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Rafik Dammak |
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. Further, when the constituency was founded, where was he? Not around, contributed nothing. Typical. None of the Above is really a loser. |
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POSITION: Chair 1. Why do you want to serve as NCUC chair? I am looking to continue my volunteering work and serve the non-commercials as I did before. I used to be NCSG chair and after some time of thinking I responded to the request of several members to run for this position. For that reason, I would like to spend the time on continuing the work started before and moving up to a next stage for NCUC. On other hand I would like to prepare the next leaders, making NCUC resilient and stronger. 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. I have an extensive experience of ICANN and GNSO processes and policies issues: I used to be a GNSO councillor for NCSG from 2009 to 2012, Nomcom representative for NCUC in 2012-2013. I also used to be the NCUC representative to NCSG Executive Committee. I was the co-chair of the joint new gTLD applicant support working group and I am currently the co-chair of the ICANN cross-community working group on Internet Governance. I was the chair of NCSG from 2013 to 2015 and I do think that gives me insight on the expectations, requirements and duties of the role of chair: having experience to work with ICANN staff, executive committee and other ICANN groups, planning for meetings, doing the admin work, setting plans etc In other spaces within civil, I was member of the OECD CSISAC steering committee and I am currently member of Internet Rights and Principles Dynamic Coalition steering committee. I have no conflict of interests. 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. I am committing 10 hours to 15 hours and more in weekly basis , which can mean 40 hours in monthly basis. From my previous experience as chair, I am familiar with the peak period of work e.g. preparing for ICANN meeting. I am regularly attending confcall for working group, NCSG confcall etc so able to do the same and organize the online meeting for EC. I am able to attend ICANN meetings. 4. Communication with the membership is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities? I am planning to focus on engagement and communication among other areas. I will continue the work I used to do in term of informing the membership about ICANN activities, announcements, public comments , ongoing policies discussion, NCUC activities and EC decisions, and any other area of interest for NCUC. I will do that via the mailing list, leveraging existing spaces such NCUC website, wiki, twitter account but also possibly having a regular confcall or webinar. I am also going to work more on 1-to-1 engagement to tailor it to the specific needs of organizational and individual members for matter of effectiveness: providing clear advices/support about participation in ICANN/GNSO processes, briefing about current policy issues, mentorship for newcomers and participants in working group etc. I am also planning to blog more using NCUC website to provide briefings, information sharing etc. also levering other approaches such as videos, newsletter etc. Communications will be coordinated with other EC members and involving existing comm team. 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? As strategy, I would like to work with new EC to focus on: * strengthening NCUC operational part: based on what is done before to continue the work on membership management, communication, improving committees and ad-hoc teams work, improving the admin support, improving policy support for NCSG, revamping the website in term of content, experimenting new tools for engaging members. * strengthening NCUC structurally: incorporating it, increasing its budget, working on partnerships with other groups for specific projects & initiatives, finalising the bylaw update and managing that process. *Improving NCUC communication: continue the work already done and pushing for more NCUC visibility within and outside ICANN, making regular public statement to indicate NCUC positions. * working with other stakeholders within its direct environment in GNSO:liaising with other groups, coordinating joint efforts etc * improving membership engagement and participation: with the steady growth of NCUC, it is important to scale out our membership management effort , improving members involvement in order to expand the pool of volunteers. Listening to our members needs and expectations from NCUC. * Outreach: continue the work done in that domain and improving it with better evaluation and follow-up, more targeted efforts to bring new players in term of policy, the focus in mid-term is clearly about the ICANN accountability process and the finalization of IANA stewardship transition. New and critical policy processes are going to start soon or already started and we have to follow them closely: new whois policies, rights protection mechanisms review in particular UDRP, review of new gTLD program and the work on next round. we ought to be heavily involved there.
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REGION: Asia/Australia/Pacific 1. Why do you want to serve on the EC? To me, NCUC is the user’s platform at ICANN. It is where the users’ interests are taken into consideration and are protected, in one way or the other, and the EC of NCUC is the right place to make impactful contributions while trying to protect users’ interest. Coming from a developing country with huge population, different cultural sectors and a diverse set of Internet access and usage, I can represent the region in an effective way while trying to raise voice of underprivileged end user of the Internet. Moreover, being a technical person coming from academia, I feel that there is a strong need for NCUC to have someone from technical background in the EC so as to see and deeply understand the technical aspect of things which can help in the policy development process while safeguarding NCUC’s interests. On the other hand, I also want to be at the EC so as to be able to do some meaningful and practical work on the outreach strategies and help in realizing what is being committed normally and is hardly realized. There is a strong need to take advantage of such a strong new membership base that has been added to NCUC in past 2 years or so, and I believe that I can be in a position to do more when at the EC in this regard. 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. I received PhD in Computer Networking with specialization on Internet Naming and Addressing and Communication Architectures from University of Nice, Sophia Antipolis, France, and am currently working as Associate Professor in EE Department at M. A. Jinnah University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Moreover, I am also serving as one of the chapter leaders of ISOC Islamabad Chapter since past one year. Besides, I have been associated with ICANN as fellow and coach (mentor) since ICANN 50 and have got ICANN fellowship for 4 meetings out of the last 5 meetings held (ICANN 50, 52, 53 and 54). Since June 2014, I am working with SSR team of ICANN on security-related matters and got trained as a trainer for the Middle-East region from ICANN and NSRC at Dubai in April 2015. On the other hand, I have also got fellowship for ISOC to attend IETF 92 in March 2015, and am contributing at that forum as well. Being a member of NCUC for more than a year and an ICANN fellowship coach for past 3 consecutive ICANN meetings, I have motivated and helped a number of new fellows in joining NCUC, NPOC and NCSG, and an increase of new fellows joining NCUC is quite obvious from the data. I have no conflict of interest. 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. Coming from academia, I have more luxury to manage my time depending on the tasks at hand. My employer is quite open in letting me go out to attend meetings in person and it is counted as an “official assignment” in accordance with the university policy. Hence, I don’t have any problem in attending the meetings either in person or online. Being a member of the EC, I can pledge to spend at least 10 hours per week to do assignments related to my responsibility, which may be increased as well depending upon the requirement and urgency of matter at hand. 4. Communication with the membership is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities? Communication with the membership is utterly critical, and this is one of the main motivations behind accepting the nomination to serve at the EC of NCUC. I feel that this is an area which has a lot of margin of improvement in its current form. I believe that there is a strong need of engaging regional members and try to keep them alive in the NCUC processes via extensive engagement sessions, and there should be one of the primary responsibilities of the EC member from each region. Currently, I don’t see regional bonding between NCUC members and this have an effect on the local engagement as well. Secondly, more should be done to engage local communities and making them aware of ICANN processes and in particular what NCUC could do for them. Translation could be done in more languages to increase awareness and this is something I plan to do. As an EC member, I would pay strong attention towards engagement of new members into the NCUC activities in order to utilize their potential and making them comfortable in the community sooner rather than later. 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? As an EC member of NCUC, I would strongly push the constituency to follow up on the membership engagement survey that we had conducted 6 months ago. At present, I don’t see urgency towards working on the findings of that survey in order to better manage the membership, their active engagement, and outreach management. I believe that the constituency should prioritize this issue before the data collected becomes obsolete. Moreover, I would urge the constituency to do more towards making new members more engaged in the NCUC activities, possibly via some kind of mentorship program, or coming up with a call for volunteers to do a less important piece of a large task for the new members. Moreover, a proper database with members’ interest and their areas of expertise should be published somewhere on the NCUC’s website so that members can work with each other online or offline more effectively. As an academic having technical background and involved in users’ interest in local community through ISOC platform, I am more interested in the policies relevant to users’ privacy and security related issues. Moreover, ICANN accountability issues should be more carefully addressed and it doesn’t make sense to tie up the accountability issue with the one-time IANA transition activity, as accountability is continuous process. I believe that more attention is required to better understand this issue and to deal with it on its merit. |
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REGION: Asia/Australia/Pacific 1. Why do you want to serve on the EC? 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. 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. For the 2014-2015 term, I have made some progress. I expect to do more. I want to keep going and make my work in NCUC better and make the EC running better and stronger. Serving on the EC, I aim to promote more diversity in geographical, linguistic and cultural terms in Asia-Pacific region. 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. For me, the NCUC is a place to get things done first and foremost, not talk about things. During the past year: 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/. 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. 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. d) Uploaded the NCUC video to the most famous Chinese video website—YOUKU(优酷) to promote NCUC in China for the first time. Please see: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTM3NTMwMjE0NA==.html. 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. In January, 2015, along with fellow incumbent EC members, I participated in the 2nd Non-Contracted Parties House (NCPH) intersessional meeting, which helps us build cooperation with the CSG party and do outreach work in Washington. In June 2015, I finished working in Translation and Transliteration of WHOIS Contact Information PDP Working Group, which was started in December, 2013. In July, 2015, I joined the Universal Acceptance working group to make IDN domain names work better in future. 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. In addition, since March, 2015, I became a member of ISOC Taiwan Taipei Chapter. I do not have any conflict of interest. 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. 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. I have no problem for remote participation of conference calls. 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. 4. Communication with the membership is critical. How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities? 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. 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. They need answers and words with related context. So I am inclined to have communication with target members who are having difficulty in understanding activities of NCUC. I propose to establish the NCUC Head Coach mechanism for new NCUC members. By the Head Coach, I mean NCUC appoints two qualified persons to coach new members to enable them understand NCUC as soon as possible. Besides, I have the Fellow-Alumni Mailing list to share and disseminate information. In our localized Chinese community, we use the most popular social media app—WECHAT-- to inform people instantly. 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). 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: 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. There is far more to do where I expect to earn your support and continue to work for you. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. |