June 2018 - Npoc-discuss - lists.icann.org

Call for Policy Committee members
by Joan Kerr July 3, 2018

July 3, 2018

Hello Everyone, At the Members Session hosted by NPOC in Panama, a number of attendees expressed interest in getting involved and providing expertise for the Policy Committee. The Charter requires NPOC EC to give 7 days to the membership. This is a call for volunteers to form the NPOC Policy Committee. Please send your expression of interest by Saturday, July 7th , 2018 by 11:59 UTC. Send you response to: admin(a)npoc.org Please note there is an ongoing election, that the newly elected Policy Chair will be in communications following the elections. Regards, -- Joan Kerr, Entrepreneur, Artist, Humanitarian T: +1 (416) 907-0783 Skype: joankerr_fbsc fbsc.org, www.fbsc.eco Chair: Victory Garden Leadership Implementation Team Chair, Sustainable Agriculture, Global Humanitarian Technology Conference Chair: IEEE Smart Villages Project, Sustainable Agriculture Working Group Chair: ICANN Not for Profit Operational Concerns Constituency Recipient of the United Nations Civil Society Award (WSIS 2004) Recipient, Region of Durham Community Partnership Award Advisor, IEEE Humanitarian Initiatives Committee Advisor, Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network, (CSAYN) Global Coordination Unit

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NPOC's website - planning in progress
by Raoul Plommer June 28, 2018

June 28, 2018

Dear all, Our website currently doesn't really convey the importance of our constituency as well as it should - I've done it quickly in the past and now that we're at the verge of starting our policy work properly, we might as well bring our website up to speed. Here's the initial document for finding out, what functionalities our website should have: https://docs.google.com/document/d/155HxQ6Zit1_iL7lMpjCi-NA62xF_NPedLAx39Bc… Feel free to add things to it. Hopefully we'll get the work starting before the Barcelona meeting. We had an offer of which deadline was in April 23rd, but it still serves to give you an idea, what kind of specifications we need to make. See the attached PDF. -Raoul

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Following Due Processes in Committee Positions at NPOC - My Statement
by Poncelet Ileleji June 28, 2018

June 28, 2018

Dear NPOC Members, Good morning I please wish to write this email on following due processes in all we do serving our constituency. Am writing this in my current capacity as Policy Chair for NPOC, which ends next week and am not contesting again for that position. As you all might have noticed I am, consisting for the Chair position of NPOC in this our election cycle. However my point I wish to highlight is the selection and operation of a Policy Committee which is coming in place before the election cycle is over. The two candidates for Policy Chair namely Remmy Nweke and David Cake, am not certain they were consulted on the creation of a policy committee prior to any of them taken up the position if elected as our policy chair after the election cycle. Having spent 22 years of my professional life in an organisation the YMCA which has existed globally since 1844 I know the values that due processes in board selection and committee selection play, they don’t happen when an incumbent term is not over and when a new person to chair a position has not been elected infact I do not think it happens in any Not for Profit. As a founding member organisation of NPOC I have not seen this happen before since our existence as an ICANN Constituency or even in our sister constituency NCUC. Based on the above even though I was informed by our Vice Chair about the setup of a policy committee which is required by our charter and I tried to reach out to members during my time as policy chair, it’s the process of doing it that was not done rightly. The process must involve the incoming chair as he has to work with that committee. My tenure ends next week so I can’t have any input on this; however I feel due process was not followed, probably it’s because it’s an election cycle season but I leave members to use their own prerogative to judge. The members of this newly created NPOC policy committee are not known to me, I hardly have seen any of them in any policy meeting of NCSG PC as observers, the main attendants of NCSG Policy meetings from NPOC are myself, Juan, our councillor Martin and Sam La Franco and in some cases our former Chair Klaus. Based on this fact with all due respect to members of this newly elected NPOC Policy committee, who are you? When have your association with NPOC started? Where is your Statement of Interest (SOI) as required by ICANN in serving in any working group? These are questions pertinent to any serious organisation that believes in following due process. I leave you all to judge if the right processes where followed prior to a new chair of Policy coming in?. Let’s follow proper procedures / processes and let those in this new Policy committee explain who they are? when did their affiliation start with NPOC?, how long have they known and understood ICANN processes as a true multi stake holder representative organisation? where bottom top approach is the procedure. These are relevant questions in moving NPOC forward we need to do things rightly? I will also like to know if any other committee within NPOC has been constituted before their new Chairs come in after our election cycle. In Conclusion I will like to state I wish to be removed from the mailing list of NPOC Policy committee created, as I strongly feel due process was not followed as a new chair is coming in by next week and he should be the right person to decide and advice on NPOC Policy direction and nominate those who should serve with him in the policy committee from our membership base. This hastily constituted Policy committee happening even prior to our Charter review process been complete is not right at all and most importantly new chairs are not yet in place Its best to members to decipher whether due process was followed or not. Kind Regards Poncelet -- Poncelet O. Ileleji MBCS Coordinator The Gambia YMCAs Computer Training Centre & Digital Studio MDI Road Kanifing South P. O. Box 421 Banjul The Gambia, West Africa Tel: (220) 4370240 Fax:(220) 4390793 Cell:(220) 9912508 Skype: pons_utd *www.ymca.gm <http://www.ymca.gm>http://signaraglobalsolutions.com/ <http://signaraglobalsolutions.com/>http://jokkolabs.net/en/ <http://jokkolabs.net/en/>www.waigf.org <http://www.waigf.org>www,insistglobal.com <http://www.itag.gm>www.npoc.org <http://www.npoc.org>http://www.wsa-mobile.org/node/753 <http://www.wsa-mobile.org/node/753>*www.diplointernetgovernance.org

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Support for the current chair - last day of NPOC's election: 4th of July
by Raoul Plommer June 26, 2018

June 26, 2018

Dear members of NPOC, I would like to give all the support possible to our current chair, who's done a sterling job over the past year. As far as I can see, with Joan's lead, we have accomplished a lot more than I even dared to hope this time last year. On top of cracking on with the arduous process of our charter review, we've gained back the control of our domain name and built a new website engaging our members, as well as giving an introductory place for people outside our constituency. Not only have we worked on these necessary fundamentals of a functioning ICANN constituency, but everyone that I've talked to, who has looked at NPOC during this past year have been very upbeat and excited that NPOC is finally starting to do, what it should have been doing all this time. That includes developing policy statements of the DNS from the perspective of NPOC, that is still very much lacking to this date. Joan has been absolutely crucial in saving our constituency from almost certain destruction and rebuilding its reputation from the embarrassing show it was and I think there could've been no one else doing this work with the diplomacy, experience and persistence that she has shown in getting NPOC back on track. To give you some concrete idea of the success we've had in the past year, we've increased our membership base by ~15% and have almost doubled the amount of voters since the previous election (23 -> 43). These figures mean, that our constituency has attracted a lot of new interest from people curious of NPOC, both old and new. I am very excited about this upward trajectory that we're now on and very much intend in keeping us on it, for the foreseeable future. ...and this is what we're now facing. I implore you, PLEASE consider the mountain of work that Joan has got through this year, the results she's got to show for it, and compare it with the other chair-candidate that seems to be simply yearning for another title, without doing the actual work that goes with it. The elections are by no means over and know that you can even change your vote by simply voting again. I am entirely convinced that Joan's work should be recognised by giving her another year to finish her job of saving our constituency. Raoul Plommer Vice Chair of NPOC

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Visa problem
by Joan Kerr June 26, 2018

June 26, 2018

Hi Everyone, NPOC choice for LAC Leader representative denied entrance to Panama due to visa problem. I was told that ICANN would assist him with the visa upon arrival in Panama. We were looking forward to develop new leaders in every region that ICANN meetings are held. I am so sorry that has happened. Regards, -- Joan Kerr, Entrepreneur, Artist, Humanitarian T: +1 (416) 907-0783 Skype: joankerr_fbsc fbsc.org, www.fbsc.eco Chair: Victory Garden Leadership Implementation Team Chair, Sustainable Agriculture, Global Humanitarian Technology Conference Chair: IEEE Smart Villages Project, Sustainable Agriculture Working Group Chair: ICANN Not for Profit Operational Concerns Constituency Recipient of the United Nations Civil Society Award (WSIS 2004) Recipient, Region of Durham Community Partnership Award Advisor, IEEE Humanitarian Initiatives Committee Advisor, Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network, (CSAYN) Global Coordination Unit

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Panama prepartions
by Joan Kerr June 14, 2018

June 14, 2018

[image: image.png] Hello Everyone, NCSG held a webinar for the policy forum being held in Panama. Both Poncelet and I attended the session which was very good as it outlined the important subjects being discussed and high priority for NSCG/NPOC members. For those attending Panama, it is a really good start to help plan for the sessions. Regards, -- Joan Kerr, Entrepreneur, Artist, Humanitarian T: +1 (416) 907-0783 Skype: joankerr_fbsc fbsc.org, www.fbsc.eco Chair: Victory Garden Leadership Implementation Team Chair, Sustainable Agriculture, Global Humanitarian Technology Conference Chair: IEEE Smart Villages Project, Sustainable Agriculture Working Group Chair: ICANN Not for Profit Operational Concerns Constituency Recipient of the United Nations Civil Society Award (WSIS 2004) Recipient, Region of Durham Community Partnership Award Advisor, IEEE Humanitarian Initiatives Committee Advisor, Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network, (CSAYN) Global Coordination Unit

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NPOC in LAC i-Roadshow Panama
by Juan Manuel Rojas June 13, 2018

June 13, 2018

[image: Npoc_Banner_new.png] Dear all, GSE team invited NPOC to participate at the LAC Roadshow - Central America and Mexico edition which will take place in Panama City in June 22nd. In this opportunity, Juan Manuel Rojas will represent NPOC at the panel: *Learn about the ICANN constituencies - **Round of informative sessions and talks about the current activities of the members of the LAC community. * ExCom would like to take the opportunity to thank GSE for the invitation. For more information about the LAC Roadshow - Central America and Mexico can be found here: http://icannlac.org/roadshow. We will wait for your participation and support if you are going to Panama at this date. Kind Regards, NPOC Executive Committee

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Candidate statement.
by David Cake June 5, 2018

June 5, 2018

I nominated for the policy committee position because I was asked to run by a few people, and because I believe I have significant experience at ICANN policy work. I have seen NPOCs interest in policy work gradually increase, and I would like to see it become a strongly contributing part of NCSG and the GNSO. I have extensive experience in ICANN policy work. I have been an NCSG GNSO councillor for 4 years, 2 of them as a Vice-Chair. I have been part of the leadership team as one of the vice-chairs of the RDS working group. I served as part of the GNSO-GAC group, working to smooth the GACs role in GNSO working groups. And I’ve held other ICANN leadership roles, and been involved in many other workings group, such as the PPSAI. My plan for policy committee is to introduce more active tracking of policy work that needs doing through use of Trello and other online tools, and work towards both getting a clearer idea of NPOCs specific policy positions when it has them, and closer collaboration with all of NCSG when Piru positions converge. David Sent from my iPad

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2018 NPOC ExCom Elections - Ballot to vote sent
by Maryam Bakoshi June 4, 2018

June 4, 2018

Dear All, Everyone who checked-in for the NPOC ExCom Elections should have received a ballot to vote from tally(a)icann.org<mailto:tally@icann.org>. Please cast your vote from today 04 June until 04 July 2018 - the voting system closes at 23:59 UTC, so you have until then to keep voting. As a reminder Candidate Statements, can be found at: https://community.icann.org/x/wBsFBQ Please note: it is permissible to vote more than once by resubmitting a ballot during the election period; only the last vote submitted ultimately will be counted. Thank you very much. Happy Voting! Maryam Bakoshi | SO/AC Collaboration Services Sr. Coordinator ICANN | Internet Corporation got Assigned Names and Numbers S: Maryam.bakoshi.icann | T: +44 7846 471777

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Candidate statement for the Vice Chair - Raoul Plommer
by Raoul Plommer June 4, 2018

June 4, 2018

Dear all and greetings from EuroDIG, *Name*: Raoul Plommer *Affiliation*: Open Knowledge Finland *Position applied for: *Vice Chair *Why am I running for the position*: Above all, I want to finish what we started before I got elected as the Vice Chair for the first time in 2017. That includes the charter review and increased policy activity from our members. *Conflicts of Interest*: None. *Able** to work per week*: 5h. *Involvement in WG’s and PDPs*: Barely involved with the RDS group. Working on opening ICANN’s data and increasing transparency If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. :) -Raoul

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