[Npoc-discuss] NPOC SECRETARY - SELF NOMINATION
Olévié Kouami
olivierkouami at gmail.com
Mon May 23 14:35:57 UTC 2016
2016-05-23 14:12 GMT+01:00 Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G. <crg at isoc-cr.org>:
> I want to second Olévié Kouami for Secretary of NPOC!!!!
>
> Cheers for this great emerging new Team!!!
>
> Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
> +506 8837 7176
> Skype: carlos.raulg
> Current UTC offset: -6.00 (Costa Rica)
> On 23 May 2016, at 7:11, Olévié Kouami wrote:
>
> Hi all !
>>
>> +1 @Carlos.
>>
>> I would really love to see my young brother and fiend Martin at this
>> position in the next Excom;
>>
>> So, I decline my first nomination for the Vice-Chair position to the
>> postiion of Secretary of NPOC.
>>
>> Certainly the NPOC need a good secretary as well.
>>
>> So, like I was told, lets move forward and fill those nominations, so we
>> bring new LIFE to the NPOC.
>>
>> The NPOC really need to get up to speed to its new responsibilities under
>> the Transition.
>>
>> Warm regards
>> -Olévié-
>>
>>
>> 2016-05-23 1:35 GMT+01:00 Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G. <crg at isoc-cr.org>:
>>
>> 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
>>> Current UTC offset: -6.00 (Costa Rica)
>>>
>>> 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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>>
>>
>> --
>> *Olévié Ayaovi Agbenyo KOUAMI*
>> *Directeur-Adjoint de O and K IT SOLUTIONS sarl **Editeur de logiciels de
>> gestion (PGI/ERP) S.I.G.E. (http://www.oandkit.com
>> <http://www.oandkit.com>)*
>>
>> *Président/CEO de l'INTIC4DEV (Institut des TIC pour le développement)
>> http://www.intic4dev.org <http://www.intic4dev.org> *
>>
>> *Eminent National Expert for the World Summit Award
>> (http://www.wsis-award.org <http://www.wsis-award.org>) *
>>
>> *Secrétaire Général de l'ESTETIC - Association Togolaise des
>> professionnels des TIC (http://www.estetic.tg <http://www.estetic.tg>)*
>>
>> *ICANN-GNSO-NCSG-NPOC Communications Committee Chair (
>> http://www.npoc.org/
>> <http://www.npoc.org/>)**ICANN - Fellow & Alumni (http://www.icann.org
>> <http://www.icann.org>) - Membre de Internet Society (http://www.isoc.org
>> <http://www.isoc.org>) *
>> *Membre fondateur du RIK-Togo (Réseau Interprofessionnel du Karité au
>> Togo)
>> *(http://www.globalshea.com)
>> *Skype : olevie1 FaceBook : @olivier.kouami.3 Twitter : #oleviek Lomé –
>> Togo*
>>
>
--
*Olévié Ayaovi Agbenyo KOUAMI*
*Directeur-Adjoint de O and K IT SOLUTIONS sarl **Editeur de logiciels de
gestion (PGI/ERP) S.I.G.E. (http://www.oandkit.com
<http://www.oandkit.com>)*
*Président/CEO de l'INTIC4DEV (Institut des TIC pour le développement)
http://www.intic4dev.org <http://www.intic4dev.org> *
*Eminent National Expert for the World Summit Award
(http://www.wsis-award.org <http://www.wsis-award.org>) *
*Secrétaire Général de l'ESTETIC - Association Togolaise des
professionnels des TIC (http://www.estetic.tg <http://www.estetic.tg>)*
*ICANN-GNSO-NCSG-NPOC Communications Committee Chair (http://www.npoc.org/
<http://www.npoc.org/>)**ICANN - Fellow & Alumni (http://www.icann.org
<http://www.icann.org>) - Membre de Internet Society (http://www.isoc.org
<http://www.isoc.org>) *
*Membre fondateur du RIK-Togo (Réseau Interprofessionnel du Karité au Togo)
*(http://www.globalshea.com)
*Skype : olevie1 FaceBook : @olivier.kouami.3 Twitter : #oleviek Lomé –
Togo*
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