I love your style, Chair and wish you all the luck! You did it so you can do it again!

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Arsène Tungali,
@arsenebaguma
+243 993810967
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Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo

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> On Aug 16, 2016, at 8:03 PM, Tapani Tarvainen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Name, declared region of residence, gender and employment:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Here's my candidate statement for the NCSG Chair election.
> 
> 
> 
> Name, declared region of residence, gender and employment:
> 
>   Tapani Tarvainen, Europe, male, chief engineer at Jyväskylä University,
>   Finland.
> 
> 
> Any conflicts of interest:
> 
>   None.
> 
> 
> Reasons for willingness to take on the tasks of the particular position:
> 
>   NCSG has an important part to play in keeping the Internet free by
>   influencing ICANN's policies. And we have several gifted and
>   competent people working on those policies.
> 
>   But in order to get their work done they also need administrative
>   support - bureacracy if you will.
> 
>   I see the role of Chair in NCSG as an administrative one:
>   keeping the bureaucracy working and well-oiled so that the
>   people working on substantive issues can get on with their
>   work with minimal administrative hurdles.
> 
>   That also explains my approach to administration: I believe it
>   should be mostly invisible, and the Chair and Executive Committee
>   should generally do their job in the background, keeping away from
>   the limelights.
> 
>   That's what I've been doing the past year and at least NCSG
>   has not totally collapsed yet, so I guess I could've done worse.
> 
>   Although admittedly when I started as the Chair last year I was, in
>   retrospect unsurprisingly, too optimistic about what I could get
>   done and how fast. But that is the way of things: they always take
>   longer than expected.
> 
>   A few things I've got on on the agenda, either going on or
>   planned for the coming year:
> 
>   * New membership management system is well on the way, indeed
>     I hope it to by up and running before the Hyderabad meeting.
> 
>   * An independent website for NCSG is also coming along as part
>     of the same project.
> 
>   * The Finance Committee has been reactivated, although later than
>     I'd hoped, so they haven't been able to do much yet, but
>     I trust they'll do more in the coming year.
> 
>   * More NCUC-NPOC joint activities and continuing to improve
>     the relations between our two constituencies.
> 
>   * Conducting a review of constituencies as our charter requires
>     us to do every two years.
> 
>   * Establishing and documenting procedures for various things
>     the Executive Committee needs to do, like member removal.
> 
> 
> Qualifications for the position:
> 
>   Been there, done that. :-)
> 
>   I won't bore you with my resume: let it suffice to say that
>   I have an extensive experience in dealing with and administering
>   various civil society organizations. Now including the NCSG.
> 
> 
> Statement of availability for the time the position requires:
> 
>   Yes: I have agreed with my employer, Jyväskylä university, that I
>   can continue to use some working hours to Chair the NCSG. I have
>   also decreased my activities in Effi, so I think I will have enough
>   time to handle the duties of our stakeholder group's Chair.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tapani Tarvainen