Klaus Stoll, Election Statement Vice-Chair NPOC
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 .
NPOC Colleagues, This is my candidate statement for the position of Chair of the NPOC Policy Committee. /Please remember to vote, whether you vote for me or not. Please feel free to contact me with any Internet ecosystem concerns you and your organization may have. These issues have been central to my work for decades, and will continue to be central whether I chair the NPOC policy committee, or not. / First some background on the context: The initial drive to create NPOC was driven primarily by the domain name operational concerns of large global not-for-profit organizations such as the Red Cross and the International Olympic Committee. Within ICANN NPOC is part of the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG), in turn is part of ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO). This structure has focused largely on the policy issues agenda set by ICANN. In the past year that agenda greatly expanded as a result of the US Government decision to transition oversight of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to a multistakeholder setting, as well as the need to make ICANN more transparent and accountable. Much of the not-for-profit and civil society (NPOC) constituency has only a low level of interest in the internal work agenda of ICANN. Most other ICANN constituencies are in one sense or another providers of Internet related services, or have a mission (e.g. Internet privacy, security and human rights) central to the Internet itself. Much of the NPOC constituency consists of organizations whose mission deals with development, health, poverty, gender, kids, the elderly, the environment, governance, etc. and not the Internet per. se.. They see the Internet as a space with opportunities for, and threats to, what they do. Building on this context, my past year as Policy Committee chair has been to go beyond developing NPOC input into ICANN’s policy agenda. It includes asking what NPOC can do for the Internet ecosystem concerns that will impact on the ability of NGOs and Civil Society organizations to pursue their own work. Rather than just asking “What can your organization do for/in NPOC?”, I am asking “What can/should NPOC do for your organization?” With this focus I have been sending “food for thought” early warning postings to the old and new npoc-discuss lists about Internet operational issues on the horizon. I support and work with the Pathfinder initiative that has similar goals. One area is the risks of organizational dependence on free social media when there are storm clouds around the terms of access and terms of use on the horizon. Another is that Internet-based operational challenges are increasingly below ICANN and at the national level. One growing issue is: What is NPOC’s role in feeding policy discussion at that level? Please remember to vote, whether you vote for me or not. Please feel free to contact me with any Internet ecosystem concerns you and your organization may have. These issues have been central to my work for decades, and will continue to be central whether I chair the NPOC policy committee, or not. Sam Lanfranco Email: lanfran@yorku.ca <mailto:lanfran@yorku.ca>sam@lanfranco.net <mailto:sam@lanfranco.net>
*dear friends* *i know klaus along time ago as GDCO a member of GKP & GKPfoundation since 2008. he is very active and I met him several times in WSIS and we organize a workshop together in 2013. i met him in ICANN 52 singapore. really he deserve our vote because is ative* Ahmed Mahmoud Mohamed Eisa +249123031155 Sudani +249912331155 Zain +249999331155 MTN KHARTOUM alamaraat P.O.BOX 15021 post code 12217 http://www.gedaref.com/ http://seepcommunity.com/profiles/blogs/gdco-sudan-and-telecentres-movement-... Gedaref digital city organization (GDCO) is a nongovernmental and nonprofit organization (Gedaref Sudan), it is part of the Telecentres movement where ICT is used for community development. GDCO is the winner of information for development award (i4d 2007 awards e-India) for the inclusion of the disabled, GDCO is the winner of i4d 2008 awards for the best innovations at the grassroots Telecentres and the winner of i4d 2009 for the initiatives of civil society for development (e-agriculture project and other e-services).. ..it is the winner of eWorld award 2011. it is the winner of best innovative NGO working on ICT for community development in Sudan. The winner of best album in Telecentre 2011 Philippines .. it the founder of the first Telecentre academy in Africa and middle east and the thirteen in world ..The Digital City of Eindhoven (DSE) Netherlands (the founder and well-known partner of GDCO in Netherlands) donated 750 computers and more than ten projects were established using ICT for community development and one of them is e-agriculture. GDCO & SPEG (foundation of eindhoven volunteers for gedaref projects) started new partnership for community development including people with disability (especially deaf), gedaref university, (faculty of medicine) e-agriculture, SeVO and other project On 1 June 2015 at 11:21, Klaus Stoll <klaus.stoll@gkpfoundation.org> wrote:
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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Sam Lanfranco