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  [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 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

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]');" target="_blank">[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