<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear All, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please find bellow the BoT election's questions and answers that i have provided in the connect platform :</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h4 class="">Question 1: Why do you want to be on the ISOC Board?
</h4><div class=""><p class=""> have established Sudan Internet Society in 2001, one year after I
have graduated from University I was 23 years old back then, one year
later the organization have been delegated the management of Sudan’s ccTLD registry.
The chapter has managing the ccTLD registry since then and using its
revenues to funds its activities, which was a win-win situation for all the local internet community.</p><p class="">ISOC chapter activities are my volunteer work as many of you, although lots huge energy and effort as consumed in ISOC volunteer work but its rewarding
experience over the years because I was empowering my community through the use of the
Internet, I am passionate about the Internet and its social and economic impact
and believe that ISOC Chapters are the local champions whom can make
big impact at the local level with the support of ISOC.</p><p class="">If elected as a board member representing the chapters, I will be
another voice of the chapters in the board, expressing the chapters’
issues and help ISOC Board and management in developing programmes that
empower and develop the chapters.</p><p class="">I believe that ISOC Chapters can be empowered and supported to
achieve ISOC goals and objectives at a national/country level, The
chapters are the neutral fora for discussing local internet community
issues. I had a good experience in building Internet related
institutions at the national and regional level, empowering and
sustaining them through building partnerships and collocations with
multiple stakeholders working all together for one common goal which is
to utilise the internet for the social and economic development.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""><h4 class="">Question 2: What skills and experience would you bring?
</h4><div class=""><p class="">I have more than 15 years of experience in Internet policy
development, governance and operations managing complex National
Internet Infrastructure Projects. Equipped with excellent
project-management skills, I hold an MBA for a worldwide reputable UK
Business School and a Msc. in Information Technology beside executive
business education from MIT Solan Business School.</p><p class=""><em class="">Extensive Experience with Internet Society and Internet Policy Development:</em></p><p class="">Beside being the founder of Sudan Internet Society, I have initiated and supported the establishment of some ISOC chapters in
Africa and the Middle East Region. one of the founders of Africa Top
Level Domains Organization “AfTLD”, founder of ICANN AfRALO and I Have been actively involved in ISOC chapter’s activities and events in Africa, in 2012 I
lead the organisation of the first Regional INET event in MENA region.</p><p class=""><em class="">Regional and International Engagements:</em></p><p class="">I have been actively involved in Internet policy development at
national, regional and international level with strong network and
relations with key policy/decision makers in Africa and MENA region.</p><p class="">Have Served in several leadership positions within ICANN, I was a
council member of the Country Code Naming Supporting Organization
“ccNSO”, member of ICANN’s At-Large Advisory committee, Founder of
Africa’s At-Large Organization AfRALO and member of ICANN’s<br class="">Nominating Committee.</p><p class="">Participated in UN World Summit for Information Society “WSIS”
(Geneva 2003 and Tunis 2005 ), in 2006 I did attend the first Internet
Governance Forum “IGF” held in Athens and since then I continued to
participate in the IGF meetings as a panelist and had organized several
IGF workshops.</p><p class="">I have actively participated in ITU-WCIT process and conference held
in Dubai, I have contributed to the debate regarding the Internet and
the International Telecommunications Regulations “ITRs”, where I was an
active supporter and defender of the Internet’s muil-tistakeholder’s model and ISOC’s vision of an Open and Accessible Internet for
all.</p><p class="">In the last past 7 years I have been actively working on technical internet infrastructure projects, where I have launched major national Internet/ICT
projects ( e.g Establishing new ccTLD and IDN ccTLD Registries,
implemented National IPv6 migration strategy and an Internet Exchange
Point, ..etc) beside been involved in Internet’s policy development.</p><p class="">I have expertise and experience all of ISOC's key areas of focus:
Internet capacity building, program funding, public policy,
communications and technical areas of Internet standards.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""><h4 class="">Question 3: What specific challenges do you expect . . .?
</h4><div class=""><p class=""><em class="">Briefly I would like to list the bellow main Internet challenges:</em></p><p class=""><em class="">1) Trust, Privacy and Security:</em><br class="">In the recent few years,
the trust in the Internet privacy and security has been shaken by major
events like the Snowden revelations, increased cyber attacks and the
continues breaches to Internet users privacy cases.</p><p class="">Restoring the regular internet user’s trust is critical for the
future of the development, ISOC and IETF has an important role to play
in developing more secure internet standards, ensure integrity of
encryption and build awareness of the global internet privacy and trust
issues.</p><p class=""><em class="">2) Openness and Open Standards Development:</em><br class="">Its important
for the Internet future development that we support and maintain its
open standards development, the IETF important role should be supported,
empowered and sustained. ISOC should ensure a stable financial support
for IETF activities.</p><p class="">Currently we are observing aggressive internet content and
applications blocking. Therefore defending the openness of the Internet
is important for for developing a digital a economy and encouraging
innovation.</p><p class=""><em class="">3) Access and Capacity Building:</em><br class="">Although 3 billion
Internet users are currently connected and online, we still have more
work to be done to connect the next billions of people to the Internet
and improving their life to the better by using the Internet.</p><p class="">ISOC should continue its efforts to ensure more Internet Exchange
Points are build, support the efforts for connecting the unconnected and
provide capacity building to the local communities on how best to
utilize the Internet.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class="">Happy to answer any other questions raised in the mailing list.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind Regards,</div><div class="">Mohamed</div></body></html>