Dear NPOC members

Please find below my elections statement for the NPOC Vice-Chair position for your kind consideration. I am urging all members to participate in the election even if they do not plan to vote for me. Every vote cast is important in the wider context of Internet Governance.

Yours

Klaus

Klaus Stoll, Election Statement Vice-Chair NPOC

I am honored to accept the nomination as Vice Chair for NPOC in the constituency elections and ask for your vote. In the following I would like to quickly give you some of the reasons why I think that I am a suitable candidate for this position.

Being engaged with ICANN for over 10 years now, I have demonstrated my support of ICANN, through, frequent attendance at ICANN meetings, as NPOC Executive and GNSO Councilor, and the contributions I have made to the ongoing discussions.

I have developed a respect and belief in, and passion for ICANN, ever since my participation in my first public ICANN meeting. To witness the multi-stakeholder process at work, with all its shortcomings was, and still is, a revelation for me. The Internet with the DNS at its root is a common good that we cannot take for granted. We must sustain, improve and protect it on a daily basis. NPOC's role is doing just this through representing the operational concerns of the not for profit Internet users. NPOC is fulfilling its responsibility through outreach, awareness and capacity building to the many not for profit Internet users and NPOC is doing this successfully through its ongoing partnership in the Pathfinder initiative.
The ongoing outreach efforts will result in increased NPOC membership numbers. In the case that I would be elected, I would see it as one of my main tasks to establish an NPOC constituency in-reach engagement and capacity building program for existing and new NPOC members. The first goal here has to be to ensure that the NPOC membership is able and sees it as relevant for themselves to engaged with the constituency. Now that NPOC has been established and grown out of infancy, we have to add as a goal to enable those who have the ability and the will to become new leaders within NPOC in particular and in the whole Internet ecosystem in general. This means a conscious effort of the NPOC Executive Committee to train and enable new leaders in particular leaders that are coming from developing regions and those sectors that are usually under represented.

In addition, I am very much concerned about the observable and ever increasing disconnect between ICANN staff and the stakeholders and even more the disconnect between the different stakeholder groups and even inside them. The solution to this problem, in my opinion, is more than about fashioning clear and stricter rules; it is about creating a new atmosphere of trust and collaboration. I see it as my task to help rebuilding trust.

In the hope that I deserve your trust.

Yours,

Klaus Stoll

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