<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463961101937_10881"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463961101937_10880">I fully support this nomination for Vice-Chair due his experience and his knowledge of NPOC issues. </span></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463961101937_10791"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463961101937_10867"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463961101937_10866">JUAN MANUEL ROJAS<br style="color:rgb(69, 69, 69);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:rgb(69, 69, 69);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Comunicador Social </span><br style="color:rgb(69, 69, 69);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:rgb(69, 69, 69);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Presidente - </span><span style="color:rgb(69, 69, 69);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">AGEIA DENSI Colombia</span><br style="color:rgb(69, 69, 69);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>Twitter: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.twitter.com/jmanurojas">@JmanuRojas</a><br style="color:rgb(69, 69, 69);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="color:rgb(69, 69, 69);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:rgb(69, 69, 69);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Unete a LACRALO: </span></div><div style="color:rgb(69, 69, 69);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/lac-discuss-es" style="color:rgb(35, 71, 134);outline-width:0px;">https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/lac-discuss-es</a> <br></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;"><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;"><br><br><br><br></div> </div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> El Sábado, 21 de mayo, 2016 18:40:48, Martin Pablo Silva Valent <mpsilvavalent@gmail.com> escribió:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv7247350102"><div>
<div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><b class="yiv7247350102"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102">Dear NPOC Members,</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102"></span></div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102"><span style="" class="yiv7247350102"> </span>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.</span></div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102">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.</span></div><div class="yiv7247350102"><br class="yiv7247350102"></div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><b class="yiv7247350102"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102">About Me in ICANN:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102"></span></div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102"><span style="" class="yiv7247350102"> </span>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). </span></div><div class="yiv7247350102"><br class="yiv7247350102"></div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><b class="yiv7247350102"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102">About Me outside ICANN:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102"></span></div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102"><span style="" class="yiv7247350102"> </span>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. </span></div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102"><span style="" class="yiv7247350102"> </span>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.</span></div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102"><span style="" class="yiv7247350102"> </span>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. </span></div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102"> </span></div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><b style="" class="yiv7247350102"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102">About the future of NPOC:</span></b></div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102"><span style="" class="yiv7247350102"> </span>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. </span></div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102">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.</span></div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102"><span style="" class="yiv7247350102"> </span>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.</span></div><div class="yiv7247350102"><br class="yiv7247350102"></div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><b style="" class="yiv7247350102"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102">Final words:</span></b></div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102">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).</span></div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102">Cheers to all,</span></div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">
</div><div class="yiv7247350102MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica;" class="yiv7247350102">Martín.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="" class="yiv7247350102"></span></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Npoc-discuss mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Npoc-discuss@icann.org" class="removed-link" href="">Npoc-discuss@icann.org</a><br><a target="_blank" class="removed-link" href="">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/npoc-discuss</a><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>