Dear NPOC Community,
It is with great pleasure that I accept the
nomination for the position of
Communications Chair. I'm humbled and see this as a call to service once again
It has been an exciting year serving as the communication's chair and I am proud of some of the modest accomplishments made while working with the rest of the EC and the NPOC community.
I look forward to working with everyone to build on what we started and achieve greater heights within the ICANN community.
Please find below my candidate statement.
Caleb Ogundele
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Name : Caleb Ogundele
Affiliation: African Academic Network on Internet Policy (AANOIP)
Position applied for: Communications Committee Chair
Why you are running for the position?:
NPOC's work within the ICANN community holds an important role and in order to fulfill such roles, it needs to have a very strong communication mechanism within which other stakeholders within the community relate to the work and interest of Not-for-Profit, Civil Society, and Academics within the constituency.
It is therefore very pertinent to connect with these other stakeholders and varied interests within the ICANN community to understand the work that NPOC does with the view of serving as a more vocal voice of reasoning and logic during engagements with other communities within and beyond ICANN
In the last few months of being part of the Executive Team, we had so much commitment to fulfill this mandate and part of it was to revamp our website to have a good (HCI)human-computer interaction as well as good user interface and mobile responsiveness. This was with the help of some members and the EC who committed some of there time during this development which i was glad to have experienced and lead those efforts as communications chair.
Additionally, the bedrock of the GNSO which NPOC is part of is policy and public comments for the Not-for-Profit Orgs. I have participated in a couple of draft documents used to engage within the NCSG and NPOC. As part of this efforts, i have tried to stimulate the interest while communicating with members by calling there attention to public comments that they can participate and contribute to.
Recently, during a major internet governance meeting in my region, I and another member of the NPOC Excom carried out outreach to engage Not-for-Profit, Civil Society domain owners who previously never had a clear understanding of what they stand to benefit in participating in ICANN and by extension NPOC. This was done through a panel session and distribution of promotional materials of NPOC.
I strongly believe that if re-elected, my work within the leadership of the NPOC will reflect actionable outcomes and all members interest.
I represent diversity age and regional wise and with the support of members, they will continue to experience a bottom-up approach consensus to DNS Policy engagement with a focus on realizing the ICANN's multistakeholder PDP missions.
I do hope to bring in diversity and proactive approach to the role I'm putting myself forward for service.
Additionally, I am also active within regional affiliation such as AFRINIC, ISOC-NG Chapter and AFRALO and currently in a couple of working groups within ICANN.
My participation in different fora within the internet space has also seen my contributions on internet governance policy issues ranging from data privacy, Copyright and Intellectual Property and copyright, Cyber Security, sustainable access, digital rights, media literacy, and development & capacity and other internet related issues which I believe is consistent with some of the concerns the NPOC has within the DNS industry.
In my professional experience from being a Project Manager, System / Network Administrator, MultiMedia Content Producer and Webmaster, I believe it puts me in a value-added position to what the Not-for-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency (NPOC) stands for in bringing my industry experience to bear from a technical perspective to serve in the role of communication's chair.
You can learn more about my professional career here and ICANN Wiki
Do you have any conflict(s) of interest?:
No
How many Hours a week you are able to dedicate to the position: 8+ hours
Are you involved in any working Groups or PDP efforts, if so please state:
At-Large Capacity Building Working Group, AFRALO Hot Topics Working Group, At-Large IDN Policy Working Group, At-Large Social Media Working Group
Thank you for your consideration, support and God bless
Caleb