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

[Michael Karanicolas]

Thanks for forwarding on. In light of this, I'd like to change my votes to
Robin and Monika. She seems to have a good handle on the issues, and put in
a strong application.

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 1:55 PM Bruna Martins dos Santos <
bruna.mrtns at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> [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 *
>
> Skype ID: bruna.martinsantos
> @boomartins
>
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