<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-05-23 14:12 GMT+01:00 Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crg@isoc-cr.org" target="_blank">crg@isoc-cr.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I want to second Olévié Kouami for Secretary of NPOC!!!!<br>
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Cheers for this great emerging new Team!!!<span class=""><br>
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Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez<br>
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On 23 May 2016, at 7:11, Olévié Kouami wrote:<br>
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Hi all !<br>
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+1 @Carlos.<br>
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I would really love to see my young brother and fiend Martin at this<br>
position in the next Excom;<br>
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So, I decline my first nomination for the Vice-Chair position to the<br>
postiion of Secretary of NPOC.<br>
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Certainly the NPOC need a good secretary as well.<br>
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So, like I was told, lets move forward and fill those nominations, so we<br>
bring new LIFE to the NPOC.<br>
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The NPOC really need to get up to speed to its new responsibilities under<br>
the Transition.<br>
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Warm regards<br>
-Olévié-<br>
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2016-05-23 1:35 GMT+01:00 Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G. <<a href="mailto:crg@isoc-cr.org" target="_blank">crg@isoc-cr.org</a>>:<br>
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Dear NPOC members,<br>
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I fully support the nomination of this young, smart and dedicated friend.<br>
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Martin´s effort is an excelent case of ICANN´s effort to get a whole new<br>
generation of participants into the multi-stakeholder policy development<br>
process.<br>
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Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez<br>
<a href="tel:%2B506%208837%207176" value="+50688377176" target="_blank">+506 8837 7176</a><br>
Skype: carlos.raulg<br>
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On 21 May 2016, at 17:37, Martin Pablo Silva Valent wrote:<br>
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Dear NPOC Members,<br>
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I am Martín Silva Valent, current Secretariat of NPOC, and I<br>
hereby nominate myself for the Vice-Chair open position. I declare that: I<br>
am an active member of NPOC, and that if elected, I consent to serve; and I<br>
do not have any pecuniary or conflict of interest with ICANN.<br>
<br>
I am finishing my term as Secretariat and after more than two years of<br>
work assisting the Chair and Vice-Chair of NPOC I feel I have concluded a<br>
learning cycle. My engagement with policy development, mentoring and<br>
outreach and in-reach work has increased and I feel I can contribute more<br>
as Vice-chair than as a Secretariat. I also think that is fair that someone<br>
else become Secretariat, a privileged role I enjoyed and from which I<br>
learned almost everything I know about ICANN.<br>
<br>
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About Me in ICANN:<br>
<br>
I am honoured for the trust I’ve received from the community<br>
to be Secretariat and I can only hope that the community feels I was up to<br>
the expectation. Besides being the Secretariat of NPOC inside ICANN I am an<br>
Alumni of the Fellowship Program and the Leadership Training Program, and<br>
twice the Coach Leader of the Fellowship, things that eventually led me to<br>
be an official Mentor for ICANN future leaders and developing both Coaching<br>
and Mentorship material and strategies (something I still work on). For<br>
NPOC I have done, and still do, extensive outreach both in my geographical<br>
zone, the LAC zone, and other places when I have the opportunity. I also<br>
participate in two working groups, “The Standing Committee on Improvements<br>
Implementation” and the “Review of all Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs)<br>
in all gTLDs”. This is just to mention some relevant events, but I also<br>
collaborate and help in a lot of other things (i.e.: last week I gave a<br>
presentation of NPOC in the LACRALO monthly call and I am helping the NCSG<br>
to present a Workshop Proposal for the IGF).<br>
<br>
<br>
About Me outside ICANN:<br>
<br>
I am 27 years old and a Lawyer living in Buenos Aires<br>
Argentina. I presented in my name and got approved a Workshop for the IGF<br>
in Brazil along with the Youth Coalition for Internet Governance regarding<br>
Youth in the Multistakeholder Process. I also do research in the NGO I<br>
represent (AGEIA DENSI, a specialized NGO in research and development of<br>
Internet Law and Economy issues) and the university where I teach Civil Law<br>
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella). In the past I’ve done work with Human<br>
Rights and Genocide regarding the Argentina and the Armenian cases.<br>
<br>
I do research on various Internet Law matters, some of them<br>
have been published (i.e.: Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Internet<br>
Policy, a Latin America Case Study, funded by the Internet Policy<br>
Observatory at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of<br>
Pennsylvania). Besides my academic and IG work, I am a licensed Lawyer in<br>
Buenos Aires and I do practice corporate law in my own family law firm with<br>
some clients that are usually not related to Internet, all non-related to<br>
DNS in any way.<br>
<br>
I like to work with professionalism but I also enjoy the<br>
social and the affective part of working together with other people,<br>
especially when they are different to me. I work hard and I am kind, I<br>
trust any of my wo-workers can give testimony to that. I am not perfect, I<br>
make mistakes and I am always in a learning process and usually find myself<br>
being the ignorant in the room, but I love that because it means I am in<br>
the right place, challenging myself and making my experience better and<br>
deeper.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
About the future of NPOC:<br>
<br>
The past of NPOC is still quite short, but since I’ve started<br>
working the Membership base has been cleaned up and is more transparent, it<br>
has also grown in active members and participants (in my first constituency<br>
meeting there where only 4 members and some lost/curious people, imagine!).<br>
This was thanks to an extensive work that Joan Kerr did and the enormous<br>
amount of work that we all in the ExCom did with different outreach, and<br>
in-reach, activities. Said that, NPOC is about Policy making since is part<br>
of the GNSO, and therefore our ultimate goal is to produce policy that<br>
takes in account the interest of our community, in this case, the<br>
Operational Concerns of Non-for-Profits, a forgotten subject in ICANN since<br>
the dawn of times.<br>
<br>
It still baffles me how ICANN is full of NGO people but no one<br>
acknowledges the challenges and opportunities that the DNS represent for<br>
the NGOs. Operating an NGO, just like operating an enterprise, using the<br>
domain name system has a rich set of problems and potential solutions that<br>
we are still yet to discover. That’s why the engagement activities are so<br>
important, because we need far more input, feedback and activity from the<br>
community to say that NPOC is producing accurate Policy according to its<br>
mission. So far, we have done all that we could to produce policy in a vast<br>
amount of working groups taking in account how many active members we had<br>
in the beginning (Rudi Vanna, Klaus Stoll and Sam Lanfranco to name the<br>
most influential in this last years). This is all changing thanks to the<br>
work done in the last years and I am confident that as time passes and the<br>
team grows and evolves the Policy work will be getting only better and<br>
better to give the NGOs out there the proper defence of their operational<br>
interest inside the GNSO.<br>
<br>
As Vice-Chair I will deepen my work and continue to develop<br>
in the most inclusive and multistakeholder manner the policy issues that<br>
the domain name system presents. I have to say it clear, even if I am not<br>
the next Vice-chair, even if I continue as a Secretariat or as just a<br>
simple active member, I will work the same with all the member of NPOC and<br>
continue to put my shoulder to the matter at stake, because I believe is<br>
the right thing to do and I truly enjoy doing it.<br>
<br>
<br>
Final words:<br>
<br>
Thank you very much for your time and don’t forget to vote on the<br>
elections and participate as much as you can in the NPOC activities after<br>
that. We need you all and we need you know, just as you need NPOC to not be<br>
left behind in the Domain Name System. I kindly ask you to vote for me if<br>
you think I can do the best work as Vice-Chair. If you wish to contact me<br>
don’t hesitate to drop an email or a message in Skype (user: mpsilvavalent).<br>
<br>
Cheers to all,<br>
<br>
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*Olévié Ayaovi Agbenyo KOUAMI*<br>
*Directeur-Adjoint de O and K IT SOLUTIONS sarl **Editeur de logiciels de<span class=""><br>
gestion (PGI/ERP) S.I.G.E. (<a href="http://www.oandkit.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.oandkit.com</a><br></span>
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*Président/CEO de l'INTIC4DEV (Institut des TIC pour le développement)<br>
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*Eminent National Expert for the World Summit Award<br>
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*Secrétaire Général de l'ESTETIC - Association Togolaise des<br>
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*ICANN-GNSO-NCSG-NPOC Communications Committee Chair (<a href="http://www.npoc.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.npoc.org/</a><br>
<<a href="http://www.npoc.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.npoc.org/</a>>)**ICANN - Fellow & Alumni (<a href="http://www.icann.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.icann.org</a><br>
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*Skype : olevie1 FaceBook : @olivier.kouami.3 Twitter : #oleviek Lomé –<br>
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