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Please find below my candidate statement. Thank you for taking the time to read it! If you have any further questions, I would be happy to answer either via email or on the call tomorrow. ===Candidate Statement, Tatiana Tropina, nomination: NCUC EC European seat====== Name: Tatiana Tropina, Region of residence: Europe, Gender: Female, Employment: Senior Researcher, Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany. Conflict of interest: No.1 Why do you want to serve on the EC? I want to contribute to the engagement of NCUC members into the ICANN processes and to the administrative functioning of the NCUC; and further effective governance at the NCUC. I believe that for strong representation of the non-commercial users at ICANN we need to ensure NCUC’s transparency, visibility and credibility. I have been actively engaged in NCUC’s activities in the past year, so I believe that the EC position is the next logical level to strengthen my involvement in serving the non-commercial interests. I would also like to ensure that NCUC members are getting informed about and engaged in ICANN policy processes.
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. In the past year, I have been already able to demonstrate my commitment to NCUC, I work at least several hours a week to fulfil my voluntary commitments to the CCWG-accountablity and other processes. I clearly understand that the EC position will require time and I am willing to make such a commitment, including travelling to the ICANN meetings. I have a flexible work schedule, and my current job allows me to take voluntary obligations. Furthermore, I travel a lot for work and I am very well connected at different IG-related fora in Europe: this will perfectly allow me to carry out the necessary outreach and give NCUC more visibility. 4 Communication with the membership is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities? This is an easy question because I don’t have to suggest anything extremely innovative but rather continue the efforts that have been made: the current EC representative for Europe, Farzaneh, established (in my opinion) great channels and patterns for communications with the NCUC members. I will try to further strengthen this: the members can expect quarterly regional reports and reports from the events that NCUC took part in. Furthermore, I will inform NCUC members about different calls for proposals and funding for the European and other IG-related events so we can have more presence and engagement outside of ICANN, too. 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? Incumbent candidates should answer in a manner that is both backward and forward looking, i.e. taking note of their contributions and work in the previous year. In the last couple of years NCUC and its membership have been able to contribute a lot (and substantively!) to different ICANN policy-development processes and also in the process of transition. We have to leverage these achievements, build upon them and strengthen both NCUC “from within” (outreach, transparency, effective governance and more involvement of the current membership in the policy-making) and also in the ICANN and IG context: visibility, credibility, representation of the non-commercial interests at the ICANN. The latter, in my opinion, should focus “policy-wise” on privacy issues, human rights and their consideration in any PDP processes “by default” and the new challenges of the shadow content regulation. Last but not least, I believe NCUC can further contribute into the diversity, gender balance and the greater representation of non-commercial users in ICANN processes.
Warm regards Tanya Card |
Raoul Plommer, Europe, male and free as in unemployed; I have no conflicts of interest in working with the NCUC.. Hi, my name is Raoul and I'm too honest for my own good. I've been a member of NCUC for approximately one year now and I have to say that I'm very pleased to have joined. First and foremost, It has given me an opportunity to expand my network of people, who fight globally for the same issues as I have done, as a member of the Pirate party, Electronic Frontier Finland and lately Open Knowledge International. I woke up politically in 2008, because of internet censorship in Finland. I realised that our government is willingly giving away our hard earned rights and nobody was fighting it visibly. I decided to become a part of resistance that is focused on hanging on to our rights, on-and-offline. No parliamentary party was arguing against censorship and the Finnish Pirate Party was found a few months after they started using the blocklist in February. Naturally, we copied most of our platform from the Swedish Pirate Party, and were formed to reform laws regarding copyright and patents, to strengthen the individual's right to privacy and freedom of speech and the transparency of governance. Sound familiar? Vote for a pirate! We are a political movement to disperse power through free information and open governance, and we believe that people with an access to free communication, culture and knowledge grow and create a more enjoyable and humane society for everyone to live in. I'd say we are anarchists that believe in change through parliamentarism, so not quite the usual suspects. I am telling you this, because this is pretty much all I do these days. Being a pirate and fighting for human rights makes me happier than anything I've ever done in my life. That is why I am in the NCUC. Why else would one be here? I would be highly motivated to excel at my work, was I chosen to become a member of this Executive Committee. Alas, my academic achievements are probably the least impressive of all the people in ICANN, but I'm not going to let that stop me, or even be belittled for it. I have been working to defend these rights and study them at my own discretion and I have drive that academia can't give you. It's made of conviction and fire. I am willing to work tens of hours per month for this position and I will use some of them, to empower all of us.In the years I've been actually paid for what I do, I've been an accountant, financial analyst, executive secretary or in some other administrative role, so I've been proven to cope with mundane things, too. Lately, I've started designing websites, sold a few and hopefully will eventually be able to get and income from that, based anywhere in the world, with a flexible schedule, to have more freedom for the things I love. But that stage is still some years away. I feel that I have a different perspective to most other people in the NCUC and I think I could provide some useful insights on making our work more easily approachable as well as making outside people in our networks more aware of what ICANN does and how it affects the whole internet. I excel in putting things in layman's terms, but ICANN is a tough nut to crack. I will need our community's help in doing it. To my positive surprise, ICANN published an initiative for Open Data while we were in Hyderabad and that will get OKI more interested in joining our work. There are a lot of people and chapters around the world working to advance Open Knowledge and I think their expertise in opening data, would be invaluable to the NCSG. They would also be able to join ICANN meetings relatively easy, for the global nature of their network. I will follow this up persistently in any case. I'm planning to introduce some new tools for our members' use, that will make it easier for our whole community to know what's going on and what work needs to get done. Such tools could include Slack, Trello and Hackpad and I would also like to apply the NCUC to become a member of TechSoup, that gives licenses to non-commercial entities for free. This would improve our members' capability to work elsewhere, too. In my eyes, the NCUC does not have even close to it's fair share of the hierarchical power structure within ICANN. A great example of this is our single seat at the Nominating Committee, which wheels a great deal of power in selecting the leaders of the ICANN community, such as seats on the Board and the GNSO. I am set to do something about this deplorable situation and I have already been discussing this with some members of the board as well as other stakeholder groups' leaders even though they must be wondering "who the hell is this guy?" So far, I feel really quite optimistic after the reactions I've had. I'd say more than half of the people weren't even aware of our tiny share (1/7) and I will keep pushing another seat for the NCSG until it's ours. I have the two most accessible passports in the world, the British and the Finnish, and they each give you access to 176 countries without a visa and I love travelling. I am broke as a joke but not in debt and I will earn my future travel funding through hard work. This much I can promise. You just need to give me this final nudge as validation. -Raoul
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