Hi everyone: I would like to nominate Magaly Pazello for one of the NCSG's seats at the GNSO Council. Magaly is a senior fellow of EMERGE-Communication and Emergence Research Centre at Federal Fluminense University (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), where she leads the research on internet governance. In the last five years she has conducted research on the strategic uses of internet by political communities in Brazil and its connection to broader internet governance topics and their interface with human rights and gender issues. She also is a collaborator of NUPEF Institute. She has an extensive experience in gender, human rights, and ICTs. In the last 10 years Magaly has been working in Brazil to foster the women's organizations participation in the internet governance and ICTs debate. Taking a leadership role she launched the first feminist coalition to raise awareness on the relevance of internet regulation, architecture and institutions to the human rights as well as to contribute to the policy debates through the gender perspective. Over 18 years Magaly has been working with non-governmental organizations at national, regional and global levels. She was actively involved in the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) since its inception as civil society representative. She also has played a key role during the WSIS 2sd phase as Advocacy Team Leader of the WSIS Gender Caucus. After WSIS she has been involved in a number of IGF activities. Currently she is member of the financial oversight council of ISOC Brazil and lately she was a member of the Brazilian chapter of the Gender Advisory Board (GAB) of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development. She is also member of a several civil society and women's rights coalitions and networks at local and global levels. More info: http://www.genderwsis.org/203.0.html Best, Carlos -- Vice-Coordenador Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade (CTS/FGV) Escola de Direito da Fundação Getulio Vargas tel. +55 21 3799-5300 https://www.facebook.com/ctsfgv [log in to unmask]