Dear Community members,
It is with great honor that I accept the nomination for the position of Communications Chair. I'm humbled and see this as a call to service for a community we all believe in within the ICANN Org.
Kindly find my candidate’s response to my nomination below:
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 other 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
Having undergone the recent NCUC course on policy writing and drafting public comments, I have participated in a couple of draft documents used to engage within the NCUC and also was a contributing pen holder for the ICANN fellowship draft statement read at the public meeting with the ICANN Org Board during the Puerto Rico meeting.
Recently, during an internet governance meeting in my region, I have done an 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.
I strongly believe that if elected, my work within the leadership of the NPOC will reflect actionable outcomes and all members interest I will be representing will experience a bottom-up approach consensus to DNS Policy engagement with a focus in realizing the ICANN's multistakeholder PDP mission.
I do hope to bring in diversity and proactive approach to the role I'm putting myself forward for service.
I am also active within regional affiliation of 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 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 Administrator, 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.
Do you have any conflict(s) of interest?:
No
How many Hours a week you are able to dedicate to the position: 6+ 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 Ogundele