At-Large Statement of Interest (SOI) Form
1) Please enter your Name: | Pastor Peters Osawaru OMORAGBON |
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3) Are you participating in the At-Large advisory process (including email and real-time discussions) as a representative of: |
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a) ALAC (if so, detail the region and term): | AFRICA. ALS |
b) A Regional At-Large Organization (RALO) (if so, please detail the region, position and term): | AFRALO |
c) An ICANN-accredited At-Large Structure (if so, which one): | Nurses Across the Borders Humanitarian Initiative-A UN Ecosoc NGO |
d) Any ICANN Committee, Constituency or Stakeholder Group (if so, which one(s))? | Atlas2 Planning Committee Work Group |
e) Any other company or organization, whether commercial or nonprofit (if so, please detail the organization and your position): | |
4) Please identify your current employer(s): | Nurses Across the Borders Humanitarian Initiative |
5) Please identify your current position(s): | Executive President/.CEO |
6) Please identify the type(s) of work performed: | Executive administrative and managerial functions |
7) Please identify your declared country of primary residence: | Nigeria |
8) Please list any financial relationship beyond de minimus stock ownership you may have with any company that to your knowledge has a financial relationship or contract with ICANN: | None |
9) Please identify any other relevant arrangements, interests, or benefits as requested in the following two questions: |
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a) Do you, your employer, and/or sponsor have any type of material or financial interest in the At-Large advisory process and its outcomes? | No |
If the answer is “Yes,” please describe the interest: | |
b) Are there any arrangements/agreements between you and any other group, constituency or person(s) regarding your participation as a work team member? | No |
If the answer is “Yes,” please describe the arrangements/agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s): | |
10) Please identify any Working Groups or other chartered teams in which you are participating (include acronyms, if applicable): | atlas2 planning committee work group, capacity building work group PR Work group, AFRALO ROP WG, ALAC ALS MOP WP |
11) Additional information (optional): | I am Founder and Executive President of Nurses Across the Borders and the First ICANN Fellow from Nigeria since 2010. This was when Nurses Across the Borders was equally admitted as an ALS within AFRALO and ever since 2010, I have actively promoted the activities of ICANN especially in the areas of democratic governance in ensuring that, ICANN Rules followed to the letter and applied equally to all. This was why I actively engage and participated in the AFRALO ROP WG as the first Vice Chair of that WG and my inputs were instrumental to the final adoption of the ROP that today allowed for individual members of AFRALO. This penchant, I took to the ALAC ALS MOP WP where as an AFRALO Representative I fought for the recognition of rights and independence of ALS and AFRALO so that we are not treated as just mere appendages. Suffice to say that, I joined the ICANN process and program as an Internet End User. The space and role of the Internet End User in the ICANN scheme of things have been relegated to the background to the extent that, they have never featured in the leadership ladder of ICANN in general and AFRALO in particular. That is why, all successive leaders of AFRALO and by extension ICANN AT LARGE have been "IT EXPERTS". I do not have that background of expertise , so to speak, but can boldly and gladly say that, the INTERNET as invented by ICANN has made me what I am today and has promoted and given the world-wide visibility to Nurses Across the Borders Humanitarian Inititaive both as the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that today, I am not just a Permanent Representative to the United Nations but became the First Designated Contact Person for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from Nigeria. I am the President of Diaspora Nurses Association of Nigeria and the Director for International Liaison for the Nigerian Nurses Charitable Association, United Kingdom, and was Board Member of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations-ECOSOC -CONGO from 2011 -2017. I became the First General Secreatary of the African Regional Committee for CONGO. At the national level in Nigeria, I am the National Deputy Chairman of the oldest political party today in Nigeria-the National Conscience Party, founded by the foremost Human Rights Crusader-Late Chief Gani Fawehinmi of blessed memory. Under the Party I have contested twice for the Nations House of Representatives in 2003 and 2015. And for the Governor of Edo state in 2016 and 2020. What am I bringing to the table as Chairman for AFRALO? The answer is simple. I want to make AFRALO the role model for all other RALOs within ICANN by expanding the democratic space of all the ALSs to give them a voice to not only be heard but also be seen as belonging and enjoying the same privileges beeing enjoyed by a particular group of leaders within AFRALO. How do I mean? I want to server ONLY TWO TERMS and WILL NOT METAMORPHOSED into ANY ROLE OF LEADERSHIP within ICANN as currently being practiced. I will ensure within these two terms, we shall follow through the review and implementation of the AFRALO ROP to ensure that, ONCE YOU HAVE OCCUPIED ANY LEADERSHIP for two years at least and four years at most, you will be allowed to contest any other position for another Six Years. The goal is to ensure that ALL ALS are given the opportuinty to serve and offer their wealth of experience in leadership for AFRALO. This was why at the ICANN 59 and AFRALO General Assembly held in South Africa, in 2017, I made a serious preposition for the above reviews, but this was not allowed to be debated by the leadership of AFRALO , but we shall take this further at the fortcoming GA in Ghana. Ladies and Gentlemen and my friends and colleagues, covet your support and solicit for your votes as the next Chairman of AFRALO with the above experience in leadership and as one of the oldest member of AFRALO. I have always been a voice for AFRALO and intend to continue that if given the opportunity (even if not voted, )I will nonetheless not shy away from my passion for all inclusive leadership. Nurses Across the Borders Humanitarian Initiative (NABHI) is an international charitable non-government, not-for-profit organization. Founded in 1999 on the recognition that the vast majority of people worldwide enjoy poor health care delivery services, arising from the dangers of inadequate health care facilities, crisis and conflicts, droughts, disaster and famine, detrimental to full and good health. It is the belief of NABHI that health is everybody’s business. Our activities are enhanced and promoted through the internet. |
12) Page last revised: | 28-Apr-2023 |
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At-Large SOI Template v3 (Feb 2014)
