This is my statement of interest for AFRALO Representative in the Nominating Committee Nomcom.
I am Ines Hfaiedh, a teacher and member of AFRALO through ISOC Tunisia where I am a Board member.
As mentionned before, I am a Tunisian teacher previously awarded the Fulbright Fellowship and taught at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC. I also train teachers on ICT Implementation in Education and teaching learners with specific needs. I speak five languages among which Arabic, French and English which I speak fluently.
I have been engaged with ICANN since ICANN 55 which means more than three years. Ever since, I did my best to become more active at different fronts.
My engagement had to do with being a coach many times for fellows, being in charge of the ICANN booth, being Africa Representative in NCUC, being one of the five work team members in ICANN's Intercultural Awareness Program, and since 2017 I am in charge of the Secretariat of ICANN's MEAC School on Internet Governance.
I have served as Africa Representative in NCUC where I strived to bring African members to take part in NCUC Africa webinars and mailing list as well as selecting them for fellowships to attend ICANN meetings.
With an NCUC Africa Representative term ending befire the ICANN 65 meeting, my experience in the Executive Committee enabled me to learn better on consensus building and dynamics of collaboration which I would use if selected as Nomcom and seated around the AGM in November.
It is worth-mentionning that I am a member of the Nomcom Review Implementation Working Group, a working group offering solid background on the workings, procedures and timelines of Nomcom.
With a background in executive comittees, selection committees,intercultural awareness program team member,secretariat in ICANN s SIG, coach and NOMCOM Review Implementation Working group, I believe I have the potentials to be to the task and act as a catalyst of not only gender and regional diversity but also to bring in my expetience and knowledge of the ins and outs of ICANN's diffetent constitutiencies and hence work towards a collaborative and smooth selection process of ICANN's leadership positions.
I thank you all again for your support.