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
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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@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,

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