[Npoc-discuss] MARTIN SILVA VALENT - NPOC VICE-CHAIR NOMINATION

Mon May 23 00:35:26 UTC 2016

Dear NPOC members,

I fully support the nomination of this young, smart and dedicated 
friend.

Martin´s effort is an excelent case of ICANN´s effort to get a whole 
new generation of participants into the multi-stakeholder policy 
development process.

Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
+506 8837 7176
Skype: carlos.raulg
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On 21 May 2016, at 17:37, Martin Pablo Silva Valent wrote:

> Dear NPOC Members,
>
>             I am Martín Silva Valent, current Secretariat of NPOC, 
> and I hereby nominate myself for the Vice-Chair open position. I 
> declare that: I am an active member of NPOC, and that if elected, I 
> consent to serve; and I do not have any pecuniary or conflict of 
> interest with ICANN.
>
> I am finishing my term as Secretariat and after more than two years of 
> work assisting the Chair and Vice-Chair of NPOC I feel I have 
> concluded a learning cycle. My engagement with policy development, 
> mentoring and outreach and in-reach work has increased and I feel I 
> can contribute more as Vice-chair than as a Secretariat. I also think 
> that is fair that someone else become Secretariat, a privileged role I 
> enjoyed and from which I learned almost everything I know about ICANN.
>
>
> About Me in ICANN:
>
>             I am honoured for the trust I’ve received from the 
> community to be Secretariat and I can only hope that the community 
> feels I was up to the expectation. Besides being the Secretariat of 
> NPOC inside ICANN I am an Alumni of the Fellowship Program and the 
> Leadership Training Program, and twice the Coach Leader of the 
> Fellowship, things that eventually led me to be an official Mentor for 
> ICANN future leaders and developing both Coaching and Mentorship 
> material and strategies (something I still work on). For NPOC I have 
> done, and still do, extensive outreach both in my geographical zone, 
> the LAC zone, and other places when I have the opportunity. I also 
> participate in two working groups, “The Standing Committee on 
> Improvements Implementation” and the “Review of all Rights 
> Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) in all gTLDs”. This is just to mention 
> some relevant events, but I also collaborate and help in a lot of 
> other things (i.e.: last week I gave a presentation of NPOC in the 
> LACRALO monthly call and I am helping the NCSG to present a Workshop 
> Proposal for the IGF).
>
>
> About Me outside ICANN:
>
>             I am 27 years old and a Lawyer living in Buenos Aires 
> Argentina. I presented in my name and got approved a Workshop for the 
> IGF in Brazil along with the Youth Coalition for Internet Governance 
> regarding Youth in the Multistakeholder Process. I also do research in 
> the NGO I represent (AGEIA DENSI, a specialized NGO in research and 
> development of Internet Law and Economy issues) and the university 
> where I teach Civil Law (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella). In the past 
> I’ve done work with Human Rights and Genocide regarding the 
> Argentina and the Armenian cases.
>
>             I do research on various Internet Law matters, some of 
> them have been published (i.e.: Impact of Free Trade Agreements on 
> Internet Policy, a Latin America Case Study, funded by the Internet 
> Policy Observatory at the Annenberg School for Communication at the 
> University of Pennsylvania). Besides my academic and IG work, I am a 
> licensed Lawyer in Buenos Aires and I do practice corporate law in my 
> own family law firm with some clients that are usually not related to 
> Internet, all non-related to DNS in any way.
>
>             I like to work with professionalism but I also enjoy the 
> social and the affective part of working together with other people, 
> especially when they are different to me. I work hard and I am kind, I 
> trust any of my wo-workers can give testimony to that. I am not 
> perfect, I make mistakes and I am always in a learning process and 
> usually find myself being the ignorant in the room, but I love that 
> because it means I am in the right place, challenging myself and 
> making my experience better and deeper.
>
>
>
> About the future of NPOC:
>
>             The past of NPOC is still quite short, but since I’ve 
> started working the Membership base has been cleaned up and is more 
> transparent, it has also grown in active members and participants (in 
> my first constituency meeting there where only 4 members and some 
> lost/curious people, imagine!). This was thanks to an extensive work 
> that Joan Kerr did and the enormous amount of work that we all in the 
> ExCom did with different outreach, and in-reach, activities. Said 
> that, NPOC is about Policy making since is part of the GNSO, and 
> therefore our ultimate goal is to produce policy that takes in account 
> the interest of our community, in this case, the Operational Concerns 
> of Non-for-Profits, a forgotten subject in ICANN since the dawn of 
> times.
>
> It still baffles me how ICANN is full of NGO people but no one 
> acknowledges the challenges and opportunities that the DNS represent 
> for the NGOs. Operating an NGO, just like operating an enterprise, 
> using the domain name system has a rich set of problems and potential 
> solutions that we are still yet to discover. That’s why the 
> engagement activities are so important, because we need far more 
> input, feedback and activity from the community to say that NPOC is 
> producing accurate Policy according to its mission. So far, we have 
> done all that we could to produce policy in a vast amount of working 
> groups taking in account how many active members we had in the 
> beginning (Rudi Vanna, Klaus Stoll and Sam Lanfranco to name the most 
> influential in this last years). This is all changing thanks to the 
> work done in the last years and I am confident that as time passes and 
> the team grows and evolves the Policy work will be getting only better 
> and better to give the NGOs out there the proper defence of their 
> operational interest inside the GNSO.
>
>             As Vice-Chair I will deepen my work and continue to 
> develop in the most inclusive and multistakeholder manner the policy 
> issues that the domain name system presents. I have to say it clear, 
> even if I am not the next Vice-chair, even if I continue as a 
> Secretariat or as just a simple active member, I will work the same 
> with all the member of NPOC and continue to put my shoulder to the 
> matter at stake, because I believe is the right thing to do and I 
> truly enjoy doing it.
>
>
> Final words:
>
> Thank you very much for your time and don’t forget to vote on the 
> elections and participate as much as you can in the NPOC activities 
> after that. We need you all and we need you know, just as you need 
> NPOC to not be left behind in the Domain Name System. I kindly ask you 
> to vote for me if you think I can do the best work as Vice-Chair. If 
> you wish to contact me don’t hesitate to drop an email or a message 
> in Skype (user: mpsilvavalent).
>
> Cheers to all,
>
> Martín._______________________________________________
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