Internet governance and digital rights, I
am teaching courses on ‘Surveillance, Security and Democracy’ and ‘Internet
Governance and Human Rights’ at the UNSW Sydney in 2019. My schedule is
fairly flexible and I am available to participate in regular
teleconferences and in discussions on the NCSG-EC mailing list regarding
NCSG-EC. I am also available for any other discussions needed to advance
the goals and work of NCUC and the NCSG-EC.







I hope that my determined involvement in NCUC and NCSG work, both in
policy, administrative work and outreach activities, places me in a good
position to represent NCUC on NCSG EC.



Sincerely Yours,



Dr. Monika Zalnieriute.





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[1] <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_9104333971675996630__ftnref1> Dr.
Monika Zalnieriute and Thomas Schneider, ‘A Council of Europe Analysis on
ICANN’s Procedures and Policies in the Light of Human Rights, Fundamental
Freedoms and Democratic Values, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, DGI (2014)
12, available at
http://www.coe.int/t/informationsociety/icann-and-human-rights.asp.

[2] <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_9104333971675996630__ftnref2> Dr.
Monika Zalnieriute, ‘ICANN’s Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human
Rights,’ *Policy Brief for Article 19: Global Campaign for Free Expression*,
February 2015, London, available at
https://www.article19.org/data/files/medialibrary/37845/ICANN-P APER-
WEB.pdf. Dr. Monika Zalnieriute, ‘Issue Report for the Cross Community
Working Party on ICANN’s Corporate and Social Responsibility to Respect
Human Rights: Practical Recommendations for ICANN, June 2015, London,
available at
https://www.article19.org/data/files/medialibrary/38003/ICANN_report_A5-for-
 webv2.pdf


Em seg, 3 de dez de 2018 às 10:39, Michael Karanicolas <
mkaranicolas at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Hi all,
>
> I vote for Robin and Raphaël. Robin has made excellent contributions to
> the NCUC and to the NCSG, and is incredibly well qualified to keep serving.
> Raphaël I have had some experience with in the CCWP Human Rights, where
> he's had a lot of energy and enthusiasm, which will make him well placed
> for the position, and I thought that his application was more substantive
> than Peters.
>
> Best,
>
> Michael
>
> On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 11:42 PM David Cake <dave at davecake.net> wrote:
>
>> I am strongly in favour of re-appointing Robin Gross. Obviously Robin’s
>> experience is exceptional, I believe she is still engaged in the work of
>> the EC, and I have great trust in her judgement.
>>
>> I do not have strong opinions on the other two candidates, and I would
>> like to know more about Peter Akinremi’s involvement before making a
>> decision. If any of the the EC have worked with them, I would appreciate
>> sharing information (possibly confidentially would be appropriate rather
>> than on a public list).
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>> On 3 Dec 2018, at 10:54 am, Bruna Martins dos Santos <
>> bruna.mrtns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Please find below all the statements of Interests to serve as the two
>> NCUC Appointees to the NCSG EC.
>>
>> *Please bear in mind that the EC needs to reach a final decision by dec
>> 6th *so I can announce the two new appointees on the list on the 7th
>> (the latest).
>>
>> Best,
>> Bruna
>>
>> ___________________________
>> Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org>
>> sáb, 1 de dez 22:30 (Há 2 dias)
>> para chair, Maryam
>> Statement of Interest of Robin Gross
>>
>> I am writing to apply to be re-appointed as NCUC’s representative to the
>> NCSG Executive Committee.  I have formerly served as NCSG’s Chair, NCUC’s
>> Chair, and as the noncommercial representative to the GNSO Council when the
>> 2007 New GTLD Policy was created and adopted.  I am intimately familiar
>> with NCSG’s Charter as I was an active participant in its drafting and
>> adoption.  Recently, I participated in an ICANN working group tasked with
>> reforming ICANN’s bylaws and so am quite familiar with the bylaws and other
>> ICANN governing instruments.  I have been an active participant in numerous
>> ICANN GNSO working groups since 2004 and am presently a member of the
>> leadership team in the New GTLD Subsequent Procedures Working Group.  I am
>> extremely familiar with the NCSG membership process including its rules and
>> the rationales behind the policies, and in 2017 I drafted NCSG’s operating
>> procedures governing the NCSG membership removal or reclassification
>> process.  I am an intellectual property rights attorney in San Francisco
>> and am teaching International Intellectual Property Rights at Santa Clara
>> University School of Law in Spring semester 2019.  My schedule is somewhat
>> flexible and I am available to participate in regular teleconferences and
>> in discussions on the NCSG-EC mailing list regarding NCSG-EC.  I am
>> additionally available for any other discussions needed to advance the
>> needs of NCUC and the NCSG-EC.  Thank you.
>> ____________________________
>> Raphaël Beauregard-Lacroix <rbeauregardlacroix at gmail.com>
>> sáb, 1 de dez 13:51 (Há 2 dias)
>> para chair, Maryam
>> Dear Bruna,
>>
>> Please find below my statement of interest for the NCSG EC position.
>>
>> I have now been active in ICANN for more than two years. My first
>> experience was acquired through the work of the Jurisdiction subgroup of
>> WS2, which I joined in the fall of 2016. There was some marked disagreement
>> within that subgroup as to the scope of its work. Nonetheless, I strove to
>> gather consensus around specific action points and work on those. I got
>> involved in drafting a part of the final recommendation, regarding choice
>> of law in ICANN registry agreements.
>>
>> As for the NCSG, I have been involved since May 2018, first as a member
>> of the human rights CCWP and then as a member of the NCUC more generally.
>> During the summer of 2018, I along with a few members of the group, started
>> a reflection on the operationalisation of the human rights bylaw, to which
>> I contributed a short piece which got published on CircleID.
>>
>> More specifically related to the NCUC, I have been involved in both
>> policy as well as "housekeeping" work. I participated in the drafting of
>> two comments (Study on Technical Use of RZ Label Generation Rules and Draft
>> IANA/PTI budget FY 2019). Following the latter comment, I have joined the
>> finance committee which will seek to develop an expertise in tracking and
>> reporting on ICANN financial matters. As for housekeeping, I have been, as
>> part of the tech team, in touch with Farzaneh regarding technical matters,
>> in order to solve the various back-end/front end issues with membership
>> management software.
>>
>> As part of the NCSG EC, I intend on helping organise and manage the
>> elections, updating and revising membership rules, coordinating and liaise
>> with other NSCG constituencies and other ICANN SOs/ACs more generally, and
>> providing dispute resolution support as needed.
>>
>> Finally, I do confirm that I understand the time requirements related to
>> the position and intend to participate in the calls as well as list work. I
>> will also report regularly to the NCUC regarding the EC's activities.
>>
>> Thank you for your consideration,
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Raphael Beauregard-Lacroix
>>
>> __________________________
>> Akinremi Peter Taiwo
>>
>> para chair, Maryam
>>
>> Dear NCUC Chair,
>>
>> With reference to the call for expression, please accept my expression of
>> interest to serve as the NCUC candidate to the NCSG Executive Committee. I
>> strongly believe of my capability to serve in this capacity. I therefore,
>> sincerely expressed my interest to represent NCUC.
>>
>> Find inline my answers to the call criteria:
>>
>> a.       The person should have substantial knowledge about NCSG, its
>> mission and values, as well as NCUC.
>>
>> *Ans: YES. I do have the knowledge of NCSG and NCUC operation.*
>> b.      (b) The person should be familiar with NCSG Charter, as well as
>> ICANN bylaws and GNSO Operating Procedures;
>>
>>
>> *Ans: YES. I am familiar with the NCSG charter, the ICANN bylaws and also
>> the operating procedures.*
>>
>> c.        The person should be willing to work in a large,
>> consensus-oriented committee;
>>
>>
>> *Ans: YES. Working in a diverse large environment that consensus is the
>> priority is not a difficult task for me. The reason being that I have found
>> myself working in such environment for years.*
>>
>> d.      The person should be able to determine the status of members
>> applications, as well as help administer and maintain membership records;
>> and
>>
>>
>> *YES. I confirm my management ability for the task.*
>>
>> e.       The person should be able to join teleconferences, as well as
>> have weekly availability to dedicate to NCSG-EC dedicated mailing list and
>> also membership approval process;
>>
>>
>>
>> *Yes. I confirm that I have the time and resources to do the following
>> tasks as mentioned.*
>>
>>  Regards.
>> --
>> *Bruna Martins dos Santos *
>>
>> Skype ID: bruna.martinsantos
>> @boomartins
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*Bruna Martins dos Santos *

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