Name: Jean F. Queralt
•Affiliation: Founder & CEO, The IO Foundation
•Position applied for: NPOC Policy Coordinator
•Why you are running for the position?:
As part of my daily obligations, staying on top of policy status in ICANN is becoming a necessity. This would make it a very natural process to me to update NPOC and engage members to participate in ongoing work.
I terms of plans, I hope to develop procedures and tools (as an extension of the work that has been done as Comms Chair) to facilitate NPOC members' participation and engagement.
Notably:
- I will implement a follow-up and voting platform for members to express their concerns and vote in topics they will want to prioritize.
(Work in progress from Comms Chair)
- I will use the tools that I am currently putting together for faster and more effective analysis of policy processes and all the overwhelming amount of information they generate >> In essence, I am building an LLM to process all this information and help us navigate it all.
- I will work with the OEC to post regular updates and use the setup put in place in my capacity of Comms Chair for posts in SocMed (already advanced).
- If NPOC Chair agrees, I will propose
# a parallel NPOC Policy monthly call.
# strengthening collaborations with other constituencies, especially non-commercial
- I will continue the work done as Comms Chair with
# getting the website renewed (hopefully finished before Istanbul)
# getting the blog running so members can update
- Finally, I will seek to establish:
# a stable NPOC Policy group composed by our members
# a procedure for handover for Policy Coordinators so that new elected members can take over more easily
# 1 or 2 NPOC members to shadow me so that the work load can be distributed and learning curve eased.
I have other ideas although that's a lot of work as it is already.
There is plenty of work to be done and I am certain this is doable with the help and support of our members.
Qualifications for the position:
I believe that I have the necessary qualities and capacities to bring the position's responsibilities to good term.
I have been involved with ICANN since ICANN75, currently holding the position of Comms Chair @ NPOC.
My daily work at my NGO, The IO Foundation, revolves around monitoring the governance and outputs of a number of SDOs (ITU, ICANN, IETF) and engaging in their processes.
While the results from my current position are not very visible from the outside, lots of work have been extensive. By the end of the tenure we will have a fully revamped Comms toolkit. You can see raw notes I've been taking on tasks here:
https://community.icann.org/display/~jean.queralt/Comms+Strategy+2023-2024
Personally, I would not have accepted to be a Policy Coordinator if I didn't think I had the capacity, time and willingness to do so. I hope we can better engage our community with though the upcoming elected Outreach and Engagement Coordinator (OEC).
- Do you have any conflict(s) of interest?: None that I am aware of.
Not running for any other position at ICANN.
SOI: You can also find my up-to-date SOI below
https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=234422834 - •How many hours per week you are able to dedicate to the position: I do not have a specific number of hours to dedicate as the position would be a natural extension of what I do daily.
- Are you involved in any working Groups or PDP efforts, if so please state: Slowly attempting to get involved with RSSAC in supporting tasks, overlooked some of the IDN work, supporting the CCWP-HR and getting interested in PPSAI IRT.