Dear Colleagues, I accept the nomination of Marie Laure with humility. Knowing the history of NPOC and where I feel it should be is the driving force behind me accepting this nomination especially as my organization is one of the founding members of NPOC. I wish to categorically state, I do not intend to contest or seek any other position in NPOC again after this election cycle. If I lose I will still serve NPOC within ICANN working groups am involved within the policy development processes, and also support any mentor-ship scheme that is needed in NPOC to mentor new membership organizations into its fold. Since Marie Laure who knows me well and has talked about me in her nomination, I will focus on my 7 points agenda I will do if elected as your chair. 1. Create an NPOC institutional memory tank working with initial members of NPOC on how to empower NPOC membership organizations based on its founding principles as an ICANN constituency within the Non Commercial Stake Holders Group(NCSG). 2. Create a reinvigorated monthly call of members, with the incentive that based on attendance of monthly calls and involvement in NPOC policy discuss within ICANN, members of NPOC will have two travel slots to attend ICANN meetings. This will be allocated with one coming from the Chair slot of three allocated during a calendar year and one coming from slots allocated to NPOC to attend any regional / Global event like IGF etc. I belief our members have to have the possibilities to attend such events and in turn developing their capacities in supporting the work they do back home in understanding why the DNS is relevant to NGOs an why we need to be involved as an ICANN constituency. 3. I will institute a program Know your GAC members, its very important NPOC members who do great community work should know their governmental representative at the ICANN GAC. It helps to create synergy in policy development framework back home especially within National IGF discuss, as in the end its a key factor in developing a true multi stakeholder process starting bottom top. As whatever we do at NPOC within the policy discuss should filter down to our national level and that requires our members to know who their GAC representatives are and how to better engage them. 4. Programs like the on-boarding I will strength by creating better cross collaboration with our sister constituency NCUC. 5. Recreate joint sessions and panels in National Regional and Global IGF with NCUC under the umbrella of NCSG, these existed previously in the early days of NPOC and we should recreate it as it brings better understanding of the workings of both constituencies. 6. Within our new Web portal,if elected Chair, I will create a dedicated section in our web portal for NPOC members to state organizational profile and key officers within their organizations. This allows possibilities of knowledge sharing / networking among members of NPOC. This will allow us to make use of our in house resources we can't do that, if we hardly know each other within our membership organizations. This is something I will initiate by engaging each representative of an organization in NPOC directly so we know our membership base better. 7, Lastly I will work with seasoned NCUC members to create quarterly webinars where NPOC new members and old can understand the policy development processes and also how to contribute to public comments. In short these are the key 7 pointers I hope kick starting my tenure with and institutionalizing in NPOC if elected Chair. Wishing you all the best in your various endeavors in the various communities we serve globally through our work. Kind Regards Poncelet On 10 May 2018 at 11:03, marie-laure Lemineur <mllemineur@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear NPOC members,

I would like to nominate Poncelet for Chair of NPOC. I have closely worked with him when I first joined as a member of the NPOC community and continued working with him when I was elected Chair of NPOC.

Over the last years, Poncelet has acted in many capacities in the Executive Committee serving as NPOC Secretary, in charge of Membership and of Policy. He has also represented NPOC in the NCSG EXCOM twice. As part of the NPOC delegation, Poncelet attended the ICANN inter-sessional meeting in Los Angeles, was a member of the first ICANN Meeting Strategic working group that restructured ICANN meetings, and has also been active with the first ICANN African strategic working group.

Poncelet serves on/has served on the following working groups:

· NCSG PC

· GNSO RPM WG

· GNSO-new gtld-WG

· GNSO -igo-ingo-crp

· GNSO SSC

Finally, he is a resource person for the West African Internet Governance Forum (www.waigf.org) and an adviser to the Gambian Government in ICANN GAC.

His long-term experience within ICANN and the Internet Governance sphere, allowed him to build a solid knowledge of key processes and topics at stake, added to the fact that he is from a region that is under-represented within ICANN. For all of those reasons, I would like to propose the name of Poncelet for candidate to Chair of NPOC. I sincerely hope he accepts.

Kind regards,

Marie-laure Lemineur

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I am also in support of PONCELET nomination. Please +1 to Ponelet VERNATIUS EZEAMA On Thu, May 10, 2018 10:03 am, marie-laure Lemineur wrote:

Dear NPOC members,

I would like to nominate Poncelet for Chair of NPOC. I have closely worked with him when I first joined as a member of the NPOC community and continued working with him when I was elected Chair of NPOC.

Over the last years, Poncelet has acted in many capacities in the Executive Committee serving as NPOC Secretary, in charge of Membership and of Policy. He has also represented NPOC in the NCSG EXCOM twice. As part of the NPOC delegation, Poncelet attended the ICANN inter-sessional meeting in Los Angeles, was a member of the first ICANN Meeting Strategic working group that restructured ICANN meetings, and has also been active with the first ICANN African strategic working group.

Poncelet serves on/has served on the following working groups:

· NCSG PC

· GNSO RPM WG

· GNSO-new gtld-WG

· GNSO -igo-ingo-crp

· GNSO SSC

Finally, he is a resource person for the West African Internet Governance Forum (www.waigf.org) and an adviser to the Gambian Government in ICANN GAC.

His long-term experience within ICANN and the Internet Governance sphere, allowed him to build a solid knowledge of key processes and topics at stake, added to the fact that he is from a region that is under-represented within ICANN. For all of those reasons, I would like to propose the name of Poncelet for candidate to Chair of NPOC. I sincerely hope he accepts.

Kind regards,

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