I love your style, Chair and wish you all the luck! You did it so you can do it again! ----------------- Arsène Tungali, @arsenebaguma +243 993810967 GPG: 523644A0 Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo Sent from my iPhone (excuse typos) > 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