I second that! DeeDee On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi everyone: > > I would like to nominate Carlos Afonso, from NUPEF (Brazil), for the > NCUC's EC as representative for South America. Most of you know him, I > am quite sure, but let's do it properly: Carlos is a longtime member > of NCUC and councillor for the third sector in the Brazilian Internet > Steering Committee (CGI.BR). He is a co-founder of APC (back in 1990) > and has played an important role in implementing and democratizing > access to the internet in Brazil. For his contribution to the > fostering of Internet in the Latin America and the Caribean region, > LACNIC has granted him the Trajetoria Award in 2010. Carlos' technical > expertise is only rivaled by his (sometimes awkward) sense of humor. > He is not my Dad. I am confident that Carlos Afonso will be a great > representative for the region (as he has been in the past) and able to > provide expert advice in a number of key issues for NCUC in the coming > year. > > More about NUPEF: http://www.nupef.org.br/?q=node/80 > More about Carlos: > http://icannwiki.com/index.php?title=Carlos_Afonso&diff=prev&oldid=32577 > More about the Trajetoria award: > http://lacnic.net/pt/anuncios/2010_trayectoria.html > A video on the CGI.br's Principles of Internet Governance: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E1rKnZ9-6U > > As a retiring SA EC councillor for this term, let me just say that it > has been a pleasure to act on the EC. This year we have managed to put > up a great event in ICANN's San Francisco meeting, creating a good > opportunity for communicating (and debate) some of the relevant > non-commercial internet users demands. I hope we manage to keep up the > constructive debate on 2012, improving the non-commercial > representation in the internet governance fora. > > Best, > Carlos Affonso > -- http://www.deepdishwavesofchange.org