Hi Grace,
Welcome back to the list. Your accomplishments are quite impressive and I'm
sure you'll be able to help us with the rather unique perspective of
someone who has been involved in both human rights and consumer protection.
A special thanks for volunteering to serve on the charter rewrite
committee. It's a big job but we have some great people. I'm really looking
forward to working with yourself, a Kenyan lawyer, Olga, a Russian lawyer
and even a few nonlawyers in Tapani and our fearless coordinator Bill.
This committee excites me more than any of the others I'm on because we're
really going to be able to craft a sustainable future going forward for the
NCUC. Look forward to meeting you and I can't wait to get started with the
work!
Ed
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 18, 2013, at 5:47 AM, "Grace Mutung'u (Bomu)" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
Hallo again,
I am Grace Mutung'u. I joined NCUC a while back while a member of ICT
Consumers Association of Kenya, which I 've since left.
I am a lawyer by profession and I live and work in Kajiado and Kiambu
counties in Kenya. I am a member of ISOC, ISOC Ke and a Diplo alumnus.
I am currently working with the Kenya Human Rights Commission on a
project on devolution.
I have been following the discussions on the list and learning a lot.
I am quite an active contributor to my local lists so my resolution
this year is to be more active on this list:-)
I look forward to keeping this resolution and being of service to the list.
2013/1/15, Anthony Nweke <[log in to unmask]>:
Greetings,
My name is Anthony Nweke. I'd like to volunteer for service on the
Finance Committee. I am from Nigeria but currently reside temporarily in
Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. I recently completed an MBA at the
University of Aberdeen so hope the skills I've learnt will enable me to
help the Committee. I also have a bachelors degree in Communications
Engineering. And prior to coming to the UK I spent over 5 years working
for the greatest indigenous e-Payments and Information Technology firm in
Nigeria (Interswitch Limited) in various fields including Business
Development, International Field Support, Infrastructure/Technology
Management, Training and Consulting.
I have just been admitted into the NCUC, so I am excited and really
looking forward to spending some valuable time volunteering for ICANN.
Best Regards,
Anthony
On 13 Jan 2013, at 16:27, William Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hello,
One of the things I'd like to happen going forward is regular monthly
reporting back to NCUC members by the EC on any noteworthy organizational
and policy matters. We don't have a mechanism in place yet to coordinate
a collective effort on this, so I'll get it started with a few notes on
recent developments.
1. New Executive Committee
On 3 December the 2012 election results were announced. Our new EC
includes
Chair: Bill Drake <[log in to unmask]>
Africa: Wilson Abigaba <[log in to unmask]>
Asia/Australia/Pacific: Norbert Klein <[log in to unmask]>
Europe: Tapani Tarvainen <[log in to unmask]>
Latin America/Caribbean: Carlos A. Afonso <[log in to unmask]>
North America: Edward Morris <[log in to unmask]>
Since the 13th (post-WCIT) the EC has begun to get organized and by the
end of January we should have more to report on various items. In the
meanwhile, members who want to know what's being discussed, provide input,
offer to help with tasks and so on can always visit the EC list archive
http://mailman.ctyme.com/pipermail/ec-ncuc/ and be in touch here or via
the addresses above, as appropriate.
2. Appointments to NCSG Committees
Due to the delayed election timing the new EC came in already behind
schedule on some housekeeping items. One of the first things we needed to
get done was to fill these slots so NCSG internal and GNSO work could
proceed without hiccups. Accordingly, the EC has made the following
appointments until the 2013 annual meeting:
a. NCSG EC https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-EC
Rafik Dammak
Milton Mueller [both continuing]
b. NCSG PC https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-PC
Mary Wong
Avri Doria [replacing Brenden and Konstantinos]
c. NCSG FC https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-FC
Milton Mueller [continuing]
3. Functional Work Teams
In my candidate statement
https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1211&L=NCSG-DISCUSS&F=&S=&P=38527
I argued that it'd make sense to have
A more active EC team in which each member has defined responsibilities
entailing at least one or two hours of individual work per week beyond
reading email. I’d love it if EC members would each take the lead on
coordinating specific functional tasks and assemble work teams of
interested members to deal with items like:
o In-reach and engagement of existing members, updating of the
membership list
o outreach to potential new members (it’d also be nice if each regional
representative could bring on a few folks from their regions per year)
o e-platform improvement and updating
o external communications/publicity
o finance (dealing with the ICANN budget process, external fundraising
for initiatives, etc.)
Or something like this…to be discussed… This is the kind of functional
division of labor I’ve seen work better in other civil society
organizations and coalitions, including ones I’ve led, and some evolution
in that direction could be helpful. What plainly has not worked well is
for everything to just default to one maxed out volunteer.
Nobody has argued against this sort of approach and some folks on and off
the EC have expressed interest in helping with particular tasks. So now
we'd like to begin to constitute teams/groups/whatever we want to call
them on the five tasks above, plus one other I forgot to mention, the very
overdue and urgent task of revising our Charter (ideally by the summer for
a vote prior to the next EC vote). Conversations have been underway in
the EC and beyond to get some folks on board each to start, and so far
there have been expressions of interest/willingness to be involved from
the following folks (apologies to anyone I've forgotten, or conversely
who's surprised to be listed based on prior conversations). Oh, and I
should add that while from a coordination and info flow standpoint it'd
usually be easiest if EC members were the coordinators, this doesn't rule
out the possibility of experienced, plug n play non-EC people serving is
these capacities, as is reflected below.
In-reach/member engagement
TBD [Coordinator]
Edward Morris
Rafik Dammak
Bill Drake
Outreach/new member recruitment
Edward Morris [Coordinator]
Bill Drake
E-platforms
Wilson Abigaba [Coordinator]
Edward Morris
Tapani Tarvainen
David Cake
Brenden Kuerbis
Bill Drake
Communications/PR
Mary Wong [Coordinator]
Bill Drake
Finance
Milton Mueller [Coordinator]
Brenden Kuerbis
Maria Farrell
Bill Drake
Charter Revision
Bill Drake [Coordinator]
Edward Morris
Obviously, we need more EC and regular members to populate these groups,
share the workload, and get things moving. Pretty much any amount of time
and energy beyond zero will make a difference and be much appreciated, so
please consider getting involved. Reply on list or privately, as you
like.
4. Web Spaces/E-Platforms
Once we have teams associated with each of these functions, we should put
them on the web and set up communication channels for them to work. This
goes to some of the larger e-platform questions we've been contemplating
in the EC. Clearly, NCUC's public ning site needs some serious
rethinking/refreshing and we may even want to consider moving to another
platform down the line. But in the meanwhile, I'd argue it would make
sense to refresh the list of groups there http://ncuc.org/groups by a)
creating spaces for the new teams and list the people associated with
them; b) deciding whether the teams should work there or on listservs etc;
and c) if possible, for institutional memory purposes, create a space on
the site called Previous Groups and dump all the old ones there, rather
than simply deleting them.
Again, nothing we do now to get started locks us into a final decision
about the website. If all the web wizards decide a Ning is not the best
for us and want to migrate to some other platform, we can deal with that
then. But for now let's get some web presence going so people know we're
alive and they can join and participate.
Just to repeat again in case any members are unaware, NCUC's web presence
is rather spread around and in need of more consistency and maintenance,
e.g.
1. NCUC.org <http://ncuc.org/> [the public face…unfortunately most
content quite dated,
especially member pages etc]
2. NCUC @ GNSO's public pages
http://gnso.icann.org/en/about/stakeholders-constituencies/ncsg/ncuc [in
process of revision]
3. NCUC @ Confluence
https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8945848
[Confluence is the ICANN provided workspace]
A meta-question to consider is whether we want to continue to maintain
both NCUC.org <http://ncuc.org/> and Confluence with some bits of parallel
content, redefine
the division of labor between them etc…
I think that's enough for one message…
Best,
Bill
***************************************************
William J. Drake
International Fellow & Lecturer
Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
University of Zurich, Switzerland
www.williamdrake.org
Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
ICANN, www.ncuc.org
[log in to unmask]
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Grace L.N. Mutung'u (Bomu)
Kenya
Skype: gracebomu
Twitter: @Bomu
Website: http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profile/GraceMutungu
On Friday, January 18, 2013, Edward Morris wrote:
> Hi Grace,
>
> Welcome back to the list. Your accomplishments are quite impressive and
> I'm sure you'll be able to help us with the rather unique perspective of
> someone who has been involved in both human rights and consumer protection.
>
> A special thanks for volunteering to serve on the charter rewrite
> committee. It's a big job but we have some great people. I'm really looking
> forward to working with yourself, a Kenyan lawyer, Olga, a Russian lawyer
> and even a few nonlawyers in Tapani and our fearless coordinator Bill.
> This committee excites me more than any of the others I'm on because we're
> really going to be able to craft a sustainable future going forward for the
> NCUC. Look forward to meeting you and I can't wait to get started with the
> work!
>
> Ed
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jan 18, 2013, at 5:47 AM, "Grace Mutung'u (Bomu)" <[log in to unmask]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', [log in to unmask]);>>
> wrote:
>
> Hallo again,
>
> I am Grace Mutung'u. I joined NCUC a while back while a member of ICT
>
> Consumers Association of Kenya, which I 've since left.
>
> I am a lawyer by profession and I live and work in Kajiado and Kiambu
>
> counties in Kenya. I am a member of ISOC, ISOC Ke and a Diplo alumnus.
>
> I am currently working with the Kenya Human Rights Commission on a
>
> project on devolution.
>
> I have been following the discussions on the list and learning a lot.
>
> I am quite an active contributor to my local lists so my resolution
>
> this year is to be more active on this list:-)
>
> I look forward to keeping this resolution and being of service to the list.
>
>
> 2013/1/15, Anthony Nweke <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> Greetings,
>
>
>
> My name is Anthony Nweke. I'd like to volunteer for service on the
>
> Finance Committee. I am from Nigeria but currently reside temporarily in
>
> Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. I recently completed an MBA at the
>
> University of Aberdeen so hope the skills I've learnt will enable me to
>
> help the Committee. I also have a bachelors degree in Communications
>
> Engineering. And prior to coming to the UK I spent over 5 years working
>
> for the greatest indigenous e-Payments and Informati
>
> On Friday, January 18, 2013, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) wrote:
>
> Hallo again,
> I am Grace Mutung'u. I joined NCUC a while back while a member of ICT
> Consumers Association of Kenya, which I 've since left.
> I am a lawyer by profession and I live and work in Kajiado and Kiambu
> counties in Kenya. I am a member of ISOC, ISOC Ke and a Diplo alumnus.
> I am currently working with the Kenya Human Rights Commission on a
> project on devolution.
> I have been following the discussions on the list and learning a lot.
> I am quite an active contributor to my local lists so my resolution
> this year is to be more active on this list:-)
> I look forward to keeping this resolution and being of service to the list.
>
> 2013/1/15, Anthony Nweke <[log in to unmask]>:
> > Greetings,
> >
> >
> >>> My name is Anthony Nweke. I'd like to volunteer for service on the
> >>> Finance Committee. I am from Nigeria but currently reside temporarily
> in
> >>> Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. I recently completed an MBA at the
> >>> University of Aberdeen so hope the skills I've learnt will enable me to
> >>> help the Committee. I also have a bachelors degree in Communications
> >>> Engineering. And prior to coming to the UK I spent over 5 years working
> >>> for the greatest indigenous e-Payments and Information Technology firm
> in
> >>> Nigeria (Interswitch Limited) in various fields including Business
> >>> Development, International Field Support, Infrastructure/Technology
> >>> Management, Training and Consulting.
> >>>
> >>> I have just been admitted into the NCUC, so I am excited and really
> >>> looking forward to spending some valuable time volunteering for ICANN.
> >>>
> >>> Best Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Anthony
> >
> >
> > On 13 Jan 2013, at 16:27, William Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> One of the things I'd like to happen going forward is regular monthly
> >> reporting back to NCUC members by the EC on any noteworthy
> organizational
> >> and policy matters. We don't have a mechanism in place yet to
> coordinate
> >> a collective effort on this, so I'll get it started with a few notes on
> >> recent developments.
> >>
> >>
> >> 1. New Executive Committee
> >>
> >> On 3 December the 2012 election results were announced. Our new EC
> >> includes
> >>
> >> Chair: Bill Drake <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Africa: Wilson Abigaba <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Asia/Australia/Pacific: Norbert Klein <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Europe: Tapani Tarvainen <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Latin America/Caribbean: Carlos A. Afonso <[log in to unmask]>
> >> North America: Edward Morris <[log in to unmask]>
> >>
> >> Since the 13th (post-WCIT) the EC has begun to get organized and by the
> >> end of January we should have more to report on various items. In the
> >> meanwhile, members who want to know what's being discussed, provide
> input,
> >> offer to help with tasks and so on can always visit the EC list archive
> >> http://mailman.ctyme.com/pipermail/ec-ncuc/ and be in touch here or via
> >> the addresses above, as appropriate.
> >>
> >>
> >> 2. Appointments to NCSG Committees
> >>
> >> Due to the delayed election timing the new EC came in already behind
> >> schedule on some housekeeping items. One of the first things we needed
> to
> >> get done was to fill these slots so NCSG internal and GNSO work could
> >> proceed without hiccups. Accordingly, the EC has made the following
> >> appointments until the 2013 annual meeting:
> >>
> >> a. NCSG EC https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-EC
> >> Rafik Dammak
> >> Milton Mueller [both continuing]
> >> b. NCSG PC
> https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-PC
> >> Mary Wong
> >> Avri Doria [replacing Brenden and Konstantinos]
> >> c. NCSG FC
> https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-FC
> >>
> >> Milton Mueller [continuin
>
>