Dear NPOC members, please find my position statement below. I am asking for your vote as Chair for NPOC
•Name: Joan Kerr
•Affiliation: Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities (FBSC)
•Position applied for: Chair
•Why you are running for the position?: I believe that NPOC is at a significant point in its history, with much attention and time given to develop its foundation as an organization. That work is almost completed and I would ask for your vote to continue with the work.
As the current Chair, I am proud to lead the Executive on a consultative basis, ensuring that the decisions were reflective of everyone's input and garnering agreement through consensus. This approach has lead to an NPOC team, that has collaborated and strategize to accomplish the numerous tasks that initiated, including: a rebranding initiative to create a new logo that involved the membership, clearly defining the meaning and issues of operational concerns, create marketing materials, including a Beginner's Guide to NPOC, a collaborative project with the Onboarding Program, updating the Charter, developing on a new website. All this while Executive members work on the conference calls, working groups, policy development process and attending ICANN meetings
NPOC has also collaborated with NCUC on a number of events, and will continue to work together to strengthen the NCSG and joint develop policy comments.
At present, NPOC's weakest link is policy development. This will be my primary focus for the coming year.
And there is more to be done. As Chair, going forward, I will accomplish the following:
increase the policy comments;
encouraging membership participation in the policy development process; and
educate civil society about ICANN and NPOC
I will continue to develop and work with the Executive Committee, NPOC members, and ICANN Staff to participate in the policy development process and ICANN ecosystem.
•Do you have any conflict(s) of interest?: No
•How many hours per week you are able to dedicate to the position: 3 hours
•Are you involved in any working Groups or PDP efforts, if so please state:
The Executive Committee and I agreed that it was important to focus on getting the administrative work of the Constituency completed, since there were many unfinished tasks from previous years.
• Name: Remmy Nweke
• Affiliation: DigitalSENSE Africa Media
• Position applied for: Chair, Policy Committee
• Why you are running for the position?:
Having served in the policy committee in the recent past, my decision to run for the chairman, Policy Committee of NPOC is to take the Policy engagement of NPOC to the next level, leveraging on our diverse and collective strength to increase engagement in alliance with other members of NPOC and larger NCSG family.
I am also an active individual member of ICANN’s Generic Name Supporting Organisations (GNSO) like Non-Commercial Users Stakeholder Group (NCSG), Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) and Not-for-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency (NPOC) respectively and has been in forefront of all-inclusive diversity advocacy and is one of those who devoted time and energy in the NPOC charter review working group among others.
In addition, I am a consistent member of At-Large Advisory Committee of ICANN under AFRALO - African Regional At-Large Organisation; member of the ALAC Subcommittee on Outreach and Engagement; Fellow, Cyber Security Policy on Human Rights Defenders; Chairman, Communication & Advocacy Committee (CAC), IPv6 Council Nigeria.
Lately, I served as an elected Executive board member, Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), the managers of .NG country code Top Level Domain and extended my services to several committees including Communications and Publicity, Accreditation, Finance and Establishment, as well as an elected Vice President of the African Civil Society on the Information Society (ACSIS), pioneer branch Secretary, Cyber Security Expert Association of Nigeria (CSEAN) and former publicity secretary, Nigeria Internet Group (NIG) cum chairman, International Relations of NIG; pioneer Secretary, ICT Media Initiative; BARK Foundation – a knowledge-based advocacy group; Internet Governance Caucus (IGC), to name a few.
Also in Nigeria, DigitalSENSE Africa efforts at building multistakeholderism gave rise to nurturing of what is today known as Nigeria Internet Governance Forum (NIGF) of which I am equally serving as a member of the NIGF Local Multistakeholder Advisory Group (LMAG), just as I served as a member of the Civil Society Selection Group for the recently concluded WSIS+10 Stakeholder Selection Committee for the United Nations President of the General Assembly, among others.
Personally interested in policy development and particularly as it concerns the Internet ecosystem, hence, I tend to add-value to my policy-making drive moving forward, especially having recently been elected Vice President, African Civil Society on the Information Society (ACSIS) and have relevant expertise as a Contemporary Diplomacy post-graduate from the University of Malta and various certifications on Internet related governance, invariably to translate this opportunity towards improving NPOC policy engagement in association with other members for the benefit of entire ICANN community.
I am a member of NCUC | NPOC | NCSG, (DigitalSENSE Africa Media) as well as the Africa Regional At-Large Organizations (AFRALO); and optimistic of immensely contributing to future input into NPOC Policy Development Process.
• Do you have any conflict(s) of interest?: NO.
• How many Hours a week you are able to dedicate to the position: Will endeavor at least Five (5) hours
• Are you involved in any working Groups or PDP efforts, if so please state: NPOC Charter Review Working Group, Policy Committee and ALAC Outreach Engagement
Thank you for your consideration, support and God bless.
Name: Juan Manuel Rojas P
•Affiliation: AGEIA DENSI Colombia
•Position applied for: Membership Chair
•Why you are running for the position?: I am running as a Membership Chair because I believe that we need to involve our members in the policy work that we are thinking to do. NPOC it has been worried just for reach new members, and of course, that is part of the task, but also it is important to all our members being more active and informed about what is ExCom doing and how they can be part of it.
I also believe that NPOC is growing up. This will make that NPOC be heard by their positions and their statements in public comments, but that is not all, because I think that we will need to make the effort to have information about what are our members doing around the world to inform, both inside NPOC members and outside, and the possibility of be the bridge to connect between each other.
•Do you have any conflict(s) of interest?: No
•How many hours per week you are able to dedicate to the position: 8 hours
•Are you involved in any working Groups or PDP efforts, if so please state:
I am involved in Subsequent Procedures WT5, about geographical names, and I was also involved in RDS PDP. I also have been very active in public comments opened by NCSG and, currently, I am part of the volunteers about single-character public comment.
•Name: Oreoluwa Lesi
•Affiliation: Women's Technology Empowerment Centre - W.TEC
•Position applied for: Secretariat
•Why you are running for the position?: The work that ICANN does is deeply important. However there are many in the nonprofit and civil society communities who do not fully understand what ICANN does and its relevance to their work. This means that they do not have the opportunity to get involved in shaping the policies, which affects them. As someone whose work is focused on getting more girls and women aware of the potential of technology for career, entrepreneurship and leadership opportunities, I interact with a lot of digitally under-represented groups and am constantly exploring strategies to bridge this divide.
A proactive and responsive ExCom provides leadership for NPOC members to contribute to DNS policy, both by creating awareness of ways to do this and by mapping paths to recruit new members.
I would like to help build on the excellent work of the current ExCom so far, by helping to coordinate the administrative responsibilities and make sure that necessary information about NPOC, meetings, finances are available in a timely manner and in a variety of media.
In my professional and other capacities, I have both led and worked as part of teams and have developed the organisational, time management and collaborative skills that will be valuable working in the Secretariat role.
In my brief time as an active member of NPOC, I have participated in several initiatives, like the Community Onboarding and charter review. You can learn more about me and my work here: https://bit.ly/2ke8u78 [bit.ly] and https://wtec.org.ng [wtec.org.ng].
•Do you have any conflict(s) of interest?: No
•How many hours per week you are able to dedicate to the position: 5.5 hours
•Are you involved in any working Groups or PDP efforts, if so please state:
I was a mentee on the Community Onboarding programme and helped to refine the processes to integrate new members to NPOC. Being a newer member, contributing to this process was very important to me.
I also contributed to the revision of the NPOC charter. At the 2018 Intersessional, I worked with the rest of the working group to review the new version of the charter for flow and ease of use.
More recently, as part of the NCSG Policy course Advisory Group, I contributed scenarios for the development of a NCSG Policy course.
