Again I want to thank you all for my nomination and support for the Communications Chair role.

Kindly find my statement below.

Ore

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Name: Oreoluwa Lesi

Affiliation: Women's Technology Empowerment Centre – W.TEC

Position applied for: Communications Chair

Why you are running for the position?:

I believe that the work that ICANN does is deeply important and that my prior ICANN and professional experience place me in an excellent position to contribute meaningfully to achieving its goals – especially as the Communications Chair.

Over the last two years, I have served as NPOC’s Secretariat and have done the following:

• Coordinated the documenting and monitoring of the EC’s huge workload, helping to keep team members on track with their respective action items

• Provided administrative support, making available information about NPOC meetings and action plans to the EC and NPOC community on the mailing list and website

• Maintained detailed and up to date financial records on NPOC’s income and expenditure

• Communicated NPOC’s mission to potential new members by giving information at the ICANN booths at public meetings. I also co-organised and moderated a panel discussion at the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum, a leading African internet governance forum in April 2019, which served as an outreach opportunity for NPOC. With fellow NPOC member Caleb Ogundele, another panel was planned at the same conference for 2020.

Working as Secretariat has provided me with a unique overview of as well as the opportunity to work across the broader NPOC landscape from finance to membership, policy, communications and administration.

I believe that this experience will strengthen my ability to carry out the Communication Chair’s primary work, which is to coordinate the efficient exchange of information between NPOC, NCSG and the ICANN community. Indeed, part of my work as Secretariat was the regular communication of key information from the EC meetings with the rest of the NPOC community.

I bring with me deep experience in the nonprofit sector and understand their concerns, especially as it relates to technology and specifically Internet-related issues. I have worked in the nonprofit space for 18 years and lead a nonprofit (the Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre – W.TEC), which works to build an inclusive technology ecosystem, with more women technology creators, entrepreneurs and leaders. My work centers on increasing digital inclusivity in who can use the Internet safely and effectively to enhance their educational, professional and civic activities.

This means that I need to stay abreast of the domain name and wider technology policy landscape, especially as related to data security and privacy issues and their intersections with gender. It also means that I have experience communicating often complex concepts to my nonprofit stakeholders.

In my professional capacity outside of ICANN, I am a Vital Voices Lead Fellow (awarded to emerging and established women leaders across the world) and an Ashoka Fellow (a network of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs). I speak frequently at Nigerian and international conferences and other fora on the intersection of technology and gender.

I sit on several boards, including BudgIT, (a Nigerian-based nonprofit which uses technology to simplify the budget and other public information to stimulate a community of active citizens) and the FAS Foundation (which builds the capacities of Nigerian engineers and supports engineering research).

Within ICANN, I am also a member of the African Regional At-Large Organisation (AFRALO) and NCSG.

Here is my SOI: https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/Oreoluwa+Somolu+Lesi+SOI

Do you have any conflict(s) of interest?:  No

How many Hours a week you are able to dedicate to the position:

At least 4 hours (As the Secretariat, some weeks I devoted up to 8 hours or more to NPOC work)

Are you involved in any working Groups or PDP efforts, if so please state:

This year, I have been the penholder for 2 public comments drafted on behalf of NCSG: on the ICANN Public Meetings 2024-2028 and Revised Dates in 2022 and on the Africa Regional Plan for Fiscal Years 2021-2025.

Since late 2019, I have also been one of the 2 NPOC representatives on the NCSG Policy Committee, a role which has afforded me the opportunity to better understand various policy issues, especially with the perspective of how they affect Nonprofits and other Noncommercial actors.

Over the last two years, I have been an active contributor to the rewriting of the NPOC Charter, working with the rest of the Charter Review team at public meetings and remotely in-between meetings.

Across the wider ICANN ecosystem, I am a member of AFRALO and currently serve on the AFRALO Operating Principles Review Working Group.

I am an ICANN66 fellow and accepted as a fellow for ICANN67 (deferred to ICANN69).

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Oreoluwa Lesi
Executive Director, Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC)
+234.803.621.1307, +234.813.339.9999 | www.wtec.org.ng | @wteconline

On 27/05/2020 6:46 am, Oreoluwa Somolu Lesi wrote:

Thank you very much to Vernatius Ezeama for nominating me for the position of Communications Chair. I also thank Poncelet Ileleji, Olévié Kouami, Raymond Mamattah and everyone who seconded the nomination.

I am happy to accept this nomination. I look forward to continuing to work for the good of NPOC in this new role.

I will share my candidate statement soon, however you can learn more about me from the ICANN Wiki (https://icannwiki.org/Oreoluwa_Somolu_Lesi) and the NPOC website (https://npoc.org/team/oreoluwa-somolu-lesi/).

Kind regards,

Ore

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Oreoluwa Lesi
Executive Director, Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC)
+234.803.621.1307, +234.813.339.9999 | www.wtec.org.ng | @wteconline

On 17/05/2020 3:01 pm, Poncelet Ileleji wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

Good day, I wish to nominate the following based on what I see as the best possible way in strengthening NPOC.

Chair I strongly nominate /  endorse the candidature of   Raoul Plommer he brings stability, openness and commitment; he has shown a desire to do things rightly in the spirit of carrying NPOC as a constituency forward. 

Vice Chair I strongly nominate /  endorse the candidature of   Ioana Stupariu

Membership Chair - I strongly nominate /  endorse the candidature of  Caleb Ogundele as a good organiser to move things forward on membership

Communication Chair - I  strongly nominate / endorse the candidature of  Oreoluwa Lesi

I do hope the following candidates I nominated / endorsed strongly accept my nominations for the said positions.

Thank you and you all have a great weekend

Peace

Poncelet

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